5-letter words containing an
- decan — any of three divisions of 10° within a sign of the zodiac.
- devan — (transitive) To unload (goods) from a container.
- dewan — (formerly in India) the chief minister or finance minister of a state ruled by an Indian prince
- diana — the virginal Roman goddess of the hunt and the moon
- diane — a feminine name: dim. Di; var. Dianne
- dinan — a town in NW France, in Brittany, on the estuary of the River Rance: medieval buildings, including town walls and castle: tourism, hosiery, cider: Pop: 10 953 (2008)
- divan — a sofa or couch, usually without arms or back, often usable as a bed.
- diwan — (in India) any of certain officials, as a financial minister or prime minister of a native colony.
- dogan — (chiefly, Canada, offensive, sometimes, capitalized) A Roman Catholic, especially one of Irish origin.Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd edition (November 2010).
- doran — an electronic device for determining range and assisting navigation, employing the principle of the Doppler effect.
- drang — a narrow lane or alleyway.
- drank — a simple past tense and past participle of drink.
- drant — to drone or drawl
- duane — a male given name.
- duran — Roberto [ruh-bair-toh;; Spanish raw-ber-taw] /rəˈbɛər toʊ;; Spanish rɔˈbɛr tɔ/ (Show IPA), born 1951, Panamanian boxer.
- dyana — DYnamics ANAlyzer
- dylan — DYnamic LANguage
- eagan — a town in SE Minnesota.
- edman — Irwin, 1896–1954, U.S. philosopher and essayist.
- ekman — Vagn Walfrid (vaɣən wɑːlfriːd). 1874–1954, Swedish oceanographer: discoverer of the Ekman spiral (a complex interaction on the surface of the sea between wind, rotation of the earth, and friction forces) and the Ekman Layer (the thin top layer of the sea that flows at 90° to the wind direction)
- eland — A spiral-horned African antelope that lives in open woodland and grassland. It is the largest of the antelopes.
- elman — ˈMischa (ˈmɪʃə ) ; mishˈə) 1891-1967; U.S. violinist, born in Russia
- elsan — a type of portable lavatory in which chemicals are used to kill bacteria and deodorize the sludge
- elvan — Pertaining to elves; elvish; elven.
- ethan — a masculine name
- evans — Sir Arthur (John). 1851–1941, British archaeologist, whose excavations of the palace of Knossos in Crete provided evidence for the existence of the Minoan civilization
- fanal — A lighthouse, or the apparatus placed in it for giving light.
- fancy — imagination or fantasy, especially as exercised in a capricious manner.
- faned — (dated, fandom slang) The editor of a fandom publication, most commonly a fanzine.
- fanes — a temple.
- fango — clay or mud, especially a clay obtained from certain hot springs in Battaglio, Italy, used as a hot application in the treatment of certain diseases.
- fangs — Plural form of fang.
- fanne — (dated, fandom) A female science fiction fan.
- fanny — the buttocks.
- fanon — Frantz (Omar) [frants oh-mahr;; French frahnts aw-mar] /frænts ˈoʊ mɑr;; French frɑ̃ts ɔˈmar/ (Show IPA), 1925–61, West Indian psychiatrist and political theorist, born in Martinique; in Algeria after 1953.
- fanos — a town in central Italy, on the Adriatic Sea: cathedral; Roman ruins.
- fanti — a Kwa language spoken in Ghana that is mutually intelligible with Twi.
- fanum — a temple or sacred place
- fianc — short for fiancé or fiancée. Because this word exists predominantly in written form (esp. in text messages) it is not yet clear how it is pronounced.
- flane — to walk idly; saunter
- flank — the side of an animal or a person between the ribs and hip.
- flans — Plural form of flan.
- franc — an aluminum or nickel coin and monetary unit of France, Belgium, and Luxembourg until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 centimes. Abbreviation: F., f., Fr, fr.
- frank — direct and unreserved in speech; straightforward; sincere: Her criticism of my work was frank but absolutely fair.
- franz — a male given name, German form of Frank.
- furan — a colorless, liquid, unsaturated, five-membered heterocyclic compound, C 4 H 4 O, obtained from furfural: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- fusan — Pusan.
- g-man — an agent for the FBI.
- ganca — a city in NW Azerbaijan.
- gance — Abel (abɛl). 1889–1981, French film director, whose works include J'accuse (1919, 1937) and Napoléon (1927), which introduced the split-screen technique