8-letter words ending with H
Dive into the specific realm of 8-letter words that conclude with the letter H. This focused section reveals the fascinating ways in which words of this particular length, ending with H, contribute to the richness of the English language. Whether it's for expanding your vocabulary, solving puzzles, or simply for the love of words, discover how these terms uniquely blend length and ending sound.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| although | 15 | - | - |
| strength | 12 | capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war | we faced an army of great strength |
| research | 13 | inquire into | the students had to research the history of the Second World War for their history project |
| approach | 17 | the act of drawing spatially closer to something | the hunter's approach scattered the geese |
| sandwich | 17 | insert or squeeze tightly between two people or objects | She was sandwiched in her airplane seat between two fat men |
| childish | 17 | indicating a lack of maturity | childish tantrums |
| dispatch | 16 | kill intentionally and with premeditation | - |
| thorough | 15 | without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | a thorough nuisance |
| goldfish | 16 | small golden or orange-red freshwater fishes of Eurasia used as pond or aquarium fishes | - |
| savannah | 14 | a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions | - |
| demolish | 14 | destroy completely | the wrecking ball demolished the building |
| flourish | 14 | (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments | he entered to a flourish of trumpets |
| eleventh | 14 | coming next after the tenth and just before the twelfth in position | - |
| ticklish | 17 | difficult to handle; requiring great tact | hesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a matter |
| reproach | 15 | express criticism towards | The president reproached the general for his irresponsible behavior |
| diminish | 14 | decrease in size, extent, or range | - |
| sluggish | 13 | slow and apathetic | a sluggish worker |
| feverish | 17 | of or relating to or characterized by fever | - |
| starfish | 14 | echinoderms characterized by five arms extending from a central disk | - |
| devilish | 15 | showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil | devilish schemes |
| blowfish | 19 | 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 | - |
| bequeath | 22 | leave or give by will after one's death | My aunt bequeathed me all her jewelry |
| outreach | 13 | the act of reaching out | the outreach toward truth of the human spirit |
| vanquish | 23 | come out better in a competition, race, or conflict | - |
| footpath | 16 | a trodden path | - |
| vermouth | 16 | any of several white wines flavored with aromatic herbs; used as aperitifs or in mixed drinks | - |
| furlough | 15 | dismiss, usually for economic reasons | - |
| whiplash | 19 | an injury to the neck (the cervical vertebrae) resulting from rapid acceleration or deceleration (as in an automobile accident) | - |
| skittish | 15 | unpredictably excitable (especially of horses) | - |
| skirmish | 17 | a minor short-term fight | - |
| bigmouth | 16 | - | - |
| flatfish | 17 | any of several families of fishes having flattened bodies that swim along the sea floor on one side of the body with both eyes on the upper side | - |
| badmouth | 16 | speak unfavorably about | She badmouths her husband everywhere |
| crayfish | 19 | tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | - |
| standish | 12 | English colonist in America; leader of the Pilgrims in the early days of the Plymouth Colony (1584-1656) | - |
| snobbish | 15 | befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior | - |
| fiendish | 15 | extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell | a fiendish despot |
| crawfish | 19 | tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | - |
| astonish | 11 | affect with wonder | - |
| brownish | 16 | of a color similar to that of wood or earth | - |
| freakish | 18 | changeable | freakish weather |
| mismatch | 17 | a bad or unsuitable match | - |
| backlash | 19 | a movement back from an impact | - |
