7-letter words containing n
- abelian — of or relating to an Abelian group
- abelson — Philip. 1913–2004, US physical chemist. He created (with Edwin McMillan) the first transuranic element, neptunium (1940)
- abenaki — a member of a group of E Algonquian peoples living mainly in Maine and S Quebec
- abended — Simple past tense and past participle of abend.
- aberfan — a former coal-mining village in S Wales, in Merthyr Tydfil county borough: scene of a disaster in 1966 when a slag heap collapsed onto part of the village killing 144 people (including 116 children)
- abeyant — temporarily inactive, stopped, or suspended.
- abhenry — the cgs unit of inductance in the electromagnetic system; the inductance that results when a rate of change of current of 1 abampere per second generates an induced emf of 1 abvolt: equivalent to 10–9 henry
- abiding — An abiding feeling, memory, or interest is one that you have for a very long time.
- abidjan — a port in Côte d'Ivoire, on the Gulf of Guinea: the legislative capital (Yamoussoukro became the administrative capital in 1983). Pop: 3 516 000 (2005 est)
- abience — (psychology) Withdrawal from, or avoidance of a stimulus.
- abilene — a city in central Texas. Pop: 114 889 (2003 est)
- abinoam — the father of Barak. Judges 4:6; 12; 5:1.
- abiocen — Alternative spelling of abiocoen.
- abjoint — to cut off part of a mycelium or spore by forming a septum
- ablings — possibly; perhaps
- abluent — a substance used for cleansing
- aboding — (obsolete) A foreboding. (Attested from the late 16th century to the early 18th century.).
- abounds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abound.
- abscind — to cut off
- abscond — If someone absconds from somewhere such as a prison, they escape from it or leave it without permission.
- absence — Someone's absence from a place is the fact that they are not there.
- absents — not in a certain place at a given time; away, missing (opposed to present): absent from class.
- absenty — (obsolete) absence.
- absinth — Alternate form of absinthe.
- abstain — If you abstain from something, usually something you want to do, you deliberately do not do it.
- abthane — a territorial possession of the early Scottish church
- abusing — to use wrongly or improperly; misuse: to abuse one's authority.
- abusion — morally wrong, corrupt, or deceptive use
- acadian — denoting or relating to Acadia or its inhabitants
- acantha — a pointed, projecting structure, such as a thorn or prickle
- acanthi — Irregular plural form of acanthus.
- acapnia — the state of lacking carbon dioxide in the blood
- acarian — relating to mites or ticks belonging to the order Acarina
- acarine — any of numerous arachnids of the order Acarina, comprising the mites and ticks.
- accents — Plural form of accent.
- accinge — to make (oneself) ready, brace (oneself)
- account — If you have an account with a bank or a similar organization, you have an arrangement to leave your money there and take some out when you need it.
- acetoin — a yellowish, pleasant-smelling liquid, C 4 H 8 O 2 , obtained from various carbohydrates, as glucose, by fermentation: used chiefly in the manufacture of flavors and essences.
- acetone — Acetone is a type of solvent.
- achaean — a member of a principal Greek tribe in the Mycenaean era
- acharné — furiously violent
- achenes — Plural form of achene.
- acheron — one of the rivers in Hades over which the souls of the dead were ferried by Charon
- acheson — Dean (Gooderham). 1893–1971, US lawyer and statesman: secretary of state (1949–53) under President Truman
- achinsk — a city in the S central Russian Federation in Asia.
- acinose — consisting of acini.
- acinous — consisting of acini.
- aclinic — not leaning or inclining; unbending
- acnemia — a condition characterized by atrophy of the muscles of the calf of the leg.
- aconite — any of various N temperate plants of the ranunculaceous genus Aconitum, such as monkshood and wolfsbane, many of which are poisonous