5-letter words containing s, n
- banks — Iain (Menzies). 1954–2013, Scottish novelist and science fiction writer. His novels include The Wasp Factory (1984), The Crow Road (1992), and The Steep Approach to Garbadale (2007); science-fiction (under the name Iain M. Banks) includes Look to Windward (2000)
- banns — When a minister or priest reads or publishes the banns, he or she makes a public announcement in church that two people are going to be married.
- bants — to lose weight by practicing Bantingism.
- barns — Plural form of barn.
- basan — sheepskin tanned in the bark of either oak or larch trees
- basin — A basin is a large or deep bowl that you use for holding liquids, or for mixing or storing food.
- bason — a basin.
- bawns — Plural form of bawn.
- beans — the edible nutritious seed of various plants of the legume family, especially of the genus Phaseolus.
- bends — the severe pain in the limbs, joints, and abdomen during decompression sickness
- benes — Eduard (ˈeːduart). 1884–1948, Czech statesman; president of Czechoslovakia (1935–38; 1946–48) and of its government in exile (1939–45)
- bisdn — Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network.
- bison — A bison is a large hairy animal with a large head that is a member of the cattle family. They used to be very common in North America and Europe.
- bonds — Barry (Lamar). born 1964, US baseball player: holder of records for most home runs in a season (73) and a career (762)
- bones — the human skeleton or body
- bonus — A bonus is an extra amount of money that is added to someone's pay, usually because they have worked very hard.
- boson — any of a group of elementary particles, such as a photon or pion, that has zero or integral spin and obeys the rules of Bose-Einstein statistics
- bosun — The bosun on a ship is the officer whose job it is to look after the ship and its equipment.
- burns — Robert. 1759–96, Scottish lyric poet. His verse, written mostly in dialect, includes love songs, nature poetry, and satires. Auld Lang Syne and Tam o' Shanter are among his best known poems
- busan — a port in SE South Korea, on the Korea Strait: the second largest city and chief port of the country; industrial centre; two universities. Pop: 3 527 000 (2005 est)
- canes — Plural form of cane.
- canso — a cape in Canada, at the NE tip of Nova Scotia
- canst — can1
- cants — a salient angle.
- cenis — Montmountain pass between France and Italy in the Graian Alps: 6,830 ft (2,082 m) high
- cense — to burn incense near or before (an altar, shrine, etc)
- cents — a bronze coin of the U.S., the 100th part of a U.S. dollar: made of steel during part of 1943. Symbol: ¢.
- chins — Plural form of chin.
- cions — scion (def 2).
- clans — Plural form of clan.
- coins — Plural form of coin.
- cones — Geometry. a solid whose surface is generated by a line passing through a fixed point and a fixed plane curve not containing the point, consisting of two equal sections joined at a vertex. a plane surface resembling the cross section of a solid cone.
- congs — Informal. Vietcong.
- conks — Plural form of conk.
- conns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conn.
- cons. — Conservative
- const — (programming) A variable whose value cannot be changed directly.
- conus — any of several cone-shaped structures, such as the conus medullaris, the lower end of the spinal cord
- coons — Plural form of coon.
- corns — Plural form of corn.
- cosen — Alternative form of cozen.
- crans — Plural form of cran.
- csnet — Computers and Science Network, operated by CREN for US computer science institutes. It provides electronic mail service via dial-up lines, X.25 and Internet services.
- cunts — the vulva or vagina.
- curns — a grain.
- damns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of damn.
- dangs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dang.
- darns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of darn.
- dawns — Plural form of dawn.
- deans — Plural form of dean.