5-letter words containing s, n
- 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.
- knags — Plural form of knag.
- knees — Anatomy. the joint of the leg that allows for movement between the femur and tibia and is protected by the patella; the central area of the leg between the thigh and the lower leg.
- 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.
- knobs — a projecting part, usually rounded, forming the handle of a door, drawer, or the like.
- knops — a small knob or similar rounded protuberance, especially for ornament.
- knosp — a budlike ornament.
- knots — Plural form of knot.
- knows — to perceive or understand as fact or truth; to apprehend clearly and with certainty: I know the situation fully.
- knubs — Waste silk formed when winding off the threads from a cocoon.
- knurs — Plural form of knur.
- knuts — Plural form of knut.
- koans — Plural form of koan.
- krans — a former silver coin of Iran.
- lancs — Lancashire
- lands — any part of the earth's surface not covered by a body of water; the part of the earth's surface occupied by continents and islands: Land was sighted from the crow's nest.
- lanes — Plural form of lane.
- lansa — langsat.
- lanus — a city in E Argentina, S of Buenos Aires.
- lawns — Plural form of lawn.
- leans — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lean.
- lends — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lend.
- lenes — 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).
- 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).
- lenos — (historical) A trough used in ancient winemaking.
- lense — Misspelling of lens.
- lents — (in the Christian religion) an annual season of fasting and penitence in preparation for Easter, beginning on Ash Wednesday and lasting 40 weekdays to Easter, observed by Roman Catholic, Anglican, and certain other churches.
- 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.
- loans — Plural form of loan.
- 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.
- longs — having considerable linear extent in space: a long distance; a long handle.
- loons — Plural form of loon.
- lowns — loon2 .
- lunes — a line for securing a hawk.