6-letter words that end in n
- selden — George Baldwin, 1846–1922, U.S. inventor of a gasoline-powered car.
- sephen — any of several varieties of large stingray, including the Hypolophus sephen, Pastinachus sephen and the Trygon sephen
- sequin — a small shining disk or spangle used for ornamentation, as on women's clothing and accessories or on theatrical costumes.
- serein — fine rain falling after sunset from a sky in which no clouds are visible.
- serkin — Rudolf [roo-dolf;; German roo-dawlf] /ˈru dɒlf;; German ˈruˌdɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1903–91, U.S. pianist, born in Bohemia.
- sermon — a discourse for the purpose of religious instruction or exhortation, especially one based on a text of Scripture and delivered by a member of the clergy as part of a religious service.
- serran — any fish belonging to the genus Serranus or the Seranid family, including sea perch and bass
- seston — any particulate matter suspended in bodies of water, esp plankton or other organic matter
- set in — fixed or prescribed beforehand: a set time; set rules.
- set on — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
- set-in — made separately and placed within another unit.
- severn — a river in Great Britain, flowing from central Wales through W England into the Bristol Channel. 210 miles (338 km) long.
- sextan — (of a fever) characterized by paroxysms that recurevery sixth day.
- sexton — Anne (Harvey) 1928–74, U.S. poet.
- seyhan — Adana.
- shaban — the eighth month of the Muslim calendar.
- shaken — to move or sway with short, quick, irregular vibratory movements.
- shaman — (especially among certain tribal peoples) a person who acts as intermediary between the natural and supernatural worlds, using magic to cure illness, foretell the future, control spiritual forces, etc.
- shapen — having a designated shape (usually used in combination): a sprawling, ill-shapen building.
- sharon — Ariel, 1928–2014, Israeli military and political leader; prime minister 2001–06.
- shaven — a past participle of shave.
- shogun — the title applied to the chief military commanders from about the 8th century a.d. to the end of the 12th century, then applied to the hereditary officials who governed Japan, with the emperor as nominal ruler, until 1868, when the shogunate was terminated and the ruling power was returned to the emperor.
- shoran — a system for aircraft navigation in which two signals sent from an aircraft are received and answered by two fixed transponders, the round-trip times of the signals enabling the navigator to determine the aircraft's position.
- shumen — a city in NE Bulgaria.
- shutin — closed; fastened up: a shut door.
- siabon — a hybrid animal bred from a gibbon and a siamang.
- sialon — a very strong, corrosion-resistant ceramic used in the chemical industry
- siccan — such
- sicken — disgust
- sicyon — an ancient city in S Greece, near Corinth.
- siegen — a city in North Rhine–Westphalia in W Germany, on the Sieg River.
- silken — made of silk.
- silvan — of, relating to, or inhabiting the woods.
- simeon — a son of Jacob and Leah. Gen. 29:33.
- simian — of or relating to an ape or monkey.
- simlin — an American variety of the squash plant
- sindon — cloth of fine linen or silk, used especially for shrouds.
- singan — Older Spelling. Xian.
- siouan — an American Indian language family formerly widespread from Saskatchewan to the lower Mississippi, also found in the Virginia and Carolina piedmont, and including Catawba, Crow, Dakota, Hidatsa, Mandan, Osage, and Winnebago.
- siphon — a tube or conduit bent into legs of unequal length, for use in drawing a liquid from one container into another on a lower level by placing the shorter leg into the container above and the longer leg into the one below, the liquid being forced up the shorter leg and into the longer one by the pressure of the atmosphere.
- siplan — SIte PLANning computer language. Interactive language for space planning. "Formal Languages for Site Planning", C.I. Yessios in Spatial Synthesis for Computer-Aided Design, C. Eastman ed, Applied Science Publ 1976.
- siskin — any of several small, cardueline finches, especially Carduelis spinus, of Europe.
- sit in — any organized protest in which a group of people peacefully occupy and refuse to leave a premises: Sixty students staged a sit-in outside the dean's office.
- sit on — to rest with the body supported by the buttocks or thighs; be seated.
- sit-in — any organized protest in which a group of people peacefully occupy and refuse to leave a premises: Sixty students staged a sit-in outside the dean's office.
- sitten — (in prescriptions) may it be.
- sixain — a stanza or poem of six lines
- skagen — Skaw, The.
- skyman — an aviator or paratrooper.
- sliven — a city in E central Bulgaria.