| goldenbush | (noun) a plant of the genus Haplopappus | - |
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| (noun) any of various much-branched yellow-flowered shrubs of the genus Chrysothamnus; western North America | - |
| goldfish | (noun) small golden or orange-red freshwater fishes of Eurasia used as pond or aquarium fishes | Synonyms: Carassius auratus |
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| golosh | (noun) a waterproof overshoe that protects shoes from water or snow | Synonyms: arctic, galosh, gumshoe, rubber |
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| goodish | (adjective) large in amount or extent or degree | Synonyms: goodly, healthy, hefty, respectable, sizable, sizeable, tidy |
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| (adjective) moderately good of its kind | - |
| 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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| gooseflesh | (noun) reflex erection of hairs of the skin in response to cold or emotional stress or skin irritation | Synonyms: goose bump, goose pimple, goose skin, goosebump, horripilation, pilomotor reflex |
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| goulash | (noun) a rich meat stew highly seasoned with paprika | Synonyms: gulyas, Hungarian goulash |
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| grayish | (adjective) of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black | Synonyms: gray, grey, greyish |
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| greenish | (adjective) of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass | Synonyms: dark-green, green, light-green |
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| greyish | (adjective) of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black | Synonyms: gray, grayish, grey |
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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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| gush | (noun) an unrestrained expression of emotion | Synonyms: blowup, ebullition, effusion, outburst |
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| (noun) a sudden rapid flow (as of water) | Synonyms: flush, outpouring |
| (verb) praise enthusiastically | Synonyms: rave |
| (verb) issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth | Synonyms: jet |
| (verb) gush forth in a sudden stream or jet | Synonyms: spirt, spout, spurt |
| 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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| hairbrush | (noun) a brush used to groom a person's hair | - |
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| handwash | (verb) wash or launder by hand instead of with a machine | Synonyms: hand-wash |
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| harsh | (adjective) of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles | Synonyms: coarse |
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| (adjective) sharply disagreeable; rigorous | Synonyms: abrasive |
| (adjective) severe | - |
| (adjective) unkind or cruel or uncivil | Synonyms: rough |
| (adjective) unpleasantly stern | Synonyms: rough |
| (adjective) unpleasantly rough or jarring to the senses | - |
| harvestfish | (noun) butterfish up to a foot long of Atlantic waters from Chesapeake Bay to Argentina | Synonyms: Paprilus alepidotus |
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| hash | (noun) purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen | Synonyms: haschisch, hasheesh, hashish |
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| (noun) chopped meat mixed with potatoes and browned | - |
| (verb) chop up | - |
| hasheesh | (noun) purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen | Synonyms: haschisch, hash, hashish |
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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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| hawkish | (adjective) disposed to warfare or hard-line policies | Synonyms: militant, warlike |
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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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| heathenish | (adjective) not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam | Synonyms: ethnic, heathen, pagan |
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| hellish | (adjective) extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell | Synonyms: demonic, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, infernal, satanic, unholy |
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| (adjective) (informal) very unpleasant | Synonyms: beastly, god-awful |
| 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 |
| hoggish | (adjective) resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy | Synonyms: piggish, piggy, porcine, swinish |
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| hogwash | (noun) unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) | Synonyms: buncombe, bunk, bunkum, guff, rot |
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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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| horseflesh | (noun) the flesh of horses as food | Synonyms: horsemeat |
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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 |
| hottish | (adjective) somewhat hot | - |
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| hoydenish | (adjective) used of girls; wild and boisterous | Synonyms: tomboyish |
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| huffish | (adjective) sullen or moody | Synonyms: sulky |
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| hush | (noun) (poetic) tranquil silence | Synonyms: still, stillness |
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| (verb) become quiet or still; fall silent | - |
| (verb) cause to be quiet or not talk | Synonyms: hush up, quieten, shut up, silence, still |
| (verb) run water over the ground to erode (soil), revealing the underlying strata and valuable minerals | - |
| (verb) wash by removing particles | Synonyms: wash |
| (verb) become quiet or quieter | Synonyms: pipe down, quiesce, quiet, quiet down, quieten |
| impish | (adjective) naughtily or annoyingly playful | Synonyms: arch, implike, mischievous, pixilated, prankish, puckish, wicked |
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| impoverish | (verb) take away | Synonyms: deprive |
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| (verb) make poor | - |
| inrush | (noun) an inflow | Synonyms: inpour, inpouring |
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| introvertish | (adjective) somewhat introverted | Synonyms: shut-in |
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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 |
| josh | (verb) be silly or tease one another | Synonyms: banter, chaff, jolly, kid |
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| kibosh | (verb) stop from happening or developing | Synonyms: block, halt, stop |
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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 | - |
| kittenish | (adjective) playful like a lively kitten | Synonyms: frisky |
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| knavish | (adjective) marked by skill in deception | Synonyms: crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily |
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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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| languish | (verb) become feeble | Synonyms: fade |
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| (verb) lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief | Synonyms: pine away, waste |
| (verb) have a desire for something or someone who is not present | Synonyms: ache, pine, yearn, yen |
| lanternfish | (noun) small fish having rows of luminous organs along each side; some surface at night | - |
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| largish | (adjective) somewhat large | Synonyms: biggish |
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| lash | (noun) a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object | Synonyms: whip, whiplash |
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| (noun) leather strip that forms the flexible part of a whip | Synonyms: thong |
