8-letter words containing sh
- skirmish — Military. a fight between small bodies of troops, especially advanced or outlying detachments of opposing armies.
- skittish — apt to start or shy: a skittish horse.
- sky show — a fireworks display
- slangish — rather slangy
- slapdash — in a hasty, haphazard manner: He assembled the motor slapdash.
- slapshot — a very powerful, fast-moving shot of the puck on goal made with a full backswing of the stick and an extended follow-through.
- slashing — a sweeping stroke, as with a knife, sword, or pen.
- slimmish — rather slim
- slipshod — careless, untidy, or slovenly: slipshod work.
- sloebush — a bush on which sloes grow
- slopshop — a store at which cheap, ready-made clothing may be purchased.
- sloshing — to splash or move through water, mud, or slush.
- sluggish — indisposed to action or exertion; lacking in energy; lazy; indolent: a sluggish disposition.
- slushily — in a slushy manner
- sluttish — of, resembling, or characteristic of a slut: slutty behavior.
- smallish — rather small.
- smartish — rather smart; fairly intelligent or quick-witted: smartish answers on a quiz.
- smash it — to execute a task exceptionally well
- smash up — destroy, break into pieces
- smash-up — the act or an instance of smashing or shattering.
- smashing — of, relating to, or constituting a great success: That composer has written many smash tunes.
- 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.
- snapshot — an informal photograph, especially one taken quickly by a handheld camera.
- sneakish — (of a person or action) somewhat or rather sneaky
- sneeshan — Scots word meaning pinch of snuff
- 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
- snowbush — any of several ornamental shrubs having a profusion of white flowers, as Ceanothus cordulatus, of the buckthorn family, native to western North America.
- snowshed — a structure, as over an extent of railroad track on a mountainside, for protection against snow.
- snowshoe — a contrivance that may be attached to the foot to enable the wearer to walk on deep snow without sinking, especially a light, racket-shaped frame across which is stretched a network of rawhide.
- 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.
- soda ash — sodium carbonate (def 1).
- solidish — rather solid
- sorryish — rather sorry
- splasher — a person or thing that splashes.
- spoffish — officious or bustling
- spy ship — a ship carrying surveillance equipment, used to secretly observe an enemy state from the sea
- squabash — to crush or demolish (an attack, argument, opponent, etc.)
- squamish — a member of a North American Indian people of the southwestern coast of British Columbia.
- squarish — approximately square.
- squashed — to press into a flat mass or pulp; crush: She squashed the flower under her heel.
- squirish — like or appropriate to a squire
- squooshy — soft and squashy
- 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.