| smallish | 13 | rather small | - |
| outweigh | 15 | weigh more heavily | these considerations outweigh our wishes |
| gunsmith | 14 | someone who makes or repairs guns | - |
| chutzpah | 27 | (Yiddish) unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity | - |
| languish | 12 | have a desire for something or someone who is not present | - |
| monkfish | 20 | sharks with broad flat bodies and winglike pectoral fins but that swim the way sharks do | - |
| brandish | 14 | move or swing back and forth | - |
| admonish | 14 | take to task | He admonished the child for his bad behavior |
| greenish | 12 | of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass | - |
| herewith | 17 | (formal) by means of this | - |
| sailfish | 14 | a saltwater fish with lean flesh | - |
| relaunch | 13 | - | - |
| reattach | 13 | - | - |
| encroach | 15 | impinge or infringe upon | - |
| hyacinth | 19 | a red transparent variety of zircon used as a gemstone | - |
| sheepish | 16 | showing a sense of shame | - |
| behemoth | 18 | a person of exceptional importance and reputation | - |
| fortieth | 14 | the ordinal number of forty in counting order | - |
| monolith | 13 | a single great stone (often in the form of a column or obelisk) | - |
| telepath | 13 | - | - |
| sharpish | 16 | - | - |
| regrowth | 15 | - | - |
| besmirch | 17 | charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | - |
| kabbalah | 19 | an esoteric or occult matter resembling the Kabbalah that is traditionally secret | - |
| verandah | 15 | a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed) | - |
| fiftieth | 17 | the ordinal number of fifty in counting order | - |
| haftorah | 17 | a short selection from the Prophets read on every Sabbath in a Jewish synagogue following a reading from the Torah | - |
| slapdash | 14 | marked by great carelessness | slapdash work |
| airbrush | 13 | an atomizer to spray paint by means of compressed air | - |
| ghoulish | 15 | suggesting the horror of death and decay | - |
| topnotch | 15 | of the highest quality | - |
| bluefish | 16 | bluish warm-water marine food and game fish that follow schools of small fishes into shallow waters | - |
| oligarch | 14 | one of the rulers in an oligarchy | - |
| despatch | 16 | send away towards a designated goal | - |
| youngish | 15 | somewhat young | - |
| tamworth | 16 | - | - |
| amaranth | 13 | any of various plants of the genus Amaranthus having dense plumes of green or red flowers; often cultivated for food | - |
| frogfish | 18 | fish having a frog-like mouth with a lure on the snout | - |
| inasmuch | 15 | - | - |
| cenotaph | 15 | a monument built to honor people whose remains are interred elsewhere or whose remains cannot be recovered | - |
| churlish | 16 | having a bad disposition; surly | churlish as a bear |
| unclench | 15 | - | - |
| purplish | 15 | of a color intermediate between red and blue | - |
| birdbath | 16 | an ornamental basin (usually in a garden) for birds to bathe in | - |
| blondish | 14 | - | - |
| brackish | 19 | slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water) | a brackish lagoon |
| hierarch | 16 | a senior clergyman and dignitary | - |
| megalith | 14 | memorial consisting of a very large stone forming part of a prehistoric structure (especially in western Europe) | - |
| triptych | 18 | art consisting of a painting or carving (especially an altarpiece) on three panels (usually hinged together) | - |
| rosebush | 13 | any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses | - |
| sawtooth | 14 | a serration on a saw blade | - |
| shadrach | 17 | - | - |
| sixtieth | 18 | one part in sixty equal parts | - |
| sluttish | 11 | characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women | - |
| backwash | 22 | the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event) | - |
| blackish | 19 | of something that is somewhat black | blackish clouds |
| eldritch | 14 | suggesting the operation of supernatural influences | an eldritch screech |
| dogtooth | 13 | one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars | - |
| helminth | 16 | worm that is parasitic on the intestines of vertebrates especially roundworms and tapeworms and flukes | - |
