5-letter words containing s, i, n
- insp. — Insp. is the written abbreviation for inspector when it is used as a title.
- inst. — Inst. is a written abbreviation for institute or , institution.
- instr — instructor
- insue — Archaic form of ensue.
- inust — burnt in
- irons — Chemistry. a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, scarcely known in a pure condition, but much used in its crude or impure carbon-containing forms for making tools, implements, machinery, etc. Symbol: Fe; atomic weight: 55.847; atomic number: 26; specific gravity: 7.86 at 20°C. Compare cast iron, pig iron, steel, wrought iron.
- isn't — is not
- isnad — the chain of testimony by which a hadith is transmitted.
- jings — (Scotland) An exclamation of surprise.
- jinks — jinks, prankish or frolicsome activities.
- jinns — Plural form of jinn.
- joins — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of join.
- kilns — Plural form of kiln.
- kinas — Plural form of kina.
- kinds — Plural form of kind.
- kines — kinescope (defs 1, 2).
- kings — a male sovereign or monarch; a man who holds by life tenure, and usually by hereditary right, the chief authority over a country and people.
- kinks — Plural form of kink.
- kisan — (in India) a peasant.
- knies — Karl Gustav Adolf [kahrl goo s-tahf ah-dawlf] /kɑrl ˈgʊs tɑf ˈɑ dɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1821–98, German statistician and historical economist.
- knish — a fried or baked turnover or roll of dough with a filling, as of meat, kasha, or potato, often eaten as an appetizer or snack.
- knits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of knit.
- lenis — pronounced with relatively weak muscular tension and breath pressure, resulting in weak sound effect: in stressed or unstressed position, (b, d, g, j, v, th̸, z, and zh) are lenis in English, as compared with (p, t, k, ch, f, th, s, and sh), which are fortis. Compare fortis (def 1).
- liens — Plural form of lien.
- limns — to represent in drawing or painting.
- lincs — Lincolnshire
- linds — Plural form of lind.
- lines — a thickness of glue, as between two veneers in a sheet of plywood.
- lings — Plural form of ling.
- links — link
- lints — minute shreds or ravelings of yarn; bits of thread.
- linus — Classical Mythology. a musician and poet, the inventor of melody and rhythm, of whom various stories are told: often identified, through his untimely death, with the harvesting or withering of crops and vegetation. Also called Linus song. a dirge: originally sung in western Asia to mourn the death of crops being harvested, later sung to mourn the death of Linus or that of Adonis.
- lions — a large, usually tawny-yellow cat, Panthera leo, native to Africa and southern Asia, having a tufted tail and, in the male, a large mane.
- loins — Usually, loins. the part or parts of the human body or of a quadruped animal on either side of the spinal column, between the false ribs and hipbone.
- lysin — an antibody causing the disintegration of erythrocytes or bacterial cells.
- mains — a river in central and W Germany, flowing W from the Bohemian Forest in N Bavaria into the Rhine at Mainz. 305 miles (490 km) long.
- mansi — a member of a Uralic people now living in scattered settlements along western tributaries of the Ob River in Siberia, and known from historical records to have lived in northern European Russia.
- miens — Plural form of mien.
- minas — an ancient unit of weight and value equal to the sixtieth part of a talent.
- minds — Plural form of mind.
- mines — Plural form of mine.
- mings — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ming.
- minis — Plural form of mini.
- minks — Plural form of mink.
- minos — Minho.
- minsk — Official name Belarus. Formerly White Russian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. a republic in E Europe, N of Ukraine: formerly a part of the Soviet Union. 80,154 sq. mi. (207,600 sq. km). Capital: Minsk.
- mints — Plural form of mint.
- minus — less by the subtraction of; decreased by: Ten minus six is four.
- nabis — a prophet.
- naifs — Plural form of naif.