5-letter words that end in an
- cuban — Cuban means belonging or relating to Cuba, or to its people or culture.
- cutan — (biochemistry) A hydrocarbon polymer, of uncertain structure but thought to be similar to kerogen, found in some plants.
- dagan — an earth god of the Babylonians and Assyrians
- dalan — (in Persian and Indian architecture) a veranda or open hall for reception of visitors.
- daman — a rare name for the hyrax, esp the Syrian rock hyrax
- dayan — a senior rabbi, esp one who sits in a religious court
- decan — any of three divisions of 10° within a sign of the zodiac.
- devan — (transitive) To unload (goods) from a container.
- dewan — (formerly in India) the chief minister or finance minister of a state ruled by an Indian prince
- dinan — a town in NW France, in Brittany, on the estuary of the River Rance: medieval buildings, including town walls and castle: tourism, hosiery, cider: Pop: 10 953 (2008)
- divan — a sofa or couch, usually without arms or back, often usable as a bed.
- diwan — (in India) any of certain officials, as a financial minister or prime minister of a native colony.
- dogan — (chiefly, Canada, offensive, sometimes, capitalized) A Roman Catholic, especially one of Irish origin.Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd edition (November 2010).
- doran — an electronic device for determining range and assisting navigation, employing the principle of the Doppler effect.
- duran — Roberto [ruh-bair-toh;; Spanish raw-ber-taw] /rəˈbɛər toʊ;; Spanish rɔˈbɛr tɔ/ (Show IPA), born 1951, Panamanian boxer.
- dylan — DYnamic LANguage
- eagan — a town in SE Minnesota.
- edman — Irwin, 1896–1954, U.S. philosopher and essayist.
- ekman — Vagn Walfrid (vaɣən wɑːlfriːd). 1874–1954, Swedish oceanographer: discoverer of the Ekman spiral (a complex interaction on the surface of the sea between wind, rotation of the earth, and friction forces) and the Ekman Layer (the thin top layer of the sea that flows at 90° to the wind direction)
- elman — ˈMischa (ˈmɪʃə ) ; mishˈə) 1891-1967; U.S. violinist, born in Russia
- elsan — a type of portable lavatory in which chemicals are used to kill bacteria and deodorize the sludge
- elvan — Pertaining to elves; elvish; elven.
- ethan — a masculine name
- furan — a colorless, liquid, unsaturated, five-membered heterocyclic compound, C 4 H 4 O, obtained from furfural: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- fusan — Pusan.
- g-man — an agent for the FBI.
- geyan — somewhat
- glean — to gather slowly and laboriously, bit by bit.
- goban — a Japanese game played on a go board with players alternating and attempting to be first to place five counters in a row.
- gowan — any of various yellow or white field flowers, especially the English daisy.
- groan — a low, mournful sound uttered in pain or grief: the groans of dying soldiers.
- haman — a powerful prince at the court of Ahasuerus, who was hanged upon exposure of his plan to destroy the Jews of Persia. Esther 3–6.
- hasan — (al-Hasan) a.d. 624?–669? Arabian caliph: son of Ali and Fatima (brother of Hussein).
- havan — A ritual burning of offerings such as grains and ghee, which is held to mark births, marriages, and other special occasions.
- hazan — a cantor of a synagogue.
- heian — of or relating to the period in Japan, a.d. 794–1185, characterized by the modification and naturalization of ideas and institutions that were earlier introduced from China.
- heman — Misspelling of he-man.
- henan — a province in E China. 64,479 sq. mi. (167,000 sq. km). Capital: Zhengzhou.
- hoban — James, c1762–1831, U.S. architect, born in Ireland: designed the White House.
- hogan — Ben, 1912–97, U.S. golfer.
- hokan — a proposed genetic grouping of American Indian languages comprising otherwise unclassified language families and isolates of California, the U.S. Southwest, and Mexico, including Yana, Pomo, Chumash, and Yuman.
- honan — Wade-Giles. Henan.
- hotan — an oasis in W China, in SW Xinjiang.
- human — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or having the nature of people: human frailty.
- hunan — Pinyin, Wade-Giles. a province in S China. 81,274 sq. mi. (210,500 sq. km). Capital: Changsha.
- hyman — a male given name.
- iowan — of or relating to Iowa.
- irian — New Guinea
- jagan — Cheddi Berret [ched-ee ber-it] /ˈtʃɛd i ˈbɛr ɪt/ (Show IPA), 1918–97, Guyanese politician: prime minister of British Guiana 1953, president of Guyana 1992–97.
- japan — a constitutional monarchy on a chain of islands off the E coast of Asia: main islands, Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku. 141,529 sq. mi. (366,560 sq. km). Capital: Tokyo. Japanese Nihon, Nippon.