8-letter words containing fish
- flatfish — any fish of the order Heterosomata (Pleuronectiformes), including the halibut, sole, flounder, etc., having a greatly compressed body and swimming on one side, with both eyes on the upper side in the adult.
- fly-fish — to fish with artificial flies as bait.
- foolfish — filefish (def 1).
- frogfish — any tropical marine fish of the family Antennariidae, having a wide, froglike mouth and broad, limblike pectoral fins.
- goatfish — any tropical and subtropical marine fish of the family Mullidae, having a pair of long barbels below the mouth.
- goldfish — a small, usually yellow or orange fish, Carassius auratus, of the carp family, native to China, bred in many varieties and often kept in fishbowls and pools.
- grayfish — a name used in marketing for any of several American sharks, especially the dogfishes of the genus Squalus.
- gruffish — Somewhat gruff.
- headfish — ocean sunfish.
- ice fish — any percoid fish of the family Chaenichthyidae, of Antarctic seas, having a semitransparent scaleless body
- jackfish — any of several pikes, especially the northern pike.
- kelpfish — any of several blennies that are common among kelp. Compare kelp greenling.
- kingfish — any of several marine food fishes of the drum family, especially of the genus Menticirrhus, found off the E coast of the U.S.
- ladyfish — a game fish, Elops saurus, of warm seas, closely related to but smaller than the tarpon.
- lionfish — a brightly striped scorpionfish of the genus Pterois, especially P. volitans, of the Indo-Pacific region, having long, flamboyant, venomous spiny fins.
- lumpfish — any of several thick-bodied, sluggish fishes of the family Cyclopteridae, found in northern seas, having the pelvic fins modified and united into a sucking disk, especially Cyclopterus lumpus, of the North Atlantic.
- lungfish — any of various slender, air-breathing fishes of the order (or subclass) Dipnoi, of rivers and lakes in Africa, South America, and Australia, having a lunglike air bladder as well as gills and growing to a length of 3 to 6 feet (0.9 to 1.8 meters).
- milkfish — a herringlike fish, Chanos chanos, of warm ocean waters in southeastern Asia.
- monkfish — angler (def 3).
- moonfish — Also called horsefish, horsehead. any of several silvery marine fishes of the genus Selene, having a very compressed body and inhabiting shallow coastal waters.
- numbfish — an electric ray, so called from its power of numbing its prey by means of electric shocks.
- oafishly — In an oafish manner.
- overfish — to fish (an area) excessively; to exhaust the supply of usable fish in (certain waters): Scientists are concerned that fishing boats may overfish our coastal waters.
- pipefish — any elongated, marine and sometimes freshwater fish species of the family Syngnathidae, having a tubular snout and covered with bony plates.
- porkfish — a black and gold grunt, Anisotremus virginicus, of West Indian waters.
- prowfish — a fish, Zaprora silenus, of the North Pacific.
- reeffish — any of several damselfishes, as Chromis insolatus, that live among reefs.
- rockfish — any of various fishes found about rocks.
- rosefish — redfish (def 1).
- sailfish — any of several large scombroid game fishes of the genus Istiophorus, such as I. albicans (Atlantic sailfish), of warm and tropical seas: family Istiophoridae. They have an elongated upper jaw and a long sail-like dorsal fin
- 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