| squarish | (adjective) somewhat square in appearance or form | - |
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| squeamish | (adjective) excessively fastidious and easily disgusted | Synonyms: dainty, nice, overnice, prissy |
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| squeamishly | (adverb) in a squeamish manner | - |
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| squeamishness | (noun) the trait of being excessively fastidious and easily shocked | - |
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| (noun) a mild state of nausea | Synonyms: qualm, queasiness |
| squirrelfish | (noun) very small, brightly colored (especially red) nocturnal fishes of shallow waters or tropical reefs; they make sounds like a squirrel's bark | - |
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| (noun) similar to sea bream; small spiny-finned fish found in bays along the southeastern coast of the United States | Synonyms: Lagodon rhomboides, pinfish, sailor's-choice |
| squish | (noun) the noise of soft mud being walked on | - |
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| (verb) put (a liquid) into a container or another place by means of a squirting action | - |
| (verb) walk through mud or mire | Synonyms: slop, slosh, splash, splosh, squelch |
| squishy | (adjective) easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility | Synonyms: spongelike, spongy, squashy |
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| standoffish | (adjective) lacking cordiality; unfriendly | Synonyms: offish |
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| standoffishly | (adverb) in a standoffish manner | - |
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| standoffishness | (noun) a disposition to be distant and unsympathetic in manner | Synonyms: aloofness, remoteness, withdrawnness |
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| starfish | (noun) echinoderms characterized by five arms extending from a central disk | Synonyms: sea star |
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| steepish | (adjective) somewhat steep | - |
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| stockfish | (noun) fish cured by being split and air-dried without salt | - |
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| stonefish | (noun) venomous tropical marine fish resembling a piece of rock | Synonyms: Synanceja verrucosa |
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| stylish | (adjective) having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress | Synonyms: fashionable |
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| (adjective) being or in accordance with current social fashions | Synonyms: fashionable |
| stylishly | (adverb) in a stylish manner | - |
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| stylishness | (noun) elegance by virtue of being fashionable | Synonyms: chic, chichi, chicness, last word, modishness, smartness, swank |
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| suckerfish | (noun) marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects | Synonyms: remora, sucking fish |
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| sunfish | (noun) small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies, black bass, bluegills, pumpkinseed | Synonyms: centrarchid |
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| (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: headfish, mola, ocean sunfish |
| (noun) the lean flesh of any of numerous American perch-like fishes of the family Centrarchidae | - |
| surffish | (noun) small to medium-sized shallow-water fishes of the Pacific coast of North America | Synonyms: surf fish, surfperch |
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| (noun) a fish of the Pacific coast of North America | Synonyms: surf fish, Umbrina roncador, yellowfin croaker |
| surgeonfish | (noun) brightly colored coral-reef fish with knifelike spines at the tail | - |
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| sweetish | (adjective) somewhat sweet | - |
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| swinish | (adjective) resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy | Synonyms: hoggish, piggish, piggy, porcine |
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| (adjective) ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance | Synonyms: boorish, loutish, neandertal, neanderthal, oafish |
| swinishness | (noun) The quality of resembling a swine; being gluttonous, coarse, debased. | - |
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| swish | (adjective) elegant and fashionable | Synonyms: classy, posh |
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| (noun) a brushing or rustling sound | - |
| (verb) move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound | Synonyms: lap, swoosh, swosh |
| swishy | (adjective) resembling a sustained `sh' or soft whistle | - |
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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 | - |
| tallish | (adjective) somewhat tall | - |
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| tannish | (adjective) of a color resembling tan | - |
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| tarnish | (noun) discoloration of metal surface caused by oxidation | - |
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| (verb) make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically | Synonyms: defile, maculate, stain, sully |
| thievish | (adjective) given to thievery | Synonyms: thieving |
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| thievishly | (adverb) in a manner characteristic of a thief | - |
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| thievishness | (noun) having a disposition to steal | Synonyms: larcenous |
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| threadfish | (noun) fish having greatly elongated front rays on dorsal and anal fins | Synonyms: Alectis ciliaris, thread-fish |
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| ticklish | (adjective) difficult to handle; requiring great tact | Synonyms: delicate, touchy |
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| tigerish | (adjective) resembling a tiger in fierceness and lack of mercy | - |
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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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| toadyish | (adjective) attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery | Synonyms: bootlicking, fawning, obsequious, sycophantic |
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| (adjective) attempting to win favor by flattery | Synonyms: bootlicking, fawning, sycophantic |
| tokenish | (adjective) insignificantly small; a matter of form only (`tokenish' is informal) | Synonyms: nominal, token |
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| tomboyish | (adjective) used of girls; wild and boisterous | Synonyms: hoydenish |
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| tomboyishness | (noun) masculinity in women (especially in girls and young women) | Synonyms: hoydenism |
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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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| unblemished | (adjective) free from physical or moral spots or stains | Synonyms: unmarred, unmutilated |
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| unburnished | (adjective) of metals e.g.; not made shiny and smooth by friction | - |
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| undernourish | (verb) provide with insufficient quality or quantity of nourishment | Synonyms: malnourish |
