(fishing) Small fish such as minnows that are used as bait to catch larger predatory fish.
chiefest
chiefest
adj
superlative form of chief: most chief
chinfest
chinfest
noun
(colloquial) A session of chat or gossip; a chinwag.
disfaith
faintish
faintish
adj
Somewhat faint.
farsight
farsight
noun
The faculty of looking far ahead; farsightedness; prescience.
fetiches
fetiches
noun
plural of fetich
plural of fetiche
fetisher
fetisher
noun
(rare) A fetishist.
fetishes
fetishes
noun
plural of fetish
fetishic
fetishic
adj
Of or relating to a fetish.
fetishry
fighters
fighters
noun
plural of fighter
fishboat
fishboat
noun
A fishing boat.
fishbolt
fishbolt
noun
(engineering) A bolt used to fasten fishplates.
fishiest
fishiest
adj
superlative form of fishy: most fishy
fishnets
fishnets
noun
Pairs or a pair of stockings made of fishnet fabric.
plural of fishnet
fishtail
fishtail
noun
A kind of chisel with a flared blade.
Short for fishtail palm.
The skidding of the back of a vehicle from side to side.
The tail of a fish, or an object resembling this.
verb
(intransitive) To move with the tail swinging from side to side in this way.
(intransitive) To swing the back of a vehicle (originally an aircraft) from side to side.
(transitive) To cause the back of (a vehicle) to swing from side to side.
fishtrap
fitchets
fitchets
noun
plural of fitchet
fitchews
fitchews
noun
plural of fitchew
flatfish
flatfish
noun
A fish of the order Pleuronectiformes, the adults of which have both eyes on one side and usually swim with the other side down, such as a flounder, a halibut, or a sole.
flattish
flattish
adj
Somewhat flat, in any comparable sense of the word.
flirtish
flirtish
adj
of the nature of, or characterizing a flirt
flitches
flitches
noun
plural of flitch
foothils
fortyish
fortyish
adj
About forty years old.
Close to the number forty
num
Any number close to forty.
freights
freights
noun
plural of freight
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of freight
frithles
fuchsite
fuchsite
noun
(mineralogy) A green variety of muscovite
goatfish
goatfish
noun
Any of many brightly coloured fishes, of the family Mullidae, having two barbels on the chin.
hardfist
hastifly
heftiest
heftiest
adj
superlative form of hefty: most hefty
huffiest
huffiest
adj
superlative form of huffy: most huffy
infights
infights
noun
plural of infight
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of infight
misfaith
misfaith
noun
Bad or misplaced religious belief.
Lack of faith; distrust.
outshift
redshift
redshift
noun
(US politics) The statistical bias towards Republican (or Blue Dog) candidates of US federal elections whose reported results vary considerably from those indicated by voter exit polls.
(physics) A change in the wavelength of light, in which the wavelength is longer than when it was emitted at the source.
refights
refights
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of refight
saltfish
saltfish
noun
salt cod: dried and salted cod.
shafiite
shafiite
Noun
A member of the (Arabic: شافعي Šāfiʿī), one of the schools of fiqh, or religious law, within the Sunni branch of Islam, recognising four sources of jurisprudence.
shafting
shafting
noun
(engineering) A system of connected shafts for communicating motion.
Shafts collectively.
verb
present participle of shaft
shiftage
shiftage
noun
Movement by shifting.
shifters
shifters
noun
plural of shifter
shiftful
shiftful
adj
Habitually travelling; itinerant.
shiftier
shiftier
adj
comparative form of shifty: more shifty
shiftily
shiftily
adv
In a shifty manner.
shifting
shifting
noun
(linguistics) The phenomenon by which two or more constituents appearing on the same side of their common head exchange positions to obtain non-canonical order.
A shift or change; a shifting movement.
verb
present participle of shift
shiftman
shoplift
shoplift
noun
(obsolete) A shoplifter.
verb
(intransitive) To steal from shops / stores during trading hours.
(transitive) To steal something from a shop or store during business hours, usually by means of hiding merchandise.
sightful
sightful
adj
(obsolete) Easily or clearly seen; distinctly visible; perspicuous
Having full sight; clear-sighted; perspicacious and discerning; observant
softship
softship
noun
(rare, often humorous) A situation marked by ease, comfort, or convenience.
staffish
staffish
adj
(obsolete) stiff; harsh
starfish
starfish
noun
(obsolete) Any many-armed or tentacled sea invertebrate, whether cnidarian, echinoderm, or cephalopod.
(slang) A woman (or, less commonly, a gay man) who reluctantly takes part in sexual intercourse, and lies on the back while spreading the limbs.
(vulgar, slang, usually in translations of Japanese pornography) The anus.
Any of various asteroids or other echinoderms (not in fact fish) with usually five arms, many of which eat bivalves or corals by everting their stomach.
verb
(intransitive) To assume a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish.
(transitive) To form into a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish.
stiffish
stiffish
adj
quite stiff (all meanings)
studfish
studfish
noun
Any of several species of small American minnows of the genus Fundulus, such as Fundulus catenatus.
tangfish
tangfish
noun
(UK, dialect) The common harbour seal.
teatfish
tilefish
tilefish
noun
Any of the mostly small, perciform marine fish in the family Malacanthidae; an important food fish.
toadfish
toadfish
noun
Any of the ray-finned fishes of family Batrachoididae of benthic ambush predators.
The banded toadfish, of Australia (Torquigener pleurogramma)
The blackspotted toadfish, of the tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans (Arothron nigropunctatus)
The common toadfish (or toadfish), of Australia and New Zealand (Tetractenos hamiltoni)
The dark toadfish (Neophrynichthys latus)
The frilled toadfish, of Macquarie Island (Ambophthalmos magnicirrus)
The pale toadfish of New Zealand (Ambophthalmos angustus)
The prickly toadfish, of Australia and New Zealand (Contusus richei)
The red striped toadfish, of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea (Dichotomyctere erythrotaenia, syn. Tetraodon erythrotaenia)
The smooth toadfish, of Australia (Tetractenos glaber)
trashify
trashify
verb
(informal, transitive) To throw away; to dispose of.
treefish
treefish
noun
Sebastes serriceps, a marine fish native to the eastern Pacific Ocean, with large spines on top of its head.
unfaiths
unfaiths
noun
plural of unfaith
unshifts
unshifts
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of unshift
unshifty
unshifty
adj
Not shifty (in various senses).
upshifts
upshifts
noun
plural of upshift
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of upshift