5-letter words containing e, n
- dewan — (formerly in India) the chief minister or finance minister of a state ruled by an Indian prince
- diane — a feminine name: dim. Di; var. Dianne
- diene — any compound, as 1,3-butadiene, CH 2 =CH−CH=CH 2 , that contains two double bonds.
- dined — to eat the principal meal of the day; have dinner.
- diner — a person who dines.
- dines — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dine.
- dinge — the condition of being dingy.
- dione — Classical Mythology. a Titan and a consort of Zeus.
- dizen — to deck with clothes or finery; bedizen.
- dnepr — Russian name of Dnieper.
- donee — a person to whom a gift is made.
- doner — (humorous, dialect) Comparative form of done.
- doney — (colloquial) girl, sweetheart, darling, young woman, woman.
- donne — John, 1573–1631, English poet and clergyman.
- doone — Eye dialect of down.
- doune — Obsolete spelling of down.
- doven — daven
- doyen — the senior member, as in age, rank, or experience, of a group, class, profession, etc.
- dozen — a group of 12.
- drone — Music. a continuous low tone produced by the bass pipes or bass strings of musical instruments. the pipes (especially of the bagpipe) or strings producing this tone. a bagpipe equipped with such pipes.
- duane — a male given name.
- dunce — a dull-witted, stupid, or ignorant person; dolt.
- duned — (geology) Featuring or formed into dunes.
- dunes — Plural form of dune.
- dunne — Finley Peter [fin-lee] /ˈfɪn li/ (Show IPA), 1867–1936, U.S. humorist.
- duren — a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
- dwine — (archaic except in Scotland and dialects) To wither, decline, pine away.
- dynel — a synthetic co-polymer of acrylonitrile and vinyl chloride, used to create a textile similar to wool
- eagan — a town in SE Minnesota.
- earns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of earn.
- earnt — (chiefly British) Simple past tense and past participle of earn.
- eaten — a past participle of eat.
- eaton — Theophilus, 1590–1658, English colonist and colonial administrator in America.
- ebone — A pan-European backbone network service.
- ebons — Plural form of ebon.
- ebony — a hard, heavy, durable wood, most highly prized when black, from various tropical trees of the genus Diospyros, as D. ebenum of southern India and Sri Lanka, used for cabinetwork, ornamental objects, etc.
- econ. — economical
- edina — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
- edman — Irwin, 1896–1954, U.S. philosopher and essayist.
- ednas — a female given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “rejuvenation, rebirth.”.
- edwin — MIT Scheme
- eeven — evening
- efnet — (networking) (From "Eris-free Net", eris being eris.berkeley.edu). The dominant Internet Relay Chat network. See also Undernet.
- eigen — Manfred. born 1927, German physical chemist: shared the Nobel prize for chemistry (1967) for developing his relaxation technique for studying fast reactions
- eigne — first-born
- eking — Manage to support oneself or make a living with difficulty.
- ekman — Vagn Walfrid (vaɣən wɑːlfriːd). 1874–1954, Swedish oceanographer: discoverer of the Ekman spiral (a complex interaction on the surface of the sea between wind, rotation of the earth, and friction forces) and the Ekman Layer (the thin top layer of the sea that flows at 90° to the wind direction)
- eland — A spiral-horned African antelope that lives in open woodland and grassland. It is the largest of the antelopes.
- elden — (obsolete) to age, grow older.
- eldin — fuel or firewood