| mishmash | 18 | a motley assortment of things | - |
| thuggish | 16 | - | - |
| polymath | 18 | a person of great and varied learning | - |
| priggish | 15 | exaggeratedly proper | - |
| refinish | 14 | give a new surface | refinish the dining room furniture |
| haggadah | 17 | Talmudic literature that does not deal with law but is still part of Jewish tradition | - |
| thievish | 17 | given to thievery | - |
| tovarich | 16 | a comrade (especially in Russian communism) | - |
| snappish | 15 | apt to speak irritably | a snappish tone of voice |
| overmuch | 18 | more than necessary | let's not blame them overmuch |
| padishah | 17 | - | - |
| forsooth | 14 | - | - |
| kingfish | 19 | large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters | - |
| kreplach | 19 | - | - |
| nuthatch | 16 | any of various small short-tailed songbirds with strong feet and a sharp beak that feed on small nuts and insects | - |
| clannish | 13 | befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior | - |
| clownish | 16 | like a clown | a clownish face |
| eyepatch | 18 | a protective cloth covering for an injured eye | - |
| womanish | 16 | having characteristics associated with women and considered undesirable in men | womanish tears |
| vigorish | 15 | an exorbitant or unlawful rate of interest | - |
| dwarfish | 18 | atypically small | - |
| entrench | 13 | impinge or infringe upon | This matter entrenches on other domains |
| insomuch | 15 | - | - |
| keffiyeh | 24 | - | - |
| oilcloth | 13 | cloth treated on one side with a drying oil or synthetic resin | - |
| calabash | 15 | tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds | - |
| unthatch | 16 | - | - |
| unsmooth | 13 | having or caused by an irregular surface | his unsmooth face |
| unstitch | 13 | - | - |
| unstarch | 13 | - | - |
| unpolish | 13 | - | - |
| unpreach | 15 | - | - |
| vagarish | 15 | - | - |
| upgrowth | 17 | - | - |
| waxcloth | 23 | - | - |
| waterish | 14 | - | - |
| weakfish | 21 | food and game fish of North American coastal waters with a mouth from which hooks easily tear out | - |
| wanworth | 17 | - | - |
| wallfish | 17 | - | - |
| warmouth | 16 | - | - |
| weldmesh | 17 | - | - |
| woodrush | 15 | - | - |
| wolffish | 20 | large elongate scaleless oceanic fishes with sharp teeth and a long dorsal fin that resembles a sail | - |
| zoomorph | 24 | - | - |
| xenolith | 18 | (geology) a piece of rock of different origin from the igneous rock in which it is embedded | - |
| yeshivah | 20 | an academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts (primarily the Talmud) | - |
| yokelish | 18 | (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace | - |
| vaporish | 16 | resembling or characteristic of vapor | - |
| vixenish | 21 | shrewish and malicious | a vixenish old woman |
| viperish | 16 | - | - |
| studfish | 15 | - | - |
| stockish | 17 | - | - |
| stramash | 13 | - | - |
| stoutish | 11 | - | - |
| suckfish | 20 | - | - |
| subepoch | 17 | - | - |
| subgraph | 16 | - | - |
| swampish | 18 | - | - |
| swainish | 14 | - | - |
| swellish | 14 | - | - |
| sweetish | 14 | somewhat sweet | - |
| sunporch | 15 | a room enclosed largely with glass and affording exposure to the sun | - |
| sumphish | 18 | - | - |
| surffish | 17 | small to medium-sized shallow-water fishes of the Pacific coast of North America | - |
| tabouleh | 13 | - | - |
| taiglach | 14 | - | - |
| sylphish | 19 | - | - |
| syngraph | 17 | - | - |
| tefillah | 14 | - | - |
| taxiarch | 20 | - | - |
| teiglach | 14 | - | - |
| tatahash | 14 | - | - |
| tarboosh | 13 | a felt cap (usually red) for a man; shaped like a flat-topped cone with a tassel that hangs from the crown | - |
| tarboush | 13 | - | - |
| thickish | 20 | - | - |
| theosoph | 16 | - | - |
| thinnish | 14 | - | - |
| tetrarch | 13 | - | - |
| toadfish | 15 | bottom-dwelling fish having scaleless slimy skin and a broad thick head with a wide mouth | - |
| toadrush | 12 | - | - |
| toadyish | 15 | attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery | - |
| tolldish | 12 | - | - |
| tolbooth | 13 | a booth at a tollgate where the toll collector collects tolls | - |
| toiseach | 13 | - | - |
| tinglish | 12 | - | - |
