6-letter words containing n, a, i
- median — a Mede.
- medina — a city in W Saudi Arabia, where Muhammad was first accepted as the supreme Prophet from Allah and where his tomb is located.
- meidan — Alternative spelling of maidan An urban open space.
- melian — a Greek island in the Cyclades, in the SW Aegean: statue, Venus de Milo, found here 1820. 51 sq. mi. (132 sq. km).
- menial — lowly and sometimes degrading: menial work.
- merina — a member of a Malagasy-speaking people who primarily inhabit the interior plateau of Madagascar.
- mibuna — a Japanese leafy salad vegetable
- midian — a son of Abraham and Keturah. Gen. 25:1–4.
- milano — an industrial city in central Lombardy, in N Italy: cathedral.
- minbar — A short flight of steps used as a platform by a preacher in a mosque.
- mincha — the afternoon service
- minhag — a custom or procedure among Jews that is so firmly established as to have almost the binding force of law.
- minhah — the daily Jewish religious service conducted in the afternoon.
- minima — a plural of minimum.
- minoan — of or relating to the ancient civilization of the island of Crete, dating from about 3000 to 1100 b.c.
- minyae — descended from Minyas.
- minyan — the number of persons required by Jewish law to be present to conduct a communal religious service, traditionally a minimum of 10 Jewish males over 13 years of age.
- minyas — a king of Orchomenus, famed for his wealth.
- mirena — a type of intrauterine system
- mishna — the collection of oral laws compiled about a.d. 200 by Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi and forming the basic part of the Talmud.
- mithan — gayal.
- mizuna — a variety of rape having thin, wispy leaves used in salads.
- molina — Luis [loo-ees] /luˈis/ (Show IPA), 1535–1600, Spanish Jesuit theologian.
- monial — a mullion.
- monica — a female given name.
- mopani — a leguminous tree, Colophospermum (or Copaifera) mopane, native to southern Africa, that is highly resistant to drought and produces very hard wood
- mutina — a city in N Italy, in Emilia-Romagna: ruled by the Este family (18th–19th century); university (1678). Pop: 175 502 (2001)
- mysian — an ancient country in NW Asia Minor.
- mzansi — a low-cost national banking account
- nadine — a female given name.
- nadirs — Plural form of nadir.
- nagari — a group of related scripts, including Devanagari, derived from Brahmi and used for the writing of many of the languages of India.
- naggin — A small measure of spirits.
- naguib — Mohammed, 1901–1984, Egyptian general and political leader: premier 1952–54; president 1953–54.
- naiads — Plural form of naiad.
- naiant — (of a fish in heraldry) swimming horizontally
- nailed — a slender, typically rod-shaped rigid piece of metal, usually in any of numerous standard lengths from a fraction of an inch to several inches and having one end pointed and the other enlarged and flattened, for hammering into or through wood, other building materials, etc., as used in building, in fastening, or in holding separate pieces together.
- nailer — a person or thing that drives nails, as a machine that drives nails automatically.
- naiver — Comparative form of naive.
- namhoi — Nanhai.
- namibe — a port in SW Angola: fishing industry. Pop: 132 900 (2004 est)
- namier — Sir Lewis Bernstein, original name Ludwik Bernsztajn vel Niemirowski. 1888–1960, British historian, born in Poland: noted esp for his studies of 18th-century British politics
- naming — a word or a combination of words by which a person, place, or thing, a body or class, or any object of thought is designated, called, or known.
- nandin — a Chinese and Japanese evergreen shrub, Nandina domestica, of the barberry family, having pinnate leaves and bright red berries, cultivated as an ornamental.
- nanhai — former name of Foshan.
- nanism — the condition of being unusually or abnormally small in size or stature; dwarfism.
- nanite — nanobot.
- nanoid — dwarfish.
- naoise — the husband of Deirdre and a nephew of Conchobar, by whom he was treacherously killed.
- napier — Sir Charles James, 1782–1853, British general.