5-letter words containing n
- adhan — a call to prayer
- adman — An adman is someone who works in advertising.
- admen — Also called advertising man. one whose profession is writing, designing, or selling advertisements.
- admin — Admin is the activity or process of organizing an institution or organization.
- adnah — a Manassite deserter from Saul's to David's army. I Chron. 12:20.
- adorn — If something adorns a place or an object, it makes it look more beautiful.
- adown — down, downward
- adunc — hooked; curved inward
- aedon — a daughter of Pandareus who mistakenly killed her son. Zeus took pity on her and turned her into a nightingale.
- aeons — Plural form of aeon.
- aetna — Mount Etna
- afnor — Association Française de Normalisation: the standards organization of France
- afyon — a city in W Turkey.
- again — You use again to indicate that something happens a second time, or after it has already happened before.
- agana — capital of Guam: pop. 1,100
- agane — Obsolete spelling of again.
- agayn — Obsolete spelling of again.
- agena — a U.S. upper stage, with a restartable liquid-propellant engine, used with various booster stages to launch satellites into orbit around the earth and send probes to the moon and planets: also used as a docking target in the Gemini program.
- agend — Obsolete form of agendum.
- agene — a chemical (nitrogen trichloride) formerly used to bleach flour
- agent — A chemical that has a particular effect or is used for a particular purpose can be referred to as a particular kind of agent.
- aging — the length of time during which a being or thing has existed; length of life or existence to the time spoken of or referred to: trees of unknown age; His age is 20 years.
- agnel — a gold coin of France of the 13th–16th centuries, bearing the figure of a lamb.
- agnes — Saint. ?292–?304 ad, Christian child martyr under Diocletian. Feast day: Jan 21
- agnew — Spiro (ˈspɪərəʊ) Theodore. 1918–96, US Republican politician; vice president (1969–73)
- agnon — Shmuel Yosef, real name Samuel Josef Czaczkes. 1888–1970, Israeli novelist, born in Austria-Hungary. His works, which treat contemporary Jewish themes, include The Day Before Yesterday (1945). Nobel prize for literature 1966
- agone — ago; past
- agons — Plural form of agon.
- agony — Agony is great physical or mental pain.
- agrin — in a grinning manner
- aguna — (in Jewish law) a woman whose husband will not grant her a divorce
- agung — a volcano on NE Bali, in Indonesia: erupted 1963. 10,300 feet (3139 meters).
- ahent — behind
- ahern — Bertie. born 1951, Irish politician; leader of the Fianna Fáil party (1994–2008); prime minister of the Republic of Ireland (1997–2008)
- ahind — behind
- ahint — behind
- ahtna — a member of a group of Indians inhabiting the Copper River Valley in southeastern Alaska.
- aidan — Saint. died 651 ad, Irish missionary in Northumbria, who founded the monastery at Lindisfarne (635). Feast day: Aug 31
- aiken — Conrad (Potter). 1889–1973, US poet, short-story writer, and critic. His works include Collected Poems (1953) and the novel Blue Voyage (1927)
- ain't — People sometimes use ain't instead of 'am not', 'aren't', 'isn't', 'haven't', and 'hasn't'. Some people consider this use to be incorrect.
- ainer — own.
- ainga — (in Samoa) a large family, often spanning several generations
- aisne — a department of NE France, in Picardy region. Capital: Laon. Pop: 535 326 (2003 est). Area: 7428 sq km (2897 sq miles)
- ajman — a sheikdom in E Arabia, the smallest of the United Arab Emirates, on the Persian Gulf. 100 sq. mi. (260 sq. km).
- akene — any small, dry, hard, one-seeded, indehiscent fruit.
- akens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of aken.
- aking — Present participle of ake.
- akins — Zoë [zoh-ee] /ˈzoʊ i/ (Show IPA), 1886–1958, U.S. playwright.
- aknow — Obsolete form of acknow.
- akron — a city in NE Ohio. Pop: 212 215 (2003 est)