| shrewish | (adjective) continually complaining or faultfinding | Synonyms: nagging |
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| shrimpfish | (noun) slender tropical shallow-water East Indian fish covered with transparent plates | Synonyms: shrimp-fish |
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| sickish | (adjective) feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit | Synonyms: nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sick |
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| silverfish | (noun) a silvery variety of Carassius auratus | - |
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| (noun) silver-grey wingless insect found in houses feeding on book bindings and starched clothing | Synonyms: Lepisma saccharina |
| silverish | (adjective) of lustrous grey; covered with or tinged with the color of silver | Synonyms: argent, silver, silvery |
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| sissyish | (adjective) having unsuitable feminine qualities | Synonyms: cissy, effeminate, emasculate, epicene, sissified, sissy |
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| skilletfish | (noun) clingfish with typical skillet shape | Synonyms: Gobiesox strumosus, skillet fish |
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| skirmish | (noun) a minor short-term fight | Synonyms: brush, clash, encounter |
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| (verb) engage in a skirmish | - |
| skittish | (adjective) unpredictably excitable (especially of horses) | Synonyms: flighty, nervous, spooky |
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| slavish | (adjective) abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant | Synonyms: submissive, subservient |
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| (adjective) blindly imitative | - |
| sluggish | (adjective) slow and apathetic | Synonyms: inert, soggy, torpid |
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| (adjective) (of business) not active or brisk | Synonyms: dull, slow |
| (adjective) slow or slothful | Synonyms: sulky |
| sluttish | (adjective) casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior | Synonyms: easy, light, loose, promiscuous, wanton |
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| (adjective) characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women | Synonyms: blowsy, blowzy, slatternly |
| smallish | (adjective) rather small | - |
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| snailfish | (noun) small tadpole-shaped cold-water fishes with pelvic fins forming a sucker; related to lumpfish | Synonyms: Liparis liparis, sea snail, seasnail |
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| snakefish | (noun) tropical fishes with large mouths in lizard-like heads; found worldwide | Synonyms: lizardfish, snake-fish |
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| snappish | (adjective) apt to speak irritably | Synonyms: snappy |
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| snipefish | (noun) small bottom-dwelling fish of warm seas having a compressed body and a long snout with a toothless mouth | Synonyms: bellows fish |
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| snobbish | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior | Synonyms: clannish, cliquish, clubby, snobby |
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| soapfish | (noun) fishes with slimy mucus-covered skin; found in the warm Atlantic coastal waters of America | - |
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| softish | (adjective) somewhat soft | Synonyms: semisoft |
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| soldierfish | (noun) the larger squirrelfishes | Synonyms: soldier-fish |
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| sottish | (adjective) given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: bibulous, boozy, drunken |
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| sourish | (adjective) tasting sour like a lemon | Synonyms: lemonlike, lemony, tangy, tart |
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| spadefish | (noun) deep-bodied disk-shaped food fish of warmer western Atlantic coastal waters | Synonyms: angelfish, Chaetodipterus faber |
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| spearfish | (noun) any of several large vigorous pelagic fishes resembling sailfishes but with first dorsal fin much reduced; worldwide but rare | - |
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| 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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| 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 |
| standoffish | (adjective) lacking cordiality; unfriendly | Synonyms: offish |
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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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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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| 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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| 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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| undernourish | (verb) provide with insufficient quality or quantity of nourishment | Synonyms: malnourish |
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| unselfish | (adjective) disregarding your own advantages and welfare over those of others | - |
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| (adjective) not greedy | - |
| 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 |
| 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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| 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 |
| vanquish | (verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict | Synonyms: beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce |
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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 |
| 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 |
| 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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| 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 | - |
| whitish | (adjective) of something having a color tending toward white | Synonyms: off-white |
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| (adjective) resembling milk in color; not clear | Synonyms: milklike, milky |
| wimpish | (adjective) weak and ineffectual | Synonyms: wimpy |
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| wish | (noun) the particular preference that you have | - |
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| (noun) an expression of some desire or inclination | Synonyms: indirect request |
| (noun) (usually plural) a polite expression of desire for someone's welfare | Synonyms: compliments, regard |
| (noun) a specific feeling of desire | Synonyms: want, wishing |
| (verb) invoke upon | Synonyms: bid |
| (verb) order politely; express a wish for | - |
| (verb) make or express a wish | - |
| (verb) feel or express a desire or hope concerning the future or fortune of | Synonyms: wish well |
| (verb) to hope, to desire or to prefer to have something, or to do something | Synonyms: care, like |
| 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 |
| womanish | (adjective) having characteristics associated with women and considered undesirable in men | - |
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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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| yellowish | (adjective) of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk | Synonyms: xanthous, yellow |
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| yokelish | (adjective) (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace | Synonyms: bounderish, ill-bred, lowbred, rude, underbred |
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| youngish | (adjective) somewhat young | - |
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