5-letter words containing n, i, s
- sniff — to draw air through the nose in short, audible inhalations.
- snipe — any of several long-billed game birds of the genera Gallinago (Capella) and Limnocryptes, inhabiting marshy areas, as G. gallinago (common snipe) of Eurasia and North America, having barred and striped white, brown, and black plumage.
- snips — to cut with a small, quick stroke, or a succession of such strokes, with scissors or the like.
- snipy — resembling or like a snipe bird
- sonia — a female given name, Russian form of Sophia.
- sonic — of or relating to sound.
- sozin — an antiseptic substance
- spain — a kingdom in SW Europe. Including the Balearic and Canary islands, 194,988 sq. mi. (505,019 sq. km). Capital: Madrid.
- spina — a spine or spinelike projection.
- spine — the spinal or vertebral column; backbone.
- spink — a finch
- spiny — abounding in or having spines; thorny, as a plant.
- stain — a discoloration produced by foreign matter having penetrated into or chemically reacted with a material; a spot not easily removed.
- stein — Gertrude, 1874–1946, U.S. author in France.
- stine — R(obert) L(awrence). born 1943, US writer, noted for his numerous bestselling horror novels for older children, esp those in the Goosebumps and Fear Street series
- sting — to prick or wound with a sharp-pointed, often venom-bearing organ.
- stink — to emit a strong offensive smell.
- stint — to be frugal; get along on a scanty allowance: Don't stint on the food. They stinted for years in order to save money.
- suing — to institute a process in law against; bring a civil action against: to sue someone for damages.
- suint — the natural grease of the wool of sheep, consisting of a mixture of fatty matter and potassium salts, used as a source of potash and in the preparation of ointments.
- sunni — Also called Sunnite. a member of one of the two great religious divisions of Islam, regarding the first four caliphs as legitimate successors of Muhammad and stressing the importance of Sunna as a basis for law. Compare Shiʿite.
- swain — a male admirer or lover.
- swine — any stout, cloven-hoofed artiodactyl of the Old World family Suidae, having a thick hide sparsely covered with coarse hair, a disklike snout, and an often short, tasseled tail: now of worldwide distribution and hunted or raised for its meat and other products. Compare hog, pig1 , wild boar.
- swing — to play (music) in the style of swing.
- swink — to toil or drudge
- tanis — an ancient city in Lower Egypt, in the Nile delta.
- tines — a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- tinos — a Greek island in the Mediterranean Sea, part of the Cyclades Islands. 79 sq. mi. (204 sq. km).
- tints — a color or a variety of a color; hue.
- tunis — a republic in N Africa, on the Mediterranean: a French protectorate until 1956. 48,330 sq. mi. (125,175 sq. km). Capital: Tunis.
- twins — either of two children or animals brought forth at a birth.
- unics — Unione Nazionale Industrie Cinetelevisive Specializzate
- unisa — University of South Africa
- units — the first position in a place-value counting system, representing a single-digit number
- using — to avail oneself of; apply to one's own purposes: to use the facilities.
- veins — one of the system of branching vessels or tubes conveying blood from various parts of the body to the heart.
- vines — any plant having a long, slender stem that trails or creeps on the ground or climbs by winding itself about a support or holding fast with tendrils or claspers.
- vinys — a female given name.
- visna — Veterinary Pathology. a disease of sheep, caused by a quickly mutating lentivirus, and affecting the central nervous system.
- visne — a neighbourhood, or a jury selected from the neighbourhood, in which a disputed action or crime occurred
- vison — a North American mink
- wains — (initial capital letter) Astronomy. Charles's Wain.
- whins — any thorny or prickly shrub, especially gorse.
- winds — Plural form of wind.
- wines — Plural form of wine.
- wings — either of the two forelimbs of most birds and of bats, corresponding to the human arms, that are specialized for flight.
- winks — to close and open one or both eyes quickly.
- winos — Plural form of wino.
- wisen — To become wiser.
- yonis — Plural form of yoni.