6-letter words containing na
- latona — the goddess Leto as identified in Roman mythology.
- lenaea — a festival in ancient Athens in honor of Dionysus, celebrated at the beginning of February and comprising a public banquet followed by the performance of comedies.
- lenape — Delaware (defs 5, 6).
- lenard — Philipp [fee-lip] /ˈfi lɪp/ (Show IPA), 1862–1947, German physicist, born in Austria-Hungary: Nobel Prize 1905.
- lianas — Plural form of liana.
- lienal — the spleen.
- lignan — (organic chemistry) Any of a class of phenylpropanoid (propylbenzene) type of molecules found in essentially all plants, generally dimeric or higher order, and produced by secondary metabolic pathways branching off of aromatic amino acid biosynthesis, in some cases having associated antioxidant or estrogenic (phytoestrogenic) activities; having in common with lignin the phenylpropanoid monomers, where lignin is a random oxidative polymerization of the same.
- limina — threshold (def 4).
- linacs — Plural form of linac.
- linage — the number of printed lines, especially agate lines covered by a magazine article, newspaper advertisement, etc.
- lorena — a female given name.
- lucina — a title or name given to Juno as goddess of childbirth
- lumina — Optics. the unit of luminous flux, equal to the luminous flux emitted in a unit solid angle by a point source of one candle intensity. Abbreviation: lm.
- luna 9 — the Soviet lunar space-probe which made the first soft landing on the moon (1966)
- lunacy — insanity; mental disorder.
- lunary — (obsolete) lunar.
- lunate — Also, lunated. being in the shape of a crescent; crescent-shaped.
- lynagh — Michael. born 1963, Australian Rugby Union player; won 72 caps (1984–95) and scored 911 points (an Australian record)
- maenad — bacchante.
- manace — Obsolete form of menace.
- manada — a herd of horses.
- manado — Menado.
- manage — to bring about or succeed in accomplishing, sometimes despite difficulty or hardship: She managed to see the governor. How does she manage it on such a small income?
- manaia — A bird-headed mythological creature and symbol of protection in M\u0101ori mythology.
- manala — Tuonela.
- manama — a sheikdom in the Persian Gulf, consisting of a group of islands: formerly a British protectorate; declared independent 1971. 232 sq. mi. (601 sq. km). Capital: Manama.
- manana — tomorrow; the (indefinite) future.
- manaos — a state in NW Brazil. 601,769 sq. mi. (1,558,582 sq. km). Capital: Manáos.
- manati — a city in N Puerto Rico.
- manats — Plural form of manat.
- manatu — a large flowering deciduous New Zealand tree, Plagianthus regius
- manaus — a port in and the capital of Amazonas, in N Brazil, on the Río Negro near its confluence with the Amazon: about 1000 miles (1600 km) from the Atlantic but accessible to some ocean trade.
- mannai — an ancient kingdom in Iran, in Kurdistan.
- mannan — any of a group of polysaccharides, found in the ivory nut, carob bean, and the like, that yield mannose upon hydrolysis.
- mannar — Gulf of, an inlet of the Indian Ocean, bounded by W Sri Lanka, the chain of shoals that comprise Adam's Bridge, and S India.
- marina — a town in W California.
- maunna — must not
- mcnair — Lesley James, 1883–1944, U.S. army officer.
- medina — a city in W Saudi Arabia, where Muhammad was first accepted as the supreme Prophet from Allah and where his tomb is located.
- melena — the discharge of black, tarry, bloody stools, usually resulting from a hemorrhage in the alimentary tract.
- menace — something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat: Air pollution is a menace to health.
- menado — a seaport on NE Sulawesi, in NE Indonesia.
- menage — a domestic establishment; household.
- merina — a member of a Malagasy-speaking people who primarily inhabit the interior plateau of Madagascar.
- mibuna — a Japanese leafy salad vegetable
- mirena — a type of intrauterine system
- mishna — the collection of oral laws compiled about a.d. 200 by Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi and forming the basic part of the Talmud.
- mizuna — a variety of rape having thin, wispy leaves used in salads.
- modena — a city in N Italy, NW of Bologna.
- molina — Luis [loo-ees] /luˈis/ (Show IPA), 1535–1600, Spanish Jesuit theologian.