5-letter words that end in n
- 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)
- dioon — any of several Mexican and Central American palmlike plants belonging to the genus Dioon, of the cycad family, having a crown of stiff, pinnate leaves.
- 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.
- dixon — Jeremiah, died 1777, English astronomer and surveyor. Compare Mason-Dixon line.
- dizen — to deck with clothes or finery; bedizen.
- djinn — any of a class of spirits, lower than the angels, capable of appearing in human and animal forms and influencing humankind for either good or evil.
- do in — Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
- dogan — (chiefly, Canada, offensive, sometimes, capitalized) A Roman Catholic, especially one of Irish origin.Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd edition (November 2010).
- dogon — a member of a group of indigenous people of the mountains of central Mali.
- dolin — Sir Anton [an-ton] /ˈæn tɒn/ (Show IPA), (Patrick Healey-Kay) 1904–83, English ballet dancer.
- dolon — a son of Eumedes who was killed by Diomedes and Odysseus even though he had given them valuable information about the Trojans.
- doorn — a town in the central Netherlands, in Utrecht province: residence of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany from his abdication (1919) until his death (1941)
- doran — an electronic device for determining range and assisting navigation, employing the principle of the Doppler effect.
- doven — daven
- doyen — the senior member, as in age, rank, or experience, of a group, class, profession, etc.
- dozen — a group of 12.
- drain — to withdraw or draw off (a liquid) gradually; remove slowly or by degrees, as by filtration: to drain oil from a crankcase.
- drawn — past participle of draw.
- drown — to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
- duran — Roberto [ruh-bair-toh;; Spanish raw-ber-taw] /rəˈbɛər toʊ;; Spanish rɔˈbɛr tɔ/ (Show IPA), born 1951, Panamanian boxer.
- duren — a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
- dykon — a celebrity much admired by lesbians
- dylan — DYnamic LANguage
- dyson — Sir James. born 1947, British businessman and industrial designer; inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner (1979–93)
- eagan — a town in SE Minnesota.
- eaten — a past participle of eat.
- eaton — Theophilus, 1590–1658, English colonist and colonial administrator in America.
- edman — Irwin, 1896–1954, U.S. philosopher and essayist.
- edwin — MIT Scheme
- eeven — evening
- eigen — Manfred. born 1927, German physical chemist: shared the Nobel prize for chemistry (1967) for developing his relaxation technique for studying fast reactions
- 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)
- elden — (obsolete) to age, grow older.
- eldin — fuel or firewood
- eldon — Earl of, title of John Scott. 1751–1838, British statesman and jurist; Lord Chancellor (1801–06, 1807–27): an inflexible opponent of parliamentary reform, Catholic emancipation, and the abolition of slavery
- elfin — (with reference to a person) small and delicate, typically with an attractively mischievous or strange charm.
- elgin — a market town in NE Scotland, the administrative centre of Moray, on the River Lossie: ruined 13th-century cathedral: distilling, engineering. Pop: 20 829 (2001)
- elgon — Mountextinct volcano on the Kenyan-Ugandan border: 14,178 ft (4,321 m): crater, 5 mi (8 km) wide
- ellen — (obsolete) Zeal.
- elman — ˈMischa (ˈmɪʃə ) ; mishˈə) 1891-1967; U.S. violinist, born in Russia
- elmen — (rare, dialectal, or, archaic) Of or pertaining to an elm tree.
- elsan — a type of portable lavatory in which chemicals are used to kill bacteria and deodorize the sludge
- elsen — An awl, a pointed tool.
- elton — Ben(jamin) (Charles). born 1959, British comedian, scriptwriter, playwright, and novelist; his work includes the Blackadder series for television (1987–89), the play Gasping (1990), the novel High Society (2002), and the lyrics to the musical We Will Rock You (2002)
- elvan — Pertaining to elves; elvish; elven.
- elven — (obsolete) A female elf, a fairy, nymph.
- emden — a port in NW Germany, in Lower Saxony at the mouth of the River Ems. Pop: 51 445 (2003 est)
- emmen — a city in the NE Netherlands, in Drenthe province: a new town developed since World War II. Pop: 108 000 (2003 est)
- engin — engineer