6-letter words containing s, n
- shindy — a row; rumpus.
- shiner — a person or thing that shines.
- shinju — (formerly, in Japan) a ritual double suicide of lovers
- shinny — a simple variety of hockey, played with a ball, block of wood, or the like, and clubs curved at one end.
- shinto — Also, Shintoism. the native religion of Japan, primarily a system of nature and ancestor worship.
- shinty — a simple form of hockey of Scottish origin played with a ball and sticks curved at the lower end
- shlong — the penis.
- shnaps — schnapps.
- shnook — schnook.
- shogun — the title applied to the chief military commanders from about the 8th century a.d. to the end of the 12th century, then applied to the hereditary officials who governed Japan, with the emperor as nominal ruler, until 1868, when the shogunate was terminated and the ruling power was returned to the emperor.
- shonky — of dubious integrity or legality
- shoran — a system for aircraft navigation in which two signals sent from an aircraft are received and answered by two fixed transponders, the round-trip times of the signals enabling the navigator to determine the aircraft's position.
- shrank — a simple past tense of shrink.
- shrine — a building or other shelter, often of a stately or sumptuous character, enclosing the remains or relics of a saint or other holy person and forming an object of religious veneration and pilgrimage.
- shrink — to draw back, as in retreat or avoidance: to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.
- shrunk — a past participle and simple past tense of shrink.
- shumen — a city in NE Bulgaria.
- shunto — the annual sessions of collective bargaining for wage increases sought by Japanese labor unions each spring.
- shutin — closed; fastened up: a shut door.
- shying — bashful; retiring.
- siabon — a hybrid animal bred from a gibbon and a siamang.
- sialon — a very strong, corrosion-resistant ceramic used in the chemical industry
- siccan — such
- sicken — disgust
- sicyon — an ancient city in S Greece, near Corinth.
- siding — one of the surfaces forming the outside of or bounding a thing, or one of the lines bounding a geometric figure.
- sidney — Sir Philip, 1554–86, English poet, writer, statesman, and soldier.
- siegen — a city in North Rhine–Westphalia in W Germany, on the Sieg River.
- sienna — a ferruginous earth used as a yellowish-brown pigment (raw sienna) or, after roasting in a furnace, as a reddish-brown pigment (burnt sienna)
- sifnos — a Greek island in the SW Aegean Sea, in the Cyclades group: gold and silver mines. 28 sq. mi. (75 sq. km).
- sigint — the gathering of military or other intelligence by interception of electronic signals and consisting of comint and elint.
- signac — Paul [pawl] /pɔl/ (Show IPA), 1863–1935, French painter.
- signal — anything that serves to indicate, warn, direct, command, or the like, as a light, a gesture, an act, etc.: a traffic signal; a signal to leave.
- signed — a token; indication.
- signee — a person who signs a document, register, etc.; signer; signatory: a signee of the Declaration of Independence.
- signer — a person who signs.
- signet — a small seal, as on a finger ring.
- signor — a conventional Italian term of address or title of respect for a man, either used separately or prefixed to the name. Abbreviation: Sig., sig.
- signup — a token; indication.
- sikang — a former province in W China, now part of Sichuan.
- silane — Also called silicon tetrahydride. a gas with an unpleasant odor, SiH 4 , soluble in water: used as a doping agent for semiconductors in the production of solid-state devices.
- silene — any plant of the large perennial genus Silene, with mostly red or pink flowers; many, esp S. or Agrostemma coeli-rosa, are grown as garden plants: family Carophyllaceae
- sileni — a forest spirit, sometimes referred to as the oldest of the satyrs and the foster father, teacher, and companion of Dionysus: often represented as a bearded old man.
- silent — making no sound; quiet; still: a silent motor.
- silken — made of silk.
- silone — Ignazio [ee-nyah-tsyaw] /iˈnyɑ tsyɔ/ (Show IPA), (Secondo Tranquilli) 1900–78, Italian author.
- silvan — of, relating to, or inhabiting the woods.
- simeon — a son of Jacob and Leah. Gen. 29:33.
- simian — of or relating to an ape or monkey.
- simlin — an American variety of the squash plant