5-letter words containing an
- banty — a person resembling such a bird, namely short and often aggressive
- bantz — Alternate spelling of bants.
- banya — a traditional Russian steam bath
- basan — sheepskin tanned in the bark of either oak or larch trees
- bayan — A type of chromatic button accordion developed in Russia in the early 20th century.
- beano — a celebration, party, or other enjoyable time
- beans — the edible nutritious seed of various plants of the legume family, especially of the genus Phaseolus.
- beany — Resembling or characteristic of beans.
- began — Began is the past tense of begin.
- behan — Brendan. 1923–64, Irish writer, noted esp for his plays The Quare Fellow (1954) and The Hostage (1958) and for an account of his detention as a member of the Irish Republican Army, Borstal Boy (1958)
- bevan — a stupid or unfashionable male
- bhang — a preparation of the leaves and flower tops of Indian hemp, which has psychoactive properties: much used in India
- blanc — (Jean Joseph Charles) Louis (lwi). 1811–82, French socialist and historian: author of L'Organisation du travail (1840), in which he advocated the establishment of cooperative workshops subsidized by the state
- bland — If you describe someone or something as bland, you mean that they are rather dull and unexciting.
- blank — Something that is blank has nothing on it.
- bogan — (esp in the Maritime Provinces) a sluggish side stream
- brand — If someone is branded as something bad, people think they are that thing.
- brane — a hypothetical component of string theory
- brank — (esp of horses) to prance or strut
- brant — a small goose, Branta bernicla, that has a dark grey plumage and short neck and occurs in most northern coastal regions
- brian — Havergal (ˈhævəɡəl). 1876–1972, English composer, who wrote 32 symphonies, including the large-scale Gothic Symphony (1919–27)
- bryan — a masculine name
- buran — a blizzard, with the wind blowing from the north and reaching gale force
- 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)
- bwana — (in E Africa) a master, often used as a respectful form of address corresponding to sir
- c2man — (tool) An automatic documentation extraction tool by Graham Stoney. c2man extracts comments from C source code to generate functional interface documentation in the same format as sections 2 and 3 of the Unix Programmer's Manual. It looks for comments near the objects they document, rather than imposing a rigid syntax or requiring the programmer to use a typesetting language. Acceptable documentation can often be generated from existing code with no modifications. c2man supports both K&R and ISO/ANSI C coding styles. Output can be in nroff -man, Texinfo or LaTeX format. It automagically documents enum parameter and return values, it handles both C (/* */) and C++ (//) style comments, but not C++ grammar (yet). It requires yacc, byacc or bison for syntax analysis; lex or flex for lexical analysis and nroff, groff, texinfo or LaTeX to format the output. It runs under Unix, OS/2 and MS-DOS. Version 2.0 patchlevel 25 (1995-10-25). Patches posted to Usenet newsgroups news:comp.sources.bugs and news:comp.sources.reviewed.
- caban — (Philippines) A grain measure equal to 3.47 cubic feet, used in the Philippine Islands.
- cahan — Abraham ("Abe") 1860–1951, U.S. novelist and journalist, born in Russia.
- cajan — a member of a group of people living in parts of the South, especially Alabama, whose ancestry is a mixture of white, black, and possibly Indian.
- caman — the wooden stick used to hit the ball
- can't — Can't is the usual spoken form of 'cannot'.
- canad — Canadian
- canal — A canal is a long, narrow stretch of water that has been made for boats to travel along or to bring water to a particular area.
- canby — Henry Seidel [sahyd-l] /ˈsaɪd l/ (Show IPA), 1878–1961, U.S. author and critic.
- candy — Candy is sweet foods such as toffees or chocolate.
- canea — the chief port of Crete, on the NW coast. Pop: 55 838 (2001)
- caned — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
- caneh — a Hebrew unit of length, consisting of 6 cubits
- caner — a person who regularly indulges in excessive drinking or drug-taking
- canes — Plural form of cane.
- canid — any animal of the dog family
- canna — any of various tropical plants constituting the genus Canna, having broad leaves and red or yellow showy flowers for which they are cultivated: family Cannaceae
- canne — Obsolete spelling of can.
- canny — A canny person is clever and able to think quickly. You can also describe a person's behaviour as canny.
- canoe — A canoe is a small, narrow boat that you move through the water using a stick with a wide end called a paddle.
- canon — A canon is a member of the clergy who is on the staff of a cathedral.
- canso — a cape in Canada, at the NE tip of Nova Scotia
- canst — can1
- canto — a main division of a long poem
- cants — a salient angle.