| drumfish | (noun) small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise | Synonyms: drum |
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| dwarfishness | (noun) the quality of being built like a dwarf | - |
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| embellishment | (noun) the act of adding extraneous decorations to something | Synonyms: ornamentation |
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| (noun) a superfluous ornament | - |
| (noun) elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail | Synonyms: embroidery |
| establishment | (noun) the act of forming or establishing something | Synonyms: constitution, formation, organisation, organization |
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| (noun) a public or private structure (business or governmental or educational) including buildings and equipment for business or residence | - |
| (noun) the cognitive process of establishing a valid proof | Synonyms: validation |
| (noun) an organization founded and united for a specific purpose | Synonyms: institution |
| (noun) any large organization | - |
| (noun) the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something | Synonyms: administration, brass, governance, governing body, organisation, organization |
| (noun) (ecology) the process by which a plant or animal becomes established in a new habitat | Synonyms: ecesis |
| establishmentarianism | (noun) the doctrine of supporting the social or political establishment | Synonyms: establishmentism |
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| establishmentism | (noun) the doctrine of supporting the social or political establishment | Synonyms: establishmentarianism |
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| extinguisher | (noun) a manually operated device for extinguishing small fires | Synonyms: asphyxiator, fire extinguisher |
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| extinguishing | (noun) the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning | Synonyms: extinction, quenching |
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| famishment | (noun) a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period | Synonyms: starvation |
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| fetish | (noun) excessive or irrational devotion to some activity | Synonyms: fetich |
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| (noun) a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers | Synonyms: fetich, hoodoo, juju, voodoo |
| (noun) a form of sexual desire in which gratification depends to an abnormal degree on some object or item of clothing or part of the body | - |
| fetishism | (noun) sexual arousal or gratification resulting from handling a fetish (or a specific part of the body other than the sexual organs) | Synonyms: fetichism |
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| (noun) a belief in the magical power of fetishes (or the worship of a fetish) | Synonyms: fetichism |
| fetishist | (noun) one who engages in fetishism (especially of a sexual nature) | - |
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| feverishness | (noun) a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection | Synonyms: febricity, febrility, fever, pyrexia |
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| (noun) A state of wildly excited activity or emotion. | - |
| filefish | (noun) narrow flattened warm-water fishes with leathery skin and a long file-like dorsal spine | - |
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| finish | (noun) the act of finishing | Synonyms: finishing |
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| (noun) a decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance) | Synonyms: coating, finishing |
| (noun) (wine tasting) the taste of a wine on the back of the tongue (as it is swallowed) | - |
| (noun) designated event that concludes a contest (especially a race) | - |
| (noun) the downfall of someone (as of persons on one side of a conflict) | - |
| (noun) event whose occurrence ends something | Synonyms: conclusion, ending |
| (noun) the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey) | Synonyms: destination, goal |
| (noun) a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality | Synonyms: cultivation, culture, polish, refinement |
| (noun) the temporal end; the concluding time | Synonyms: close, conclusion, finale, finis, last, stopping point |
| finisher | (noun) an animal that wins in a contest of speed | - |
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| (noun) a race car that finishes a race | - |
| (noun) a worker who performs the last step in a manufacturing process | - |
| (noun) a painter who applies a finishing coat | - |
| (noun) (baseball) a relief pitcher who can protect a lead in the last inning or two of the game | Synonyms: closer |
| (noun) a racing driver who finishes a race | - |
| finishing | (noun) the act of finishing | Synonyms: finish |
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| (noun) a decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance) | Synonyms: coating, finish |
| fish | (noun) any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills | - |
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| (noun) the flesh of fish used as food | - |
| fishbone | (noun) a bone of a fish | - |
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| fishbowl | (noun) a transparent bowl in which small fish are kept | Synonyms: fish bowl, goldfish bowl |
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| (noun) a state of affairs in which you have no privacy | Synonyms: fish bowl, goldfish bowl |
| fisher | (noun) large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal | Synonyms: black cat, fisher cat, Martes pennanti, pekan |
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| (noun) someone whose occupation is catching fish | Synonyms: fisherman |
| fisherman | (noun) someone whose occupation is catching fish | Synonyms: fisher |
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| fishery | (noun) a workplace where fish are caught and processed and sold | Synonyms: piscary |
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| fishgig | (noun) an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish | Synonyms: fizgig, gig, lance, spear |
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| fishhook | (noun) a sharp barbed hook for catching fish | - |
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| fishing | (noun) the act of someone who fishes as a diversion | Synonyms: sportfishing |
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| (noun) the occupation of catching fish for a living | - |
| fishmonger | (noun) someone who sells fish | Synonyms: fishwife |
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| fishnet | (noun) a net that will enclose fish when it is pulled in | Synonyms: fishing net |
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| fishpaste | (noun) a paste of fish or shellfish | - |
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| fishplate | (noun) metal plate bolted along sides of two rails or beams | - |
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| fishpond | (noun) a freshwater pond with fish | - |
