6-letter words containing n, a, s
- ossian — a legendary hero and poet and son of Finn, who is supposed to have lived during the 3rd century a.d., represented in Gaelic poems and in imitations of them written by James Macpherson in the 18th century.
- paisan — compatriot.
- panisc — a faun; an attendant of Pan
- pannus — Pathology. an abnormal vascular thickening of the cornea. an ingrowth of synovial material into a joint, as in rheumatoid arthritis.
- pansil — Pancha Sila.
- pansys — a female given name.
- parnis — Mollie (Mollie Parnis Livingston) 1905–1992, U.S. fashion designer.
- parson — a member of the clergy, especially a Protestant minister; pastor; rector.
- pascin — Jules [zhyl] /ʒül/ (Show IPA), (Julius Pincas) 1885–1930, French painter, born in Bulgaria.
- peasen — bill3 (def 4).
- pisano — Andrea [ahn-dre-ah] /ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ/ (Show IPA), c1270–c1348, Italian sculptor.
- plains — clear or distinct to the eye or ear: a plain trail to the river; to stand in plain view.
- planos — a town in N Texas.
- plants — ["The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants", Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, Aristid Lindenmayer. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1990. 3-54097297-8].
- ptisan — a nourishing decoction, originally one made from barley, purported to have medicinal quality.
- qanats — Plural form of qanat.
- qantas — the Australian national airline
- quants — Plural form of quant.
- queans — Plural form of quean.
- racons — Plural form of racon.
- raisin — a grape of any of various sweet varieties dried in the sun or by artificial means, often used in cookery.
- ramson — a garlic, Allium ursinum, having broad leaves.
- randys — a male given name, form of Randall or Randolph.
- ransom — John Crowe [kroh] /kroʊ/ (Show IPA), 1888–1974, U.S. poet, critic, and teacher.
- rasing — to tear down; demolish; level to the ground: to raze a row of old buildings.
- reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
- resawn — to saw again.
- romans — a native, inhabitant, or citizen of ancient or modern Rome.
- rosina — a female given name, Italian form of Rose.
- s-lang — (language) A small but highly functional embedded interpreter. S-Lang was a stack-based postfix language resembling Forth and BC/DC with limited support for infix notation. Now it has a C-like infix syntax. Arrays, stings, integers, floating-point and autoloading are all suported. The editor JED embeds S-lang. S-Lang is available under the GNU Library General Public License. It runs on MS-DOS, Unix, and VMS. E-mail: John E. Davis <[email protected]>.
- sabean — of or relating to Saba.
- sabina — a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “a Sabine woman.”.
- sabine — of or belonging to an ancient people of central Italy who lived chiefly in the Apennines northeast of Rome and were subjugated by the Romans about 290 b.c.
- sadden — make sad
- sagene — a fishing net
- sagoin — a South American monkey
- saigon — a former country in SE Asia that comprised Vietnam S of about 17° N latitude; a separate state 1954–75; now part of reunified Vietnam. Capital: Saigon.
- saimin — a Hawaiian dish of noodles
- sained — to make the sign of the cross on, as for protection against evil influences.
- saints — the collective body of those who are righteous in God's sight
- saipan — an island in and the capital of the North Mariana Islands in the N Pacific, about 1350 miles (2173 km) S of Japan: taken by U.S. forces June–July 1944. 71 sq. mi. (184 sq. km).
- salian — of, relating to, or designating a Frankish people who lived in the region of the Rhine near the North Sea.
- salina — a city in central Kansas.
- saline — of, containing, or resembling common table salt; salty or saltlike: a saline solution.
- salmon — a marine and freshwater food fish, Salmo salar, of the family Salmonidae, having pink flesh, inhabiting waters off the North Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America near the mouths of large rivers, which it enters to spawn.
- saloon — a place for the sale and consumption of alcoholic drinks.
- salten — Felix [fee-liks;; German fey-liks] /ˈfi lɪks;; German ˈfeɪ lɪks/ (Show IPA), (Siegmund Salzman) 1869–1945, Austrian novelist, in Switzerland after 1938.
- samain — a festival of the ancient Celts, held around November 1 to celebrate the beginning of winter.
- samian — of or relating to the Greek island of Samos.
- samoan — pertaining to Samoa or its Polynesian people.