| tinsmith | 13 | someone who makes or repairs tinware | - |
| tightish | 15 | - | - |
| tigerish | 12 | resembling a tiger in fierceness and lack of mercy | a tigerish fury |
| tilefish | 14 | yellow-spotted violet food fish of warm deep waters | - |
| trampish | 15 | - | - |
| toughish | 15 | - | - |
| tovarish | 14 | - | - |
| tristich | 13 | - | - |
| triglyph | 17 | - | - |
| trigraph | 14 | - | - |
| trimorph | 15 | - | - |
| tribrach | 15 | - | - |
| trickish | 17 | - | - |
| tsitsith | 11 | - | - |
| turlough | 12 | - | - |
| unclutch | 15 | - | - |
| unclinch | 15 | - | - |
| unchurch | 18 | exclude from a church or a religious community | - |
| umteenth | 13 | last in an indefinitely numerous series | - |
| umptieth | 15 | last in an indefinitely numerous series | - |
| tzitzith | 29 | - | - |
| unbreech | 15 | - | - |
| unmodish | 14 | - | - |
| unhealth | 14 | - | - |
| squabash | 22 | - | - |
| squirish | 20 | - | - |
| stablish | 13 | - | - |
| squarish | 20 | somewhat square in appearance or form | - |
| spoffish | 19 | - | - |
| spookish | 17 | - | - |
| steepish | 13 | somewhat steep | - |
| stiffish | 17 | - | - |
| stiltish | 11 | - | - |
| startish | 11 | - | - |
| rightish | 15 | tending toward the political right | - |
| roundish | 12 | somewhat round in appearance or form | - |
| rowdyish | 18 | - | - |
| roughish | 15 | somewhat rough | - |
| rugalach | 14 | - | - |
| rugelach | 14 | pastry made with a cream cheese dough and different fillings (as raisins and walnuts and cinnamon or chocolate and walnut and apricot preserves) | - |
| rockfish | 20 | marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone | - |
| rosefish | 14 | North Atlantic rockfish | - |
| roorbach | 15 | - | - |
| saltbush | 13 | any of various shrubby plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in dry alkaline soil | - |
| saltfish | 14 | - | - |
| sandfish | 15 | fish of sandy areas of western Pacific and Indian oceans having an angular snout for burrowing into sand | - |
| saganash | 12 | - | - |
| saintish | 11 | - | - |
| scampish | 17 | - | - |
| scarfish | 16 | - | - |
| sarpanch | 15 | - | - |
| sawteeth | 14 | - | - |
| scrootch | 15 | - | - |
| seabeach | 15 | - | - |
| scumfish | 18 | - | - |
| scomfish | 18 | - | - |
| semihigh | 17 | - | - |
| selcouth | 13 | - | - |
| seecatch | 15 | - | - |
| shehitah | 17 | - | - |
| shidduch | 18 | - | - |
| shadbush | 17 | any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy white flowers and edible blue-black or purplish fruit | - |
| shammash | 18 | - | - |
| sidepath | 14 | - | - |
| shortish | 14 | somewhat short | - |
| shofroth | 17 | - | - |
| shrewish | 17 | continually complaining or faultfinding | a shrewish wife |
| slangish | 12 | - | - |
| sissyish | 14 | having unsuitable feminine qualities | - |
| sixtyish | 21 | - | - |
| skelloch | 17 | - | - |
| sneakish | 15 | - | - |
| slobbish | 15 | - | - |
| sloebush | 13 | - | - |
| slimmish | 15 | - | - |
| smartish | 13 | - | - |
| solidish | 12 | - | - |
| snoutish | 11 | - | - |
| sniffish | 17 | - | - |
| snowbush | 16 | - | - |
| snubbish | 15 | - | - |
| sparkish | 17 | - | - |
| sorryish | 14 | - | - |
| repolish | 13 | - | - |
| restitch | 13 | - | - |
| retrench | 13 | make a reduction, as in one's workforce | The company had to retrench |
| resmooth | 13 | - | - |
| resketch | 17 | - | - |
| parritch | 15 | - | - |
| parflesh | 16 | - | - |
| parashah | 16 | - | - |
| penneech | 15 | - | - |
| pentarch | 15 | - | - |
| perianth | 13 | collective term for the outer parts of a flower consisting of the calyx and corolla and enclosing the stamens and pistils | - |
| pearlash | 13 | - | - |
| peishwah | 19 | - | - |
| phylarch | 21 | - | - |
| pixieish | 20 | - | - |
| pisolith | 13 | - | - |
| plainish | 13 | - | - |
| pipefish | 18 | fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates | - |
| pokerish | 17 | - | - |
| polyarch | 18 | - | - |
| pleaseth | 13 | - | - |
| plumpish | 17 | - | - |
| potlatch | 15 | a ceremonial feast held by some Indians of the northwestern coast of North America (as in celebrating a marriage or a new accession) in which the host gives gifts to tribesmen and others to display his superior wealth (sometimes, formerly, to his own impoverishment) | - |
