| 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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| malnourish | (verb) provide with insufficient quality or quantity of nourishment | Synonyms: undernourish |
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| mannish | (adjective) characteristic of a man as distinguished from a woman | - |
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| (adjective) resembling or imitative of or suggestive of a man rather than a woman | - |
| mawkish | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
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| 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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| mobbish | (adjective) characteristic of a mob; disorderly or lawless | Synonyms: moblike |
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| modish | (adjective) in the current fashion or style | Synonyms: a la mode, in style, in vogue, latest |
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| monish | (verb) advise or counsel in terms of someone's behavior | Synonyms: admonish, discourage, warn |
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| (verb) warn strongly; put on guard | Synonyms: admonish, caution |
| monkfish | (noun) fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey | Synonyms: allmouth, angler, angler fish, anglerfish, goosefish, Lophius Americanus, lotte |
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| (noun) sharks with broad flat bodies and winglike pectoral fins but that swim the way sharks do | Synonyms: angel shark, angelfish, Squatina squatina |
| (noun) flesh of a large-headed anglerfish of the Atlantic waters of North America | - |
| monkish | (adjective) befitting a monk; inclined to self-denial | - |
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| moonfish | (noun) large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean | Synonyms: Lampris regius, opah |
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| (noun) any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies | Synonyms: Atlantic moonfish, dollarfish, horse-head, horsefish, horsehead, Selene setapinnis |
| mosquitofish | (noun) silvery topminnow with rows of black spots of tropical North America and West Indies; important in mosquito control | Synonyms: Gambusia affinis |
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| mulish | (adjective) unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack | Synonyms: hardheaded |
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| muttonfish | (noun) similar to and often marketed as `red snapper' | Synonyms: Lutjanus analis, mutton snapper |
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| nebbish | (noun) (Yiddish) a timid unfortunate simpleton | Synonyms: nebbech |
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| needlefish | (noun) fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates | Synonyms: pipefish |
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| (noun) elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters | Synonyms: billfish, gar |
| nightmarish | (adjective) extremely alarming | Synonyms: bloodcurdling, hair-raising |
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| nourish | (verb) provide with nourishment | Synonyms: nurture, sustain |
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| (verb) give nourishment to | Synonyms: aliment, nutrify |
| numbfish | (noun) any sluggish bottom-dwelling ray of the order Torpediniformes having a rounded body and electric organs on each side of the head capable of emitting strong electric discharges | Synonyms: crampfish, electric ray, torpedo |
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| oafish | (adjective) ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance | Synonyms: boorish, loutish, neandertal, neanderthal, swinish |
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| oarfish | (noun) thin deep-water tropical fish 20 to 30 feet long having a red dorsal fin | Synonyms: king of the herring, Regalecus glesne, ribbonfish |
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| oddish | (adjective) somewhat strange | - |
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| offish | (adjective) lacking cordiality; unfriendly | Synonyms: standoffish |
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| oilfish | (noun) very large deep-water snake mackerel | Synonyms: Ruvettus pretiosus |
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| oldish | (adjective) somewhat elderly | - |
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| orangish | (adjective) of the color between red and yellow; similar to the color of a ripe orange | Synonyms: orange |
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| outlandish | (adjective) conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual | Synonyms: bizarre, eccentric, flakey, flaky, freakish, freaky, gonzo, off-the-wall, outre |
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| owlish | (adjective) resembling an owl; solemn and wise in appearance | - |
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| oysterfish | (noun) a variety of toadfish | Synonyms: oyster-fish, oyster fish |
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| paddlefish | (noun) primitive fish of the Mississippi valley having a long paddle-shaped snout | Synonyms: duckbill, Polyodon spathula |
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| palish | (adjective) slightly pale | - |
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| panfish | (noun) any of numerous small food fishes; especially those caught with hook and line and not available on the market | - |
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| parish | (noun) a local church community | - |
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| (noun) the local subdivision of a diocese committed to one pastor | - |
| parrotfish | (noun) gaudy tropical fishes with parrotlike beaks formed by fusion of teeth | Synonyms: polly fish, pollyfish |
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| pearlfish | (noun) found living within the alimentary canals of e.g. sea cucumbers or between the shells of pearl oysters in or near shallow seagrass beds | Synonyms: pearl-fish |
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| peckish | (adjective) somewhat hungry | - |
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| (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
| peevish | (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
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| perish | (verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, pop off, snuff it |