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| undernourished | (adjective) not getting adequate food | Synonyms: ill-fed, underfed |
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| undernourishment | (noun) not having enough food to develop or function normally | Synonyms: malnourishment |
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| undiminished | (adjective) not lessened or diminished | Synonyms: unrelieved |
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| undistinguishable | (adjective) not capable of being distinguished or differentiated | Synonyms: indistinguishable |
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| undistinguished | (adjective) not special in any way; lacking distinction | Synonyms: mine run, run-of-the-mill, run-of-the-mine, unexceptional |
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| unembellished | (adjective) lacking embellishment or ornamentation | Synonyms: bare, plain, spare, unornamented |
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| unestablished | (adjective) not established | - |
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| unfinished | (adjective) not brought to an end or conclusion | - |
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| (adjective) not brought to the desired final state | - |
| (adjective) lacking a surface finish such as paint | Synonyms: bare |
| unfurnished | (adjective) not equipped with what is needed especially furniture | - |
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| unnourished | (adjective) not nourished | - |
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| unpolished | (adjective) not carefully reworked or perfected or made smooth by polishing | - |
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| (adjective) lacking social polish | Synonyms: gauche, graceless |
| unpublishable | (adjective) not suitable for publication | - |
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| unpublished | (adjective) not published | - |
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| unpunished | (adjective) not punished | - |
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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 | - |
| unstylish | (adjective) lacking in style or elegance | Synonyms: styleless |
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| (adjective) not in accord with or not following current fashion | Synonyms: unfashionable |
| untarnished | (adjective) (of reputation) free from blemishes | Synonyms: stainless, unstained, unsullied, untainted |
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| unvanquishable | (adjective) incapable of being overcome or subdued | Synonyms: invincible, unbeatable |
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| unvanquished | (adjective) not conquered | Synonyms: unbeaten, unconquered |
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| unvarnished | (adjective) free from any effort to soften to disguise | Synonyms: plain |
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| (adjective) not having a coating of stain or varnish | Synonyms: unstained |
| unwished | (adjective) not welcome | Synonyms: unwelcome, unwished-for |
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| uppish | (adjective) (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant | Synonyms: bigheaded, persnickety, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches |
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| uppishly | (adverb) in a snobbish manner | Synonyms: snobbishly, snootily |
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| uppishness | (noun) assumption of airs beyond one's station | Synonyms: uppityness |
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| vanish | (verb) get lost, as without warning or explanation | Synonyms: disappear, go away |
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| (verb) decrease rapidly and disappear | Synonyms: fly, vaporize |
| (verb) cease to exist | Synonyms: disappear |
| (verb) pass away rapidly | Synonyms: fell, fly |
| (verb) become invisible or unnoticeable | Synonyms: disappear, go away |
| vanished | (adjective) having passed out of existence | - |
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| vanisher | (noun) a person who disappears | - |
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| vanishing | (noun) a sudden disappearance from sight | - |
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| (noun) a sudden or mysterious disappearance | - |
| vanishingly | (adverb) so as to disappear or approach zero | - |
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| vanquish | (verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict | Synonyms: beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce |
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| vanquishable | (adjective) susceptible to being defeated | Synonyms: beatable, vincible |
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| vanquisher | (noun) someone who is victorious by force of arms | Synonyms: conqueror |
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| vaporish | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of vapor | Synonyms: vaporific, vaporous, vapourific, vapourish, vapourous |
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| vapourish | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of vapor | Synonyms: vaporific, vaporish, vaporous, vapourific, vapourous |
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| varnish | (noun) a coating that provides a hard, lustrous, transparent finish to a surface | - |
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| (verb) cover with varnish | Synonyms: seal |
| varnished | (adjective) having a coating of stain or varnish | Synonyms: stained |
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| varnisher | (noun) someone who applies a finishing coat of varnish | - |
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| vigorish | (noun) an exorbitant or unlawful rate of interest | Synonyms: usury |
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| (noun) a percentage (of winnings or loot or profit) taken by an operator or gangster | Synonyms: rake-off |
| vinegarish | (adjective) having a sour disposition; ill-tempered | Synonyms: vinegary |
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| (adjective) tasting or smelling like vinegar | Synonyms: acetose, acetous, vinegary |
| vinegarishness | (noun) a sourness resembling that of vinegar | Synonyms: vinegariness |
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| vixenish | (adjective) shrewish and malicious | - |
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| voguish | (adjective) in accord with the latest fad | Synonyms: trendy |
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| (adjective) elegant and stylish | Synonyms: chic, smart |
| waggish | (adjective) witty or joking | - |
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| waggishly | (adverb) in a waggish manner | - |
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| waggishness | (noun) waggish behavior | Synonyms: waggery |
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| waspish | (adjective) very irritable | Synonyms: bristly, prickly, splenetic |
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| 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 | - |
| whish | (verb) move with a whishing sound | - |
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| (verb) make a sibilant sound | - |
| 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 | - |