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| fishwife | (noun) someone who sells fish | Synonyms: fishmonger |
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| fishworm | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: angleworm, crawler, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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| flagfish | (noun) a fish with a dark-blue back and whitish sides with red stripes; found in swamps and streams of Florida | Synonyms: American flagfish, Jordanella floridae |
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| flamefish | (noun) a cardinalfish found in tropical Atlantic coastal waters | Synonyms: Apogon maculatus, flame fish |
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| flatfish | (noun) any of several families of fishes having flattened bodies that swim along the sea floor on one side of the body with both eyes on the upper side | - |
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| (noun) sweet lean whitish flesh of any of numerous thin-bodied fish; usually served as thin fillets | - |
| flourish | (noun) the act of waving | Synonyms: brandish |
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| (noun) a display of ornamental speech or language | - |
| (noun) a showy gesture | - |
| (noun) (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments | Synonyms: fanfare, tucket |
| (noun) an ornamental embellishment in writing | - |
| foolishness | (noun) a stupid mistake | Synonyms: betise, folly, imbecility, stupidity |
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| (noun) the trait of acting stupidly or rashly | Synonyms: folly, unwiseness |
| (noun) the quality of being rash and foolish | Synonyms: craziness, folly, madness |
| foppishness | (noun) the manner and dress of a fop or dandy | Synonyms: dandyism |
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| freakishness | (noun) marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal | Synonyms: abnormality |
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| frogfish | (noun) fish having a frog-like mouth with a lure on the snout | - |
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| furnishing | (noun) the act of providing a house or room with furniture and other removable items such as shelves, carpets, appliances, etc. | - |
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| (noun) (usually plural) the instrumentalities (furniture and appliances and other movable accessories including curtains and rugs) that make a home (or other area) livable | - |
| (noun) (usually plural) accessory wearing apparel | Synonyms: trappings |
| garfish | (noun) primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth | Synonyms: billfish, gar, garpike, Lepisosteus osseus |
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| garishness | (noun) tasteless showiness | Synonyms: brashness, flashiness, gaudiness, glitz, loudness, meretriciousness, tawdriness |
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| (noun) strident color or excessive ornamentation | Synonyms: gaudiness |
| garnish | (noun) any decoration added as a trimming or adornment | - |
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| (noun) something (such as parsley) added to a dish for flavor or decoration | - |
| garnishee | (noun) a wage earner who is served with a garnishment | - |
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| garnishment | (noun) a court order to an employer to withhold all or part of an employee's wages and to send the money to the court or to the person who won a lawsuit against the employee | - |
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| geisha | (noun) a Japanese woman trained to entertain men with conversation and singing and dancing | Synonyms: geisha girl |
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| ghostfish | (noun) eellike Atlantic bottom fish with large almost vertical mouth | Synonyms: Cryptacanthodes maculatus, wrymouth |
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| gibberish | (noun) unintelligible talking | Synonyms: gibber |
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| girlishness | (noun) being characteristic of a girl | - |
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| globefish | (noun) any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers | Synonyms: blowfish, puffer, pufferfish |
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| goatfish | (noun) brightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels | Synonyms: Mullus surmuletus, red mullet, surmullet |
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| goldfish | (noun) small golden or orange-red freshwater fishes of Eurasia used as pond or aquarium fishes | Synonyms: Carassius auratus |
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| goosefish | (noun) fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey | Synonyms: allmouth, angler, angler fish, anglerfish, Lophius Americanus, lotte, monkfish |
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| greenishness | (noun) the property of being somewhat green | - |
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| groundfish | (noun) fish that live on the sea bottom (particularly the commercially important gadoid fish like cod and haddock, or flatfish like flounder) | Synonyms: bottom fish |
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| guitarfish | (noun) primitive tropical bottom-dwelling ray with a guitar-shaped body | - |
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| hagfish | (noun) eellike cyclostome having a tongue with horny teeth in a round mouth surrounded by eight tentacles; feeds on dead or trapped fishes by boring into their bodies | Synonyms: hag, slime eels |
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| harvestfish | (noun) butterfish up to a foot long of Atlantic waters from Chesapeake Bay to Argentina | Synonyms: Paprilus alepidotus |
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| hashish | (noun) purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen | Synonyms: haschisch, hash, hasheesh |
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| hawkishness | (noun) any political orientation favoring aggressive policies | - |
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| headfish | (noun) among the largest bony fish; pelagic fish having an oval compressed body with high dorsal and anal fins and caudal fin reduced to a rudder-like lobe; worldwide in warm waters | Synonyms: mola, ocean sunfish, sunfish |
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| hellishness | (noun) The property of being extremely bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying; resembling a nightmare. | Synonyms: nightmarishness |
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| hogfish | (noun) found from Long Island southward | Synonyms: Orthopristis chrysopterus, pigfish |
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| (noun) large wrasse of western Atlantic; head of male resembles a pig's snout | Synonyms: hog snapper, Lachnolaimus maximus |
| hoggishness | (noun) an excessive desire for food | Synonyms: greediness, piggishness |
