8-letter words containing ish
- 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).
- macleish — Archibald, 1892–1982, U.S. poet and dramatist.
- marishes — a marsh.
- milkfish — a herringlike fish, Chanos chanos, of warm ocean waters in southeastern Asia.
- minidish — A minidish is a small satellite dish that can receive signals from communications satellites for media such as television programmes and the Internet.
- misheard — to hear incorrectly or imperfectly: to mishear a remark.
- mishears — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mishear.
- mishigas — Craziness; silliness; tomfoolery; nonsense.
- mishmash — a confused mess; hodgepodge; jumble.
- mishmosh — a confused mess; hodgepodge; jumble.
- mishnaic — the collection of oral laws compiled about a.d. 200 by Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi and forming the basic part of the Talmud.
- modishly — In a modish manner.
- 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.
- muishond — A species of weasel found in southern Africa, Poecilogale albinucha.
- mulishly — In a mulish manner.
- nannyish — Like a nanny; tending to coddle.
- nebbishy — a pitifully ineffectual, luckless, and timid person.
- ninnyish — Silly; foolish.
- nishapur — a town in NE Iran: the birthplace of Omar Khayyám.
- nohowish — lacking distinctiveness
- novelish — (esp of a name or a person) characteristic of a novel; having qualities like those of a character or scene in a novel; fanciful; romantic
- numbfish — an electric ray, so called from its power of numbing its prey by means of electric shocks.
- oafishly — In an oafish manner.
- orangish — resembling or suggesting an orange, as in taste, appearance, or color: decorated with orangy-pink flowers.
- 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.
- owlishly — resembling or characteristic of an owl: His thick glasses give him an owlish appearance.
- padishah — (often initial capital letter) great king; emperor (a title applied especially formerly to the shah of Iran, the sultan of Turkey, and to the British sovereign as emperor in India).
- papisher — a Roman Catholic
- parishad — (in India) an assembly
- parishen — a parishioner
- perished — to die or be destroyed through violence, privation, etc.: to perish in an earthquake.
- perisher — mischievous person
- phishing — to try to obtain financial or other confidential information from Internet users, typically by sending an email that looks as if it is from a legitimate organization, usually a financial institution, but contains a link to a fake website that replicates the real one.
- pie dish — a shallow dish that you cook pies in
- pipefish — any elongated, marine and sometimes freshwater fish species of the family Syngnathidae, having a tubular snout and covered with bony plates.
- pishogue — sorcery; witchcraft; black magic.
- pixieish — a fairy or sprite, especially a mischievous one.
- plainish — rather ordinary-looking
- plumpish — somewhat plump; tending to plumpness.
- pokerish — resembling a poker in stiffness
- polglish — informal Polish containing a high proportion of words of English origin
- polished — made smooth and glossy: a figurine of polished mahogany.
- polisher — to make smooth and glossy, especially by rubbing or friction: to polish a brass doorknob.
- porkfish — a black and gold grunt, Anisotremus virginicus, of West Indian waters.
- prankish — of the nature of a prank: a prankish plan.
- priggish — a person who displays or demands of others pointlessly precise conformity, fussiness about trivialities, or exaggerated propriety, especially in a self-righteous or irritating manner.
- proudish — rather proud
- prowfish — a fish, Zaprora silenus, of the North Pacific.
- pseudish — pretentious