5-letter words containing e, n, s
- snake — any of numerous limbless, scaly, elongate reptiles of the suborder Serpentes, comprising venomous and nonvenomous species inhabiting tropical and temperate areas.
- snare — one of the strings of gut or of tightly spiraled metal stretched across the skin of a snare drum.
- snead — Samuel Jackson ("Slamming Sammy") 1912–2002, U.S. golfer.
- sneak — to go in a stealthy or furtive manner; slink; skulk.
- sneap — to scold or rebuke
- sneck — a small stone, as a spall, inserted into the spaces between larger pieces of rubble in a wall.
- sneer — to smile, laugh, or contort the face in a manner that shows scorn or contempt: They sneered at his pretensions.
- snell — Peter (George) born 1938, New Zealand distance runner.
- snide — derogatory in a nasty, insinuating manner: snide remarks about his boss.
- snipe — any of several long-billed game birds of the genera Gallinago (Capella) and Limnocryptes, inhabiting marshy areas, as G. gallinago (common snipe) of Eurasia and North America, having barred and striped white, brown, and black plumage.
- snoek — a long, slender marine food fish, Thyrsites atun, of the family Gempylidae, of the southern oceans.
- snoep — mean or tight-fisted
- snore — to breathe during sleep with hoarse or harsh sounds caused by the vibrating of the soft palate.
- soane — Sir John, 1753–1837, English architect.
- soken — a district held by socage.
- sonce — good luck or prosperity
- sonde — a rocket, balloon, or rockoon used as a probe for observing phenomena in the atmosphere.
- sones — a unit for measuring the loudness of sound, equal to the loudness of a sound that, in the judgment of a group of listeners, is equal to that of a 1000-cycle-per-second reference sound having an intensity of 40 decibels.
- sonet — Synchronous Optical NETwork
- spane — a chip of wood
- spean — to wean.
- spend — to pay out, disburse, or expend; dispose of (money, wealth, resources, etc.): resisting the temptation to spend one's money.
- spent — simple past tense and past participle of spend.
- spine — the spinal or vertebral column; backbone.
- stane — stone.
- stean — an earthenware vessel made of clay or stone, originally made for holding liquid
- steen — Jan [yahn] /yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1626–79, Dutch painter.
- stein — Gertrude, 1874–1946, U.S. author in France.
- stend — a butcher's tool used to hold open a carcass
- steno — a stenographer.
- stent — Medicine/Medical. a small, expandable tube used for inserting in a blocked vessel or other part.
- stern — rear of boat
- steyn — Dale (Willem), born 1983, South African cricketer; a fast bowler and prolific wicket-taker in all forms of international cricket
- stine — R(obert) L(awrence). born 1943, US writer, noted for his numerous bestselling horror novels for older children, esp those in the Goosebumps and Fear Street series
- stone — the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
- suent — smooth
- sweyn — known as Sweyn Forkbeard. died 1014, king of Denmark (?986–1014). He conquered England, forcing Ethelred II to flee (1013); father of Canute
- swine — any stout, cloven-hoofed artiodactyl of the Old World family Suidae, having a thick hide sparsely covered with coarse hair, a disklike snout, and an often short, tasseled tail: now of worldwide distribution and hunted or raised for its meat and other products. Compare hog, pig1 , wild boar.
- syene — ancient name of Aswan.
- synge — John Millington [mil-ing-tuh n] /ˈmɪl ɪŋ tən/ (Show IPA), 1871–1909, Irish dramatist.
- teens — a teenager.
- tense — in a state of mental or nervous strain; high-strung; taut: a tense person.
- thens — at that time: Prices were lower then.
- tines — a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- tunes — a succession of musical sounds forming an air or melody, with or without the harmony accompanying it.
- tynes — a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- unser — Albert ("Al") born 1939, and his brother Robert, (Bobby), born 1934, U.S. racing-car drivers.
- unset — not set; not solidified or made firm, as concrete or asphalt.
- unsew — to remove or rip the stitches of (something sewed).
- unsex — to deprive of sexual power; render impotent or frigid; spay or castrate.