6-letter words containing ain
- mained — chief in size, extent, or importance; principal; leading: the company's main office; the main features of a plan.
- mainer — a principal pipe or duct in a system used to distribute water, gas, etc.
- mainly — chiefly; principally; for the most part; in the main; to the greatest extent: Our success was due mainly to your efforts. The audience consisted mainly of students.
- mainor — (legal, UK, obsolete) A stolen article found on the person of the thief.
- nubain — an opiate drug, nalbuphine hydrochloride, used as a painkiller and, illegally, by bodybuilders and others to increase their pain threshold and as a recreational drug, being a cheap alternative to heroin
- obtain — to come into possession of; get, acquire, or procure, as through an effort or by a request: to obtain permission; to obtain a better income.
- ordain — to invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; confer holy orders upon.
- pained — hurt; injured.
- painim — a heathen or pagan
- painty — of, coated with, or soiled with paint: a painty finish; painty overalls.
- papain — Biochemistry. a proteolytic enzyme found in the fruit of the papaya tree, Carica papaya.
- petain — Henri Philippe Omer [ahn-ree fee-leep aw-mer] /ɑ̃ˈri fiˈlip ɔˈmɛr/ (Show IPA), 1856–1951, marshal of France: premier of the Vichy government 1940–44.
- plains — clear or distinct to the eye or ear: a plain trail to the river; to stand in plain view.
- plaint — a complaint.
- quaint — having an old-fashioned attractiveness or charm; oddly picturesque: a quaint old house.
- rained — water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops more than 1/50 inch (0.5 mm) in diameter. Compare drizzle (def 6).
- rainey — Gertrude ("Ma") 1886–1939, U.S. blues singer.
- regain — to get again; recover: to regain one's health.
- remain — to continue in the same state; continue to be as specified: to remain at peace.
- retain — to keep possession of.
- sained — to make the sign of the cross on, as for protection against evil influences.
- saints — the collective body of those who are righteous in God's sight
- samain — a festival of the ancient Celts, held around November 1 to celebrate the beginning of winter.
- sdaine — to disdain
- sixain — a stanza or poem of six lines
- sprain — to overstrain or wrench (the ligaments of an ankle, wrist, or other joint) so as to injure without fracture or dislocation.
- strain — to draw tight or taut, especially to the utmost tension; stretch to the full: to strain a rope.
- t'aint — the area between the testicles or vulva and the anus; the perineum.
- tainan — a city in SW Taiwan.
- ujjain — a city in W Madhya Pradesh, in W central India: one of the seven holy cities of India.
- ungain — inconvenient; unpleasant; unskilled
- unvain — excessively proud of or concerned about one's own appearance, qualities, achievements, etc.; conceited: a vain dandy.
- vainer — excessively proud of or concerned about one's own appearance, qualities, achievements, etc.; conceited: a vain dandy.
- vainly — excessively proud of or concerned about one's own appearance, qualities, achievements, etc.; conceited: a vain dandy.