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6-letter words containing n

  • anywho — anyhow: Anyhoo, what do you think of my idea?
  • anzaas — Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science
  • apeing — Present participle of ape.
  • apeman — any of various extinct apelike primates thought to have been the forerunners, or closely related to the forerunners, of modern man
  • apemen — Plural form of apeman.
  • aphony — Dated form of aphonia.
  • apneic — a temporary suspension of breathing, occurring in some newborns (infant apnea) and in some adults during sleep (sleep apnea)
  • apnoea — a temporary inability to breathe
  • aponia — The absence of pain considered as a state of spiritual serenity.
  • append — When you append something to something else, especially a piece of writing, you attach it or add it to the end of it.
  • aprons — Plural form of apron.
  • aquent — Lb soil science A kind of wet soil formed on river banks, tidal mudflats etc.
  • aquino — Corazón, known as Cory. 1933–2009, Philippine stateswoman: president (1986–92)
  • araban — a pentosan, found chiefly in vegetable gums, that yields arabinose upon hydrolysis.
  • arabin — the essence of gum arabic, being a carbohydrate gum composed of hexoses and D-arabinose
  • aragon — an autonomous region of NE Spain: independent kingdom from the 11th century until 1479, when it was united with Castile to form modern Spain. Pop: 1 059 600 (2003 est). Area: 47 609 sq km (18 382 sq miles)
  • aranda — an Aboriginal people of S central Australia
  • arango — A rough carnelian bead, formerly used in Africa as currency when buying slaves for the slave trade.
  • aranha — Oswaldo [aws-wahl-daw] /ɔsˈwɑl dɔ/ (Show IPA), 1894–1960, Brazilian politician.
  • arcana — either of the two divisions (the minor arcana and the major arcana) of a pack of tarot cards
  • arcane — Something that is arcane is secret or mysterious.
  • archon — (in ancient Athens) one of the nine chief magistrates
  • arcing — Geometry. any unbroken part of the circumference of a circle or other curved line.
  • arcmin — 1⁄60 of a degree of an angle
  • arcnet — (networking)   A network developed by DataPoint. ARCnet was proprietary until the late 1980s and had about as large a marketshare as Ethernet among small businesses. It was almost as fast and was considerably cheaper at the time.
  • arcsin — arcsine: the function the value of which for a given argument between –1 and 1 is the angle in radians (between –π/2 and π/2), the sine of which is that argument: the inverse of the sine function
  • arctan — arctangent: the function the value of which for a given argument is the angle in radians (between –π/2 and π/2) the tangent of which is that argument: the inverse of the tangent function
  • ardent — Ardent is used to describe someone who has extremely strong feelings about something or someone.
  • aren't — Aren't is the usual spoken form of 'are not'.
  • arenas — Plural form of arena.
  • arendt — Hannah. 1906–75, US political philosopher, born in Germany. Her publications include The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) and Eichmann in Jerusalem (1961)
  • argand — a lamp with a hollow circular wick
  • argent — (as adjective; often postpositive, esp in heraldry)
  • arghan — any of various plants of the genus Agave and of the family Agavaceae, which are native to tropical America and have tall flower stalks rising from a massive, often armed, rosette of thick fleshy leaves
  • arhant — a Buddhist who has attained Nirvana through rigorous discipline and ascetic practices. Compare Bodhisattva.
  • ariane — Rocketry. a French-built, three-stage, liquid-propellant rocket for launching satellites into orbit around the earth.
  • arisen — to get up from sitting, lying, or kneeling; rise: He arose from his chair when she entered the room.
  • arjuna — the most important of the five princes in the Mahabharata. Krishna served as his charioteer in the battle with the Kauravas
  • arleen — a female given name.
  • arlene — a feminine name: var. Arline, Arleen
  • armand — a male given name, French form of Herman.
  • armani — Giorgio. born 1936, Italian fashion designer, noted for his restrained classical style
  • arming — the act of taking arms or providing with arms
  • arnaud — Yvonne. 1892–1958, French actress, who was well-known on the London stage and in British films. A theatre in Guildford is named after her
  • arnhem — a city in the E Netherlands, capital of Gelderland province, on the Rhine: site of a World War II battle. Pop: 142 000 (2003 est)
  • arnica — any N temperate or arctic plant of the genus Arnica, typically having yellow flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • arnold — a town in N central England, in S Nottinghamshire. Pop: 37 402 (2001)
  • arnulf — a.d. 850?–899, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 887–899: crowned 896.
  • aroint — to drive away
  • aronia — A plant of the genus Aronia in the rose family, especially (in gardening) a chokeberry.
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