4-letter words containing n
- gunt — Lbl slang the bulging between the waist and the genital areas.
- gunz — the first stage of the glaciation of Eurasia during the Pleistocene. Compare Nebraskan (def 4).
- gurn — Make a grotesque face.
- gwen — a female given name, form of Gwendolyn or Guenevere.
- gwyn — Eleanor ("Nell") 1650–87, English actress: mistress of Charles II.
- gyan — Knowledge, especially spiritual or religious knowledge.
- gyn- — gyno-
- gyn. — gynaecological
- gyne — The primary reproductive female caste of social insects (especially ants, wasps, and bees), those destined to become queens.
- gyno — (UK, Australia, informal) abbreviation of gynecologist.
- h1n1 — any of various strains of influenza virus including those that most commonly cause influenza in humans; specif., a pandemic strain originating in North America in 2009 and containing genes from swine, bird, and human influenza viruses
- h5n1 — a highly contagious, often deadly type of bird flu virus that is found mainly in birds and occasionally in other animals and humans
- hahn — Otto, 1879–1968, German chemist: Nobel Prize 1944.
- hain — to save, leave off, or forbear
- hand — Learned [lur-nid] /ˈlɜr nɪd/ (Show IPA), 1872–1961, U.S. jurist.
- hang — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- hank — Angelo ("Hank") 1916–2002, U.S. basketball player.
- hans — a dynasty in China, 206 b.c.–a.d. 220, with an interregnum, a.d. 9–25: characterized by consolidation of the centralized imperial state and territorial expansion. Compare Earlier Han, Later Han.
- hant — {{eye dialect of|hadn't|hadn\u2019t}}.
- haun — a hand
- hean — (obsolete) Mean; abject; poor; humble; lowly.
- hein — eh
- hend — (obsolete) To take hold of; to grasp, hold.
- heng — A character (\ua727), combining an h and an eng, which stands for the hypothetical phoneme in English which includes both [h] and [\u014b] as its allophones.
- hens — the female of the domestic fowl.
- hent — to seize.
- hern — heron.
- hewn — felled and roughly shaped by hewing: hewn logs.
- hind — situated in the rear or at the back; posterior: the hind legs of an animal.
- hing — (IRC) Fortuitous typo for "hint", now in wide intentional use among players of initgame. Compare newsfroup, filk.
- hink — (obsolete) A reaping hook.
- hint — an indirect, covert, or helpful suggestion; clue: Give me a hint as to his identity.
- hirn — (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Corner; nook; hiding-place.
- hisn — (obsolete, outside, British, and, American dialects, especially, Appalachian) His.
- hon. — Hon. is an abbreviation for honourable and , honorary when they are used as part of a person's title.
- hone — a whetstone of fine, compact texture for sharpening razors and other cutting tools.
- hong — (in China) a group of rooms or buildings forming a warehouse, factory, etc.
- honk — the cry of a goose.
- hons — honey (def 6).
- hoon — (Australia, slang, dated) A pimp.
- horn — Cape. Cape Horn.
- hung — simple past tense and past participle of hang.
- hunh — Alternative spelling of huh.
- hunk — a large piece or lump; chunk.
- huns — a member of a nomadic and warlike Asian people who devastated or controlled large parts of eastern and central Europe and who exercised their greatest power under Attila in the 5th century a.d.
- hunt — to chase or search for (game or other wild animals) for the purpose of catching or killing.
- hwan — a former monetary unit of South Korea.
- hymn — a song or ode in praise or honor of God, a deity, a nation, etc.
- i18n — internationalisation
- iana — Internet Assigned Numbers Authority