4-letter words containing an
- roan — (chiefly of horses) of the color sorrel, chestnut, or bay, sprinkled with gray or white.
- ryan — a male given name.
- sana — Republic of, a country in S Arabia, formed in 1990 by the merger of the Yemen Arab Republic and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen. 207,000 sq. mi. (536,130 sq. km). Capital: Aden.
- sand — George [jawrj;; French zhawrzh] /dʒɔrdʒ;; French ʒɔrʒ/ (Show IPA), (Lucile Aurore Dupin Dudevant) 1804–76, French novelist.
- sane — free from mental derangement; having a sound, healthy mind: a sane person.
- sang — simple past tense of sing.
- sank — a simple past tense of sink.
- sans — without.
- sant — a devout person in India
- scan — to glance at or over or read hastily: to scan a page.
- sean — a male given name, form of John.
- shan — a group of Mongoloid tribes in the hills of Burma.
- sian — Older Spelling. Xian.
- span — the act of causing a spinning or whirling motion.
- stan — a male given name, form of Stanley.
- swan — Sir Joseph Wilson, 1828–1914, British chemist, electrical engineer, and inventor.
- tana — a police station in India.
- tane — a Polynesian god of fertility.
- tang — a dynasty in China, a.d. 618–907, marked by territorial expansion, the invention of printing, and the high development of poetry.
- tanh — hyperbolic tangent; a hyperbolic function that is the ratio of sinh to cosh
- tank — to put or store in a tank.
- tans — to convert (a hide) into leather, especially by soaking or steeping in a bath prepared from tanbark or synthetically.
- than — in relation to; by comparison with (usually followed by a pronoun in the objective case): He is a person than whom I can imagine no one more courteous.
- tian — an earthenware cooking dish
- ttan — Teacher Training Agency
- tuan — (in Malay-speaking countries) sir; lord: a form of address used as a mark of respect
- ulan — one of a group of lancers in a light-cavalry unit, first appearing in Europe in the Polish army.
- uran — monitor (def 13).
- vane — Sir Henry (Sir Harry Vane) 1613–62, British statesman and author.
- vang — a rope extending from the peak of a gaff to the ship's rail or to a mast, used to steady the gaff.
- vlan — Virtual Local Area Network
- wand — a slender stick or rod, especially one used by a magician, conjurer, or diviner.
- wane — to decrease in strength, intensity, etc.: Daylight waned, and night came on. Her enthusiasm for the cause is waning.
- wang — (dialectal, or, obsolete) Cheek; the jaw.
- wank — (of a male) to masturbate (often followed by off).
- want — to feel a need or a desire for; wish for: to want one's dinner; always wanting something new.
- wany — Also, waney. waning; decreasing; diminished in part.
- wean — to accustom (a child or young animal) to food other than its mother's milk; cause to lose the need to suckle or turn to the mother for food.
- wlan — wireless local area network
- wran — a member of the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service
- xian — a province in N central China. 75,598 sq. mi. (195,799 sq. km). Capital: Xian.
- yana — a member of a North American Indian people who once resided in the eastern portion of the upper Sacramento River valley in California.
- yang — (in Chinese philosophy and religion) two principles, one negative, dark, and feminine (yin) and one positive, bright, and masculine (yang) whose interaction influences the destinies of creatures and things.
- yank — an abrupt, vigorous pull; jerk.
- yean — (of a sheep or goat) to bring forth young.
- yuan — the Mongol dynasty in China, 1260–1368, founded by Kublai Khan.
- zane — a male given name, form of John.
- zanu — Zimbabwe African National Union.
- zany — ludicrously or whimsically comical; clownish.
- zean — (medicine, archaic) A highly concentrated fluid extract of cornsilk used as a diuretic and urinary antiseptic.