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11-letter words that end in sh

  • horseradish — a cultivated plant, Armoracia rusticana, of the mustard family, having small, white flowers.
  • hucksterish — a retailer of small articles, especially a peddler of fruits and vegetables; hawker.
  • interparish — involving, or occurring between, two or more parishes
  • israelitish — of or relating to the Israelites; Hebrew.
  • kidney dish — medical: curved basin
  • lancet fish — any large, marine fish of the genus Alepisaurus, having daggerlike teeth.
  • lanternfish — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Myctophidae, having rows of luminous organs along each side, certain species of which migrate to the surface at night.
  • leatherfish — a filefish.
  • lizard fish — any of several large-mouthed fishes of the family Synodontidae, having a lizardlike head.
  • lukewarmish — fairly or somewhat lukewarm
  • make a dash — If you make a dash for a place, you run there very quickly, for example to escape from someone or something.
  • matt finish — a dull finish or surface, as opposed to a shiny one
  • melpomenish — Tragic; relating to tragedy in a literary or theatrical work.
  • met-english — A Fortran-like language designed at Metropolitan Life in the early 1960s. It had support for variable-length bit fields. Most MetLife DP in the 1960s and 1970s was in Met-English. It was originally developed for Honeywell machines, but many programs still run under IBM MVS via a Honeywell emulator.
  • most-jutish — a member of a continental Germanic tribe, probably from Jutland, that invaded Britain in the 5th century a.d. and settled in Kent.
  • nail polish — a polish of quick-drying lacquer, either clear or colored, used to paint the fingernails or toenails.
  • native bush — indigenous forest
  • nettle rash — urticaria resulting from contact with various plants causing local irritation.
  • new english — Modern English.
  • nightmarish — resembling a nightmare, especially in being terrifying, exasperating, or the like: his nightmarish experience in a concentration camp.
  • novelettish — Resembling or characteristic of a novelette.
  • oil varnish — a preparation consisting of resinous matter, as copal or lac, dissolved in an oil (oil varnish) or in alcohol (spirit varnish) or other volatile liquid. When applied to the surface of wood, metal, etc., it dries and leaves a hard, more or less glossy, usually transparent coating.
  • old british — Brythonic as used before a.d. 800.
  • old english — Also called Anglo-Saxon. the English language of a.d. c450–c1150. Abbreviation: OE.
  • old flemish — the Flemish language before c1300.
  • old spanish — the Spanish language of the 12th to the 16th centuries. Abbreviation: OSp.
  • old swedish — the language of Sweden as spoken and written from about 1225 to 1500.
  • old-maidish — characteristic of or resembling an old maid.
  • overnourish — to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
  • parrot-fish — any of various chiefly tropical marine fishes, especially of the family Scaridae: so called because of their brilliant coloring and the shape of their jaws.
  • pebble dash — an exterior wall finish composed of mortar against which, while still wet, small pebbles have been thrown and pressed in.
  • pedagoguish — resembling or reminiscent of a pedagogue
  • plane crash — an accident in which an aircraft hits land or water and is damaged or destroyed
  • prank flash — a short film or animation linked surreptitiously to an innocuous website, intended to shock unsuspecting and easily-offended users of the internet
  • pre-spanish — of or relating to Spain, its people, or their language.
  • preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
  • prickly ash — Also called Northern prickly ash, toothache tree. a citrus shrub or small tree, Zanthoxylum americanum, having aromatic leaves and usually prickly branches.
  • pro-british — of or relating to Great Britain or its inhabitants.
  • proud flesh — granulation tissue.
  • quail-brush — a salt-tolerant, silvery gray shrub, Atriplex lentiformis breweri, of the amaranth family, native to southern California.
  • rabbitbrush — any of several composite shrubs of the genus Chrysothamnus, of the western U.S. and Mexico, having whitish, hairy branches and yellow flowers.
  • rattle-bush — blue false indigo.
  • reestablish — to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis: to establish a university; to establish a medical practice.
  • rel english — Rapidly Extensible Language, English
  • rock thrush — any of several Old World thrushes of the genus Monticola, usually having bluish plumage, especially M. saxatilis, of Europe.
  • roosterfish — a large, edible fish, Nematistius pectoralis, inhabiting the warmer waters of the Pacific Ocean, having the first dorsal fin composed of brightly colored filamentous rays.
  • rosh hodesh — the beginning of a new month in the Jewish calendar, celebrated in a specified manner during the morning service in the synagogue.
  • royal flush — the five highest cards of a suit.
  • say kaddish — to be a mourner
  • scots-irish — Scotch-Irish
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