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| pettish | (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
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| pigfish | (noun) found from Long Island southward | Synonyms: hogfish, Orthopristis chrysopterus |
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| (noun) found around the Great Barrier Reef | Synonyms: Achoerodus gouldii, giant pigfish |
| piggish | (adjective) resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy | Synonyms: hoggish, piggy, porcine, swinish |
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| pilotfish | (noun) small pelagic fish often accompanying sharks or mantas | Synonyms: Naucrates ductor |
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| pinfish | (noun) similar to sea bream; small spiny-finned fish found in bays along the southeastern coast of the United States | Synonyms: Lagodon rhomboides, sailor's-choice, squirrelfish |
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| pinkish | (adjective) of a light shade of red | Synonyms: pink |
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| pipefish | (noun) fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates | Synonyms: needlefish |
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| polish | (noun) the property of being smooth and shiny | Synonyms: burnish, gloss, glossiness |
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| (noun) a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality | Synonyms: cultivation, culture, finish, refinement |
| (noun) a preparation used in polishing | - |
| (verb) bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state | Synonyms: brush up, polish up, round, round off |
| (verb) improve or perfect by pruning or polishing | Synonyms: down, fine-tune, refine |
| (verb) make (a surface) shine | Synonyms: shine, smooth, smoothen |
| pollyannaish | (adjective) pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic | Synonyms: cheerful, upbeat |
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| pollyfish | (noun) gaudy tropical fishes with parrotlike beaks formed by fusion of teeth | Synonyms: parrotfish, polly fish |
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| popish | (adjective) of or relating to or supporting Romanism | Synonyms: papist, papistic, papistical, R.C., Roman, Roman Catholic, Romanist, romish |
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| porcupinefish | (noun) spines become erect when the body is inflated; worldwide in warm waters | Synonyms: Diodon hystrix, porcupine fish |
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| porkfish | (noun) black and gold grunt found from Bermuda to Caribbean to Brazil | Synonyms: Anisotremus virginicus, pork-fish |
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| prankish | (adjective) naughtily or annoyingly playful | Synonyms: arch, impish, implike, mischievous, pixilated, puckish, wicked |
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| priggish | (adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian |
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| prudish | (adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: priggish, prim, prissy, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian |
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| publish | (verb) prepare and issue for public distribution or sale | Synonyms: bring out, issue, put out, release |
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| (verb) have (one's work) issued for publication | - |
| (verb) put into print | Synonyms: print |
| puckish | (adjective) naughtily or annoyingly playful | Synonyms: arch, impish, implike, mischievous, pixilated, prankish, wicked |
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| pufferfish | (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, globefish, puffer |
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| (noun) delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver | Synonyms: blowfish, puffer, sea squab |
| punish | (verb) impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on | Synonyms: penalise, penalize |
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| puppyish | (adjective) characteristic of a puppy | Synonyms: puppylike |
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| purplish | (adjective) of a color intermediate between red and blue | Synonyms: purple, violet |
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| queenfish | (noun) silvery and bluish drumfish of shallow California coastal waters | Synonyms: Seriphus politus, white croaker |
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| rabbitfish | (noun) large European chimaera | Synonyms: Chimaera monstrosa |
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| radish | (noun) pungent fleshy edible root | - |
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| (noun) Eurasian plant widely cultivated for its edible pungent root usually eaten raw | Synonyms: Raphanus sativus |
| (noun) pungent edible root of any of various cultivated radish plants | - |
| (noun) radish of Japan with a long hard durable root eaten raw or cooked | Synonyms: daikon, Japanese radish, Raphanus sativus longipinnatus |
| (noun) a cruciferous plant of the genus Raphanus having a pungent edible root | Synonyms: radish plant |
| raffish | (adjective) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners | Synonyms: dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, rakish, snappy, spiffy, spruce |
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| (adjective) marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness | Synonyms: devil-may-care, rakish |
| rakish | (adjective) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners | Synonyms: dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, snappy, spiffy, spruce |
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| (adjective) marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness | Synonyms: devil-may-care, raffish |
| ravish | (verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: delight, enchant, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, transport |
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| (verb) force (someone) to have sex against their will | Synonyms: assault, dishonor, dishonour, outrage, rape, violate |
| reddish | (adjective) of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies | Synonyms: blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry-red, cherry, crimson, red, ruby-red, ruby, ruddy, scarlet |
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| redfish | (noun) male salmon that has recently spawned | - |
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| (noun) large edible fish found off coast of United States from Massachusetts to Mexico | Synonyms: channel bass, red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus |
