5-letter words containing a, n
- gavin — a male given name.
- gayne — (obsolete) To gain; to avail.
- gazon — a piece of turf used to cover a parapet
- geans — heart cherry.
- geant — A simulation, tracking and drawing package for HEP.
- genal — the cheek or side region of the head.
- genoa — a seaport in NW Italy, S of Milan.
- geyan — somewhat
- ghain — the nineteenth letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- ghana — a republic in West Africa comprising the former colonies of the Gold Coast and Ashanti, the protectorate of the Northern Territories, and the U.N. trusteeship of British Togoland: member of the Commonwealth of Nations since 1957. 91,843 sq. mi. (237,873 sq. km). Capital: Accra.
- giant — (in folklore) a being with human form but superhuman size, strength, etc.
- ginas — Plural form of gina.
- ginza — the, a district in Tokyo, Japan, famous for its department stores, nightclubs, and bars.
- gland — a sleeve within a stuffing box, fitted over a shaft or valve stem and tightened against compressible packing in such a way as to prevent leakage of fluid while allowing the shaft or stem to move; lantern ring.
- glans — the head of the penis (glans penis) or of the clitoris (glans clitoris)
- glean — to gather slowly and laboriously, bit by bit.
- gnarl — a knotty protuberance on a tree; knot.
- gnarr — to snarl; growl.
- gnash — to grind or strike (the teeth) together, especially in rage or pain.
- gnats — GNU Problem Report Management System
- gnawn — a past participle of gnaw.
- gnaws — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gnaw.
- goban — a Japanese game played on a go board with players alternating and attempting to be first to place five counters in a row.
- gonad — a sex gland in which gametes are produced; an ovary or testis.
- gonia — Craniometry. a point on each side of the lower jaw at the mandibular angle.
- gonna — Going to.
- goona — Lb Australian Aboriginal faeces, excrement, shit.
- gowan — any of various yellow or white field flowers, especially the English daisy.
- grain — granularity
- grana — (in prescriptions) plural of granum.
- grand — impressive in size, appearance, or general effect: grand mountain scenery.
- grani — (in the Volsunga Saga) the horse of Sigurd.
- grans — Plural form of gran.
- grant — to bestow or confer, especially by a formal act: to grant a charter.
- groan — a low, mournful sound uttered in pain or grief: the groans of dying soldiers.
- guana — (US) A contraction of iguana (the lizard) made in British colonial America.
- guano — a natural manure composed chiefly of the excrement of sea birds, found especially on islands near the Peruvian coast.
- guans — Plural form of guan.
- gunas — (in Sankhya and Vedantic philosophy) one of the three qualities of prakriti, or nature, which are passion (rajas) dullness or inertia (tamas) and goodness or purity (sattva)
- gunda — a rogue or hoodlum.
- gunna — (rare) alternative spelling of gonna.
- gunya — (Australia) alternative spelling of gunyah.
- gyani — (in India) a title placed before the name of a Punjabi scholar
- gynae — gynaecological
- haden — Charles (Edward). born 1937, US jazz bassist, esp. noted for his collaborations with Ornette Coleman and Keith Jarrett
- hadna — (nonstandard, or, dialectal) hadn't.
- hafun — Cape, a promontory in N Somalia, on the Indian Ocean: easternmost point in Africa.
- hagen — a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in W Germany.
- haint — (US, dialectal) Alternative form of haunt.
- halon — Any of a number of unreactive gaseous compounds of carbon with bromine and other halogens, used in fire extinguishers, but now known to damage the ozone layer.