5-letter words containing n, a
- qanat — (in the Middle East) a gently sloping underground channel or tunnel constructed to lead water from the interior of a hill to a village below.
- qanun — Alternative form of kanoon.
- qiana — a synthetic fabric resistant to stains, wrinkles, etc. and textured like silk, satin, jersey, etc.
- quant — Mary, born 1934, English fashion designer and entrepreneur.
- quean — an overly forward, impudent woman; shrew; hussy.
- quena — a recorderlike bamboo flute having a notched mouthpiece, used in Andean music.
- quina — the cinchona tree
- quran — Koran.
- rabin — Yitzhak [yits-khahk] /yɪtsˈxɑk/ (Show IPA), 1922–95, Israeli military and political leader: prime minister 1974–77 and 1992–95: Nobel Peace Prize 1994.
- racon — radar beacon.
- radin — Paul, 1883–1959, U.S. anthropologist, born in Poland.
- radon — a chemically inert, radioactive gaseous element produced by the decay of radium: emissions produced by outgassing of rock, brick, etc. are a health hazard. Symbol: Rn; atomic number: 86; atomic weight: 222.
- rains — water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops more than 1/50 inch (0.5 mm) in diameter. Compare drizzle (def 6).
- rainy — characterized by rain: rainy weather; a rainy region.
- raman — Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata [chuhn-druh-shey-ker-uh veng-kuh-tuh] /ˈtʃʌn drəˈʃeɪ kər ə ˈvɛŋ kə tə/ (Show IPA), 1888–1970, Indian physicist: Nobel prize 1930.
- ramen — a bowl of clear soup containing noodles, vegetables, and often bits of meat.
- ramin — any swamp-growing hardwood tree found in South-East Asia, of the genus Ramin
- ramon — Ramón [rah-mawn] /rɑˈmɔn/ (Show IPA), ("Ramón") 1888–1963, Spanish novelist, dramatist, biographer, and critic.
- rance — a type of red marble, often with white or blue graining, that comes from Belgium
- ranch — an establishment maintained for raising livestock under range conditions.
- rando — random (def 4): We were followed by some rando creep.
- randy — sexually aroused; lustful; lecherous.
- ranee — the wife of a rajah.
- ranga — a person with red hair
- range — the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible: the range of steel prices; a wide range of styles.
- rangi — the sky
- rangy — (of animals or people) slender and long-limbed.
- ranid — belonging or pertaining to the frog family Ranidae, characterized by smooth, moist skin and semiaquatic habits.
- ranke — Leopold von [ley-aw-pawlt fuh n] /ˈleɪ ɔˌpɔlt fən/ (Show IPA), 1795–1886, German historian.
- ranks — the people who belong to a group or organization
- rason — a long, loose, black gown with wide sleeves, worn by the clergy.
- ratan — Also called rattan palm. any of various climbing palms of the genus Calamus or allied genera.
- raven — a lyric poem (1845) by Edgar Allan Poe.
- ravin — a violent preying or plundering; rapine
- rawin — a method of observation of upper-air winds conducted by means of a weather balloon tracked by radar or a radio direction finder.
- rayon — a regenerated, semisynthetic textile filament made from cellulose, cotton linters, or wood chips by treating these with caustic soda and carbon disulfide and passing the resultant solution, viscose, through spinnerets.
- redan — a V -shaped work, usually projecting from a fortified line.
- regan — (in Shakespeare's King Lear) the younger of Lear's two faithless daughters. Compare Cordelia (def 1), Goneril.
- reman — to man again; furnish with a fresh supply of personnel.
- renal — of or relating to the kidneys or the surrounding regions.
- renan — Ernest [ur-nist;; French er-nest] /ˈɜr nɪst;; French ɛrˈnɛst/ (Show IPA), 1823–92, French philologist, historian, and critic.
- renay — a person who disowns an organization, country, or belief system
- renga — linked verse.
- reran — to run again.
- riant — laughing; smiling; cheerful.
- rnase — ribonuclease.
- rnzaf — Royal New Zealand Air Force
- roman — a metrical narrative, especially in medieval French literature.
- ronan — a king who killed his son, Mael Fothartaigh, after his wife had falsely accused the boy of attempting to seduce her, and who was himself killed by the children of Mael Fothartaigh.
- rowan — the European mountain ash, Sorbus aucuparia, having pinnate leaves and clusters of bright red berries.