6-letter words that end in n
- perrin — Jean Baptiste [zhahn ba-teest] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist/ (Show IPA), 1870–1942, French physicist and chemist: Nobel Prize in physics 1926.
- perron — an outside platform upon which the entrance door of a building opens, with steps leading to it.
- person — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.
- petain — Henri Philippe Omer [ahn-ree fee-leep aw-mer] /ɑ̃ˈri fiˈlip ɔˈmɛr/ (Show IPA), 1856–1951, marshal of France: premier of the Vichy government 1940–44.
- phonon — a quantum of sound or vibratory elastic energy, being the analogue of a photon of electromagnetic energy.
- photon — a quantum of electromagnetic radiation, usually considered as an elementary particle that is its own antiparticle and that has zero rest mass and charge and a spin of one. Symbol: γ.
- phylon — a group that has a genetic relationship or common origin, as a race.
- phytin — a salt containing calcium and magnesium that is derived from plants and used as a dietary supplement
- phyton — the smallest part of a stem, root, or leaf, that, when removed from a plant, may grow into a new plant.
- pickin — a small child
- pidgin — an auxiliary language that has come into existence through the attempts by the speakers of two different languages to communicate and that is primarily a simplified form of one of the languages, with a reduced vocabulary and grammatical structure and considerable variation in pronunciation.
- piecen — to join (broken threads) together
- piegan — a member of a subtribe of the Blackfoot Indians
- pieman — a seller of pies
- pigeon — (not in technical use) pidgin; pidgin English.
- piggin — Dialect. a small wooden pail or tub with a handle formed by continuing one of the staves above the rim.
- pigman — a male pig farmer
- pignon — the edible seed of the cones of certain pines, as the nut pine, Pinus pinea, of southern Europe.
- pigpen — a pen for keeping pigs.
- pilsen — German name of Plzeň.
- pin on — attach by pin
- pindan — semiarid country; scrubland.
- pinion — the distal or terminal segment of the wing of a bird consisting of the carpus, metacarpus, and phalanges.
- pinken — to grow or turn pink.
- pinyin — a system for transliterating Chinese into the Latin alphabet: introduced in 1958 and adopted as the official system of romanization by the People's Republic of China in 1979.
- pinyon — piñon (def 1).
- pinzon — Martín Alonzo [mahr-teen ah-lawn-thaw] /mɑrˈtin ɑˈlɔn θɔ/ (Show IPA), c1440–93? and his brother, Vicente Yáñez [bee-then-te yah-nyeth] /biˈθɛn tɛ ˈyɑ nyɛθ/ (Show IPA) c1460–1524?, Spanish navigators with Christopher Columbus.
- pipkin — a small, earthen pot.
- pippin — any of numerous roundish or oblate varieties of apple.
- piston — Walter, 1894–1976, U.S. composer.
- pitman — a person who works in a pit, as in coal mining.
- pitten — placed; put
- platan — plane4
- platen — a flat plate in a printing press for pressing the paper against the inked type or plate to produce an impression.
- platon — Distributed language based on asynchronous message passing.
- plauen — a city in E Germany.
- pleven — a city in N Bulgaria: siege of 143 days 1877.
- plugin — capable of or designed for being connected to an electrical power source by plugging in or inserting: a plug-in hair dryer; a plug-in transistor.
- pluton — any body of igneous rock that solidified far below the earth's surface.
- poison — a substance with an inherent property that tends to destroy life or impair health.
- poleyn — a piece for the knee, made of plate or leather.
- pollan — any of several varieties of the whitefish Coregonus pollan that occur in lakes in Northern Ireland
- pollen — the fertilizing element of flowering plants, consisting of fine, powdery, yellowish grains or spores, sometimes in masses.
- pompon — pompom2 (def 1).
- pop in — Informal. unexpected; without prior warning or announcement: The teacher gave us a pop quiz.
- pop-in — requiring only a quick insertion into a receptacle to be ready for use: pop-in film cassettes; a pop-in frozen dinner.
- popgun — a child's toy gun from which a pellet is shot by compressed air, producing a loud pop.
- poplin — a finely corded fabric of cotton, rayon, silk, or wool, for dresses, draperies, etc.
- porion — the most lateral point in the roof of the bony external auditory meatus.
- porson — Richard. 1759–1808, English classical scholar, noted for his editions of Aeschylus and Euripides