| poortith | 13 | - | - |
| poserish | 13 | - | - |
| prepunch | 17 | - | - |
| preweigh | 17 | - | - |
| prebirth | 15 | - | - |
| precrash | 15 | - | - |
| prankish | 17 | naughtily or annoyingly playful | - |
| prelunch | 15 | - | - |
| predeath | 14 | - | - |
| proudish | 14 | - | - |
| pseudish | 14 | - | - |
| pygmyish | 22 | - | - |
| qualmish | 22 | - | - |
| quackish | 26 | - | - |
| puirtith | 13 | - | - |
| puppyish | 20 | characteristic of a puppy | - |
| rabbitoh | 15 | - | - |
| racepath | 15 | - | - |
| rainwash | 14 | - | - |
| queerish | 20 | - | - |
| quirkish | 24 | - | - |
| quippish | 24 | - | - |
| rebranch | 15 | - | - |
| rawmaish | 16 | - | - |
| regolith | 12 | - | - |
| overhigh | 18 | - | - |
| overfish | 17 | - | - |
| overrich | 16 | - | - |
| overlush | 14 | - | - |
| overrash | 14 | - | - |
| outwatch | 16 | - | - |
| outworth | 14 | - | - |
| overarch | 16 | form an arch over | Big rocks overarch the stream |
| overwash | 17 | - | - |
| paganish | 14 | - | - |
| anaglyph | 17 | anything carved in low relief | - |
| allopath | 13 | - | - |
| apograph | 16 | - | - |
| backrush | 19 | - | - |
| babelish | 15 | - | - |
| bakshish | 20 | a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter) | - |
| bairnish | 13 | - | - |
| baitfish | 16 | - | - |
| bedrench | 16 | - | - |
| besmooth | 15 | - | - |
| besmutch | 17 | - | - |
| bescorch | 17 | - | - |
| begorrah | 14 | - | - |
| bellpush | 15 | - | - |
| biograph | 16 | - | - |
| biomorph | 17 | - | - |
| biotroph | 15 | - | - |
| birrotch | 15 | - | - |
| billfish | 16 | slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters | - |
| bluntish | 13 | - | - |
| bluebush | 15 | - | - |
| boarfish | 16 | fish with a projecting snout | - |
| bleakish | 17 | - | - |
| blandish | 14 | praise somewhat dishonestly | - |
| blockish | 19 | resembling a block in shape | - |
| blokeish | 17 | - | - |
| blimpish | 17 | pompously ultraconservative and nationalistic | - |
| brainish | 13 | characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation | - |
| bonefish | 16 | slender silvery marine fish found in tropical mud flats and mangrove lagoons | - |
| boobyish | 18 | - | - |
| broguish | 14 | - | - |
| briskish | 17 | - | - |
| broadish | 14 | - | - |
| brattish | 13 | (used of an ill-mannered child) impolitely unruly | - |
| brassish | 13 | - | - |
| cabbalah | 17 | an esoteric or occult matter resembling the Kabbalah that is traditionally secret | - |
| bullrush | 13 | tall rush with soft erect or arching stems found in Eurasia, Australia, New Zealand, and common in North America | - |
| aerolith | 11 | - | - |
| actorish | 13 | - | - |
| acrolith | 13 | - | - |
| alebench | 15 | - | - |
| aggadoth | 14 | - | - |
| agalloch | 14 | - | - |
| aircoach | 15 | - | - |
| airgraph | 14 | - | - |
| dweebish | 17 | - | - |
| drollish | 12 | - | - |
| droogish | 13 | - | - |
| dreggish | 14 | - | - |
| drymouth | 17 | - | - |
| drumfish | 17 | small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise | - |
| empleach | 17 | - | - |
| emperish | 15 | - | - |
| enwreath | 14 | - | - |
| epigraph | 16 | an engraved inscription | - |
| enravish | 14 | - | - |
| ensheath | 14 | - | - |
| etherish | 14 | - | - |
| ethnarch | 16 | the ruler of a province (as in the Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire) or certain religious rulers with secular authority | the election of Makarios III to archbishop gave him the status of the ethnarch of Cyprus |
| eurybath | 16 | - | - |
| essayish | 14 | - | - |
| eyeteeth | 14 | - | - |
| eyetooth | 14 | one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars | - |
| feeblish | 16 | - | - |
| fallfish | 17 | - | - |
| faintish | 14 | - | - |
| fantoosh | 14 | - | - |
| firebush | 16 | - | - |
| filefish | 17 | narrow flattened warm-water fishes with leathery skin and a long file-like dorsal spine | - |
| fiftyish | 20 | - | - |
| flirtish | 14 | - | - |
| flypitch | 21 | - | - |
| flattish | 14 | - | - |
| flatwash | 17 | - | - |
| fortyish | 17 | - | - |
| fogeyish | 18 | - | - |
| footbath | 16 | a small bathtub for warming or washing or disinfecting the feet | - |
