| surgeonfish | (noun) brightly colored coral-reef fish with knifelike spines at the tail | - |
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| swordfish | (noun) large toothless marine food fish with a long swordlike upper jaw; not completely cold-blooded i.e. they are able to warm their brains and eyes: worldwide in warm waters but feed on cold ocean floor coming to surface at night | Synonyms: Xiphias gladius |
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| (noun) flesh of swordfish usually served as steaks | - |
| threadfish | (noun) fish having greatly elongated front rays on dorsal and anal fins | Synonyms: Alectis ciliaris, thread-fish |
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| tightfisted | (adjective) unwilling to part with money | Synonyms: closefisted, hardfisted |
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| tightfistedness | (noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightness |
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| tilefish | (noun) yellow-spotted violet food fish of warm deep waters | Synonyms: Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps |
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| (noun) important marine food fishes | Synonyms: blanquillo |
| toadfish | (noun) bottom-dwelling fish having scaleless slimy skin and a broad thick head with a wide mouth | Synonyms: Opsanus tau |
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| tonguefish | (noun) left-eyed marine flatfish whose tail tapers to a point; of little commercial value | Synonyms: tongue-fish |
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| triggerfish | (noun) any of numerous compressed deep-bodied tropical fishes with sandpapery skin and erectile spines in the first dorsal fin | - |
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| trumpetfish | (noun) tropical Atlantic fish with a long snout; swims snout down | Synonyms: Aulostomus maculatus |
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| trunkfish | (noun) any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates | Synonyms: boxfish |
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| unselfish | (adjective) disregarding your own advantages and welfare over those of others | - |
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| (adjective) not greedy | - |
| unselfishly | (adverb) in an unselfish manner | - |
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| unselfishness | (noun) acting generously | Synonyms: generosity |
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| (noun) the quality of not putting yourself first but being willing to give your time or money or effort etc. for others | - |
| weakfish | (noun) food and game fish of North American coastal waters with a mouth from which hooks easily tear out | Synonyms: Cynoscion regalis |
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| (noun) lean flesh of food and game fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States | - |
| whitefish | (noun) silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the Northern Hemisphere | - |
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| (noun) flesh of salmon-like or trout-like cold-water fish of cold lakes of the Northern Hemisphere | - |
| (noun) any market fish--edible saltwater fish or shellfish--except herring | - |
| wolffish | (noun) large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins | Synonyms: catfish, wolf fish |
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| (noun) large elongate scaleless oceanic fishes with sharp teeth and a long dorsal fin that resembles a sail | Synonyms: lancet fish, lancetfish |
| wolfish | (adjective) resembling or characteristic (or considered characteristic) of a wolf | Synonyms: wolflike |
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| (adjective) devouring or craving food in great quantities | Synonyms: edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious |
| wolfishly | (adverb) in the manner of a wolf | - |
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| wreckfish | (noun) brown fish of the Atlantic and Mediterranean found around rocks and shipwrecks | Synonyms: Polyprion americanus, stone bass |
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