6-letter words containing an
- anatol — a male given name: from a Greek word meaning “sunrise.”.
- anatta — annatto
- anatto — annatto
- anbury — a soft spongy tumour occurring in horses and oxen
- anceps — (poetry, Greek and Latin meter) A syllable that can be either short or long.
- anchal — Lb Nepal any administrative zone of Nepal.
- anchor — An anchor is a heavy hooked object that is dropped from a boat into the water at the end of a chain in order to make the boat stay in one place.
- anchos — Plural form of ancho.
- ancile — a shield that was said to have fallen from heaven, on whose preservation the fortune of Rome was thought to depend
- ancome — an inflammation or boil
- ancona — a port in central Italy, on the Adriatic, capital of the Marches: founded by Greeks from Syracuse in about 390 bc. Pop: 100 507 (2001)
- ancone — an altarpiece, usually consisting of a painted panel or panels, reliefs, or statues set in an elaborate frame.
- ancony — A piece of malleable iron that is wrought into the shape of a flat bar, about three feet long, with a square rough unwrought knob on each end.
- ancora — encore
- ancred — (heraldry) Alternative form of anchored.
- and/or — used to join terms when either one or the other or both is indicated
- andean — of, relating to, or resembling the Andes
- anding — Present participle of and.
- andrea — a feminine name
- andrew — Saint. one of the twelve apostles of Jesus; the brother of Peter; patron saint of Scotland. Feast day: Nov 30
- andria — a city in Apulia, S Italy.
- andric — Ivo (ˈiːvɔ). 1892–1975, Serbian novelist; author of The Bridge on the Drina (1945): Nobel prize for literature 1961
- andro- — male; masculine
- andron — a son of Anius who was given the power of prophecy by Apollo.
- andros — an island in the Aegean Sea, the northernmost of the Cyclades: long famous for wine. Capital: Andros. Pop: 10 009 (2001). Area: about 311 sq km (120 sq miles)
- andrus — Andron.
- anelli — pasta shaped like small rings
- anemia — a condition in which there is a reduction of the number, or volume, of red blood corpuscles or of the total amount of hemoglobin in the bloodstream, resulting in paleness, generalized weakness, etc.
- anemic — Pathology. suffering from anemia.
- anemo- — indicating wind
- anenst — anent (def 2).
- anergy — lack of energy
- anetic — soothing
- angara — a river in S Russia, in Siberia, flowing from Lake Baikal north and west to the Yenisei River: important for hydroelectric power. Length: 1840 km (1150 miles)
- angary — the right of a belligerent state to use the property of a neutral state or to destroy it if necessary, subject to payment of full compensation to the owners
- angela — a feminine name: dim. Angie; var. Angelica, Angelina, Angeline
- angell — Sir Norman, real name Ralph Norman Angell Lane. 1874–1967, English writer, pacifist, and economist, noted for his work on the economic futility of war, The Great Illusion (1910): Nobel peace prize 1933
- angelo — a male given name.
- angels — a male or female given name.
- angers — a city in W France, on the River Maine. Pop: 156 965 (2006)
- angico — the South American tree, Parapiptadenia rigida
- angina — Angina is severe pain in the chest and left arm, caused by heart disease.
- angio- — indicating a blood or lymph vessel; seed vessel
- angiya — a short-sleeved bodice that ends just below the breasts, worn by Muslim women in India.
- angkor — a large area of ruins in NW Cambodia, containing Angkor Thom (tɔːm ), the capital of the former Khmer Empire, and Angkor Wat (wɒt ), a three-storey temple, which were overgrown with dense jungle from the 14th to 19th centuries
- angled — set at an angle
- angler — An angler is someone who fishes with a fishing rod as a hobby.
- angles — Plural form of angle.
- anglia — England
- anglic — the English language in a simplified spelling devised by R. E. Zachrisson (1880–1937), a Swedish philologist, to make English easier to use as an auxiliary language. About 40 of the most frequent words are kept in their usual spellings; the rest of the vocabulary is spelled phonetically with letters of the traditional 26-letter alphabet.