Words Ending With ISH
Explore the intriguing collection of words that conclude with the letter ISH. This section emphasizes how the final placement of ISH influences the tone and character of each word. Whether it's common vocabulary or less familiar terms, uncover the unique impact of ending with ISH in the world of words.
3 letter words
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| ish | 6 | - | - |
4 letter words
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| wish | 10 | prefer or wish to do something | - |
| fish | 10 | (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Pisces | - |
| dish | 8 | an activity that you like or at which you are superior | marriage was scarcely his dish |
| bish | 9 | - | - |
| pish | 9 | - | - |
| kish | 11 | - | - |
| nish | 7 | - | - |
| eish | 7 | - | - |
| hish | 10 | - | - |
5 letter words
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|---|---|---|---|
| swish | 11 | elegant and fashionable | a swish pastry shop on the Rue du Bac |
| whish | 14 | make a sibilant sound | - |
| knish | 12 | (Yiddish) a baked or fried turnover filled with potato or meat or cheese; often eaten as a snack | - |
| apish | 10 | being or given to servile imitation | - |
| phish | 13 | - | - |
| taish | 8 | - | - |
| slish | 8 | - | - |
| shish | 11 | - | - |
| arish | 8 | - | - |
| cuish | 10 | - | - |
| leish | 8 | - | - |
6 letter words
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|---|---|---|---|
| finish | 12 | a decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance) | the boat had a metallic finish |
| polish | 11 | make (a surface) shine | polish my shoes |
| punish | 11 | impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on | we had to punish the dog for soiling the floor again |
| vanish | 12 | cease to exist | An entire civilization vanished |
| parish | 11 | a local church community | - |
| danish | 10 | light sweet yeast-raised roll usually filled with fruits or cheese | - |
| perish | 11 | pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | The children perished in the fire |
| fetish | 12 | a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers | - |
| banish | 11 | ban from a place of residence, as for punishment | - |
| relish | 9 | derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in | She relished her fame and basked in her glory |
| radish | 10 | radish of Japan with a long hard durable root eaten raw or cooked | - |
| lavish | 12 | expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns | - |
| squish | 18 | walk through mud or mire | - |
| boyish | 14 | befitting or characteristic of a young boy | a boyish grin |
| bluish | 11 | of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky | - |
| elvish | 12 | usually good-naturedly mischievous | elvish tricks |
| garish | 10 | tastelessly showy | garish colors |
| impish | 13 | naughtily or annoyingly playful | teasing and worrying with impish laughter |
| ravish | 12 | hold spellbound | - |
| rakish | 13 | marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners | - |
| oddish | 11 | somewhat strange | - |
| offish | 15 | lacking cordiality; unfriendly | a standoffish manner |
| oafish | 12 | ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance | her stupid oafish husband |
| newish | 12 | - | - |
| mulish | 11 | unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack | - |
| aguish | 10 | affected by ague | - |
| barish | 11 | Kamarupan languages spoken in the state of Assam in northeastern India | - |
| arrish | 9 | - | - |
| aspish | 11 | - | - |
| coyish | 14 | - | - |
| cowish | 14 | - | - |
| harish | 12 | - | - |
| gluish | 10 | - | - |
| goyish | 13 | - | - |
| fikish | 16 | - | - |
| fluish | 12 | - | - |
| famish | 14 | die of food deprivation | Many famished in the countryside during the drought |
| eddish | 11 | - | - |
| eadish | 10 | - | - |
| elfish | 12 | usually good-naturedly mischievous | - |
| dovish | 13 | opposed to war | - |
| dotish | 10 | - | - |
| dudish | 11 | - | - |
| dryish | 13 | - | - |
| dawish | 13 | - | - |
| delish | 10 | - | - |
| oldish | 10 | somewhat elderly | - |
| owlish | 12 | resembling an owl; solemn and wise in appearance | - |
| ogrish | 10 | - | - |
| nicish | 11 | - | - |
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7 letter words
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| english | 11 | an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries | - |
| selfish | 13 | concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others | - |
| rubbish | 14 | worthless material that is to be disposed of | - |
| foolish | 13 | having or revealing stupidity | - |
| publish | 14 | put into print | The newspaper published the news of the royal couple's divorce |
| cherish | 15 | be fond of; be attached to | - |
| anguish | 11 | cause emotional anguish or make miserable | - |
| stylish | 13 | being or in accordance with current social fashions | - |
| catfish | 15 | large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins | - |
| hashish | 16 | purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen | - |
| hellish | 13 | extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell | hellish torture |
| flemish | 15 | one of two official languages of Belgium; closely related to Dutch | - |
| abolish | 12 | do away with | Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia |
| varnish | 13 | cover with varnish | - |
| nourish | 10 | give nourishment to | - |
| furnish | 13 | give something useful or necessary to | - |
| moorish | 12 | relating to or characteristic of the Moors | - |
| codfish | 16 | lean white flesh of important North Atlantic food fish; usually baked or poached | - |
| girlish | 11 | befitting or characteristic of a young girl | girlish charm |
