Words that rhyme with roughish

• angelfish 0
  n 1: a butterfly fish of the genus Pomacanthus 2: deep-bodied disk-shaped food fish of warmer western Atlantic coastal waters [syn: spadefish, angelfish, Chaetodipterus faber] 3: sharks with broad flat bodies and winglike pectoral fins but that swim the way sharks do [syn: angel shark, angelfish, Squatina squatina, monkfish]
• blowfish 0
  n 1: delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver [syn: blowfish, sea squab, puffer, pufferfish] 2: 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 [syn: puffer, pufferfish, blowfish, globefish]
• bluefish 0
  n 1: bluish warm-water marine food and game fish that follow schools of small fishes into shallow waters [syn: bluefish, Pomatomus saltatrix] 2: fatty bluish flesh of bluefish
• bonefish 0
  n 1: slender silvery marine fish found in tropical mud flats and mangrove lagoons [syn: bonefish, Albula vulpes]
• butterfish 0
  n 1: any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin 2: small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines [syn: butterfish, stromateid fish, stromateid] 3: slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters [syn: rock gunnel, butterfish, Pholis gunnellus]
• codfish 0
  n 1: lean white flesh of important North Atlantic food fish; usually baked or poached [syn: cod, codfish] 2: major food fish of Arctic and cold-temperate waters [syn: cod, codfish]
• crayfish 0
  n 1: warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California [syn: spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster, crayfish] 2: tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly [syn: crayfish, crawfish, crawdad, ecrevisse] 3: small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster [syn: crayfish, crawfish, crawdad, crawdaddy] 4: large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters [syn: spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster, crawfish, crayfish, sea crawfish]
• cuttlefish 0
  n 1: ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell [syn: cuttlefish, cuttle]
• damselfish 0
  n 1: small brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes of coral reefs [syn: damselfish, demoiselle]
• devilfish 0
  n 1: medium-sized greyish-black whale of the northern Pacific [syn: grey whale, gray whale, devilfish, Eschrichtius gibbosus, Eschrichtius robustus] 2: bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles [syn: octopus, devilfish] 3: extremely large pelagic tropical ray that feeds on plankton and small fishes; usually harmless but its size make it dangerous if harpooned [syn: manta, manta ray, devilfish]
• dogfish 0
  n 1: primitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America [syn: bowfin, grindle, dogfish, Amia calva] 2: any of several small sharks
• elfish 0
  adj 1: usually good-naturedly mischievous; "perpetrated a practical joke with elfin delight"; "elvish tricks" [syn: elfin, elfish, elvish]
• filefish 0
  n 1: narrow flattened warm-water fishes with leathery skin and a long file-like dorsal spine
• flatfish 0
  n 1: sweet lean whitish flesh of any of numerous thin-bodied fish; usually served as thin fillets 2: 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
• frogfish 0
  n 1: fish having a frog-like mouth with a lure on the snout
• garfish 0
  n 1: primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth [syn: gar, garfish, garpike, billfish, Lepisosteus osseus]
• goldfish 0
  n 1: small golden or orange-red freshwater fishes of Eurasia used as pond or aquarium fishes [syn: goldfish, Carassius auratus]
• hagfish 0
  n 1: 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 [syn: hagfish, hag, slime eels]
• huffish 0
  adj 1: sullen or moody [syn: huffish, sulky]
• jewfish 0
  n 1: large important food fish of Australia; almost indistinguishable from the maigre [syn: mulloway, jewfish, Sciaena antarctica] 2: large dark grouper with a thick head and rough scales [syn: jewfish, Mycteroperca bonaci]
• kingfish 0
  n 1: the lean flesh of any of several fish caught off the Atlantic coast of the United States 2: large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters [syn: cero, pintado, kingfish, Scomberomorus regalis] 3: small silvery marine food fish found off California [syn: white croaker, chenfish, kingfish, Genyonemus lineatus] 4: any of several food and game fishes of the drum family indigenous to warm Atlantic waters of the North American coast 5: large game fish of Australia and New Zealand [syn: kingfish, Seriola grandis]
• lungfish 0
  n 1: air-breathing fish having an elongated body and fleshy paired fins; certain species construct mucus-lined mud coverings in which to survive drought
• monkfish 0
  n 1: flesh of a large-headed anglerfish of the Atlantic waters of North America 2: fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey [syn: goosefish, angler, anglerfish, angler fish, monkfish, lotte, allmouth, Lophius Americanus] 3: sharks with broad flat bodies and winglike pectoral fins but that swim the way sharks do [syn: angel shark, angelfish, Squatina squatina, monkfish]
• moonfish 0
  n 1: any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies [syn: moonfish, Atlantic moonfish, horsefish, horsehead, horse-head, dollarfish, Selene setapinnis] 2: large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean [syn: opah, moonfish, Lampris regius]
• oafish 0
  adj 1: ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband"; "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude" [syn: boorish, loutish, neanderthal, neandertal, oafish, swinish]
