4-letter words containing n
- blin — singular of blini.
- bnfl — British Nuclear Fuels Limited
- bona — (italics) Latin. (used with a singular verb) good faith; absence of fraud or deceit; the state of being exactly as claims or appearances indicate: The bona fides of this contract is open to question. Compare mala fides.
- bond — A bond between people is a strong feeling of friendship, love, or shared beliefs and experiences that unites them.
- bone — Your bones are the hard parts inside your body which together form your skeleton.
- bong — A bong is a long, deep sound such as the sound made by a big bell.
- bonk — If two people bonk, they have sexual intercourse.
- bonn — a city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia on the Rhine: the former capital (1949–90) of West Germany; university (1786). Pop: 311 052 (2003 est)
- bony — Someone who has a bony face or bony hands, for example, has a very thin face or very thin hands, with very little flesh covering their bones.
- boon — You can describe something as a boon when it makes life better or easier for someone.
- born — When a baby is born, it comes out of its mother's body at the beginning of its life. In formal English, if you say that someone is born of someone or to someone, you mean that person is their parent.
- boun — prepared, ready
- bran — Bran is the outer skin of grain that is left when the grain has been used to make flour.
- bren — type of machine gun
- brin — one of two filaments of silk combined by the silkworm to form a strand of silk
- brno — a city in the Czech Republic; formerly the capital of Moravia: the country's second largest city. Pop: 375 000 (2005 est)
- buna — a synthetic rubber formed by polymerizing butadiene or by copolymerizing it with such compounds as acrylonitrile or styrene
- bund — an embankment; dyke
- bung — A bung is a round piece of wood, cork, or rubber which you use to close the hole in a container such as a barrel or flask.
- bunk — A bunk is a bed that is fixed to a wall, especially in a ship or caravan.
- bunn — bun1 (def 1).
- buns — the buttocks
- bunt — In baseball, if you bunt or if you bunt the ball, you deliberately hit the ball softly, in order to gain an advantage.
- burn — If there is a fire or a flame somewhere, you say that there is a fire or flame burning there.
- byng — George, Viscount Torrington. 1663–1733, British admiral: defeated fleet of James Edward Stuart, the Old Pretender, off Scotland (1708); defeated Spanish fleet off Messina (1717)
- caen — an industrial city in NW France. Pop: 112 790 (2008)
- cain — (in Scotland and Ireland) payment in kind, usually farm produce paid as rent
- cana — the town in Galilee, north of Nazareth, where Jesus performed his first miracle by changing water into wine (John 2:1, 11)
- canc — canceled
- cand — Alternative form of kand.
- cane — Cane is used to refer to the long, hollow, hard stems of plants such as bamboo. Strips of cane are often used to make furniture, and some types of cane can be crushed and processed to make sugar.
- cann — to con, or direct the steering of (a ship)
- cans — a sealed container for food, beverages, etc., as of aluminum, sheet iron coated with tin, or other metal: a can of soup.
- cant — a salient angle.
- cany — resembling or made of cane
- carn — cairn.
- cbrn — (of weapons or warfare) chemical, bacteriological, radiological, or nuclear
- cdna — complementary DNA; a form of DNA artificially synthesized from a messenger RNA template and used in genetic engineering to produce gene clones
- cene — (genetics) A control gene.
- ceng — chartered engineer
- cens — a type of annual property ground rent
- cent — A cent is a small unit of money worth one hundredth of some currencies, for example the dollar and the euro.
- cern — Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire; an organization of European states with a centre in Geneva for research in high-energy particle physics, now called the European Laboratory for Particle Physics
- chan — Zen (def 1).
- chen — Peter Chen
- chin — Your chin is the part of your face that is below your mouth and above your neck.
- chon — a North and South Korean monetary unit worth one hundredth of a won
- cien — Obsolete spelling of scion.
- cine — Cine is used to refer to things that are used in or connected with the making or showing of films.
- cinq — (gambling, board games) five side of a die.