10-letter words containing ish
- hipsterish — Like a hipster; (often pretentiously) trendy.
- hoodlumish — like a hoodlum
- ill-wisher — a person who wishes misfortune to another.
- impishness — The state or quality of being impish; mischievousness.
- impoverish — to reduce to poverty: a country impoverished by war.
- irish boat — a small fishing boat used in the Boston area in the late 19th century, derived from an Irish model and having a cutter rig.
- irish bull — a paradoxical statement that appears at first to make sense. Example: He's the kind of guy who looks you right in the eye as he stabs you in the back.
- irish lord — any of several marine sculpins of the genus Hemilepidotus, found from Alaska to northern California.
- irish moss — a purplish-brown, cartilaginous seaweed, Chondrus crispus, of the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America.
- irish pale — pale2 (def 6).
- irish stew — a stew usually made of mutton, lamb, or beef, with potatoes, onions, etc.
- irishwoman — a woman born in Ireland or of Irish ancestry.
- ishmaelite — a descendant of Ishmael, the traditional ancestor of the Arab peoples.
- jewishness — the state or quality of being Jewish.
- jinrikisha — a small, two-wheeled, cartlike passenger vehicle with a fold-down top, pulled by one person, formerly used widely in Japan and China.
- kentishman — a native or inhabitant of Kent, England.
- kingfisher — any of numerous fish- or insect-eating birds of the family Alcedinidae that have a large head and a long, stout bill and are usually crested and brilliantly colored.
- kingfishes — Plural form of kingfish.
- lancetfish — any large, marine fish of the genus Alepisaurus, having daggerlike teeth.
- languished — Simple past tense and past participle of languish.
- languisher — One who languishes.
- languishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of languish.
- lavishment — The act of lavishing.
- lavishness — expended, bestowed, or occurring in profusion: lavish spending.
- leishmania — any parasitic flagellate protozoan of the genus Leishmania, occurring in vertebrates in an oval or spherical, nonflagellate form, and in invertebrates in an elongated, flagellated form.
- lemon fish — the cobia.
- lizardfish — any of several large-mouthed fishes of the family Synodontidae, having a lizardlike head.
- lumpfishes — Plural form of lumpfish.
- lungfishes — Plural form of lungfish.
- madonnaish — resembling a Madonna
- maharishis — Plural form of maharishi.
- malnourish — Lb transitive To feed insufficiently, to cause malnutrition.
- medusafish — a stromateid fish, Icichthys lockingtoni, of deep waters off the coast of California, living as a commensal in and about medusas.
- milkfishes — Plural form of milkfish.
- mishandled — Simple past tense and past participle of mishandle.
- mishandles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mishandle.
- mishearing — Present participle of mishear.
- mishmashes — Plural form of mishmash.
- modishness — The property of being modish.
- monkfishes — Plural form of monkfish.
- monogamish — Mostly monogamous, but allowing for occasional infidelities.
- mopishness — given to moping; listless, apathetic, or dejected.
- mulishness — of or like a mule, as being very stubborn, obstinate, or intractable.
- muttonfish — ocean pout.
- needlefish — any fish of the family Belonidae, of warm seas and coastal fresh waters, having a sharp beak and needlelike teeth.
- nettlefish — jellyfish.
- non-jewish — not practising Judaism
- nourishing — promoting or sustaining life, growth, or strength: a nourishing diet.
- numbfishes — Plural form of numbfish.
- oafishness — The state of being oafish.