6-letter words containing s, n
- nasard — a type of organ stop
- nascar — National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing.
- nasdaq — National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations: a system for quoting over-the-counter securities.
- naseby — a village in W Northamptonshire, in central England: Royalist defeat 1645.
- nashik — a city in W Maharashtra, in W central India: pilgrimage city of the Hindus.
- nashua — a city in S New Hampshire, on the Merrimack River.
- nasion — the intersection of the internasal suture with the nasofrontal suture in the midsagittal plane.
- naskhi — the cursive variety of Arabic script from which was derived the variety used in modern printed works.
- nassau — (used with a plural verb) a group of islands in the W Atlantic Ocean, SE of Florida.
- nasser — Gamal Abdel [guh-mahl ab-doo l,, juh-] /gəˈmɑl ˈæb dʊl,, dʒə-/ (Show IPA), 1918–70, Egyptian military and political leader: prime minister of Egypt 1954–56; president of Egypt 1956–58; president of the United Arab Republic 1958–70.
- nastic — of or showing sufficiently greater cellular force or growth on one side of an axis to change the form or position of the axis.
- nasute — a soldier termite characterized by a beaklike snout through which a sticky secretion repellent to other insects is emitted.
- natals — (obsolete) One's birth, or the circumstances attending it.
- nausea — sickness at the stomach, especially when accompanied by a loathing for food and an involuntary impulse to vomit.
- nautes — (in the Aeneid) an aged Trojan and advisor to Aeneas.
- navels — Plural form of navel.
- navies — the whole body of warships and auxiliaries belonging to a country or ruler.
- navsat — navigational satellite.
- nawabs — Plural form of nawab.
- naysay — to say nay to; deny; reject; oppose.
- nazism — the principles or methods of the Nazis.
- nebris — a fawn skin worn in Greek mythology by Dionysus and his followers.
- neches — a river in E Texas, flowing S and SE to Sabine Lake. 416 miles (669 km) long.
- necros — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of necro.
- nefast — nefarious, wicked
- negros — an island of the central Philippines. 5043 sq. mi. (13,061 sq. km).
- neighs — Plural form of neigh.
- neisse — a river in N Europe, flowing N from the NW Czech Republic along part of the boundary between Germany and Poland to the Oder River. 145 miles (233 km) long.
- nelson — Viscount Horatio, 1758–1805, British admiral.
- nenets — a member of a reindeer-herding Uralic people of far northern European Russia and adjacent areas of Siberia as far as the Yenisei River delta.
- nepers — Plural form of neper.
- nereis — clamworm.
- nereus — a sea god, the son of Pontus and Gaea and father of the Nereids.
- nernst — Walther Herman [vahl-tuh r her-mahn] /ˈvɑl tər ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1864–1941, German physicist and chemist: Nobel Prize in chemistry 1920.
- nerves — one or more bundles of fibers forming part of a system that conveys impulses of sensation, motion, etc., between the brain or spinal cord and other parts of the body.
- nesbit — E(dith) 1858–1924, English children's author, novelist, and poet.
- nesses — a headland; promontory; cape.
- nessie — Loch Ness monster.
- nessus — a centaur who, on attempting to seduce Deianira, the wife of Hercules, was shot by Hercules with a poisoned arrow. Before Nessus died, he gave to Deianira the poisoned tunic that ultimately caused Hercules' death.
- nested — (of an ordered collection of sets or intervals) having the property that each set is contained in the preceding set and the length or diameter of the sets approaches zero as the number of sets tends to infinity.
- nester — 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.
- nestle — to lie close and snug, like a bird in a nest; snuggle or cuddle.
- nestor — the oldest and wisest of the Greeks in the Trojan War and a king of Pylos.
- netbsd — (operating system) An open source Unix clone that aims for platform independance by a clean separation between the hardware and the the kernel. It has been ported to many platforms from embedded systems to 64-bit computers.
- neumes — Plural form of neume.
- nevers — a former province in central France. Capital: Nevers.
- nevins — Allan, 1890–1971, U.S. historian.
- nevski — Alexander, Alexander Nevski.
- newels — Plural form of newel.
- newest — of recent origin, production, purchase, etc.; having but lately come or been brought into being: a new book.