5-letter words containing n
- bacon — Bacon is salted or smoked meat which comes from the back or sides of a pig.
- baden — a former state of West Germany, now part of Baden-Württemberg
- bairn — A bairn is a child.
- bajan — a native of Barbados
- balon — the lightness and grace of movement that make a dancer appear buoyant.
- balun — a device for coupling two electrical circuit elements, such as an aerial and its feeder cable, where one is balanced and the other is unbalanced
- banak — a tree of the genus Virola, of Central America: family Myristicaceae
- banal — If you describe something as banal, you do not like it because you think that it is so ordinary that it is not at all effective or interesting.
- banan — (rare, informal) Banana.
- banat — a fertile plain extending through Hungary, Romania, and Serbia
- banco — a call in gambling games such as chemin de fer and baccarat by a player or bystander who wishes to bet against the entire bank
- banda — Hastings Kamuzu (kæˈmuːzuː). 1906–97, Malawi statesman. As first prime minister of Nyasaland (from 1963), he led his country to independence (1964) as Malawi: president (1966–94)
- bandh — (in India) a general strike
- bando — A Welsh team sport related to hockey, hurling, shinty, and bandy.
- bands — Plural form of band.
- bandy — If you bandy words with someone, you argue with them.
- baned — Simple past tense and past participle of bane.
- banes — a person or thing that ruins or spoils: Gambling was the bane of his existence.
- banff — a town in NE Scotland, in Aberdeenshire. Pop: 3991 (2001)
- bangs — Bangs are hair that is cut so that it hangs over your forehead.
- bangy — (India) A type of yoke carried on the shoulders, as a means for people to carry a load.
- bania — banyan (def 2).
- banjo — A banjo is a musical instrument that looks like a guitar with a circular body, a long neck, and four or more strings.
- banka — Bangka
- banke — Obsolete spelling of bank.
- banks — Iain (Menzies). 1954–2013, Scottish novelist and science fiction writer. His novels include The Wasp Factory (1984), The Crow Road (1992), and The Steep Approach to Garbadale (2007); science-fiction (under the name Iain M. Banks) includes Look to Windward (2000)
- banns — When a minister or priest reads or publishes the banns, he or she makes a public announcement in church that two people are going to be married.
- banon — a small, round goat cheese from Provence, France, that is dipped in brandy before being wrapped in chestnut leaves.
- bants — to lose weight by practicing Bantingism.
- bantu — Bantu means belonging or relating to a group of peoples in central and southern Africa. This use could cause offence.
- banty — a person resembling such a bird, namely short and often aggressive
- bantz — Alternate spelling of bants.
- banya — a traditional Russian steam bath
- baren — A tool for pressing woodcuts, consisting of a disk with a coil of string glued to one side, covered with a smooth sheet.
- barns — Plural form of barn.
- barny — reminiscent of a barn
- baron — A baron is a man who is a member of the lowest rank of the nobility.
- basan — sheepskin tanned in the bark of either oak or larch trees
- basin — A basin is a large or deep bowl that you use for holding liquids, or for mixing or storing food.
- bason — a basin.
- batin — (Islam) The internal or hidden meaning of the Qur'an.
- batna — city in NE Algeria: pop. 182,000
- baton — A baton is a short heavy stick which is sometimes used as a weapon by the police.
- bavin — a bundle of brushwood or firewood
- bawns — Plural form of bawn.
- bayan — A type of chromatic button accordion developed in Russia in the early 20th century.
- bazin — René François Nicolas Marie [ruh-ney frahn-swa nee-kaw-lah ma-ree] /rəˈneɪ frɑ̃ˈswa ni kɔˈlɑ maˈri/ (Show IPA), 1853–1932, French novelist.
- beano — a celebration, party, or other enjoyable time
- beans — the edible nutritious seed of various plants of the legume family, especially of the genus Phaseolus.
- beany — Resembling or characteristic of beans.