5-letter words containing a, n
- caxon — a wig
- ccanz — Council of Churches in Aotearoa/New Zealand
- celan — Paul, real name Paul Antschel. 1920–70, Romanian Jewish poet, writing in German, whose work reflects the experience of Nazi persecution
- ch'an — Zen (def 1).
- chain — A chain consists of metal rings connected together in a line.
- chana — (in Indian cookery) a chickpea
- chanc — Chancellor
- chang — largest river and chief commercial highway of China, flowing from Tibet into the East China Sea near Shanghai: 3,964 mi (6,379 km)
- chank — a large sea conch found off the shores of India and Sri Lanka, used as a horn or to make ornaments
- chant — A chant is a word or group of words that is repeated over and over again.
- chany — Lake, a salt lake in SW Siberia, in the W Russian Federation in Asia. About 1300 sq. mi. (3365 sq. km).
- chian — of or relating to Chios
- china — China is a hard white substance made from clay. It is used to make things such as cups, bowls, plates, and ornaments.
- ciano — Galeazzo, full name Conte Galeazzo Ciano di Cortellazzo. 1903–44, Italian fascist politician; minister of foreign affairs (1936–43) and son-in-law of Mussolini, whose supporters shot him
- cinna — Lucius Cornelius (ˈluːsɪəs kɔːˈniːlɪəs). died 84 bc, Roman patrician; an opponent of Sulla
- clane — Eye dialect of clean.
- clang — When a large metal object clangs, it makes a loud noise.
- clank — When large metal objects clank, they make a noise because they are hitting together or hitting against something hard.
- clans — Plural form of clan.
- clean — Something that is clean is free from dirt or unwanted marks.
- cname — (networking) The canonical name query type for Domain Name System. This query asks a DNS server for a host's official hostname.
- cnida — a nematocyst
- cohan — George M(ichael)1878-1942; U.S. actor, playwright, theatrical producer, & writer of popular songs
- conad — Continental Air Defense Command.
- conal — Shaped like a cone or funnel; conic.
- conan — a male given name.
- conga — If a group of people dance a conga, they dance in a long winding line, with each person holding on to the back of the person in front.
- copan — a village in W Honduras: site of a ruined Mayan city
- cotan — cotangent
- cowan — a person who makes dry-stone walls
- crane — A crane is a large machine that moves heavy things by lifting them in the air.
- crank — If you call someone a crank, you think their ideas or behaviour are strange.
- crans — Plural form of cran.
- crena — a notch or indentation
- cuban — Cuban means belonging or relating to Cuba, or to its people or culture.
- cunha — Tristão da [treesh-toun] /triʃˈtãʊ̃/ (Show IPA), 1460–1540? Portuguese navigator and explorer.
- cutan — (biochemistry) A hydrocarbon polymer, of uncertain structure but thought to be similar to kerogen, found in some plants.
- cyan- — cyano-
- cyano — containing the cyano group.
- dagan — an earth god of the Babylonians and Assyrians
- dagon — a god worshipped by the Philistines, represented as half man and half fish
- dahna — a desert area in central Saudi Arabia, to the N of the Rub` al Khali (Empty Quarter)
- daint — dainty
- dalan — (in Persian and Indian architecture) a veranda or open hall for reception of visitors.
- dalen — Nils Gustaf. 1869–1937, Swedish engineer, inventor of an automatic light-controlled valve known as 'Solventil'. Nobel prize for physics 1912
- dalny — former Russian name of Dalian (def 2).
- daman — a rare name for the hyrax, esp the Syrian rock hyrax
- damns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of damn.
- damon — Matt. born 1970, US film actor and screenwriter. His films include Good Will Hunting (1997, which he co-wrote), Saving Private Ryan (1998), The Talented Mr Ripley (1999) and, from 2002, the Bourne series
- danae — the mother of Perseus by Zeus, who visits her in the form of a shower of gold