6-letter words containing s, a, n
- asprin — Misspelling of aspirin.
- assain — (obsolete): To heal or save.
- assent — If someone gives their assent to something that has been suggested, they formally agree to it.
- assign — If you assign a piece of work to someone, you give them the work to do.
- assuan — Aswan
- astana — the capital of Kazakhstan, in the N of the country; replaced Almaty as capital in 1997; an important railway junction. Pop: 335 000 (2005 est)
- astern — Something that is astern is at the back of a ship or behind the back part.
- astony — (archaic) To stun, paralyse, astound.
- astron — astronomer
- aswing — in an oscillating or swinging manner
- aswoon — swooning
- athans — Plural form of athan.
- athens — the capital of Greece, in the southeast near the Saronic Gulf: became capital after independence in 1834; ancient city-state, most powerful in the 5th century bc; contains the hill citadel of the Acropolis. Pop: 3 238 000 (2005 est)
- atkins — Robert C. 1930–2003, US physician, cardiologist, and nutritionist. An advocate of complementary medicine, he devised a widely-used diet (the Atkins diet) based on controlled intake of carbohydrates for weight management and disease prevention
- atones — to make amends or reparation, as for an offense or a crime, or for an offender (usually followed by for): to atone for one's sins.
- austen — Jane. 1775–1817, English novelist, noted particularly for the insight and delicate irony of her portrayal of middle-class families. Her completed novels are Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1816), Northanger Abbey (1818), and Persuasion (1818)
- austin — a city in central Texas, on the Colorado River: state capital since 1845. Pop: 672 011 (2003 est)
- auxins — Plural form of auxin.
- avians — Plural form of avian.
- axions — Plural form of axion.
- azines — Plural form of azine.
- babson — Roger Ward, 1875–1967, U.S. statistician and businessman.
- bacons — Plural form of bacon.
- baluns — Plural form of balun.
- banans — Plural form of banan.
- banish — If someone or something is banished from a place or area of activity, they are sent away from it and prevented from entering it.
- banjos — Plural form of banjo.
- bankes — Plural form of banke.
- barens — Plural form of baren.
- barnes — Djuna. 1892–1982, US novelist, noted for Nightwood (1936)
- barons — a member of the lowest grade of nobility.
- basant — a spring festival celebrated in Pakistan
- bashan — a region to the east of the Jordan, renowned for its rich pasture (Deuteronomy 32:14)
- basing — the bottom support of anything; that on which a thing stands or rests: a metal base for the table.
- basins — Plural form of basin.
- basion — the midpoint on the forward border of the foramen magnum
- baskin — Leonard, 1922–2000, U.S. sculptor and artist.
- basnet — basinet.
- baston — (heraldry) Obsolete form of baton.
- batons — Plural form of baton.
- bauson — a badger (applied contemptuously to people).
- bavins — Plural form of bavin.
- besant — Annie, née Wood. 1847–1933, British theosophist, writer, and political reformer in England and India
- beslan — a town in the North Ossetian Republic in Russia: scene of a massacre in 2004 when Chechen extremists held a school hostage, leading to a siege in which 344 people were killed. Pop: 35 550 (2002)
- blains — an inflammatory swelling or sore.
- bonsai — A bonsai or a bonsai tree is a tree or shrub that has been kept very small by growing it in a little pot and cutting it in a special way.
- bosman — Herman Charles. (1905–1951), South African short-story writer and journalist; his experiences in prison are recounted in the semi-autobiographical Cold Stone Jug (1949)
- bosnia — a region of central Bosnia-Herzegovina: belonged to Turkey (1463–1878), to Austria-Hungary (1879–1918), then to Yugoslavia (1918–91)
- brains — an animal's brain, cooked and eaten as food
- branks — (formerly) an iron bridle used to restrain scolding women