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| horsefish | (noun) any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies | Synonyms: Atlantic moonfish, dollarfish, horse-head, horsehead, moonfish, Selene setapinnis |
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| horseradish | (noun) grated horseradish root | - |
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| (noun) coarse Eurasian plant cultivated for its thick white pungent root | Synonyms: Armoracia rusticana, horse radish, red cole |
| (noun) the root of the horseradish plant; it is grated or ground and used for seasoning | Synonyms: horseradish root |
| huffishness | (noun) a feeling of sulky resentment | Synonyms: sulkiness |
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| imperishability | (noun) the property of being resistant to decay | Synonyms: imperishableness, imperishingness |
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| imperishableness | (noun) the property of being resistant to decay | Synonyms: imperishability, imperishingness |
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| imperishingness | (noun) the property of being resistant to decay | Synonyms: imperishability, imperishableness |
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| impishness | (noun) the trait of behaving like an imp | Synonyms: mischievousness, puckishness, whimsicality |
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| impoverishment | (noun) the act of making someone poor | Synonyms: pauperisation, pauperization |
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| (noun) the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions | Synonyms: poorness, poverty |
| indistinguishability | (noun) exact sameness | Synonyms: identicalness, identity |
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| jawfish | (noun) small large-mouthed tropical marine fishes common along sandy bottoms; males brood egg balls in their mouths; popular aquarium fishes | - |
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| jellyfish | (noun) any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans | - |
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| (noun) large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles | Synonyms: man-of-war, Portuguese man-of-war |
| jewfish | (noun) large dark grouper with a thick head and rough scales | Synonyms: Mycteroperca bonaci |
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| (noun) large important food fish of Australia; almost indistinguishable from the maigre | Synonyms: mulloway, Sciaena antarctica |
| jinrikisha | (noun) a small two-wheeled cart for one passenger; pulled by one person | Synonyms: ricksha, rickshaw |
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| killifish | (noun) small mostly marine warm-water carp-like schooling fishes; used as bait or aquarium fishes or in mosquito control | - |
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| kingfish | (noun) any of several food and game fishes of the drum family indigenous to warm Atlantic waters of the North American coast | - |
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| (noun) large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters | Synonyms: cero, pintado, Scomberomorus regalis |
| (noun) small silvery marine food fish found off California | Synonyms: chenfish, Genyonemus lineatus, white croaker |
| (noun) large game fish of Australia and New Zealand | Synonyms: Seriola grandis |
| (noun) the lean flesh of any of several fish caught off the Atlantic coast of the United States | - |
| kingfisher | (noun) nonpasserine large-headed bird with a short tail and long sharp bill; usually crested and bright-colored; feed mostly on fish | - |
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| kishke | (noun) (Judaism) roasted fowl intestines with a seasoned filling of matzo meal and suet | Synonyms: stuffed derma |
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| knish | (noun) (Yiddish) a baked or fried turnover filled with potato or meat or cheese; often eaten as a snack | - |
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| ladyfish | (noun) game fish resembling the tarpon but smaller | Synonyms: Elops saurus, tenpounder |
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| lancetfish | (noun) large elongate scaleless oceanic fishes with sharp teeth and a long dorsal fin that resembles a sail | Synonyms: lancet fish, wolffish |
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| languisher | (noun) a person who languishes | - |
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| lanternfish | (noun) small fish having rows of luminous organs along each side; some surface at night | - |
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| lavishness | (noun) the activity of excessive spending | Synonyms: extravagance, high life, highlife, prodigality |
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| (noun) the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive | Synonyms: luxury, sumptuosity, sumptuousness |
| leatherfish | (noun) any of several brightly colored tropical filefishes | Synonyms: leatherjacket |
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| leishmaniasis | (noun) sores resulting from a tropical infection by protozoa of the genus Leishmania which are spread by sandflies | Synonyms: kala azar, leishmaniosis |
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| leishmaniosis | (noun) sores resulting from a tropical infection by protozoa of the genus Leishmania which are spread by sandflies | Synonyms: kala azar, leishmaniasis |
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| lionfish | (noun) brightly striped fish of the tropical Pacific having elongated spiny fins | - |
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| lizardfish | (noun) tropical fishes with large mouths in lizard-like heads; found worldwide | Synonyms: snake-fish, snakefish |
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| loutishness | (noun) The state or quality of behaving like a troublemaker, often violent; like a rude violent person; like a yob. | - |
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| lumpfish | (noun) clumsy soft thick-bodied northern Atlantic fish with pelvic fins fused into a sucker; edible roe used for caviar | Synonyms: Cyclopterus lumpus |
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| lungfish | (noun) air-breathing fish having an elongated body and fleshy paired fins; certain species construct mucus-lined mud coverings in which to survive drought | - |
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| malnourishment | (noun) not having enough food to develop or function normally | Synonyms: undernourishment |
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| mawkishness | (noun) falsely emotional in a maudlin way | Synonyms: drippiness, mushiness, sentimentality, sloppiness, soupiness |
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| (noun) insincere pathos | Synonyms: bathos |
| mayfish | (noun) black-barred fish of bays and coastal marshes of the Atlantic and Gulf Coast of the United States | Synonyms: Fundulus majalis, may fish, striped killifish |
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