A spinose plectognath fish of the Atlantic coast of the United States (especially Chilo mycterus geometricus) having the power of distending its body with water or air, so as to resemble a chestnut bur.
bushful
bushful
noun
As much as a bush holds.
dishful
dishful
noun
As much as a dish will hold.
dunfish
dunfish
noun
A kind of cured codfish.
faubush
faunish
fishful
fishful
adj
Abounding in fish.
flushed
flushed
adj
Red in the face because of embarrassment, exertion, etc.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of flush
flusher
flusher
noun
(US, politics) A worker for a political campaign who encourages voters to vote on Election Day.
Agent noun of flush: one who flushes.
The mechanical part of a toilet that causes the toilet bowl's contents to be sucked down the drain.
flushes
flushes
noun
plural of flush
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flush
foulish
foulish
adj
Obsolete form of foolish.
Somewhat foul.
fourths
fourths
noun
plural of fourth
foushee
fuchsia
fuchsia
adj
Having a purplish-red colour.
noun
A popular garden plant, of the genus Fuchsia, of the Onagraceae family, shrubs with red, pink or purple flowers.
A purplish-red colour, the color of fuchsin, an aniline dye.
fuchsin
fuchsin
noun
Alternative spelling of fuchsine
fuhrers
fuhrers
noun
plural of fuhrer
fulhams
fulhams
noun
plural of fulham
fullish
fullish
adj
Somewhat full; reasonably full, quite full.
furbish
furbish
verb
To polish or burnish.
To renovate or recondition.
furnish
furnish
noun
Material used to create an engineered product.
verb
(transitive) To provide a place with furniture, or other equipment.
(transitive, figuratively) To supply (somebody) with something.
(transitive, figuratively) To supply or give (something).
gashful
gashful
adj
(obsolete) ghastly; hideous; frightful.
hatfuls
hatfuls
noun
plural of hatful
hatsful
huffish
huffish
adj
Disposed to be blustering or arrogant; petulant.
hunfysh
hushful
hushful
adj
Full of, pervaded by, or characteristic of stillness or silence; tending to hush to rest.
Any of a group of small killifish belonging to ten genera of the family Cyprinodontidae.
pushful
pushful
adj
Energetic; pushy.
rashful
rashful
adj
(obsolete) rash; hasty; precipitate
reflush
reflush
noun
Another flush.
verb
(intransitive, transitive) To flush again.
runfish
shadufs
shadufs
noun
plural of shaduf
shipful
shipful
noun
As much as a ship will hold.
shopful
shopful
noun
The amount that a shop can hold.
showful
showful
adj
(archaic) showy; gaudy
noun
Enough to fill a show.
shuffle
shuffle
noun
(by extension, music) A rhythm commonly used in blues music. Consists of a series of triplet notes with the middle note missing, so that it sounds like a long note followed by a short note. Sounds like a walker dragging one foot.
(dance) A dance move in which the foot is scuffed across the floor back and forth.
A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.
The act of reordering anything, such as music tracks in a media player.
The act of shuffling cards.
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
(transitive, intransitive) To put in a random order.
To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
To change; modify the order of something.
To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another.
To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
shutoff
shutoff
noun
A valve used to turn something off.
The act of turning something off.
sighful
sighful
adj
(poetic) Full of sighs.
sunfish
sunfish
noun
Any of various large marine fishes of the family Molidae that have an oval compressed body.
Any of various small freshwater fishes of the family Centrarchidae, often with iridescent colours and having a laterally compressed body.
tubfish
tubfish
noun
(UK, dialect) The sapphirine gurnard (Chelidonichthys lucerna).
unflesh
unflesh
verb
(transitive) To strip of flesh; to reduce to a skeleton.
unflush
unflush
verb
(intransitive) To lose a flush of colour.
unsheaf
unshift
unshift
verb
(intransitive) To release the shift key on a computer or typewriter keyboard.
(transitive, programming) To add an item to the beginning of an array.
upflash
upflash
verb
(intransitive) To flash upward; to rise or surface very rapidly.
upshaft
upshift
upshift
noun
(automotive, cycling) A shift to a higher gear
A shift to a higher level, such as of frequency, growth, economic level, etc.
verb
(automotive, cycling) To shift to a higher gear
(transitive) To shift to a higher level, such as of frequency, growth rate, economic level, etc.