5-letter words that end in n
- glenn — John (Herschel, Jr.) born 1921, U.S. astronaut and politician: first U.S. orbital space flight 1962; U.S. senator 1975–99.
- glinn — a bright glow in the sky close to the horizon, usually taken as a portent of a storm.
- gluon — an unobserved massless particle with spin 1 that is believed to transmit the strong force between quarks, binding them together into baryons and mesons.
- gnawn — a past participle of gnaw.
- go in — go indoors
- go on — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- goban — a Japanese game played on a go board with players alternating and attempting to be first to place five counters in a row.
- goren — Charles Henry, 1901–91, U.S authority and writer on contract bridge.
- gowan — any of various yellow or white field flowers, especially the English daisy.
- goyen — Jan van [yahn vahn] /yɑn vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1596–1656, Dutch painter.
- grain — granularity
- green — of the color of growing foliage, between yellow and blue in the spectrum: green leaves.
- grein — to desire fervently
- groan — a low, mournful sound uttered in pain or grief: the groans of dying soldiers.
- groin — Anatomy. the fold or hollow on either side of the front of the body where the thigh joins the abdomen.
- grown — advanced in growth: a grown boy.
- guqin — a traditional Chinese zither
- guyon — Madame (Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Matte) 1648–1717, French writer.
- gyron — a subordinary having the form of a triangle, usually equal to half a quarter of the escutcheon, with its apex at the fess point.
- haden — Charles (Edward). born 1937, US jazz bassist, esp. noted for his collaborations with Ornette Coleman and Keith Jarrett
- hafun — Cape, a promontory in N Somalia, on the Indian Ocean: easternmost point in Africa.
- hagen — a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in W Germany.
- halon — Any of a number of unreactive gaseous compounds of carbon with bromine and other halogens, used in fire extinguishers, but now known to damage the ozone layer.
- haman — a powerful prince at the court of Ahasuerus, who was hanged upon exposure of his plan to destroy the Jews of Persia. Esther 3–6.
- hasan — (al-Hasan) a.d. 624?–669? Arabian caliph: son of Ali and Fatima (brother of Hussein).
- havan — A ritual burning of offerings such as grains and ghee, which is held to mark births, marriages, and other special occasions.
- haven — a harbor or port.
- haydn — Franz Joseph [franz joh-zuh f,, -suh f,, frants;; German frahnts yoh-zef] /frænz ˈdʒoʊ zəf,, -səf,, frænts;; German frɑnts ˈyoʊ zɛf/ (Show IPA), 1732–1809, Austrian composer.
- hazan — a cantor of a synagogue.
- hearn — Lafcadio [laf-kad-ee-oh] /læfˈkæd iˌoʊ/ (Show IPA), ("Koizumi Yakumo") 1850–1904, U.S. journalist, novelist, and essayist, born in Greece; Japanese citizen after 1894.
- heben — (obsolete) ebony.
- hedin — Sven Anders [sven ahn-duh rs] /svɛn ˈɑn dərs/ (Show IPA), 1865–1952, Swedish geographer and explorer.
- hedon — (economics) A unit of pleasure used to theoretically weigh people's happiness.
- heian — of or relating to the period in Japan, a.d. 794–1185, characterized by the modification and naturalization of ideas and institutions that were earlier introduced from China.
- helen — Also called Helen of Troy. Classical Mythology. the beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda and wife of Menelaus whose abduction by Paris was the cause of the Trojan War.
- heman — Misspelling of he-man.
- hemin — the typical, microscopic reddish-brown crystals, C 34 H 32 N 4 O 4 FeCl, resulting when a sodium chloride crystal, a drop of glacial acetic acid, and some blood are heated on a slide: used to indicate the presence of blood.
- hemon — Louis [lwee] /lwi/ (Show IPA), 1880–1913, Canadian novelist, born in France.
- henan — a province in E China. 64,479 sq. mi. (167,000 sq. km). Capital: Zhengzhou.
- heron — Hero (def 2).
- hexon — (biology, biochemistry) Any small biological structure that has hexagonal symmetry.
- hizen — Japanese porcelain produced in the region of Japan formerly known as Hizen, including fine decorative ware made during the Edo period (1603-1867) such as Arita and Imari porcelain
- hoban — James, c1762–1831, U.S. architect, born in Ireland: designed the White House.
- hogan — Ben, 1912–97, U.S. golfer.
- hogen — strong beer or liquor
- hokan — a proposed genetic grouping of American Indian languages comprising otherwise unclassified language families and isolates of California, the U.S. Southwest, and Mexico, including Yana, Pomo, Chumash, and Yuman.
- holen — Past participle of hele.
- holon — a city in W central Israel: a suburb of Tel Aviv.
- honan — Wade-Giles. Henan.
- hoorn — a city in NW Netherlands.