These are the meanings of the letters HFIOXPS when you unscramble them.
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Fish (n.)
A counter, used in various games.
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Fish (pl. )
of Fish
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Fish (n.)
A name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of diverse characteristics, living in the water.
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Fish (n.)
An oviparous, vertebrate animal usually having fins and a covering scales or plates. It breathes by means of gills, and lives almost entirely in the water. See Pisces.
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Fish (n.)
The twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces.
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Fish (n.)
The flesh of fish, used as food.
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Fish (n.)
A purchase used to fish the anchor.
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Fish (n.)
A piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a fish, used to strengthen a mast or yard.
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Fish (v. i.)
To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net.
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Fish (v. i.)
To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments.
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Fish (v. t.)
To catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor.
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Fish (v. t.)
To search by raking or sweeping.
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Fish (v. t.)
To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream.
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Fish (v. t.)
To strengthen (a beam, mast, etc.), or unite end to end (two timbers, railroad rails, etc.) by bolting a plank, timber, or plate to the beam, mast, or timbers, lengthwise on one or both sides. See Fish joint, under Fish, n.
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Pish (interj.)
An exclamation of contempt.
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Pish (v. i.)
To express contempt.
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Ship (n.)
Pay; reward.
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Ship (n.)
Any large seagoing vessel.
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Ship (n.)
Specifically, a vessel furnished with a bowsprit and three masts (a mainmast, a foremast, and a mizzenmast), each of which is composed of a lower mast, a topmast, and a topgallant mast, and square-rigged on all masts. See Illustation in Appendix.
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Ship (n.)
A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense.
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Ship (v. t.)
To put on board of a ship, or vessel of any kind, for transportation; to send by water.
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Ship (v. t.)
By extension, in commercial usage, to commit to any conveyance for transportation to a distance; as, to ship freight by railroad.
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Ship (v. t.)
Hence, to send away; to get rid of.
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Ship (v. t.)
To engage or secure for service on board of a ship; as, to ship seamen.
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Ship (v. t.)
To receive on board ship; as, to ship a sea.
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Ship (v. t.)
To put in its place; as, to ship the tiller or rudder.
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Ship (v. i.)
To engage to serve on board of a vessel; as, to ship on a man-of-war.
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Ship (v. i.)
To embark on a ship.
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Shop ()
imp. of Shape. Shaped.
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Shop (n.)
A building or an apartment in which goods, wares, drugs, etc., are sold by retail.
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Shop (n.)
A building in which mechanics or artisans work; as, a shoe shop; a car shop.
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Shop (v. i.)
To visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods.
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Soph (n.)
A contraction of Soph ister.
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Soph (n.)
A contraction of Sophomore.