5-letter words containing g, n
- doing — action; performance; execution: Your misfortune is not of my doing.
- donga — (in an ice shelf) a small ravine with steep sides.
- dongs — Plural form of dong.
- drang — a narrow lane or alleyway.
- drung — drang.
- dungs — Plural form of dung.
- dungy — excrement, especially of animals; manure.
- dying — ceasing to live; approaching death; expiring: a dying man.
- dzong — Alternative form of jong.
- eagan — a town in SE Minnesota.
- 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.
- elgin — a market town in NE Scotland, the administrative centre of Moray, on the River Lossie: ruined 13th-century cathedral: distilling, engineering. Pop: 20 829 (2001)
- elgon — Mountextinct volcano on the Kenyan-Ugandan border: 14,178 ft (4,321 m): crater, 5 mi (8 km) wide
- engin — engineer
- engle — A favourite; a paramour; an ingle.
- ennog — a back alley
- enugu — a state of S Nigeria. Capital: Enugu. Pop: 3 257 298 (2006). Area: 7161 sq km (2765 sq miles)
- ergon — (physics) Work, measured in terms of the quantity of heat to which it is equivalent.
- exing — Present participle of ex.
- eying — Present participle of eye.
- f eng — Fellow of the Fellowship of Engineering
- fagin — (in Dickens' Oliver Twist) a villainous old man who trains and uses young boys as thieves.
- fango — clay or mud, especially a clay obtained from certain hot springs in Battaglio, Italy, used as a hot application in the treatment of certain diseases.
- fangs — Plural form of fang.
- feign — to represent fictitiously; put on an appearance of: to feign sickness.
- fingo — a member of a Xhosa-speaking people settled in southern Africa in the Ciskei and Transkei: originally refugees from the Zulu wars of conquest
- fleng — A parallel logic language.
- fling — to throw, cast, or hurl with force or violence: to fling a stone.
- flong — the material of which a stereotype mold is made.
- flung — simple past tense and past participle of fling.
- funge — (obsolete) A fungus.
- fungi — a taxonomic kingdom, or in some classification schemes a division of the kingdom Plantae, comprising all the fungus groups and sometimes also the slime molds.
- fungo — (in practice sessions) a ball tossed into the air by the batter and struck as it comes down.
- fungs — Plural form of fung.
- g-man — an agent for the FBI.
- gabon — Official name Gabonese Republic. a republic in W equatorial Africa: formerly a part of French Equatorial Africa; member of the French Community. 102,290 sq. mi. (264,931 sq. km). Capital: Libreville.
- gabun — Gabon.
- gains — to make a gain or gains in.
- galen — Latin Galenus [guh-lee-nuh s] /gəˈli nəs/ (Show IPA). Claudius, a.d. c130–c200, Greek physician and writer on medicine.
- gamin — a neglected boy left to run about the streets; street urchin.
- ganca — a city in NW Azerbaijan.
- gance — Abel (abɛl). 1889–1981, French film director, whose works include J'accuse (1919, 1937) and Napoléon (1927), which introduced the split-screen technique
- ganch — the spiked or hooked apparatus used to impale a criminal
- ganda — Luganda.
- ganef — a thief, swindler, crook, or rascal.
- ganga — (dated) sandgrouse.
- gangs — Plural form of gang.
- ganja — marijuana, especially in the form of a potent preparation used chiefly for smoking.