blackfish
An Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, especially a female after spawning.
Any of various dark-coloured fish of the Old World, especially the rudderfish (Centrolophus niger).
A pilot whale (Globicephalus spp.) and occasionally also used for various other whales).
Either of two dark-coloured fish of the west Atlantic, the tautog of New England (Tautoga onitis) and the black sea bass (Centropristis striata).
Any of various dark-coloured fishes of Australasia, especially the luderick (Girella tricuspidata), and a freshwater fish, Gadopsis marmoratus.

blackfishes
plural of blackfish

blue whale
A whale (Balaenoptera musculus), blue in color and the largest known living animal.

boto
Inia geoffrensis, a species of freshwater dolphin endemic to the Amazon river system

botos
plural of boto

bottle-nosed dolphin
Alternative spelling of bottlenose dolphin.

bottlehead
The bottlenose whale
A beetlehead; a fool

bottleheads
plural of bottlehead

bottlenose dolphin
One of the species of gray dolphin in the genus Tursiops, between 2 and 4 meters in length inhabiting warm and temperate seas worldwide.
One of the species of gray dolphin in the genus Tursiops, between 2 and 4 meters in length inhabiting warm and temperate seas worldwide.

bottlenose dolphins
plural of bottlenose dolphin

bottlenose whales
plural of bottlenose whale

bottlenosed dolphin
Alternative spelling of bottlenose dolphin.

bowhead
A large baleen whale, of species Balaena mysticetus, having a large, rounded head, that inhabits Arctic waters.

bowhead whale
A bowhead.

bowhead whales
plural of bowhead whale

bowheads
plural of bowhead

bucker
A horse or other animal that bucks.
A holder-up; one who bucks rivets, typically holding a heavy bucking bar against the bucktail of a rivet which is heated if necessary till it is soft, while the riveter (or gunner or, before mechanisation, basher) uses a rivet gun (an adjustable pneumatic hammer) fitted with a rivet set, against the factory head to provide impulses which upset the bucktail into a field head.
One who bucks ore.
A broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore.

buckers
plural of bucker

bufeo
Synonym of Amazon river dolphin.

bufeos
plural of bufeo

caaing whale
pilot whale

cachalot
The sperm whale, Physeter macrocephalus.

cachalote
Alternative form of cachalot.
Alternative form of cacholote.

cachalotes
plural of cachalote

cachalots
plural of cachalot

cacholot
Archaic form of cachalot.

cacholots
plural of cacholot

cetacea
Whale-like mammals.

cetaceans
plural of cetacean

common dolphins
plural of common dolphin

dolphin
A carnivorous aquatic mammal in one of several families of the infraorder Cetacea, famed for its intelligence and occasional willingness to approach humans.
A carnivorous aquatic mammal in one of several families of the infraorder Cetacea, famed for its intelligence and occasional willingness to approach humans.
A fish, the mahi-mahi or dorado, Coryphaena hippurus, with a dorsal fin that runs the length of the body, also known for iridescent coloration.
A depiction of a fish, with a broad indented fin, usually embowed.
The dauphin, eldest son of the kings of France.
A mass of iron or lead hung from the yardarm, in readiness to be dropped through the deck and the hull of an enemy's vessel to sink it.
A kind of wreath or strap of plaited cordage.
A spar or buoy held by an anchor and furnished with a ring to which ships may fasten their cables.
A mooring post on a wharf or beach.
A permanent fender designed to protect a heavy boat, bridge, or coastal structure from the impact of large floating objects such as ice, floating logs, or vessels.
One of the handles above the trunnions by which a gun was lifted.
A person who buys shares on the primary market only to resell them immediately at a high profit.

dolphinkind
Dolphins collectively.

dolphins
plural of dolphin

dusky dolphin
Aethalodelphis obscurus, a dolphin found in coastal waters in the Southern Hemisphere.

dwarf sperm whale
Any of the small whales of the sperm whale superfamily, in species Kogia sima.

