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11-letter words containing ish

  • knavishness — The quality of being knavish.
  • laddishness — (British) Laddish attitudes and behaviour; laddism.
  • lancet fish — any large, marine fish of the genus Alepisaurus, having daggerlike teeth.
  • languishing — becoming languid, in any way.
  • lanternfish — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Myctophidae, having rows of luminous organs along each side, certain species of which migrate to the surface at night.
  • leatherfish — a filefish.
  • leishmanial — Relating to leishmania.
  • lickerishly — In a lickerish manner.
  • lizard fish — any of several large-mouthed fishes of the family Synodontidae, having a lizardlike head.
  • loutishness — The state or quality of being loutish, of behaving like a lout.
  • lukewarmish — fairly or somewhat lukewarm
  • lumpishness — The property of being lumpish.
  • luskishness — the state or condition of being luskish
  • mannishness — The condition of being mannish; manliness or masculinity.
  • matt finish — a dull finish or surface, as opposed to a shiny one
  • mawkishness — characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin.
  • melpomenish — Tragic; relating to tragedy in a literary or theatrical work.
  • met-english — A Fortran-like language designed at Metropolitan Life in the early 1960s. It had support for variable-length bit fields. Most MetLife DP in the 1960s and 1970s was in Met-English. It was originally developed for Honeywell machines, but many programs still run under IBM MVS via a Honeywell emulator.
  • mishallowed — falsely hallowed or revered
  • mishandling — to handle badly; maltreat: to mishandle a dog.
  • mishappened — Simple past tense and past participle of mishappen.
  • missishness — the qualities or characteristics of a young woman or girl
  • most-jutish — a member of a continental Germanic tribe, probably from Jutland, that invaded Britain in the 5th century a.d. and settled in Kent.
  • mumpishness — the state or quality of being mumpish
  • nail polish — a polish of quick-drying lacquer, either clear or colored, used to paint the fingernails or toenails.
  • net fishing — Fishing using a net, esp a large commercial drift net
  • new english — Modern English.
  • nightmarish — resembling a nightmare, especially in being terrifying, exasperating, or the like: his nightmarish experience in a concentration camp.
  • nishinomiya — a city on S Honshu, in S Japan.
  • noirishness — Quality of being noirish.
  • nourishable — able to be nourished; benefiting from nourishment
  • nourishment — something that nourishes; food, nutriment, or sustenance.
  • novelettish — Resembling or characteristic of a novelette.
  • nunnishness — the condition of relating to or having a similarity to a nun
  • oil varnish — a preparation consisting of resinous matter, as copal or lac, dissolved in an oil (oil varnish) or in alcohol (spirit varnish) or other volatile liquid. When applied to the surface of wood, metal, etc., it dries and leaves a hard, more or less glossy, usually transparent coating.
  • old british — Brythonic as used before a.d. 800.
  • old english — Also called Anglo-Saxon. the English language of a.d. c450–c1150. Abbreviation: OE.
  • old flemish — the Flemish language before c1300.
  • old spanish — the Spanish language of the 12th to the 16th centuries. Abbreviation: OSp.
  • old swedish — the language of Sweden as spoken and written from about 1225 to 1500.
  • old-maidish — characteristic of or resembling an old maid.
  • overfishing — 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.
  • overnourish — to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
  • parish hall — a room or building associated with a parish church, used by the local community for social or charitable activities (though not necessarily religious activities)
  • parish pump — of only local interest; parochial
  • parishioner — one of the community or inhabitants of a parish.
  • parrot-fish — any of various chiefly tropical marine fishes, especially of the family Scaridae: so called because of their brilliant coloring and the shape of their jaws.
  • peckishness — the state or condition of being peckish
  • pedagoguish — resembling or reminiscent of a pedagogue
  • peevishness — cross, querulous, or fretful, as from vexation or discontent: a peevish youngster.
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