• oarfish 0
  n 1: thin deep-water tropical fish 20 to 30 feet long having a red dorsal fin [syn: oarfish, king of the herring, ribbonfish, Regalecus glesne]
• offish 0
  adj 1: lacking cordiality; unfriendly; "a standoffish manner" [syn: offish, standoffish]
• parrotfish 0
  n 1: gaudy tropical fishes with parrotlike beaks formed by fusion of teeth [syn: parrotfish, polly fish, pollyfish]
• pipefish 0
  n 1: fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates [syn: pipefish, needlefish]
• raffish 0
  adj 1: marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat" [syn: dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, spiffy, snappy, spruce] 2: marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness; "a cocktail party given by some...raffish bachelors"- Crary Moore [syn: devil-may-care, raffish, rakish]
• ribbonfish 0
  n 1: thin deep-water tropical fish 20 to 30 feet long having a red dorsal fin [syn: oarfish, king of the herring, ribbonfish, Regalecus glesne] 2: marine fish having a long compressed ribbonlike body
• rockfish 0
  n 1: the lean flesh of any of various valuable market fish caught among rocks 2: marine food fish found among rocks along the northern coasts of Europe and America 3: marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone [syn: striped bass, striper, Roccus saxatilis, rockfish]
• sailfish 0
  n 1: a saltwater fish with lean flesh 2: large pelagic game fish having an elongated upper jaw and long dorsal fin that resembles a sail
• sawfish 0
  n 1: primitive ray with sharp teeth on each edge of a long flattened snout
• selfish 0
  adj 1: concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others; "Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights"- Maria Weston Chapman [ant: unselfish]
• shellfish 0
  n 1: meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean) 2: invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell [syn: mollusk, mollusc, shellfish]
• silverfish 0
  n 1: silver-grey wingless insect found in houses feeding on book bindings and starched clothing [syn: silverfish, Lepisma saccharina] 2: a silvery variety of Carassius auratus
• spearfish 0
  n 1: any of several large vigorous pelagic fishes resembling sailfishes but with first dorsal fin much reduced; worldwide but rare
• standoffish 0
  adj 1: lacking cordiality; unfriendly; "a standoffish manner" [syn: offish, standoffish]
• starfish 0
  n 1: echinoderms characterized by five arms extending from a central disk [syn: starfish, sea star]
• stockfish 0
  n 1: fish cured by being split and air-dried without salt
• stonefish 0
  n 1: venomous tropical marine fish resembling a piece of rock [syn: stonefish, Synanceja verrucosa]
• swordfish 0
  n 1: flesh of swordfish usually served as steaks 2: 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 [syn: swordfish, Xiphias gladius]
• toadfish 0
  n 1: bottom-dwelling fish having scaleless slimy skin and a broad thick head with a wide mouth [syn: toadfish, Opsanus tau]
• triggerfish 0
  n 1: any of numerous compressed deep-bodied tropical fishes with sandpapery skin and erectile spines in the first dorsal fin
• unselfish 0
  adj 1: disregarding your own advantages and welfare over those of others [ant: selfish] 2: not greedy
• whitefish 0
  n 1: any market fish--edible saltwater fish or shellfish--except herring 2: flesh of salmon-like or trout-like cold-water fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere 3: silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere
• wolfish 0
  adj 1: resembling or characteristic (or considered characteristic) of a wolf; "ran in wolflike packs"; "wolfish rapacity" [syn: wolflike, wolfish] 2: devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves"; "voracious sharks" [syn: edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish]
• dwarfish 0
  adj 1: atypically small; "dwarf tree"; "dwarf star"
• crawfish 0
  n 1: tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly [syn: crayfish, crawfish, crawdad, ecrevisse] 2: small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster [syn: crayfish, crawfish, crawdad, crawdaddy] 3: large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters [syn: spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster, crawfish, crayfish, sea crawfish] v 1: make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity; "We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him"; "He backed out of his earlier promise"; "The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns" [syn: retreat, pull back, back out, back away, crawfish, crawfish out, pull in one's horns, withdraw]
• globefish 0
  n 1: 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 [syn: puffer, pufferfish, blowfish, globefish]
• lumpfish 0
  n 1: clumsy soft thick-bodied northern Atlantic fish with pelvic fins fused into a sucker; edible roe used for caviar [syn: lumpfish, Cyclopterus lumpus]
• redfish 0
  n 1: North Atlantic rockfish [syn: redfish, rosefish, ocean perch] 2: large edible fish found off coast of United States from Massachusetts to Mexico [syn: red drum, channel bass, redfish, Sciaenops ocellatus] 3: male salmon that has recently spawned
• threadfish 0
  n 1: fish having greatly elongated front rays on dorsal and anal fins [syn: threadfish, thread-fish, Alectis ciliaris]
• coalfish 0
• mudfish 0
• overfish 0

See also roughish definition and roughish synonyms