| (noun) North Atlantic rockfish | Synonyms: ocean perch, rosefish |
| reestablish | (verb) bring back into original existence, use, function, or position | Synonyms: reinstate, restore |
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| refinish | (verb) give a new surface | - |
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| refurbish | (verb) make brighter and prettier | Synonyms: freshen up, renovate |
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| refurnish | (verb) furnish with new or different furniture | - |
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| relinquish | (verb) release, as from one's grip | Synonyms: let go, let go of, release |
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| (verb) turn away from; give up | Synonyms: foreswear, quit, renounce |
| (verb) part with a possession or right | Synonyms: free, give up, release, resign |
| (verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to | Synonyms: dispense with, forego, foreswear, forgo, waive |
| relish | (noun) the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: flavor, flavour, nip, sapidity, savor, savour, smack, tang |
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| (noun) vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment | Synonyms: gusto, zest, zestfulness |
| (noun) spicy or savory condiment | - |
| (verb) derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in | Synonyms: bask, enjoy, savor, savour |
| replenish | (verb) fill something that had previously been emptied | Synonyms: fill again, refill |
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| republish | (verb) revive (a cancelled will or a libel) | - |
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| (verb) publish again | - |
| ribbonfish | (noun) marine fish having a long compressed ribbonlike body | - |
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| (noun) thin deep-water tropical fish 20 to 30 feet long having a red dorsal fin | Synonyms: king of the herring, oarfish, Regalecus glesne |
| rightish | (adjective) tending toward the political right | - |
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| rockfish | (noun) marine food fish found among rocks along the northern coasts of Europe and America | - |
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| (noun) marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone | Synonyms: Roccus saxatilis, striped bass, striper |
| (noun) the lean flesh of any of various valuable market fish caught among rocks | - |
| roguish | (adjective) lacking principles or scruples | Synonyms: blackguardly, rascally, scoundrelly |
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| (adjective) playful in an appealingly bold way | Synonyms: devilish, rascally |
| romish | (adjective) of or relating to or supporting Romanism | Synonyms: papist, papistic, papistical, popish, R.C., Roman, Roman Catholic, Romanist |
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| rosefish | (noun) large fish of northern Atlantic coasts of America and Europe | Synonyms: ocean perch, Sebastes marinus |
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| (noun) North Atlantic rockfish | Synonyms: ocean perch, redfish |
| roughish | (adjective) somewhat rough | - |
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| roundish | (adjective) somewhat round in appearance or form | - |
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| rubbish | (noun) nonsensical talk or writing | Synonyms: applesauce, codswallop, folderol, trash, tripe, trumpery, wish-wash |
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| (noun) worthless material that is to be disposed of | Synonyms: scrap, trash |
| (verb) attack strongly | - |
| rudderfish | (noun) fish having the habit of following ships; found in North American and South American coastal waters | Synonyms: banded rudderfish, Seriola zonata |
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| (noun) food and game fish around Bermuda and Florida; often follow ships | Synonyms: Bermuda chub, Kyphosus sectatrix |
| ruttish | (adjective) feeling great sexual desire | Synonyms: aroused, horny, randy, steamy, turned on |
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| sailfish | (noun) large pelagic game fish having an elongated upper jaw and long dorsal fin that resembles a sail | - |
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| (noun) a saltwater fish with lean flesh | - |
| saltish | (adjective) somewhat salty | - |
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| sandfish | (noun) either of two small silvery scaleless fishes of the northern Pacific that burrow into sand | - |
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| (noun) fish of sandy areas of western Pacific and Indian oceans having an angular snout for burrowing into sand | Synonyms: beaked salmon, Gonorhynchus gonorhynchus |
| sawfish | (noun) primitive ray with sharp teeth on each edge of a long flattened snout | - |
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| scarecrowish | (adjective) resembling a scarecrow in being thin and ragged | - |
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| schoolboyish | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a young boy | Synonyms: boyish, boylike |
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| schoolgirlish | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a young girl | Synonyms: girlish |
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| scorpionfish | (noun) marine fishes having a tapering body with an armored head and venomous spines | Synonyms: scorpion fish, sea scorpion |
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| selfish | (adjective) concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others | Synonyms: egocentric, egoistic, egoistical, self-centered, self-centred, self-seeking, self-serving |
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| sheatfish | (noun) large elongated catfish of central and eastern Europe | Synonyms: European catfish, Silurus glanis |
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| sheepish | (adjective) showing a sense of shame | Synonyms: shamefaced |
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| (adjective) like or suggestive of a sheep in docility or stupidity or meekness or timidity | Synonyms: sheeplike |
| shellfish | (noun) invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell | Synonyms: mollusc, mollusk |
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| (noun) meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean) | - |
| shortish | (adjective) somewhat short | - |
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