5-letter words that end in n
- axion — a hypothetical neutral elementary particle postulated to account for certain conservation laws in the strong interaction
- axman — a person who wields an ax.
- axmen — Irregular plural form of axman.
- aydin — a town in SW Turkey: an ancient city of Lydia. Pop: 160 000 (2005 est)
- azlon — a textile fibre made from protein
- bacon — Bacon is salted or smoked meat which comes from the back or sides of a pig.
- baden — a former state of West Germany, now part of Baden-Württemberg
- bairn — A bairn is a child.
- bajan — a native of Barbados
- balon — the lightness and grace of movement that make a dancer appear buoyant.
- balun — a device for coupling two electrical circuit elements, such as an aerial and its feeder cable, where one is balanced and the other is unbalanced
- banan — (rare, informal) Banana.
- banon — a small, round goat cheese from Provence, France, that is dipped in brandy before being wrapped in chestnut leaves.
- baren — A tool for pressing woodcuts, consisting of a disk with a coil of string glued to one side, covered with a smooth sheet.
- baron — A baron is a man who is a member of the lowest rank of the nobility.
- basan — sheepskin tanned in the bark of either oak or larch trees
- basin — A basin is a large or deep bowl that you use for holding liquids, or for mixing or storing food.
- bason — a basin.
- batin — (Islam) The internal or hidden meaning of the Qur'an.
- baton — A baton is a short heavy stick which is sometimes used as a weapon by the police.
- bavin — a bundle of brushwood or firewood
- bayan — A type of chromatic button accordion developed in Russia in the early 20th century.
- bazin — René François Nicolas Marie [ruh-ney frahn-swa nee-kaw-lah ma-ree] /rəˈneɪ frɑ̃ˈswa ni kɔˈlɑ maˈri/ (Show IPA), 1853–1932, French novelist.
- bearn — historical region in SW France, in the Pyrenees
- began — Began is the past tense of begin.
- begin — To begin to do something means to start doing it.
- begun — Begun is the past participle of begin.
- behan — Brendan. 1923–64, Irish writer, noted esp for his plays The Quare Fellow (1954) and The Hostage (1958) and for an account of his detention as a member of the Irish Republican Army, Borstal Boy (1958)
- belon — a type of European oyster
- benin — a republic in W Africa, on the Bight of Benin, a section of the Gulf of Guinea: in the early 19th century a powerful kingdom, famed for its women warriors; became a French colony in 1893, gaining independence in 1960. It consists chiefly of coastal lagoons and swamps in the south, a fertile plain and marshes in the centre, and the Atakora Mountains in the northwest. Official language: French. Religion: animist majority. Currency: franc. Capital: Porto Novo (the government is based in Cotonou). Pop: 9 877 292 (2013 est). Area: 112 622 sq km (43 474 sq miles)
- béton — a type of concrete prepared in France
- bevan — a stupid or unfashionable male
- bevin — Ernest. 1881–1951, British Labour statesman and trade unionist, who was largely responsible for the creation of the Transport and General Workers' Union (1922): minister of labour (1940–45); foreign secretary (1945–51)
- biden — Joseph Robinette Jr, known as Joe. born 1942, US Democrat politician; vice president from 2009 to 2017
- bidon — a vessel (of tin, wood, or glass) for containing liquids
- bisdn — Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network.
- bison — A bison is a large hairy animal with a large head that is a member of the cattle family. They used to be very common in North America and Europe.
- blain — a blister, blotch, or sore on the skin
- blown — Blown is the past participle of blow1.
- bogan — (esp in the Maritime Provinces) a sluggish side stream
- bogon — /boh'gon/ (By analogy with proton/electron/neutron, but doubtless reinforced after 1980 by the similarity to Douglas Adams's "Vogons") 1. The elementary particle of bogosity (see quantum bogodynamics). For instance, "the Ethernet is emitting bogons again" means that it is broken or acting in an erratic or bogus fashion. 2. A query packet sent from a TCP/IP domain resolver to a root server, having the reply bit set instead of the query bit. 3. Any bogus or incorrectly formed packet sent on a network. 4. A person who is bogus or who says bogus things. This was historically the original usage, but has been overtaken by its derivative senses. See also bogosity; compare psyton, fat electrons, magic smoke. The bogon has become the type case for a whole bestiary of nonce particle names, including the "clutron" or "cluon" (indivisible particle of cluefulness, obviously the antiparticle of the bogon) and the futon (elementary particle of randomness, or sometimes of lameness). These are not so much live usages in themselves as examples of a live meta-usage: that is, it has become a standard joke or linguistic maneuver to "explain" otherwise mysterious circumstances by inventing nonce particle names. And these imply nonce particle theories, with all their dignity or lack thereof (we might note parenthetically that this is a generalisation from "(bogus particle) theories" to "bogus (particle theories)"!). Perhaps such particles are the modern-day equivalents of trolls and wood-nymphs as standard starting-points around which to construct explanatory myths. Of course, playing on an existing word (as in the "futon") yields additional flavour.
- boron — a very hard almost colourless crystalline metalloid element that in impure form exists as a brown amorphous powder. It occurs principally in borax and is used in hardening steel. The naturally occurring isotope boron-10 is used in nuclear control rods and neutron detection instruments. Symbol: B; atomic no: 5; atomic wt: 10.81; valency: 3; relative density: 2.34 (crystalline), 2.37 (amorphous); melting pt: 2092°C; boiling pt: 4002°C
- boson — any of a group of elementary particles, such as a photon or pion, that has zero or integral spin and obeys the rules of Bose-Einstein statistics
- bosun — The bosun on a ship is the officer whose job it is to look after the ship and its equipment.
- bourn — a destination; goal
- bowen — Elizabeth (Dorothea Cole). 1899–1973, British novelist and short-story writer, born in Ireland. Her novels include The Death of the Heart (1938) and The Heat of the Day (1949)
- boxen — of or relating to the box-tree; made of box-wood
- bozen — German name of Bolzano (def 2).
- brain — Your brain is the organ inside your head that controls your body's activities and enables you to think and to feel things such as heat and pain.
- braun — Eva (ˈeːfa). 1910–45, Adolf Hitler's mistress, whom he married shortly before their suicides in 1945