6-letter words containing n, i, s, a
- kamsin — Alternative spelling of khamsin.
- kiangs — Plural form of kiang.
- kinase — a transferase that catalyzes the phosphorylation of a substrate by ATP.
- kistna — former name of Krishna (def 2).
- lanais — Plural form of lanai.
- landis — Kenesaw Mountain [ken-uh-saw] /ˈkɛn əˌsɔ/ (Show IPA), 1866–1944, U.S. jurist: first commissioner of baseball 1920–44.
- lasing — the generation of coherent light by a laser.
- lianas — Plural form of liana.
- lianes — any of various usually woody vines that may climb as high as the tree canopy in a tropical forest.
- liason — Misspelling of liaison.
- ligans — lagan.
- linacs — Plural form of linac.
- manias — Plural form of mania.
- manies — constituting or forming a large number; numerous: many people.
- manisa — a city in W Turkey, near the Aegean: Roman defeat of Antiochus the Great 190 b.c.
- manism — Ancestor-worship.
- manist — Ancestor-worshipper.
- mantis — any of several predaceous insects of the order Mantidae, having a long prothorax and typically holding the forelegs in an upraised position as if in prayer.
- maslin — a mixture of different grains, flours, or meals, especially rye mixed with wheat.
- matins — (often initial capital letter) matins, Also, especially British, mattins. (usually used with a singular verb) Ecclesiastical. the first of the seven canonical hours. the service for it, properly beginning at midnight, but sometimes beginning at daybreak. Also called Morning Prayer. the service of public prayer, said in the morning, in the Anglican Church.
- mavins — an expert or connoisseur.
- minyas — a king of Orchomenus, famed for his wealth.
- mishna — the collection of oral laws compiled about a.d. 200 by Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi and forming the basic part of the Talmud.
- mysian — an ancient country in NW Asia Minor.
- mzansi — a low-cost national banking account
- nadirs — Plural form of nadir.
- naiads — Plural form of naiad.
- nanism — the condition of being unusually or abnormally small in size or stature; dwarfism.
- naoise — the husband of Deirdre and a nephew of Conchobar, by whom he was treacherously killed.
- nashik — a city in W Maharashtra, in W central India: pilgrimage city of the Hindus.
- nasion — the intersection of the internasal suture with the nasofrontal suture in the midsagittal plane.
- naskhi — the cursive variety of Arabic script from which was derived the variety used in modern printed works.
- nastic — of or showing sufficiently greater cellular force or growth on one side of an axis to change the form or position of the axis.
- navies — the whole body of warships and auxiliaries belonging to a country or ruler.
- nazism — the principles or methods of the Nazis.
- nicads — Plural form of nicad.
- nicias — died 413 b.c, Athenian statesman and general.
- niggas — Plural form of nigga.
- ninjas — Plural form of ninja.
- nissan — the seventh month of the Jewish calendar.
- norias — Plural form of noria.
- ossian — a legendary hero and poet and son of Finn, who is supposed to have lived during the 3rd century a.d., represented in Gaelic poems and in imitations of them written by James Macpherson in the 18th century.
- paisan — compatriot.
- panisc — a faun; an attendant of Pan
- pansil — Pancha Sila.
- parnis — Mollie (Mollie Parnis Livingston) 1905–1992, U.S. fashion designer.
- pascin — Jules [zhyl] /ʒül/ (Show IPA), (Julius Pincas) 1885–1930, French painter, born in Bulgaria.
- pisano — Andrea [ahn-dre-ah] /ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ/ (Show IPA), c1270–c1348, Italian sculptor.
- plains — clear or distinct to the eye or ear: a plain trail to the river; to stand in plain view.
- ptisan — a nourishing decoction, originally one made from barley, purported to have medicinal quality.