8-letter words that end in fish
- baitfish — any small fish used as bait for larger fish
- bandfish — a Mediterranean fish with an elongated body
- beakfish — Any of certain fishes of the family Oplegnathidae.
- big fish — If you describe someone as a big fish, you believe that they are powerful or important in some way.
- billfish — any of various fishes having elongated jaws, esp any fish of the family Istiophoridae, such as the spearfish and marlin
- blowfish — puffer (sense 2)
- bluefish — a predatory bluish marine percoid food and game fish, Pomatomus saltatrix, related to the horse mackerel: family Pomatomidae
- 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
- bonefish — a silvery marine clupeoid game fish, Albula vulpes, occurring in warm shallow waters: family Albulidae
- burrfish — any of several porcupinefishes of the genus Chilomycterus, covered with short, immovable spines.
- cavefish — any of various small freshwater cyprinodont fishes of the genera Amblyopsis, Chologaster, etc, living in subterranean and other waters in S North America
- cellfish — using a mobile phone in a way that disregards the wishes of other people
- coalfish — a dark-coloured gadoid food fish, Pollachius virens, occurring in northern seas
- crawfish — A crawfish is a small shellfish with five pairs of legs which lives in rivers and streams. You can eat some types of crawfish.
- crayfish — A crayfish is a small shellfish with five pairs of legs which lives in rivers and streams. You can eat some types of crayfish.
- dealfish — any deep-sea teleost fish of the genus Trachipterus, esp T. arcticus, related to the ribbonfishes and having a very long tapelike body and a fan-shaped tail fin
- draffish — resembling draff
- drumfish — drum1 (def 11).
- dwarfish — like a dwarf, especially in being abnormally small; diminutive.
- fallfish — a large minnow, Semotilus corporalis, of eastern North America.
- filefish — any of several flattened marine fishes of the family Monacanthidae, having an elongated head with a small mouth and small, spiny scales.
- flagfish — Also called American flagfish. a killifish, Jordanella floridae, inhabiting swamps and streams of Florida, having a blue-brown back and whitish sides with red stripes, often kept in aquariums.
- flatfish — any fish of the order Heterosomata (Pleuronectiformes), including the halibut, sole, flounder, etc., having a greatly compressed body and swimming on one side, with both eyes on the upper side in the adult.
- fly-fish — to fish with artificial flies as bait.
- foolfish — filefish (def 1).
- frogfish — any tropical marine fish of the family Antennariidae, having a wide, froglike mouth and broad, limblike pectoral fins.
- goatfish — any tropical and subtropical marine fish of the family Mullidae, having a pair of long barbels below the mouth.
- goldfish — a small, usually yellow or orange fish, Carassius auratus, of the carp family, native to China, bred in many varieties and often kept in fishbowls and pools.
- grayfish — a name used in marketing for any of several American sharks, especially the dogfishes of the genus Squalus.
- gruffish — Somewhat gruff.
- headfish — ocean sunfish.
- ice fish — any percoid fish of the family Chaenichthyidae, of Antarctic seas, having a semitransparent scaleless body
- jackfish — any of several pikes, especially the northern pike.
- kelpfish — any of several blennies that are common among kelp. Compare kelp greenling.
- kingfish — any of several marine food fishes of the drum family, especially of the genus Menticirrhus, found off the E coast of the U.S.
- ladyfish — a game fish, Elops saurus, of warm seas, closely related to but smaller than the tarpon.
- lionfish — a brightly striped scorpionfish of the genus Pterois, especially P. volitans, of the Indo-Pacific region, having long, flamboyant, venomous spiny fins.
- lumpfish — any of several thick-bodied, sluggish fishes of the family Cyclopteridae, found in northern seas, having the pelvic fins modified and united into a sucking disk, especially Cyclopterus lumpus, of the North Atlantic.
- 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).
- milkfish — a herringlike fish, Chanos chanos, of warm ocean waters in southeastern Asia.
- 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.
- numbfish — an electric ray, so called from its power of numbing its prey by means of electric shocks.
- 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.
- pipefish — any elongated, marine and sometimes freshwater fish species of the family Syngnathidae, having a tubular snout and covered with bony plates.
- porkfish — a black and gold grunt, Anisotremus virginicus, of West Indian waters.
- prowfish — a fish, Zaprora silenus, of the North Pacific.
- reeffish — any of several damselfishes, as Chromis insolatus, that live among reefs.
- rockfish — any of various fishes found about rocks.
- rosefish — redfish (def 1).
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