6-letter words containing n, s, g
- organs — Also called pipe organ. a musical instrument consisting of one or more sets of pipes sounded by means of compressed air, played by means of one or more keyboards, and capable of producing a wide range of musical effects.
- pignus — property held as security for a debt.
- pigsny — a term of affection, esp for a girl or young woman
- posing — to assume a particular attitude or stance, especially with the hope of impressing others: He likes to pose as an authority on literature.
- rasing — to tear down; demolish; level to the ground: to raze a row of old buildings.
- resign — to give up an office or position, often formally (often followed by from): to resign from the presidency.
- rising — advancing, ascending, or mounting: rising smoke.
- 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]>.
- 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.
- sangar — a breastwork of stone or sods
- sanger — Frederick, 1918–2013, English biochemist: Nobel Prize in chemistry 1958.
- sangha — a community of Buddhist monks.
- sangli — a city in S Maharashtra, in SW India, on the Krishna River.
- sargon — died 705 b.c, king of Assyria 722–705.
- sarong — a loose-fitting skirtlike garment formed by wrapping a strip of cloth around the lower part of the body, worn by both men and women in the Malay Archipelago and certain islands of the Pacific Ocean.
- satang — a monetary unit and former coin of Thailand, the 100th part of a baht.
- sating — to satisfy (any appetite or desire) fully.
- saving — tending or serving to save; rescuing; preserving.
- sawing — a tool or device for cutting, typically a thin blade of metal with a series of sharp teeth.
- saying — what a person says or has to say.
- scunge — to borrow
- scungy — miserable; sordid; dirty
- seeing — the act of a person who sees.
- seguin — a city in SE Texas.
- semang — a member of a Negrito people of the Malay Peninsula.
- senega — the dried root of a milkwort, Polygala senega, of the eastern U.S., used as an expectorant and diuretic.
- serang — Ceram.
- sewing — the amount of additional water necessary to float a grounded vessel.
- sexing — either the male or female division of a species, especially as differentiated with reference to the reproductive functions.
- shango — a W African religious cult surviving in some parts of the Caribbean
- shlong — the penis.
- shogun — the title applied to the chief military commanders from about the 8th century a.d. to the end of the 12th century, then applied to the hereditary officials who governed Japan, with the emperor as nominal ruler, until 1868, when the shogunate was terminated and the ruling power was returned to the emperor.
- shying — bashful; retiring.
- siding — one of the surfaces forming the outside of or bounding a thing, or one of the lines bounding a geometric figure.
- siegen — a city in North Rhine–Westphalia in W Germany, on the Sieg River.
- sigint — the gathering of military or other intelligence by interception of electronic signals and consisting of comint and elint.
- signac — Paul [pawl] /pɔl/ (Show IPA), 1863–1935, French painter.
- signal — anything that serves to indicate, warn, direct, command, or the like, as a light, a gesture, an act, etc.: a traffic signal; a signal to leave.
- signed — a token; indication.
- signee — a person who signs a document, register, etc.; signer; signatory: a signee of the Declaration of Independence.
- signer — a person who signs.
- signet — a small seal, as on a finger ring.
- signor — a conventional Italian term of address or title of respect for a man, either used separately or prefixed to the name. Abbreviation: Sig., sig.
- signup — a token; indication.
- sikang — a former province in W China, now part of Sichuan.
- singan — Older Spelling. Xian.
- singed — to burn superficially or slightly; scorch.
- singer — Isaac Bashevis [bah-shev-is] /bɑˈʃɛv ɪs/ (Show IPA), 1904–91, U.S. novelist and short-story writer (in Yiddish), born in Poland: Nobel prize 1978.