8-letter words containing fis
- saltfish — salted cod
- sandfish — either of two scaleless fishes of the family Trichodontidae, of the North Pacific, that live in sand or mud.
- scarfish — a fish in the family Scaridae
- scomfish — to stifle
- scumfish — to disgust or to stifle
- sea fish — a fish that lives in salt water
- sheefish — inconnu (def 2).
- skilfish — a sablefish, Erilepsis zonifer, of the North Pacific.
- sniffish — haughtily disdainful; contemptuous: a sniffish dowager.
- soapfish — any of several serranid fishes of the genus Rypticus, producing a body mucus that gives the skin a soapy quality, as R. saponaceus, inhabiting shallow waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
- spoffish — officious or bustling
- starfish — any echinoderm of the class Asteroidea, having the body radially arranged, usually in the form of a star, with five or more rays or arms radiating from a central disk; asteroid.
- studfish — either of two killifishes marked with orange spots, Fundulus catenatus (northern studfish) of the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers and Ozark Mountains region, or F. stellifer (southern studfish) of the Alabama River.
- suckfish — remora (def 1).
- surffish — surfperch.
- tilefish — a large, brilliantly colored food fish, Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps, of deep waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
- tin fish — a torpedo.
- toadfish — any of several thick-headed, wide-mouthed fishes of the family Batrachoididae, as Opsanus tau (oyster toadfish) ranging along the Atlantic coast of the U.S.
- treefish — a rockfish, Sebastes serriceps, of waters off southern California, marked with black bands.
- unfished — not used for fishing
- wallfish — a snail, Helix pomatia
- weakfish — any food fish of the genus Cynoscion, as C. regalis, inhabiting waters along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the U.S.
- wet fish — fresh fish as opposed to frozen or cooked fish
- wolffish — any large fish of the genus Anarhichas, as A. lupus of the northern Atlantic, allied to the blenny and noted for its ferocious appearance and habits.
- wormfish — any of several small, slender fishes of the family Microdesmidae, inhabiting tropical marine waters.