5-letter words containing a, n
- drain — to withdraw or draw off (a liquid) gradually; remove slowly or by degrees, as by filtration: to drain oil from a crankcase.
- drang — a narrow lane or alleyway.
- drank — a simple past tense and past participle of drink.
- drant — to drone or drawl
- drawn — past participle of draw.
- drina — a river in S Europe, flowing N along the part of the border between Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina to the Sava River at Belgrade, Serbia. 285 miles (459 km) long.
- duane — a male given name.
- dubna — a new town in W Russia, founded in 1956: site of the United Institute of Nuclear Research. Pop: 60 951 (2002)
- dunai — the Danube
- dunaj — Czech and Slovak name of the Dvina.
- dunam — a unit of land area measurement used in Israel equivalent to 1,000 square metres
- dunav — the Danube
- duran — Roberto [ruh-bair-toh;; Spanish raw-ber-taw] /rəˈbɛər toʊ;; Spanish rɔˈbɛr tɔ/ (Show IPA), born 1951, Panamanian boxer.
- dvina — Also called Western Dvina. Latvian Daugava. a river rising in the Valdai Hills in the W Russian Federation, flowing W through Byelorussia (Belarus) and Latvia to the Baltic Sea at Riga. About 640 miles (1030) long.
- dyana — DYnamics ANAlyzer
- dylan — DYnamic LANguage
- dyna- — power
- dynam — A foot-pound.
- eagan — a town in SE Minnesota.
- earns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of earn.
- earnt — (chiefly British) Simple past tense and past participle of earn.
- eaten — a past participle of eat.
- eaton — Theophilus, 1590–1658, English colonist and colonial administrator in America.
- edina — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
- edman — Irwin, 1896–1954, U.S. philosopher and essayist.
- ednas — a female given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “rejuvenation, rebirth.”.
- ekman — Vagn Walfrid (vaɣən wɑːlfriːd). 1874–1954, Swedish oceanographer: discoverer of the Ekman spiral (a complex interaction on the surface of the sea between wind, rotation of the earth, and friction forces) and the Ekman Layer (the thin top layer of the sea that flows at 90° to the wind direction)
- eland — A spiral-horned African antelope that lives in open woodland and grassland. It is the largest of the antelopes.
- elman — ˈMischa (ˈmɪʃə ) ; mishˈə) 1891-1967; U.S. violinist, born in Russia
- elsan — a type of portable lavatory in which chemicals are used to kill bacteria and deodorize the sludge
- elvan — Pertaining to elves; elvish; elven.
- enact — Make (a bill or other proposal) law.
- enarm — to provide with arms or armour
- enate — A relative whose relation is traced only through female members of the family.
- enema — A procedure in which liquid or gas is injected into the rectum, typically to expel its contents, but also to introduce drugs or permit X-ray imaging.
- eniac — Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
- enlay — Archaic form of inlay.
- ethan — a masculine name
- evans — Sir Arthur (John). 1851–1941, British archaeologist, whose excavations of the palace of Knossos in Crete provided evidence for the existence of the Minoan civilization
- facon — a fashion; manner; style.
- faena — the final third of a bullfight in which the matador uses a muleta and the sword in making the final series of passes preparatory to the kill.
- fagin — (in Dickens' Oliver Twist) a villainous old man who trains and uses young boys as thieves.
- faine — Obsolete spelling of fane.
- faint — lacking brightness, vividness, clearness, loudness, strength, etc.: a faint light; a faint color; a faint sound.
- falun — a city in central Sweden: iron and pyrites mines. Pop: 55 009 (2004 est)
- fanal — A lighthouse, or the apparatus placed in it for giving light.
- fancy — imagination or fantasy, especially as exercised in a capricious manner.
- faned — (dated, fandom slang) The editor of a fandom publication, most commonly a fanzine.
- fanes — a temple.
- fango — clay or mud, especially a clay obtained from certain hot springs in Battaglio, Italy, used as a hot application in the treatment of certain diseases.