5-letter words containing a, l, n
- blank — Something that is blank has nothing on it.
- canal — A canal is a long, narrow stretch of water that has been made for boats to travel along or to bring water to a particular area.
- celan — Paul, real name Paul Antschel. 1920–70, Romanian Jewish poet, writing in German, whose work reflects the experience of Nazi persecution
- clane — Eye dialect of clean.
- clang — When a large metal object clangs, it makes a loud noise.
- clank — When large metal objects clank, they make a noise because they are hitting together or hitting against something hard.
- clans — Plural form of clan.
- clean — Something that is clean is free from dirt or unwanted marks.
- conal — Shaped like a cone or funnel; conic.
- dalan — (in Persian and Indian architecture) a veranda or open hall for reception of visitors.
- dalen — Nils Gustaf. 1869–1937, Swedish engineer, inventor of an automatic light-controlled valve known as 'Solventil'. Nobel prize for physics 1912
- dalny — former Russian name of Dalian (def 2).
- dylan — DYnamic LANguage
- eland — A spiral-horned African antelope that lives in open woodland and grassland. It is the largest of the antelopes.
- elman — ˈMischa (ˈmɪʃə ) ; mishˈə) 1891-1967; U.S. violinist, born in Russia
- elsan — a type of portable lavatory in which chemicals are used to kill bacteria and deodorize the sludge
- elvan — Pertaining to elves; elvish; elven.
- enlay — Archaic form of inlay.
- falun — a city in central Sweden: iron and pyrites mines. Pop: 55 009 (2004 est)
- fanal — A lighthouse, or the apparatus placed in it for giving light.
- final — pertaining to or coming at the end; last in place, order, or time: the final meeting of the year.
- flane — to walk idly; saunter
- flank — the side of an animal or a person between the ribs and hip.
- flans — Plural form of flan.
- flawn — Obsolete form of flan.
- galen — Latin Galenus [guh-lee-nuh s] /gəˈli nəs/ (Show IPA). Claudius, a.d. c130–c200, Greek physician and writer on medicine.
- genal — the cheek or side region of the head.
- gland — a sleeve within a stuffing box, fitted over a shaft or valve stem and tightened against compressible packing in such a way as to prevent leakage of fluid while allowing the shaft or stem to move; lantern ring.
- glans — the head of the penis (glans penis) or of the clitoris (glans clitoris)
- glean — to gather slowly and laboriously, bit by bit.
- gnarl — a knotty protuberance on a tree; knot.
- 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.
- ianal — (chat) I Am Not A Lawyer (but my legal opinion is...).
- iland — Obsolete form of island.
- inlaw — to restore (an outlaw) to the benefits and protection of the law.
- inlay — to decorate (an object) with layers of fine materials set in its surface: to inlay a chest with lighter wood.
- inula — Any of several plants of the genus Inula, such as elecampane.
- kalan — (archaic) The sea otter.
- kalon — Ideal perfect beauty in the physical and moral sense, especially as perceived by Greek philosophers.
- klang — a tone composed of several notes sounding together
- kulan — the Asiatic wild ass of the Russian steppes, probably a variety of kiang or onager
- laban — the father of Leah and Rachel and the father-in-law of Jacob. Gen. 24:29; 29:16–30.
- lacan — Jacques, 1901–81, French philosopher and psychoanalyst.
- laden — burdened; loaded down.
- ladin — a Rhaeto-Romanic dialect of the southern Tyrol.
- ladon — a dragon having 100 heads and guarding the garden of the Hesperides: killed by Hercules.
- lagan — anything sunk in the sea, but attached to a buoy or the like so that it may be recovered.
- lagen — Usually, laggins. the staves at the bottom of a barrel, cask, or other hooped vessel.
- laine — (Sussex) an area of arable land at the foot of a hill.
- laing — R(onald) D(avid) 1927–1989, British psychiatrist and author, born in Scotland.