6-letter words containing n, a
- acumen — keenness and quickness in understanding and dealing with a situation; shrewdness
- adance — Dancing.
- add in — If you add in something, you include it as a part of something else.
- add on — If one thing is added on to another, it is attached to the other thing, or is made a part of it.
- add-in — Journalism. copy added to a completed story.
- add-on — a device or unit added to equipment or a construction: an add-on to a computer; a nice add-on to an old house.
- addend — any of a set of numbers that is to be added
- adding — an act or instance of addition
- adeno- — gland or glandular
- adenyl — a derivative of adenine
- adient — tending to move toward a stimulus.
- adjoin — If one room, place, or object adjoins another, they are next to each other.
- adland — the advertising industry and the people who work in it
- admins — Plural form of admin.
- adnate — growing closely attached to an adjacent part or organ
- adnexa — adjoining organs, esp of the uterus
- adnoun — an adjective used as a noun; absolute adjective
- adonai — a name for God
- adonic — (in classical prosody) of or relating to a verse line consisting of a dactyl (– ◡ ◡) followed by a spondee (– –) or by a trochee (– ◡), thought to have been first used in laments for Adonis
- adonis — a handsome youth loved by Aphrodite. Killed by a wild boar, he was believed to spend part of the year in the underworld and part on earth, symbolizing the vegetative cycle
- adorno — Theodor Wiesengrund. 1903–69, German philosopher, sociologist, and music critic. His writings include The Philosophy of the New Music (1949) and Negative Dialectics (1966)
- adorns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adorn.
- adrian — Edgar Douglas, Baron Adrian. 1889–1977, English physiologist, noted particularly for his research into the function of neurons: shared with Sherrington the Nobel prize for physiology and medicine 1932
- advene — to become part of or be added to something
- advent — In the Christian church, Advent is the period between Advent Sunday, the Sunday closest to the 30th of November, and Christmas Day.
- adzing — an axlike tool, for dressing timbers roughly, with a curved, chisellike steel head mounted at a right angle to the wooden handle.
- aedine — relating to mosquitoes of the genus Aedes
- aegean — of or relating to the Aegean Sea or Islands
- aegina — an island in the Aegean Sea, in the Saronic Gulf. Area: 85 sq km (33 sq miles)
- aeneas — a Trojan prince, the son of Anchises and Aphrodite, who escaped the sack of Troy and sailed to Italy via Carthage and Sicily. After seven years, he and his followers established themselves near the site of the future Rome
- aeneid — an epic poem in Latin by Virgil relating the experiences of Aeneas after the fall of Troy, written chiefly to provide an illustrious historical background for Rome
- aeneus — a tropical fish, Corydoras aeneus, that is commonly found in aquariums
- aeonic — lasting for an aeon
- aeron. — aeronautics
- aethon — triethyl orthoformate.
- affine — of, characterizing, or involving transformations which preserve collinearity, esp in classical geometry, those of translation, rotation and reflection in an axis
- afghan — Afghan means belonging or relating to Afghanistan, or to its people or language.
- afonso — Portuguese name of Alfonso I and Alfonso V.
- afront — in front of
- againe — Obsolete spelling of again.
- ageing — Someone or something that is ageing is becoming older and less healthy or efficient.
- agency — An agency is a business which provides a service on behalf of other businesses.
- agenda — You can refer to the political issues which are important at a particular time as an agenda.
- agenst — Obsolete form of against.
- agents — Plural form of agent.
- aginst — Archaic spelling of against.
- aglint — displaying bright points of light, as by reflection; glittering: a diamond tiara aglint under the ballroom lights.
- agnail — a sore or swelling around a fingernail or toenail
- agname — a name that is used in addition to a first name and surname
- agnate — related by descent from a common male ancestor