dyscalculias
plural of dyscalculia

false killer whale
A dolphin of species Pseudorca crassidens, one of the larger dolphin species.

false killer whales
plural of false killer whale

fin whale
A whale of the rorqual family (Balaenoptera physalus).

finback
A large baleen whale, Balaenoptera physalus, that has a ridge on its back; the fin whale.

finbacks
plural of finback

finless porpoise
Neophocaena phocaenoides, a species of porpoise that lacks a true dorsal fin and is found in the coastal waters of Asia, especially around Japan, Korea, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, India and Bangladesh.

finner
A finback whale.

finners
plural of finner

franciscana
Synonym of La Plata dolphin.

franciscanas
plural of franciscana

grampus
A killer whale (Orcinus orca).
Risso's dolphin (Grampus griseus), with a blunt nose.
A hellbender salamander, Cryptobranchus alleganiensis.
A giant whip scorpion (Mastigoproctus giganteus)

grampuses
plural of grampus

gray whale
A baleen whale, Eschrichtius robustus, from the north Pacific

gray whales
plural of gray whale

grey whale
Alternative form of gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus)

grey whales
plural of grey whale

harbour porpoise
A porpoise, Phocoena phocoena, that inhabits coastal areas and river estuaries.

hourglass dolphin
A dolphin of the species Cephalorhynchus cruciger.

humbucker
A pickup, on an electric guitar, that has a pair of coils of reverse polarity connected in series in order to reduce buzzing noise caused by mains frequency.

humbuckers
plural of humbucker

hump
A mound of earth.
A speed bump or speed hump.
A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine.
A rounded fleshy mass, such as on a camel or zebu.
An act of sexual intercourse.
A bad mood.
A painfully boorish person.
A wave that forms in front of an operating hovercraft and impedes progress at low speeds.

humpback whale
A species of baleen whale (Megaptera novaeangliae).

humpback whales
plural of humpback whale

humpday
Alternative spelling of hump day.

humpdays
plural of humpday

humps
plural of hump

hunch
A hump; a protuberance.
A stooped or curled posture; a slouch.
A theory, idea, or guess; an intuitive impression that something will happen.
A hunk; a lump; a thick piece.
A push or thrust, as with the elbow.

hunches
plural of hunch

hyperoodon
A whale in the genus Hyperoodon of the order Cetacea, comprising both species of bottlenose whale.

hyperoodons
plural of hyperoodon

inia
plural of inion

inias
plural of inia

killer whale
A sea mammal related to dolphins and porpoises (Orcinus orca).

killer whales
plural of killer whale

lesser rorqual
Synonym of minke whale.

marine mammals
plural of marine mammal

melon-headed whale
A cetacean of species Peponocephala electra.

melon-headed whales
plural of melon-headed whale

minke
Synonym of minke whale.

minke whale
Either of two baleen whales, Balaenoptera acutorostrata and Balaenoptera bonaerensis, found in coastal waters.

minkes
plural of minke

minkewhale
Alternative form of minke whale.

minkewhales
plural of minkewhale

monodon
Any toothed whale (such as the narwhal) of the family Monodontidae.

monodons
plural of monodon

mussel digger
gray whale

narwal
Archaic form of narwhal.

narwals
plural of narwal

narwhal
Monodon monoceros, an Arctic cetacean that grows to about 20 feet (6 meters) long, the male having a single horn-like tusk, a twisted, pointed canine tooth that projects forward.

narwhale
Alternative spelling of narwhal.

narwhales
plural of narwhale

narwhals
plural of narwhal

nodi
plural of nodus

nodus
A difficulty.
In the Odonata, a prominent crossvein near the centre of the leading edge of a wing.

nordcaper
Alternative form of Nordcaper.

nordcapers
plural of nordcaper

northern bottlenose whale
A bottlenose whale of species Hyperoodon ampullatus, endemic to the North Atlantic.