6-letter words containing a, r, n
- answer — When you answer someone who has asked you something, you say something back to them.
- antara — a type of panpipes native to the Andes, made of clay and tuned in the pentatonic scale
- antarc — Antarctica
- antero — Mount, a peak in central Colorado, in the Sawatch Mountains. 14,269 feet (4349 meters).
- anther — the terminal part of a stamen consisting usually of two lobes each containing two sacs in which the pollen matures
- anthro — (informal) anthropology.
- antiar — the upas tree of Java
- antler — A male deer's antlers are the branched horns on its head.
- antral — a cavity in a body organ, especially a bone.
- antres — a cavern; cave.
- antrim — a historical county of NE Northern Ireland, famous for the Giant's Causeway on the N coast: in 1973 it was replaced for administrative purposes by the districts of Antrim, Ballymena, Ballymoney, Carrickfergus, Larne, Moyle, Newtownabbey, and parts of Belfast and Lisburn. Area: 3100 sq km (1200 sq miles)
- antron — a strong, shiny, silklike nylon fiber made into clothing, carpet, upholstery fabric, etc.
- antrum — a natural cavity, hollow, or sinus, esp in a bone
- anural — having no tail
- anuran — any of the vertebrates of the order Anura (or Salientia), characterized by absence of a tail and very long hind legs specialized for hopping: class Amphibia (amphibians). The group includes the frogs and toads
- anuria — complete suppression of urine formation, often as the result of a kidney disorder
- anuric — having anuria
- anvers — French name of Antwerp.
- aprons — Plural form of apron.
- araban — a pentosan, found chiefly in vegetable gums, that yields arabinose upon hydrolysis.
- arabin — the essence of gum arabic, being a carbohydrate gum composed of hexoses and D-arabinose
- aragon — an autonomous region of NE Spain: independent kingdom from the 11th century until 1479, when it was united with Castile to form modern Spain. Pop: 1 059 600 (2003 est). Area: 47 609 sq km (18 382 sq miles)
- aranda — an Aboriginal people of S central Australia
- arango — A rough carnelian bead, formerly used in Africa as currency when buying slaves for the slave trade.
- aranha — Oswaldo [aws-wahl-daw] /ɔsˈwɑl dɔ/ (Show IPA), 1894–1960, Brazilian politician.
- arcana — either of the two divisions (the minor arcana and the major arcana) of a pack of tarot cards
- arcane — Something that is arcane is secret or mysterious.
- archon — (in ancient Athens) one of the nine chief magistrates
- arcing — Geometry. any unbroken part of the circumference of a circle or other curved line.
- arcmin — 1⁄60 of a degree of an angle
- arcnet — (networking) A network developed by DataPoint. ARCnet was proprietary until the late 1980s and had about as large a marketshare as Ethernet among small businesses. It was almost as fast and was considerably cheaper at the time.
- arcsin — arcsine: the function the value of which for a given argument between –1 and 1 is the angle in radians (between –π/2 and π/2), the sine of which is that argument: the inverse of the sine function
- arctan — arctangent: the function the value of which for a given argument is the angle in radians (between –π/2 and π/2) the tangent of which is that argument: the inverse of the tangent function
- ardent — Ardent is used to describe someone who has extremely strong feelings about something or someone.
- aren't — Aren't is the usual spoken form of 'are not'.
- arenas — Plural form of arena.
- arendt — Hannah. 1906–75, US political philosopher, born in Germany. Her publications include The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) and Eichmann in Jerusalem (1961)
- argand — a lamp with a hollow circular wick
- argent — (as adjective; often postpositive, esp in heraldry)
- arghan — any of various plants of the genus Agave and of the family Agavaceae, which are native to tropical America and have tall flower stalks rising from a massive, often armed, rosette of thick fleshy leaves
- arhant — a Buddhist who has attained Nirvana through rigorous discipline and ascetic practices. Compare Bodhisattva.
- ariane — Rocketry. a French-built, three-stage, liquid-propellant rocket for launching satellites into orbit around the earth.
- arisen — to get up from sitting, lying, or kneeling; rise: He arose from his chair when she entered the room.
- arjuna — the most important of the five princes in the Mahabharata. Krishna served as his charioteer in the battle with the Kauravas
- arleen — a female given name.
- arlene — a feminine name: var. Arline, Arleen
- armand — a male given name, French form of Herman.
- armani — Giorgio. born 1936, Italian fashion designer, noted for his restrained classical style
- arming — the act of taking arms or providing with arms
- arnaud — Yvonne. 1892–1958, French actress, who was well-known on the London stage and in British films. A theatre in Guildford is named after her