5-letter words containing s, i, n
- nails — Fasten to a surface or to something else with a nail or nails.
- naris — A nostril.
- nashi — an Asian tree also cultivated in Australia and New Zealand, Pyrus pyrifolia, of the rose family, having apple-shaped, pear-colored, juicy fruit.
- nasik — a city in W Maharashtra, in W central India: pilgrimage city of the Hindus.
- nazis — a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, which controlled Germany from 1933 to 1945 under Adolf Hitler and advocated totalitarian government, territorial expansion, anti-Semitism, and Aryan supremacy, all these leading directly to World War II and the Holocaust.
- neist — Alternative form of next.
- nelis — a variety of small, sweet winter pear with yellowish-green freckled skin which becomes golden as it ripens
- 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.
- nhisa — National Health Interview Survey Association
- nices — a port in and the capital of Alpes-Maritimes, in SE France, on the Mediterranean: resort.
- nicks — Plural form of nick.
- nidus — a nest, especially one in which insects, spiders, etc., deposit their eggs.
- nilas — Newly frozen sea ice in the form of smooth thin sheet less than 10 centimeters (4 inches) thick.
- niles — a river in E Africa, the longest in the world, flowing N from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean. 3473 miles (5592 km) long; from the headwaters of the Kagera River, 4000 miles (6440 km) long.
- nim's — a game in which two players alternate in drawing counters, pennies, or the like, from a set of 12 arranged in three rows of 3, 4, and 5 counters, respectively, the object being to draw the last counter, or, sometimes, to avoid drawing it.
- nimbs — Plural form of nimb.
- nimes — a department in S France. 2271 sq. mi. (5882 sq. km). Capital: Nîmes.
- nimps — easy
- nines — a cardinal number, eight plus one.
- ninos — boy; child.
- ninus — the legendary husband of Semiramis and founder of Nineveh.
- niosh — National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
- nisan — the seventh month of the Jewish calendar.
- nisei — a person of Japanese descent, born and educated in the U.S. or Canada.
- nishi — (sumo) the western side of the ring.
- nisus — an effort or striving toward a particular goal or attainment; impulse.
- nites — Plural form of nite.
- nixes — nothing.
- nkosi — a term of address to a superior; master; chief
- noirs — Plural form of noir.
- noise — sound, especially of a loud, harsh, or confused kind: deafening noises.
- noisy — abounding in or full of noise: a noisy assembly hall.
- nsaid — a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug, as ibuprofen.
- nsfip — (operating system) NEXTSTEP For Intel Processor.
- oinks — Plural form of oink.
- opsin — any of several compounds that form the protein component of the light-sensitive retina pigment, rhodopsin.
- ornis — an avifauna.
- pains — physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
- penis — the male organ of copulation and, in mammals, of urinary excretion.
- pines — Archaic. painful longing.
- pinsk — a city in SW Byelorussia (Belarus), E of Brest.
- pisan — a city in NW Italy, on the Arno River: leaning tower.
- psion — (company) The UK company that produced the Psion Organiser. They also wrote software for the Sinclair QL.
- quins — Plural form of quin.
- rains — water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops more than 1/50 inch (0.5 mm) in diameter. Compare drizzle (def 6).
- reins — Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- resin — a male given name.
- rinse — to wash lightly, as by pouring water into or over or by dipping in water: to rinse a cup.
- risen — to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
- rosin — Chemistry. the yellowish to amber, translucent, hard, brittle, fragmented resin left after distilling the oil of turpentine from the crude oleoresin of the pine: used chiefly in making varnishes, varnish and paint driers, printing inks, and for rubbing on the bows of such string instruments as the violin.