| tarnish | 10 | make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically | The silver was tarnished by the long exposure to the air |
| reddish | 12 | of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies | - |
| dervish | 14 | an ascetic Muslim monk; a member of an order noted for devotional exercises involving bodily movements | - |
| blemish | 14 | a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body) | a facial blemish |
| boorish | 12 | ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance | was boorish and insensitive |
| brutish | 12 | resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility | a dull and brutish man |
| peckish | 18 | easily irritated or annoyed | - |
| garnish | 11 | decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods | - |
| prudish | 13 | exaggeratedly proper | - |
| kaddish | 16 | - | - |
| hagfish | 17 | 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 | - |
| pinkish | 16 | of a light shade of red | - |
| peevish | 15 | easily irritated or annoyed | - |
| slavish | 13 | abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant | slavish devotion to her job ruled her life |
| grayish | 14 | of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black | - |
| bookish | 16 | characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading | a bookish farmer who always had a book in his pocket |
| bullish | 12 | expecting a rise in prices | - |
| sunfish | 13 | small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed | - |
| dogfish | 15 | primitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America | - |
| redfish | 14 | large edible fish found off coast of United States from Massachusetts to Mexico | - |
| mawkish | 19 | effusively or insincerely emotional | - |
| longish | 11 | somewhat long | - |
| knavish | 17 | marked by skill in deception | - |
| roguish | 11 | lacking principles or scruples | the captain was set adrift by his roguish crew |
| piggish | 14 | resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy | piggish table manners |
| monkish | 16 | befitting a monk; inclined to self-denial | - |
| bearish | 12 | expecting prices to fall | - |
| whorish | 16 | - | - |
| coltish | 12 | given to merry frolicking | - |
| mannish | 12 | characteristic of a man as distinguished from a woman | true mannish arrogance |
| largish | 11 | somewhat large | - |
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8 letter words
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| childish | 17 | indicating a lack of maturity | childish tantrums |
| goldfish | 16 | small golden or orange-red freshwater fishes of Eurasia used as pond or aquarium fishes | - |
| 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 |
| ticklish | 17 | difficult to handle; requiring great tact | hesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a matter |
| diminish | 14 | decrease in size, extent, or range | - |
| feverish | 17 | of or relating to or characterized by fever | - |
| sluggish | 13 | slow and apathetic | a sluggish worker |
| 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 | - |
| vanquish | 23 | come out better in a competition, race, or conflict | - |
| skittish | 15 | unpredictably excitable (especially of horses) | - |
| 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 | - |
| skirmish | 17 | a minor short-term fight | - |
| crayfish | 19 | tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | - |
| fiendish | 15 | extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell | a fiendish despot |
| snobbish | 15 | befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior | - |
| standish | 12 | English colonist in America; leader of the Pilgrims in the early days of the Plymouth Colony (1584-1656) | - |
| crawfish | 19 | tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | - |
| freakish | 18 | changeable | freakish weather |
| brownish | 16 | of a color similar to that of wood or earth | - |
| astonish | 11 | affect with wonder | - |
| smallish | 13 | rather small | - |
| monkfish | 20 | sharks with broad flat bodies and winglike pectoral fins but that swim the way sharks do | - |
| languish | 12 | have a desire for something or someone who is not present | - |
| greenish | 12 | of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass | - |
| admonish | 14 | take to task | He admonished the child for his bad behavior |
| brandish | 14 | move or swing back and forth | - |
| sailfish | 14 | a saltwater fish with lean flesh | - |
| sheepish | 16 | showing a sense of shame | - |
| sharpish | 16 | - | - |
| ghoulish | 15 | suggesting the horror of death and decay | - |
| bluefish | 16 | bluish warm-water marine food and game fish that follow schools of small fishes into shallow waters | - |
| churlish | 16 | having a bad disposition; surly | churlish as a bear |
| frogfish | 18 | fish having a frog-like mouth with a lure on the snout | - |
| youngish | 15 | somewhat young | - |
| brackish | 19 | slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water) | a brackish lagoon |
| blondish | 14 | - | - |
| purplish | 15 | of a color intermediate between red and blue | - |
| blackish | 19 | of something that is somewhat black | blackish clouds |
| sluttish | 11 | characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women | - |
| refinish | 14 | give a new surface | refinish the dining room furniture |
| priggish | 15 | exaggeratedly proper | - |
| thuggish | 16 | - | - |
| clownish | 16 | like a clown | a clownish face |
| clannish | 13 | befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior | - |
| kingfish | 19 | large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters | - |
| snappish | 15 | apt to speak irritably | a snappish tone of voice |
| thievish | 17 | given to thievery | - |
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9 letter words
