5-letter words containing a, n
- bangs — Bangs are hair that is cut so that it hangs over your forehead.
- bangy — (India) A type of yoke carried on the shoulders, as a means for people to carry a load.
- bania — banyan (def 2).
- banjo — A banjo is a musical instrument that looks like a guitar with a circular body, a long neck, and four or more strings.
- banka — Bangka
- banke — Obsolete spelling of bank.
- banks — Iain (Menzies). 1954–2013, Scottish novelist and science fiction writer. His novels include The Wasp Factory (1984), The Crow Road (1992), and The Steep Approach to Garbadale (2007); science-fiction (under the name Iain M. Banks) includes Look to Windward (2000)
- banns — When a minister or priest reads or publishes the banns, he or she makes a public announcement in church that two people are going to be married.
- banon — a small, round goat cheese from Provence, France, that is dipped in brandy before being wrapped in chestnut leaves.
- bants — to lose weight by practicing Bantingism.
- bantu — Bantu means belonging or relating to a group of peoples in central and southern Africa. This use could cause offence.
- banty — a person resembling such a bird, namely short and often aggressive
- bantz — Alternate spelling of bants.
- banya — a traditional Russian steam bath
- baren — A tool for pressing woodcuts, consisting of a disk with a coil of string glued to one side, covered with a smooth sheet.
- barns — Plural form of barn.
- barny — reminiscent of a barn
- baron — A baron is a man who is a member of the lowest rank of the nobility.
- basan — sheepskin tanned in the bark of either oak or larch trees
- basin — A basin is a large or deep bowl that you use for holding liquids, or for mixing or storing food.
- bason — a basin.
- batin — (Islam) The internal or hidden meaning of the Qur'an.
- batna — city in NE Algeria: pop. 182,000
- baton — A baton is a short heavy stick which is sometimes used as a weapon by the police.
- bavin — a bundle of brushwood or firewood
- bawns — Plural form of bawn.
- bayan — A type of chromatic button accordion developed in Russia in the early 20th century.
- bazin — René François Nicolas Marie [ruh-ney frahn-swa nee-kaw-lah ma-ree] /rəˈneɪ frɑ̃ˈswa ni kɔˈlɑ maˈri/ (Show IPA), 1853–1932, French novelist.
- beano — a celebration, party, or other enjoyable time
- beans — the edible nutritious seed of various plants of the legume family, especially of the genus Phaseolus.
- beany — Resembling or characteristic of beans.
- bearn — historical region in SW France, in the Pyrenees
- began — Began is the past tense of begin.
- behan — Brendan. 1923–64, Irish writer, noted esp for his plays The Quare Fellow (1954) and The Hostage (1958) and for an account of his detention as a member of the Irish Republican Army, Borstal Boy (1958)
- benda — Julien (ʒyljɑ̃). 1867–1956, French philosopher and novelist, who defended reason and intellect and attacked the influence of Bergson: author of La Trahison des clercs (1927)
- benga — a Kenyan popular music featuring guitars
- bevan — a stupid or unfashionable male
- bhang — a preparation of the leaves and flower tops of Indian hemp, which has psychoactive properties: much used in India
- bhuna — an Indian dish or sauce in which spices are dry-roasted in a pan and then combined with a moistening agent such as yogurt or water
- binal — twofold; double
- blain — a blister, blotch, or sore on the skin
- blanc — (Jean Joseph Charles) Louis (lwi). 1811–82, French socialist and historian: author of L'Organisation du travail (1840), in which he advocated the establishment of cooperative workshops subsidized by the state
- bland — If you describe someone or something as bland, you mean that they are rather dull and unexciting.
- blank — Something that is blank has nothing on it.
- bogan — (esp in the Maritime Provinces) a sluggish side stream
- bonpa — a member of the Bön sect.
- brain — Your brain is the organ inside your head that controls your body's activities and enables you to think and to feel things such as heat and pain.
- brand — If someone is branded as something bad, people think they are that thing.
- brane — a hypothetical component of string theory
- brank — (esp of horses) to prance or strut