7-letter words containing n
- advance — To advance means to move forward, often in order to attack someone.
- advents — Plural form of advent.
- adwoman — a woman who works in advertising
- adwomen — Plural form of adwoman.
- aeneous — brass-coloured or greenish-gold
- aeolian — of or relating to the wind; produced or carried by the wind
- aeonian — everlasting
- aerogen — Any noble gas.
- affiant — a person who makes an affidavit
- affinal — joined or connected by marriage
- affined — closely related; connected
- affines — Plural form of affine.
- affront — If something affronts you, you feel insulted and hurt because of it.
- affying — Present participle of affy.
- afghani — the standard monetary unit of Afghanistan, divided into 100 puli
- afghans — Plural form of afghan.
- afognak — an island off southern Alaska, in the Gulf of Alaska, N of Kodiak Island. 721 sq. mi. (1867 sq. km).
- african — African means belonging or relating to the continent of Africa, or to its countries or people.
- agaçant — provocative
- against — If one thing is leaning or pressing against another, it is touching it.
- agathon — c450–c400 b.c, Greek poet and dramatist.
- agaynst — Obsolete spelling of against.
- agelong — lasting a very long time
- agenais — an ancient region of SW France.
- agendas — Plural form of agenda.
- agender — noting or relating to a person who does not have a specific gender identity or recognizable gender expression.
- agendum — agenda
- agenize — to whiten (flour) using agene
- agentic — Social cognition theory perspective in which people are producers as well as products of social systems.
- agentry — the duty or activity of an agent
- aginner — someone who is against something
- aglucon — an aglycon, especially one combined with glucose to form a glycoside.
- aglycon — a chemical compound formed from a glycoside when a hydrogen atom replaces a glycosyl group
- agnails — Plural form of agnail.
- agnamed — having an agname
- agnates — Plural form of agnate.
- agnatha — the class of vertebrates comprising the lampreys, hagfishes, and several extinct forms, having no jaws or paired appendages.
- agnatic — a relative whose connection is traceable exclusively through males.
- agnomen — the fourth name or second cognomen occasionally acquired by an ancient Roman
- agnosia — loss or diminution of the power to recognize familiar objects or people, usually as a result of brain damage
- agonies — extreme and generally prolonged pain; intense physical or mental suffering.
- agonise — to suffer extreme pain or anguish; be in agony.
- agonism — Competitive struggle (especially political).
- agonist — any muscle that is opposed in action by another muscle
- agonize — If you agonize over something, you feel very anxious about it and spend a long time thinking about it.
- aground — If a ship runs aground, it touches the ground in a shallow part of a river, lake, or the sea, and gets stuck.
- agynous — (botany) Without female organs; male.
- ahriman — the supreme evil spirit and diabolical opponent of Ormazd
- ahungry — hungry
- ai koan — (humour) /A-I koh'an/ One of a series of pastiches of Zen teaching riddles created by Danny Hillis at the MIT AI Lab around various major figures of the Lab's culture. See also ha ha only serious, mu. In reading these, it is at least useful to know that Marvin Minsky, Gerald Sussman, and Drescher are AI researchers of note, that Tom Knight was one of the Lisp machine's principal designers, and that David Moon wrote much of Lisp Machine Lisp. Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: "You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong." Knight turned the machine off and on. The machine worked. Moon patiently told the student the following story: "One day a student came to Moon and said: `I understand how to make a better garbage collector... [Pure reference-count garbage collectors have problems with circular structures that point to themselves.] "What are you doing?", asked Minsky. "I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe", Sussman replied. "Why is the net wired randomly?", asked Minsky. "I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play", Sussman said. Minsky then shut his eyes. "Why do you close your eyes?", Sussman asked his teacher. "So that the room will be empty." At that moment, Sussman was enlightened. "I would like to give you this personality test", said the outsider, "because I want you to be happy." Drescher took the paper that was offered him and put it into the toaster, saying: "I wish the toaster to be happy, too."