6-letter words that end in n
- run on — melted or liquefied: run butter.
- run-in — a quarrel; argument.
- run-on — of or designating something that is added or run on: a run-on entry in a dictionary.
- runyon — (Alfred) Damon [dey-muh n] /ˈdeɪ mən/ (Show IPA), 1884–1946, U.S. journalist and short-story writer.
- rurban — bringing together the urban and the rural
- rushen — made of rushes
- ruskin — John, 1819–1900, English author, art critic, and social reformer.
- rustin — Bayard [bey-erd] /ˈbeɪ ərd/ (Show IPA), 1910–1987, U.S. civil rights leader.
- ruston — a city in N Louisiana.
- ryazan — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, SE of Moscow.
- ryokan — a traditional Japanese inn or small hotel whose floors are covered with tatami.
- sabean — of or relating to Saba.
- sadden — make sad
- sagoin — a South American monkey
- saigon — a former country in SE Asia that comprised Vietnam S of about 17° N latitude; a separate state 1954–75; now part of reunified Vietnam. Capital: Saigon.
- saimin — a Hawaiian dish of noodles
- saipan — an island in and the capital of the North Mariana Islands in the N Pacific, about 1350 miles (2173 km) S of Japan: taken by U.S. forces June–July 1944. 71 sq. mi. (184 sq. km).
- salian — of, relating to, or designating a Frankish people who lived in the region of the Rhine near the North Sea.
- salmon — a marine and freshwater food fish, Salmo salar, of the family Salmonidae, having pink flesh, inhabiting waters off the North Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America near the mouths of large rivers, which it enters to spawn.
- saloon — a place for the sale and consumption of alcoholic drinks.
- salten — Felix [fee-liks;; German fey-liks] /ˈfi lɪks;; German ˈfeɪ lɪks/ (Show IPA), (Siegmund Salzman) 1869–1945, Austrian novelist, in Switzerland after 1938.
- samain — a festival of the ancient Celts, held around November 1 to celebrate the beginning of winter.
- samian — of or relating to the Greek island of Samos.
- samoan — pertaining to Samoa or its Polynesian people.
- sampan — any of various small boats of the Far East, as one propelled by a single scull over the stern and provided with a roofing of mats.
- samson — a judge of Israel famous for his great strength. Judges 13–16.
- samsun — a city in N Turkey, in Asia.
- santon — a French figurine depicting Christ's birth
- sargon — died 705 b.c, king of Assyria 722–705.
- sarnen — one of the two divisions of the canton of Unterwalden, in central Switzerland. 189 sq. mi. (490 sq. km). Capital: Sarnen.
- sarsen — any of numerous large sandstone blocks or fragments found in south-central England, probably remnants of eroded Tertiary beds.
- sarton — May, 1912–95, U.S. poet, novelist, and playwright.
- sateen — a strong cotton fabric constructed in satin weave and having a lustrous face.
- saturn — an ancient Roman god of agriculture, the consort of Ops, believed to have ruled the earth during an age of happiness and virtue, identified with the Greek god Cronus.
- sazhen — an obsolete Russian measure of length equivalent to 7 feet or 2.1336 m
- scazon — a metre in poetry in which the spondee or trochee replaces the final iambus; a choliamb
- schuln — shul.
- screen — a movable or fixed device, usually consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc.
- seaman — a person skilled in seamanship.
- seamen — a person skilled in seamanship.
- season — one of the four periods of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter), beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, but geographically at different dates in different climates.
- seawan — wampum (def 1).
- secern — to discriminate or distinguish in thought.
- seddon — Richard John, 1845–1906, New Zealand statesman, born in England: prime minister 1893–1906.
- sefton — a unitary authority in NW England, in Merseyside. Pop: 281 600 (2003 est). Area: 150 sq km (58 sq miles)
- seguin — a city in SE Texas.
- seisin — (originally) possession of either land or chattel.
- seitan — a chewy, neutral-flavored, protein-rich food made of wheat gluten, used as a meat substitute in vegetarian dishes.
- seiten — gluten from wheat
- seizin — (originally) possession of either land or chattel.