6-letter words containing n, a
- choana — a nasal opening situated towards the back of the nasal cavity in vertebrates
- cinema — A cinema is a place where people go to watch films for entertainment.
- citran — (language) Caltech's answer to MIT's JOSS.
- clancy — Tom. 1947–2013, US novelist; his thrillers, many of which have been filmed, include The Hunt for Red October (1984), Clear and Present Danger (1989), Debt of Honour (1994) and Red Rabbit (2002)
- clangs — Plural form of clang.
- clangy — Having a clanging sound.
- clanks — Plural form of clank.
- clanky — making clanking sounds
- claxon — a loud electric horn, formerly used on automobiles, trucks, etc., and now often used as a warning signal.
- cleane — Obsolete spelling of clean.
- cleans — Plural form of clean.
- clinal — Biology. the gradual change in certain characteristics exhibited by members of a series of adjacent populations of organisms of the same species.
- clonal — Biology. a cell, cell product, or organism that is genetically identical to the unit or individual from which it was derived. a population of identical units, cells, or individuals that derive from the same ancestral line.
- cnidae — a nematocyst.
- coanda — Henri Marie [ahn-ree ma-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri maˈri/ (Show IPA), 1885–1972, French engineer and inventor.
- cocain — Dated form of cocaine.
- coggan — (Frederick) Donald, 1909–2000, English clergyman: archbishop of Canterbury 1974–80.
- cognac — Cognac is a type of brandy made in the south west of France.
- coltan — a metallic ore found esp in the E Congo, consisting of columbite and tantalite (a source of the element tantalum)
- conant — James Bryant1893-1978; U.S. chemist & educator
- conapt — (science fiction) a condominium apartment.
- concha — any bodily organ or part resembling a shell in shape, such as the external ear
- confab — A confab is an informal, private conversation.
- congas — Plural form of conga.
- conima — a gum resin obtained from hemlock Conium maculatum
- conman — A confidence trickster.
- conrad — Joseph. real name Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski. 1857–1924, British novelist born in Poland, noted for sea stories such as The Nigger of the Narcissus (1897) and Lord Jim (1900) and novels of politics and revolution such as Nostromo (1904) and Under Western Eyes (1911)
- contra — against
- conway — Thomas, 1735–1800? Irish soldier of fortune in America and India.
- corant — A coranto (kind of dance).
- corban — a gift to God
- cornea — The cornea is the transparent skin covering the outside of your eye.
- cornua — a horn, especially a bony part that resembles a horn.
- corona — The sun's corona is its outer atmosphere.
- coruna — a seaport in NW Spain.
- cotman — John Sell. 1782–1842, English landscape watercolourist and etcher
- cougan — a rowdy person, esp one who drinks large quantities of alcohol
- covina — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- cowans — Plural form of cowan.
- cowman — a man who owns cattle; rancher
- crance — (nautical) An iron band, at the end of a bowsprit, fitted with eyes to take the bowsprit shrouds and the bobstay.
- craned — any large wading bird of the family Gruidae, characterized by long legs, bill, and neck and an elevated hind toe.
- cranes — Plural form of crane.
- crania — the skull of a vertebrate.
- cranko — John. 1927–73, British choreographer, born in South Africa: director of the Stuttgart Ballet (1961–73)
- cranks — Plural form of crank.
- cranky — If you describe ideas or ways of behaving as cranky, you disapprove of them because you think they are strange.
- cranny — Crannies are very narrow openings or spaces in something.
- crants — a garland or wreath carried in front of a maiden's bier
- craton — a stable part of the earth's continental crust or lithosphere that has not been deformed significantly for many millions, even hundreds of millions, of years