5-letter words containing ne
- horne — Lena, 1917–2010, U.S. singer and actress.
- imine — a compound containing the =NH group united with a nonacid group.
- imune — Institution of Municipal Engineers
- inane — lacking sense, significance, or ideas; silly: inane questions.
- inept — without skill or aptitude for a particular task or assignment; maladroit: He is inept at mechanical tasks. She is inept at dealing with people.
- inerm — (of plants) without thorns or prickles
- inert — having no inherent power of action, motion, or resistance (opposed to active): inert matter.
- inetd — (networking, tool) Berkeley daemon program that listens for connection requests or messages for certain ports and starts server programs to perform the services associated with those ports. Sometimes known as netd.
- inews — (messaging, application) A Unix program for posting Usenet news articles, written by Rich $alz <[email protected]> for InterNetNews. inews reads an article (perhaps with headers) from a file or standard, adds some headers and possibly a signature, and, if the article passes some consistency checks (too much quoting, non-existent newsgroup) then inews sends the article to the local news server for distribution. If an unapproved posting is made to a moderated newsgroup, inews will try to send the article to the moderator (specified in a configuration file) by electronic mail. Version: 1.25, dated 1993/03/18.
- inned — (used to indicate inclusion within space, a place, or limits): walking in the park.
- inner — situated within or farther within; interior: an inner door.
- innew — Alternative form of ennew.
- irene — Classical Mythology. one of the Horae, the personification of peace.
- irone — a colorless liquid of isomeric, unsaturated ketones, C 14 H 22 O, obtained from orris root: used in perfumery for its odor of violets.
- janes — Plural form of jane.
- janet — Joint Academic NETwork
- jayne — a female given name.
- jeune — young
- jinne — an exclamation expressive of surprise, admiration, shock, etc
- jones — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1798–1858, president of the Republic of Texas.
- kaneh — an ancient Hebrew measure of six cubits
- keene — a city in SW New Hampshire.
- kerne — a band of lightly armed foot soldiers of ancient Ireland.
- khene — (musical instrument) A traditional musical instrument of Laos, being a type of bamboo mouth organ.
- kines — kinescope (defs 1, 2).
- kline — one of a series of lines (K-series) in the x-ray spectrum of an atom corresponding to radiation (K-radiation) produced by the transition of an electron to the K-shell.
- klone — /klohn/ clone.
- knead — to work (dough, clay, etc.) into a uniform mixture by pressing, folding, and stretching.
- kneck — (UK, nautical) The twisting of a rope or cable, as it is running out.
- kneed — Anatomy. the joint of the leg that allows for movement between the femur and tibia and is protected by the patella; the central area of the leg between the thigh and the lower leg.
- kneel — to go down or rest on the knees or a knee.
- kneen — Obsolete or dialectal plural form of knee.
- knees — Anatomy. the joint of the leg that allows for movement between the femur and tibia and is protected by the patella; the central area of the leg between the thigh and the lower leg.
- knell — the sound made by a bell rung slowly, especially for a death or a funeral.
- knelt — a simple past tense and past participle of kneel.
- koine — (usually initial capital letter) an amalgam of Greek dialects, chiefly Attic and Ionic, that replaced the Classical Greek dialects in the Hellenistic period and flourished under the Roman Empire.
- koner — Pauline, 1905–2000, U.S. dancer and choreographer.
- konev — Ivan Stepanovich [ee-vahn styi-pah-nuh-vyich] /iˈvɑn styɪˈpɑ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1897–1973, Russian general and politician.
- krone — a cupronickel coin and monetary unit of Denmark, equal to 100 öre. Abbreviation: Kr., kr.
- laine — (Sussex) an area of arable land at the foot of a hill.
- laned — Divided into lanes, as with a road.
- laner — lone.
- lanes — Plural form of lane.
- larne — a district of NE Northern Ireland, in Co Antrim. Pop: 30 948 (2003 est). Area: 336 sq km (130 sq miles)
- leane — Obsolete form of lean.
- lenes — pronounced with relatively weak muscular tension and breath pressure, resulting in weak sound effect: in stressed or unstressed position, (b, d, g, j, v, th̸, z, and zh) are lenis in English, as compared with (p, t, k, ch, f, th, s, and sh), which are fortis. Compare fortis (def 1).
- leone — Giovanni [jaw-vahn-nee] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni/ (Show IPA), 1908–2001, Italian political leader: prime minister 1963, 1968; president 1971–78.
- liane — Archaic form of liana.
- ligne — (in Swiss watchmaking) a unit equal to 0.0888 inch or 2.2558 millimeters, divided into 12 douziemes: used mainly to gauge the thickness of a movement.
- linea — a seaport in S Spain, near Gibraltar.