6-letter words that end in an
- ryokan — a traditional Japanese inn or small hotel whose floors are covered with tatami.
- sabean — of or relating to Saba.
- saipan — an island in and the capital of the North Mariana Islands in the N Pacific, about 1350 miles (2173 km) S of Japan: taken by U.S. forces June–July 1944. 71 sq. mi. (184 sq. km).
- salian — of, relating to, or designating a Frankish people who lived in the region of the Rhine near the North Sea.
- samian — of or relating to the Greek island of Samos.
- samoan — pertaining to Samoa or its Polynesian people.
- sampan — any of various small boats of the Far East, as one propelled by a single scull over the stern and provided with a roofing of mats.
- seaman — a person skilled in seamanship.
- seawan — wampum (def 1).
- seitan — a chewy, neutral-flavored, protein-rich food made of wheat gluten, used as a meat substitute in vegetarian dishes.
- serran — any fish belonging to the genus Serranus or the Seranid family, including sea perch and bass
- sextan — (of a fever) characterized by paroxysms that recurevery sixth day.
- seyhan — Adana.
- shaban — the eighth month of the Muslim calendar.
- shaman — (especially among certain tribal peoples) a person who acts as intermediary between the natural and supernatural worlds, using magic to cure illness, foretell the future, control spiritual forces, etc.
- shoran — a system for aircraft navigation in which two signals sent from an aircraft are received and answered by two fixed transponders, the round-trip times of the signals enabling the navigator to determine the aircraft's position.
- siccan — such
- silvan — of, relating to, or inhabiting the woods.
- simian — of or relating to an ape or monkey.
- singan — Older Spelling. Xian.
- siouan — an American Indian language family formerly widespread from Saskatchewan to the lower Mississippi, also found in the Virginia and Carolina piedmont, and including Catawba, Crow, Dakota, Hidatsa, Mandan, Osage, and Winnebago.
- siplan — SIte PLANning computer language. Interactive language for space planning. "Formal Languages for Site Planning", C.I. Yessios in Spatial Synthesis for Computer-Aided Design, C. Eastman ed, Applied Science Publ 1976.
- skyman — an aviator or paratrooper.
- slogan — a distinctive cry, phrase, or motto of any party, group, manufacturer, or person; catchword or catch phrase.
- socman — sokeman.
- soldan — the ruler of an Islamic country.
- sranan — an English-based creole widely spoken in Suriname.
- subman — a primitive form of human
- sultan — the sovereign of an Islamic country.
- suntan — a browning or a brown color of the skin resulting from exposure to sunlight or a sunlamp; tan.
- susian — a native or inhabitant of Susa or Susiana.
- sylvan — of, relating to, or inhabiting the woods.
- syntan — a synthetic leather tanning substance
- syrian — of or relating to Syria or its inhabitants.
- syzran — a city in the E Russian Federation in Europe, on the Volga.
- taguan — a large nocturnal flying squirrel, Petaurista petaurista, of high forests in the East Indies that uses its long tail as a rudder
- tainan — a city in SW Taiwan.
- taipan — a highly venomous elapid snake, Oxyuranus scutellatus, of New Guinea and northern Australia, that grows to a length of from 10 to 12 feet (3.1 to 3.7 meters).
- taiwan — a Chinese island separated from the SE coast of China by Taiwan Strait: a possession of Japan 1895–1945; restored to China 1945; seat of the Republic of China since 1949. Capital: Taipei.
- tampan — a biting tick of the genus Ornithodorus, native to Africa
- tanoan — an American Indian language family of which the three surviving languages are spoken in several pueblos, including Taos, in northern New Mexico near the Rio Grande.
- tappan — Arthur, 1786–1865, and his brother Lewis, 1788–1873, U.S. businessmen, philanthropists, and abolitionists.
- tarpan — a small, dun-colored wild horse chiefly of southern Russia, having a flowing mane and tail: extinct since the early 20th century but somewhat restored by selective breeding of mixed-breed domestic horses, and sustained in zoos.
- tartan — a woolen or worsted cloth woven with stripes of different colors and widths crossing at right angles, worn chiefly by the Scottish Highlanders, each clan having its own distinctive plaid.
- tarzan — the hero of a series of jungle stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
- tasian — designating or of the earliest known Neolithic farming culture of Egypt, preceding the Badarian
- tasman — Abel Janszoon [ah-buh l yahn-sohn] /ˈɑ bəl ˈyɑn soʊn/ (Show IPA), 1602?–59, Dutch navigator and explorer.
- taxman — collector of taxes
- tehran — a city in and the capital of Iran, in the N part: wartime conference of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin 1943.
- teopan — a Mexican temple