6-letter words containing n
- abnaki — a member of a North American Indian people formerly living in Maine and Quebec
- aborne — auburn
- abound — If things abound, or if a place abounds with things, there are very large numbers of them.
- absent — If someone or something is absent from a place or situation where they should be or where they usually are, they are not there.
- abunas — Plural form of abuna.
- abying — Present participle of aby.
- accend — to set alight, to ignite
- accent — Someone who speaks with a particular accent pronounces the words of a language in a distinctive way that shows which country, region, or social class they come from.
- acetin — any of three types of liquid acetate, formed from glycerol and acetic acid, chiefly used in explosives and solvents
- achene — a dry one-seeded indehiscent fruit with the seed distinct from the fruit wall. It may be smooth, as in the buttercup, or feathery, as in clematis
- aching — causing physical pain or distress: treatment for an aching back.
- achkan — a type of man's coat, knee-length or longer and long-sleeved, worn in South Asia, traditionally by the Muslim and Sikh aristocracy of Northern India
- acinar — of or relating to any of the terminal saclike portions of a compound gland
- acinus — any of the terminal saclike portions of a compound gland
- acknow — to recognize
- ackton — a quilted garment worn under mail in the 13th and 14th centuries; gambeson.
- acnode — a point whose coordinates satisfy the equation of a curve although it does not lie on the curve; an isolated point. The origin is an acnode of the curve y2 + x2 = x3
- acorns — Plural form of acorn.
- acount — Misspelling of account.
- act on — to regulate one's behaviour in accordance with (advice, information, etc)
- actant — (in valency grammar) a noun phrase functioning as the agent of the main verb of a sentence
- actin- — actino-
- acting — Acting is the activity or profession of performing in plays or films.
- action — Action is doing something for a particular purpose.
- actons — Plural form of acton.
- acumen — keenness and quickness in understanding and dealing with a situation; shrewdness
- adance — Dancing.
- add in — If you add in something, you include it as a part of something else.
- add on — If one thing is added on to another, it is attached to the other thing, or is made a part of it.
- add-in — Journalism. copy added to a completed story.
- add-on — a device or unit added to equipment or a construction: an add-on to a computer; a nice add-on to an old house.
- addend — any of a set of numbers that is to be added
- adding — an act or instance of addition
- adeno- — gland or glandular
- adenyl — a derivative of adenine
- adient — tending to move toward a stimulus.
- adjoin — If one room, place, or object adjoins another, they are next to each other.
- adland — the advertising industry and the people who work in it
- admins — Plural form of admin.
- adnate — growing closely attached to an adjacent part or organ
- adnexa — adjoining organs, esp of the uterus
- adnoun — an adjective used as a noun; absolute adjective
- adonai — a name for God
- adonic — (in classical prosody) of or relating to a verse line consisting of a dactyl (– ◡ ◡) followed by a spondee (– –) or by a trochee (– ◡), thought to have been first used in laments for Adonis
- adonis — a handsome youth loved by Aphrodite. Killed by a wild boar, he was believed to spend part of the year in the underworld and part on earth, symbolizing the vegetative cycle
- adorno — Theodor Wiesengrund. 1903–69, German philosopher, sociologist, and music critic. His writings include The Philosophy of the New Music (1949) and Negative Dialectics (1966)
- adorns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adorn.
- adrian — Edgar Douglas, Baron Adrian. 1889–1977, English physiologist, noted particularly for his research into the function of neurons: shared with Sherrington the Nobel prize for physiology and medicine 1932
- advene — to become part of or be added to something
- advent — In the Christian church, Advent is the period between Advent Sunday, the Sunday closest to the 30th of November, and Christmas Day.