| foolfish | 17 | - | - |
| frumpish | 18 | primly out of date | nothing so frumpish as last year's gambling game |
| frailish | 14 | - | - |
| freshish | 17 | - | - |
| gallumph | 16 | - | - |
| galabieh | 14 | - | - |
| galabeah | 14 | - | - |
| galabiah | 14 | - | - |
| disvouch | 17 | - | - |
| disbench | 16 | - | - |
| disflesh | 15 | - | - |
| downwash | 18 | - | - |
| downrush | 15 | - | - |
| dowdyish | 19 | - | - |
| drammach | 18 | - | - |
| drabbish | 16 | - | - |
| draffish | 18 | - | - |
| dogteeth | 13 | - | - |
| dogwatch | 18 | either of two short watches: from 4-6 pm or 6-8 pm | - |
| gralloch | 14 | - | - |
| grayfish | 18 | - | - |
| habdalah | 17 | - | - |
| gypsyish | 20 | - | - |
| halakoth | 18 | - | - |
| halakhah | 21 | - | - |
| haftarah | 17 | a short selection from the Prophets read on every Sabbath in a Jewish synagogue following a reading from the Torah | - |
| gruffish | 18 | - | - |
| grumpish | 16 | - | - |
| hatbrush | 16 | - | - |
| haroseth | 14 | - | - |
| harrumph | 18 | - | - |
| hasheesh | 17 | purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen | - |
| headfish | 18 | 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 | - |
| havdoloh | 18 | - | - |
| havdalah | 18 | - | - |
| hawfinch | 22 | a common large finch of Eurasia | - |
| hawkmoth | 23 | any of various moths with long narrow forewings capable of powerful flight and hovering over flowers to feed | - |
| hamewith | 19 | - | - |
| hanukiah | 18 | - | - |
| heptarch | 18 | - | - |
| highbush | 20 | - | - |
| hiccough | 19 | (usually plural) the state of having reflex spasms of the diaphragm accompanied by a rapid closure of the glottis producing an audible sound; sometimes a symptom of indigestion | - |
| hipparch | 20 | - | - |
| hydranth | 18 | - | - |
| idiotish | 12 | - | - |
| hosannah | 14 | - | - |
| impleach | 17 | - | - |
| insheath | 14 | - | - |
| indrench | 14 | - | - |
| ingrowth | 15 | something that grows inward | - |
| isograph | 14 | - | - |
| isomorph | 15 | - | - |
| isopleth | 13 | a line drawn on a map connecting points having the same numerical value of some variable | - |
| jackfish | 27 | - | - |
| jambiyah | 25 | - | - |
| intrench | 13 | fix firmly or securely | - |
| kaffiyeh | 24 | an Arab headdress consisting of a square piece of cloth folded into a triangle and fastened over the crown by an agal | - |
| kaffiyah | 24 | - | - |
| kashruth | 18 | - | - |
| jellabah | 20 | - | - |
| jingoish | 19 | - | - |
| knackish | 21 | - | - |
| khalifah | 21 | the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state considered to be a representative of Allah on earth | - |
| keypunch | 22 | - | - |
| ketuboth | 17 | - | - |
| keffiyah | 24 | - | - |
| kourbash | 17 | - | - |
| kreplech | 19 | - | - |
| kryolith | 18 | - | - |
| ladyfish | 18 | game fish resembling the tarpon but smaller | - |
| gipsyish | 17 | - | - |
| genizoth | 21 | - | - |
| goatfish | 15 | brightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels | - |
| glumpish | 16 | - | - |
| lumpfish | 18 | clumsy soft thick-bodied northern Atlantic fish with pelvic fins fused into a sucker; edible roe used for caviar | - |
| lungfish | 15 | air-breathing fish having an elongated body and fleshy paired fins; certain species construct mucus-lined mud coverings in which to survive drought | - |
| logomach | 16 | someone given to disputes over words | - |
| lopolith | 13 | - | - |
| madrasah | 14 | Muslim schools in Bangladesh and Pakistan | - |
| megillah | 14 | (Judaism) the scroll of parchment that contains the biblical story of Esther; traditionally read in synagogues to celebrate Purim | - |
| mashgiah | 17 | - | - |
| mashiach | 18 | - | - |
| mashloch | 18 | - | - |
| masoolah | 13 | - | - |
| mastabah | 15 | an ancient Egyptian mud-brick tomb with a rectangular base and sloping sides and flat roof | - |
| midmonth | 16 | - | - |
| mezuzoth | 31 | - | - |
| milkfish | 20 | - | - |
| midwatch | 19 | a watch during the night (as from midnight to 8 a.m.) | - |
| meshugah | 17 | - | - |
| mispatch | 17 | - | - |
| mishmosh | 18 | - | - |
| misteach | 15 | - | - |
| mistouch | 15 | - | - |
| mistruth | 13 | - | - |