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| establish | 14 | institute, enact, or establish | - |
| gibberish | 17 | unintelligible talking | - |
| jellyfish | 25 | large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles | - |
| shellfish | 18 | invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell | - |
| squeamish | 23 | excessively fastidious and easily disgusted | so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow |
| cavendish | 18 | British chemist and physicist who established that water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen and who calculated the density of the earth (1731-1810) | - |
| replenish | 14 | fill something that had previously been emptied | - |
| swordfish | 19 | 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 | - |
| unselfish | 15 | disregarding your own advantages and welfare over those of others | - |
| embellish | 16 | add details to | - |
| yellowish | 18 | of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk | - |
| refurbish | 17 | make brighter and prettier | we refurbished the guest wing |
| spearfish | 17 | any of several large vigorous pelagic fishes resembling sailfishes but with first dorsal fin much reduced; worldwide but rare | - |
| angelfish | 16 | sharks with broad flat bodies and winglike pectoral fins but that swim the way sharks do | - |
| refurnish | 15 | furnish with new or different furniture | We refurnished the living room |
| stonefish | 15 | venomous tropical marine fish resembling a piece of rock | - |
| fallalish | 15 | - | - |
| clownfish | 20 | - | - |
| deplenish | 15 | - | - |
| razorfish | 24 | - | - |
| queenfish | 24 | silvery and bluish drumfish of shallow California coastal waters | - |
| martyrish | 17 | - | - |
| bakhshish | 24 | - | - |
| baboonish | 16 | resembling a baboon | - |
| backshish | 23 | - | - |
| authorish | 15 | - | - |
| clackdish | 21 | - | - |
| clingfish | 18 | very small (to 3 inches) flattened marine fish with a sucking disc on the abdomen for clinging to rocks etc. | - |
| cleverish | 17 | - | - |
| brightish | 18 | - | - |
| buckshish | 23 | - | - |
| brogueish | 15 | - | - |
| blackfish | 23 | large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America | - |
| bitterish | 14 | somewhat bitter | - |
| blindfish | 18 | - | - |
| blinglish | 15 | - | - |
| goosefish | 16 | fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey | - |
| grannyish | 16 | - | - |
| gravelish | 16 | - | - |
| gentilish | 13 | - | - |
| globefish | 18 | 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 | - |
| giraffish | 19 | - | - |
| fribblish | 19 | - | - |
| frostfish | 18 | - | - |
| eremitish | 14 | - | - |
| dragonish | 14 | - | - |
| disrelish | 13 | - | - |
| devilfish | 19 | bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles | - |
| degarnish | 14 | - | - |
| crampfish | 21 | 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 | - |
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10 letter words
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| accomplish | 21 | to gain with effort | - |
| extinguish | 21 | extinguish by crushing | - |
| relinquish | 22 | part with a possession or right | I am relinquishing my bedroom to the long-term house guest |
| cuttlefish | 18 | ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell | - |
| outlandish | 14 | conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual | the outlandish clothes of teenagers |
| amateurish | 15 | lacking professional skill or expertise | a very amateurish job |
| parrotfish | 18 | gaudy tropical fishes with parrotlike beaks formed by fusion of teeth | - |
| coquettish | 24 | like a coquette | - |
| silverfish | 19 | silver-grey wingless insect found in houses feeding on book bindings and starched clothing | - |
| suckerfish | 22 | marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects | - |
| archerfish | 21 | any of several small freshwater fishes that catch insects by squirting water at them and knocking them into the water; found in Indonesia and Australia | - |
| flapperish | 20 | - | - |
| folklorish | 20 | - | - |
| flunkeyish | 23 | - | - |
| empoverish | 20 | - | - |
| dollarfish | 17 | any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies | - |
| disgarnish | 15 | - | - |
| disfurnish | 17 | - | - |
| displenish | 16 | - | - |
| madonnaish | 16 | - | - |
| paddlefish | 20 | primitive fish of the Mississippi valley having a long paddle-shaped snout | - |
| pantherish | 18 | - | - |
| overlavish | 19 | - | - |
| needlefish | 17 | fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates | - |
| mugwumpish | 23 | - | - |
| muttonfish | 18 | similar to and often marketed as `red snapper' | - |
| ruffianish | 19 | - | - |
| ribbonfish | 20 | thin deep-water tropical fish 20 to 30 feet long having a red dorsal fin | - |
| sybaritish | 18 | - | - |
| sheathfish | 22 | - | - |
| peacockish | 23 | - | - |
| rabbitfish | 20 | large European chimaera | - |
| picayunish | 20 | - | - |
| phantomish | 20 | - | - |
| trollopish | 15 | - | - |
| unactorish | 15 | - | - |
| werwolfish | 22 | - | - |
| vinegarish | 17 | tasting or smelling like vinegar | - |
| tripperish | 17 | - | - |
| tomfoolish | 18 | - | - |
| griffinish | 20 | - | - |
| genteelish | 14 | - | - |
| gluttonish | 14 | - | - |
| impoverish | 20 | take away | - |
| hoodlumish | 19 | - | - |
| hidalgoish | 18 | - | - |
| heathenish | 19 | not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam | - |
| guitarfish | 17 | primitive tropical bottom-dwelling ray with a guitar-shaped body | - |
| groundfish | 18 | fish that live on the sea bottom (particularly the commercially important gadoid fish like cod and haddock, or flatfish like flounder) | - |
| anglerfish | 17 | fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey | - |
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