8-letter words containing ish
- smartish — rather smart; fairly intelligent or quick-witted: smartish answers on a quiz.
- smishing — the practice of using fraudulent text messages to extract financial data from users for purposes of identity theft
- snappish — apt to snap or bite, as a dog.
- sneakish — (of a person or action) somewhat or rather sneaky
- sniffish — haughtily disdainful; contemptuous: a sniffish dowager.
- snobbish — of, relating to, or characteristic of a snob: snobbish ideas about rank.
- snoutish — rather resembling a snout
- snubbish — somewhat snub
- soapdish — a shallow container for a bar of soap, used in a bathroom
- 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.
- solidish — rather solid
- sorryish — rather sorry
- spoffish — officious or bustling
- squamish — a member of a North American Indian people of the southwestern coast of British Columbia.
- squarish — approximately square.
- squirish — like or appropriate to a squire
- stablish — establish.
- standish — Burt L. pseudonym of Gilbert Patten.
- 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.
- steepish — somewhat or a little steep
- stiltish — having a stilted quality
- stockish — like a block of wood; stupid.
- stoutish — rather stout.
- 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).
- sumphish — stupid, sulky
- surffish — surfperch.
- sweetish — somewhat sweet.
- swellish — stylish; resembling a 'swell'
- swishing — to move with or make a sibilant sound, as a slender rod cutting sharply through the air or as small waves washing on the shore.
- tarshish — an ancient country, of uncertain location, mentioned in the Bible. I Kings 10:22.
- thievish — given to thieving.
- thinnish — somewhat thin.
- thuggish — a cruel or vicious ruffian, robber, or murderer.
- ticklish — sensitive to tickling.
- tigerish — tigerlike, as in strength, fierceness, courage, or coloration.
- tightish — fairly tight; almost tight
- tilefish — a large, brilliantly colored food fish, Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps, of deep waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
- tin fish — a torpedo.
- tinglish — exciting
- 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.
- tolldish — a dish used to measure out the portion of grain given to a miller as payment for his or her work
- tonishly — in a stylish or fashionable manner
- toughish — somewhat tough.
- toyishly — in a toyish or playful manner
- treefish — a rockfish, Sebastes serriceps, of waters off southern California, marked with black bands.
- trickish — tricky.
- unbishop — to remove (someone) from the position of bishop
- unfished — not used for fishing
- unmodish — passé, unfashionable