| (noun) any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids | Synonyms: cilium, eyelash |
| (verb) strike as if by whipping | Synonyms: whip |
| (verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: flog, lather, slash, strap, trounce, welt, whip |
| (verb) bind with a rope, chain, or cord | - |
| (verb) lash or flick about sharply | - |
| latish | (adjective) somewhat late | - |
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| lavish | (adjective) very generous | Synonyms: munificent, overgenerous, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting |
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| (adjective) characterized by extravagance and profusion | Synonyms: lucullan, plush, plushy |
| (verb) expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns | Synonyms: shower |
| lawyerbush | (noun) stout-stemmed trailing shrub of New Zealand that scrambles over other growth | Synonyms: bush lawyer, lawyer bush, Rubus australis, Rubus cissoides |
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| leash | (noun) a figurative restraint | Synonyms: collar |
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| (noun) restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal | Synonyms: lead, tether |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, tercet, ternary, ternion, terzetto, three, threesome, tierce, trey, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
| (verb) fasten with a rope | Synonyms: rope |
| leatherfish | (noun) any of several brightly colored tropical filefishes | Synonyms: leatherjacket |
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| leftish | (adjective) tending toward the political left | - |
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| lionfish | (noun) brightly striped fish of the tropical Pacific having elongated spiny fins | - |
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| liverish | (adjective) irritable as if suffering from indigestion | Synonyms: atrabilious, bilious, dyspeptic |
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| (adjective) suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress | Synonyms: bilious, livery |
| lizardfish | (noun) tropical fishes with large mouths in lizard-like heads; found worldwide | Synonyms: snake-fish, snakefish |
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| longish | (adjective) somewhat long | - |
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| loutish | (adjective) ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance | Synonyms: boorish, neandertal, neanderthal, oafish, swinish |
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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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| lumpish | (adjective) mentally sluggish | Synonyms: lumpen, unthinking |
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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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| lush | (adjective) produced or growing in extreme abundance | Synonyms: exuberant, luxuriant, profuse, riotous |
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| (adjective) tender and full of juice | Synonyms: succulent |
| (adjective) ostentatiously rich and superior in quality | Synonyms: deluxe, gilded, grand, luxurious, opulent, princely, sumptuous |
| (adjective) having strong sexual appeal | Synonyms: juicy, luscious, red-hot, toothsome, voluptuous |
| (noun) a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually | Synonyms: alcoholic, alky, boozer, dipsomaniac, soaker, souse |
| macintosh | (noun) a waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric | Synonyms: mac, mack, mackintosh |
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| (noun) a lightweight waterproof (usually rubberized) fabric | Synonyms: mackintosh |
| mackintosh | (noun) a lightweight waterproof (usually rubberized) fabric | Synonyms: macintosh |
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| (noun) a waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric | Synonyms: mac, macintosh, mack |
| 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 | - |
| marsh | (noun) low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water | Synonyms: fen, fenland, marshland |
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| mash | (noun) mixture of ground animal feeds | - |
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| (noun) a mixture of mashed malt grains and hot water; used in brewing | - |
| (verb) reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading | Synonyms: bray, comminute, crunch, grind |
| (verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: butterfly, chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, flirt, philander, romance |
| (verb) to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition | Synonyms: crush, squash, squeeze, squelch |
| matchbush | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Gutierrezia having tiny flower heads that resemble the heads of matches | Synonyms: matchweed |
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| 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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| mensh | (noun) a decent responsible person with admirable characteristics | Synonyms: mensch |
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| mesh | (noun) the act of interlocking or meshing | Synonyms: interlock, interlocking, meshing |
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| (noun) an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals | Synonyms: meshing, meshwork, net, network |
| (noun) the topology of a network whose components are all connected directly to every other component | Synonyms: mesh topology |
| (noun) contact by fitting together | Synonyms: engagement, interlocking, meshing |
| (noun) the number of openings per linear inch of a screen; measures size of particles | - |
| (verb) coordinate in such a way that all parts work together effectively | Synonyms: interlock |
| (verb) entangle or catch in (or as if in) a mesh | Synonyms: enmesh, ensnarl |
| (verb) keep engaged | Synonyms: engage, lock, operate |
| (verb) work together in harmony | - |
| minniebush | (noun) low shrub of the eastern United States with downy twigs | Synonyms: Menziesia pilosa, minnie bush |
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| mishmash | (noun) a motley assortment of things | Synonyms: farrago, gallimaufry, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag |
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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 |
| mosh | (verb) dance the slam dance | Synonyms: slam, slam dance, thrash |
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| 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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| mouthwash | (noun) a medicated solution used for gargling and rinsing the mouth | Synonyms: gargle |
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| mulish | (adjective) unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack | Synonyms: hardheaded |
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| mush | (noun) a journey by dogsled | - |
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| (noun) writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental | Synonyms: glop, slop, treacle |
| (noun) cornmeal boiled in water | Synonyms: cornmeal mush |
| (noun) any soft or soggy mass | Synonyms: pulp |
| (verb) travel with a dogsled | Synonyms: dogsled |
| (verb) drive (a team of dogs or a dogsled) | - |
| musquash | (noun) beaver-like aquatic rodent of North America with dark glossy brown fur | Synonyms: muskrat, Ondatra zibethica |
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| muttonfish | (noun) similar to and often marketed as `red snapper' | Synonyms: Lutjanus analis, mutton snapper |
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| nailbrush | (noun) a brush used to clean a person's fingernails | - |
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| nebbish | (noun) (Yiddish) a timid unfortunate simpleton | Synonyms: nebbech |
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| needlebush | (noun) shrub with pungent rigid needle-shaped leaves and white flowers; eastern Australia | Synonyms: Hakea lissosperma, needle-bush, needle bush |
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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 |