4-letter words containing n, a
- klan — Ku Klux Klan.
- knaa — (Geordie) To know.
- knab — (colloquial) To nab or steal.
- knag — A short spur or stiff projection from the trunk or branch of a tree, such as the stunted dead branch of a fir.
- knap — a crest or summit of a small hill.
- knar — a knot on a tree or in wood.
- knaw — Archaic spelling of gnaw.
- koan — a nonsensical or paradoxical question to a student for which an answer is demanded, the stress of meditation on the question often being illuminating.
- kona — a southwesterly winter wind in Hawaii, often strong and bringing rain.
- kran — a former silver coin of Iran.
- kuna — the basic monetary unit of Croatia, equal to 100 lipa.
- lain — past participle of lie2 .
- lana — a female given name, form of Helen.
- land — Edwin Herbert, 1909–91, U.S. inventor and businessman: created the Polaroid camera.
- lane — a male given name.
- lang — Andrew, 1844–1912, Scottish poet, prose writer, and scholar.
- lank — (of plants) unduly long and slender: lank grass; lank, leafless trees.
- lanl — Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA.
- lant — Aged urine.
- lanx — (in ancient Rome) a large dish or plate
- laon — a river in N France, flowing NW and W to the Oise. 175 miles (280 km) long.
- larn — (Northern England) especially (Geordie) To teach or to learn.
- lawn — wireless local area network
- layn — (Judaism) To read from the Torah scroll during a Jewish prayer service.
- lean — to incline or bend from a vertical position: She leaned out the window.
- lena — a river in the Russian Federation in Asia, flowing NE from Lake Baikal through the Yakutsk Republic into the Laptev Sea. 2800 miles (4500 km) long.
- lina — a female given name.
- loan — a country lane; secondary road.
- luan — Alternative spelling of lauan.
- luna — the ancient Roman goddess personifying the moon, sometimes identified with Diana.
- main — chief in size, extent, or importance; principal; leading: the company's main office; the main features of a plan.
- mana — an ancient kingdom in Iran, in Kurdistan.
- mand — (psychology) A verbal operant in which the response is reinforced by a characteristic consequence and is therefore under the functional control of relevant conditions of deprivation or aversive stimulation.
- mane — the long hair growing on the back of or around the neck and neighboring parts of some animals, as the horse or lion.
- mang — Alternative form of man.
- mani — Manes.
- mank — (transitive, obsolete) To mutilate.
- mann — Heinrich [hahyn-rik;; German hahyn-rikh] /ˈhaɪn rɪk;; German ˈhaɪn rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1871–1950, German novelist and dramatist, in the U.S. after 1940 (brother of Thomas Mann).
- mano — the upper or handheld stone used when grinding maize or other grains on a metate.
- mans — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of man.
- manu — the progenitor and lawgiver of the human race.
- manx — of or relating to the Isle of Man, its inhabitants, or their language.
- many — constituting or forming a large number; numerous: many people.
- maun — must
- mawn — a measure of capacity, varying between regions and dependent upon the commodity measured
- mdna — mitochondrial DNA
- mean — to intend for a particular purpose, destination, etc.: They were meant for each other. Synonyms: destine, foreordain.
- mina — an ancient unit of weight and value equal to the sixtieth part of a talent.
- moan — a prolonged, low, inarticulate sound uttered from or as if from physical or mental suffering.
- mona — a female given name.