6-letter words containing a, l, i, n
- litany — a ceremonial or liturgical form of prayer consisting of a series of invocations or supplications with responses that are the same for a number in succession.
- lorain — a port in N Ohio, on Lake Erie.
- lucian — a.d. 117–c180, Greek rhetorician and satirist.
- 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.
- luwian — an extinct ancient Anatolian language written in cuneiform.
- luxian — former name of Luzhou.
- lycian — of or relating to Lycia.
- lydian — of or relating to Lydia.
- mainly — chiefly; principally; for the most part; in the main; to the greatest extent: Our success was due mainly to your efforts. The audience consisted mainly of students.
- malian — an inhabitant or native of Mali
- malign — to speak harmful untruths about; speak evil of; slander; defame: to malign an honorable man.
- maline — Also, maline. a delicate net resembling tulle, originally made by hand in the town of Mechlin, Belgium.
- malkin — an untidy woman; slattern.
- malvin — (biochemistry) An anthocyanin, a diglucoside of malvidin, found in very many foods.
- mandil — A loose outer coat or jacket worn by men in England in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- manila — an archipelago of 7083 islands in the Pacific, SE of China: formerly (1898–1946) under the guardianship of the U.S.; now an independent republic. 114,830 sq. mi. (297,410 sq. km). Capital: Manila.
- manzil — (Islam) Any of the seven partitions of the Qur'an, which can be read in an entire day.
- marlin — any large, saltwater game fish of the genera Makaira and Tetrapterus, having the upper jaw elongated into a spearlike structure.
- maslin — a mixture of different grains, flours, or meals, especially rye mixed with wheat.
- melian — a Greek island in the Cyclades, in the SW Aegean: statue, Venus de Milo, found here 1820. 51 sq. mi. (132 sq. km).
- menial — lowly and sometimes degrading: menial work.
- milano — an industrial city in central Lombardy, in N Italy: cathedral.
- molina — Luis [loo-ees] /luˈis/ (Show IPA), 1535–1600, Spanish Jesuit theologian.
- monial — a mullion.
- nailed — a slender, typically rod-shaped rigid piece of metal, usually in any of numerous standard lengths from a fraction of an inch to several inches and having one end pointed and the other enlarged and flattened, for hammering into or through wood, other building materials, etc., as used in building, in fastening, or in holding separate pieces together.
- nailer — a person or thing that drives nails, as a machine that drives nails automatically.
- napoli — Italian name of Naples.
- narial — of or relating to the nares or nostrils.
- neilah — the Jewish religious service marking the conclusion of Yom Kippur.
- neliac — Navy Electronics Laboratory International ALGOL Compiler. An Algol variant designed for numeric and logical computations and based on IAL. 1958-1959. Version: BC NELIAC.
- nepali — Also, Nepalese. an Indic language spoken in Nepal.
- nilgai — a large, Indian antelope, Boselaphus tragocamelus, the male of which is bluish gray with small horns, the female tawny and hornless.
- nomial — (mathematics, algebra) A name or term.
- oilcan — a can having a long spout through which oil is poured or squirted to lubricate machinery or the like.
- oilman — a person who owns or operates oil wells or an executive in the petroleum industry.
- olinda — a city in NE Brazil, N suburb of Recife, on the Atlantic coast: beach resort.
- paling — a stake or picket, as of a fence.
- pansil — Pancha Sila.
- paulin — a tarpaulin
- penial — the male organ of copulation and, in mammals, of urinary excretion.
- pineal — resembling a pine cone in shape.
- pinnal — Botany. one of the primary divisions of a pinnate leaf.
- plains — clear or distinct to the eye or ear: a plain trail to the river; to stand in plain view.
- plaint — a complaint.
- plani- — plane, level, flat
- planit — Programming LANguage for Interaction and Teaching. CAI language. "PLANIT - A Flexible Language Designed for Computer-Human Interaction", S.L. Feingold, Proc FJCC 31, AFIPS (Fall 1967) Sammet 1969, p.706.
- pliant — bending readily; flexible; supple; adaptable: She manipulated the pliant clay.
- q'nial — A portable incremental compiler for NIAL, written in C at Queen's University, Canada. There aree versions for Unix and MS-DOS, from NIAL Systems Ltd.
- renail — a slender, typically rod-shaped rigid piece of metal, usually in any of numerous standard lengths from a fraction of an inch to several inches and having one end pointed and the other enlarged and flattened, for hammering into or through wood, other building materials, etc., as used in building, in fastening, or in holding separate pieces together.