8-letter words containing sh
- pet shop — a shop selling animals intended as pets
- 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
- piershed — a building located on or near a pier (piershed) or wharf (wharf shed) used for short-term storage of cargo in transit.
- pipefish — any elongated, marine and sometimes freshwater fish species of the family Syngnathidae, having a tubular snout and covered with bony plates.
- piroshki — small turnovers or dumplings with a filling, as of meat or fruit.
- pishogue — sorcery; witchcraft; black magic.
- pisshead — a drunkard
- pixieish — a fairy or sprite, especially a mischievous one.
- plainish — rather ordinary-looking
- plashing — a gentle splash.
- plumpish — somewhat plump; tending to plumpness.
- plushily — in a plush manner
- poetship — the state or function of being poet
- 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.
- pop shop — pawnshop.
- pop-shop — pawnshop.
- popeship — the office of a pope
- porkfish — a black and gold grunt, Anisotremus virginicus, of West Indian waters.
- postshow — of or relating to the period after a show, occurring after a show
- pot shot — a shot fired at game merely for food, with little regard to skill or the rules of sport.
- potsherd — a broken pottery fragment, especially one of archaeological value.
- prankish — of the nature of a prank: a prankish plan.
- precrash — of or pertaining to the period before a crash, esp of a motor vehicle; coming into effect or being deployed prior to a crash
- preshape — to shape beforehand so as to be ready for use
- preshave — a liquid preparation, usually containing alcohol, for applying to the face to dry the skin and beard before shaving with an electric razor.
- 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.
- pro shop — a shop that is operated in connection with a golf or tennis club, resort, etc., and has sports equipment and often recreational clothing for sale or rent and is usually supervised by a resident professional coach or instructor.
- proudish — rather proud
- prowfish — a fish, Zaprora silenus, of the North Pacific.
- pseudish — pretentious
- punisher — to subject to pain, loss, confinement, death, etc., as a penalty for some offense, transgression, or fault: to punish a criminal.
- puppyish — a young dog, especially one less than a year old.
- purplish — of or having a somewhat purple hue.
- push off — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- push-off — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- pushback — a mechanism that forces an object backward.
- pushball — a game played with a large, heavy ball, usually about 6 feet (1.8 meters) in diameter, which two sides attempt to push to opposite goals.
- pushcard — punchboard.
- pushcart — any of various types of wheeled light cart to be pushed by hand, as one used by street vendors.
- pushdown — a list in which the last item added is at the top
- pushover — Informal. anything done easily.
- pygmyish — resembling a pygmy
- quackish — a fraudulent or ignorant pretender to medical skill.
- qualmish — tending to have, or having, qualms.
- quasheba — (formerly, especially in creole-speaking cultures) a name given at birth to a black child, in accordance with African customs, indicating the child's sex and the day of the week on which he or she was born, as the male and female names for Sunday (Quashee and Quasheba) Monday (Cudjo or Cudjoe and Juba) Tuesday (Cubbena and Beneba) Wednesday (Quaco and Cuba or Cubba) Thursday (Quao and Abba) Friday (Cuffee or Cuffy and Pheba or Phibbi) and Saturday (Quamin or Quame and Mimba)
- quashing — Present participle of quash.