5-letter words containing s, e, n
- manse — the house and land occupied by a minister or parson.
- means — to have in mind as one's purpose or intention; intend: I meant to compliment you on your work. Synonyms: contemplate.
- men's — a range of sizes in even and odd numbers for garments made for men.
- mends — to make (something broken, worn, torn, or otherwise damaged) whole, sound, or usable by repairing: to mend old clothes; to mend a broken toy.
- menes — flourished c3200 b.c, traditionally the unifier and 1st king of Egypt: founder of the 1st dynasty.
- mensa — an international fellowship organization for people with IQ's in the top 2 percent of the general population.
- mense — propriety; discretion.
- mensh — to mention
- menus — a list of the dishes served at a meal; bill of fare: Ask the waiter for a menu.
- mesne — intermediate or intervening.
- meson — Physics. any hadron, or strongly interacting particle, other than a baryon. Mesons are bosons, having spins of 0, 1, 2, …, and, unlike baryons, do not obey a conservation law.
- miens — Plural form of mien.
- mines — Plural form of mine.
- mones — Alternative form of 'mones (
- mynes — (in the Iliad) a king of Lyrnessus killed by Achilles in the Trojan War.
- nabes — a neighborhood movie theater.
- names — a word or a combination of words by which a person, place, or thing, a body or class, or any object of thought is designated, called, or known.
- napes — the back of the neck (usually used in the phrase nape of the neck).
- nares — The nostrils.
- nashe — John, 1752–1835, English architect and city planner.
- nates — buttocks; rump.
- naves — Plural form of nave.
- neaps — Plural form of neap.
- nears — close; to a point or place not far away: Come near so I won't have to shout.
- neats — Plural form of neat.
- necks — Plural form of neck.
- needs — of necessity; necessarily (usually preceded or followed by must): It must needs be so. It needs must be.
- neems — Plural form of neem.
- neeps — Plural form of neep.
- neese — Alternative form of neeze.
- negus — a title of Ethiopian royalty.
- neist — Alternative form of next.
- nelis — a variety of small, sweet winter pear with yellowish-green freckled skin which becomes golden as it ripens
- neons — Plural form of neon (the fish, neon tetras).
- nepos — Cornelius, 99?–24? b.c, Roman biographer and historian.
- nerds — Plural form of nerd.
- nerts — crazy
- nesta — National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts
- nests — Plural form of nest.
- nesty — a pocketlike, usually more or less circular structure of twigs, grass, mud, etc., formed by a bird, often high in a tree, as a place in which to lay and incubate its eggs and rear its young; any protected place used by a bird for these purposes.
- neuse — a river in E central North Carolina, flowing SE to Pamlico Sound. 275 miles (442 km) long.
- neuss — a city W Germany, near Düsseldorf.
- neves — granular snow accumulated on high mountains and subsequently compacted into glacial ice.
- nevis — one of the Leeward Islands, in the E West Indies: part of St. Kitts-Nevis; formerly a British colony. 50 sq. mi. (130 sq. km). Compare St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla.
- nevus — any congenital anomaly of the skin, including moles and various types of birthmarks.
- newes — Obsolete spelling of news.
- newsy — full of news: a nice long newsy letter.
- newts — Plural form of newt.
- nexus — a means of connection; tie; link.
- nices — a port in and the capital of Alpes-Maritimes, in SE France, on the Mediterranean: resort.