6-letter words containing n, s
- scrine — a shrine or a bookcase
- scrunt — a stunted thing
- scunge — to borrow
- scungy — miserable; sordid; dirty
- sdaine — to disdain
- seaman — a person skilled in seamanship.
- seamen — a person skilled in seamanship.
- seance — a meeting in which a spiritualist attempts to communicate with the spirits of the dead.
- season — one of the four periods of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter), beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, but geographically at different dates in different climates.
- seawan — wampum (def 1).
- secant — Geometry. an intersecting line, especially one intersecting a curve at two or more points.
- secern — to discriminate or distinguish in thought.
- second — next after the first; being the ordinal number for two.
- secund — arranged on one side only; unilateral.
- seddon — Richard John, 1845–1906, New Zealand statesman, born in England: prime minister 1893–1906.
- sedent — seated or inactive
- seeing — the act of a person who sees.
- sefton — a unitary authority in NW England, in Merseyside. Pop: 281 600 (2003 est). Area: 150 sq km (58 sq miles)
- seguin — a city in SE Texas.
- seined — a fishing net that hangs vertically in the water, having floats at the upper edge and sinkers at the lower.
- seiner — a person who fishes with a seine.
- seisin — (originally) possession of either land or chattel.
- seitan — a chewy, neutral-flavored, protein-rich food made of wheat gluten, used as a meat substitute in vegetarian dishes.
- seiten — gluten from wheat
- seizin — (originally) possession of either land or chattel.
- sejant — (of an animal) represented in a sitting posture: a lion sejant.
- selden — George Baldwin, 1846–1922, U.S. inventor of a gasoline-powered car.
- selena — the Greek goddess of the moon. Compare Thyone.
- selene — the Greek goddess of the moon. Compare Thyone.
- semang — a member of a Negrito people of the Malay Peninsula.
- senary — of or relating to the number six.
- senate — an assembly or council of citizens having the highest deliberative functions in a government, especially a legislative assembly of a state or nation.
- send's — to heave in a swell.
- sendai — a city on NE Honshu, in central Japan.
- sendak — Maurice (Bernard) 1928–2012, U.S. author and illustrator of children's books.
- sendal — a silk fabric in use during the Middle Ages.
- sendee — the person to whom something is sent.
- sender — a person or thing that sends.
- sendit — Systems Engineering for Network Debugging, Integration and Test. A two-year European Commission funded project to produce software tools for distributed applications running on networks of microcontrollers.
- sendup — a mocking parody, esp. when done with seeming gravity; takeoff; spoof
- seneca — Oberon-V
- senega — the dried root of a milkwort, Polygala senega, of the eastern U.S., used as an expectorant and diuretic.
- senhor — a Portuguese term of address equivalent to sir or Mr., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a man. Abbreviation: Sr.
- senile — showing a decline or deterioration of physical strength or mental functioning, especially short-term memory and alertness, as a result of old age or disease.
- senior — older or elder (designating the older of two men bearing the same name, as a father whose son is named after him, often written as Sr. or sr. following the name): I'd like to speak with the senior Mr. Hansen, please. I'm privileged to introduce Mr. Edward Andrew Hansen, Sr. Compare junior (def 1).
- seniti — a bronze or brass coin and monetary unit of Tonga, the 100th part of a pa'anga.
- senlac — a hill in SE England: believed by some historians to have been the site of the Battle of Hastings, 1066.
- sennar — a region in the E Sudan between the White and Blue Nile rivers, S of Khartoum: a former kingdom.
- sennet — a flat, braided cordage, formed by plaiting strands of rope yarn or other fiber, used as small stuff aboard ships.
- sennit — a flat, braided cordage, formed by plaiting strands of rope yarn or other fiber, used as small stuff aboard ships.