8-letter words containing sh
- balkhash — Lakelarge lake in SE Kazakhstan, half saline & half freshwater, the halves separated by a sandbar: c. 6,500 sq mi (16,835 sq km)
- bandfish — a Mediterranean fish with an elongated body
- banished — Simple past tense and past participle of banish.
- banisher — someone who or something which banishes
- banishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of banish.
- banshees — Plural form of banshee.
- bardship — the office or state of being a bard
- bash out — If you say that someone bashes something out, you mean that they produce it quickly or in large quantities, but without much care or thought.
- bashfull — Archaic form of bashful.
- bashings — Plural form of bashing.
- bashless — not ashamed; unabashed
- bashment — (slang, countable, especially Jamaican) A party or rave.
- beakfish — Any of certain fishes of the family Oplegnathidae.
- bedsheet — a sheet for a bed
- bellpush — a button that is pressed to operate an electric bell
- beshadow — to darken with shadow
- beshiver — to shatter
- beshroud — to cover with a shroud
- bhikshus — a monk.
- big fish — If you describe someone as a big fish, you believe that they are powerful or important in some way.
- big shot — A big shot is an important and powerful person in a group or organization.
- billfish — any of various fishes having elongated jaws, esp any fish of the family Istiophoridae, such as the spearfish and marlin
- bimbashi — a Turkish military official
- birdshot — small pellets designed for shooting birds
- blackish — Something that is blackish is very dark in colour.
- blandish — to seek to persuade or influence by mild flattery; coax
- bleakish — quite pale
- blimpish — highly conservative and nationalistic
- blockish — lacking vivacity or imagination; stupid
- blokeish — denoting or exhibiting the characteristics believed typical of an ordinary man
- blondish — (of hair, skin, etc.) light-colored: the child's soft blond curls.
- blowfish — puffer (sense 2)
- bluebush — any of various blue-grey herbaceous Australian shrubs of the genus Maireana
- bluefish — a predatory bluish marine percoid food and game fish, Pomatomus saltatrix, related to the horse mackerel: family Pomatomidae
- bluntish — somewhat blunt
- blush-on — blusher (def 2).
- blushing — to redden, as from embarrassment or shame: He blushed when they called him a conquering hero.
- boarfish — any of various spiny-finned marine teleost fishes of the genera Capros, Antigonia, etc, related to the dories, having a deep compressed body, a long snout, and large eyes
- bog rush — a blackish tufted cyperaceous plant, Schoenus nigricans, growing on boggy ground
- bone ash — the residue obtained when bones are burned in air, consisting mainly of calcium phosphate. It is used as a fertilizer and in the manufacture of bone china
- bonefish — a silvery marine clupeoid game fish, Albula vulpes, occurring in warm shallow waters: family Albulidae
- boobyish — stupid or silly
- bookshop — A bookshop is a shop where books are sold.
- brackish — Brackish water is slightly salty and unpleasant.
- bradshaw — a British railway timetable, published annually from 1839 to 1961
- brainish — impulsive or impetuous
- brandish — If you brandish something, especially a weapon, you hold it in a threatening way.
- brassish — like brass; brassy
- briskish — fairly brisk
- broadish — fairly broad