4-Letter Nouns Ending With N

Here's the list of all the 188 4-Letter Nouns Ending With N in the English Language.

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then
1. that time; that moment
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even
1. the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall)
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sign
1. a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened)
2. a public display of a message
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open
1. a clear or unobstructed space or expanse of land or water
2. where the air is unconfined
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down
1. soft fine feathers
2. (American football) a complete play to advance the football
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john
1. a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
2. a prostitute's customer
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main
1. any very large body of (salt) water
2. a principal pipe in a system that distributes water or gas or electricity or that collects sewage
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teen
1. a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity
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join
1. the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made
2. a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets
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plan
1. a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished
2. an arrangement scheme
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town
1. an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city
2. the people living in a municipality smaller than a city
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loan
1. the temporary provision of money (usually at interest)
2. a word borrowed from another language; e.g. `blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English
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turn
1. a circular segment of a curve
2. the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course
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mean
1. an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n
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skin
1. a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch
2. an outer surface (usually thin)
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pain
1. a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder
2. emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid
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icon
1. (computer science) a graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface
2. a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
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iron
1. a heavy ductile magnetic metallic element; is silver-white in pure form but readily rusts; used in construction and tools and armament; plays a role in the transport of oxygen by the blood
2. a golf club that has a relatively narrow metal head
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gain
1. a quantity that is added
2. the advantageous quality of being beneficial
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moon
1. the natural satellite of the Earth
2. any object resembling a moon
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rain
1. water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere
2. drops of fresh water that fall as precipitation from clouds
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dean
1. an administrator in charge of a division of a university or college
2. a man who is the senior member of a group
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jean
1. a coarse durable twill-weave cotton fabric
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twin
1. either of two offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancy
2. a duplicate copy
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scan
1. the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region
2. an image produced by scanning
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burn
1. pain that feels hot as if it were on fire
2. an injury caused by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation
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spin
1. a swift whirling motion (usually of a missile)
2. the act of rotating rapidly
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dawn
1. the first light of day
2. the earliest period
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lion
1. large gregarious predatory feline of Africa and India having a tawny coat with a shaggy mane in the male
2. a celebrity who is lionized (much sought after)
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damn
1. something of little value
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corn
1. tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times
2. the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal
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lawn
1. a field of cultivated and mowed grass
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coin
1. a flat metal piece (usually a disc) used as money
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oven
1. kitchen appliance used for baking or roasting
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noon
1. the middle of the day
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glen
1. a narrow secluded valley (in the mountains)
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span
1. the complete duration of something
2. the distance or interval between two points
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bean
1. any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food
2. any of various seeds or fruits that are beans or resemble beans
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horn
1. a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it
2. one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates
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clan
1. group of people related by blood or marriage
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lean
1. the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical
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barn
1. an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals
2. (physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter
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keen
1. a funeral lament sung with loud wailing
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neon
1. a colorless odorless gaseous element that gives a red glow in a vacuum tube; one of the six inert gasses; occurs in the air in small amounts
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yarn
1. the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events
2. a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving
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khan
1. a title given to rulers or other important people in Asian countries
2. an inn in some eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans
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swan
1. stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult
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gran
1. the mother of your father or mother
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chin
1. the protruding part of the lower jaw
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noun
1. a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action
2. the word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or in apposition
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lien
1. the right to take another's property if an obligation is not discharged
2. a large dark-red oval organ on the left side of the body between the stomach and the diaphragm; produces cells involved in immune responses
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vein
1. a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart
2. a distinctive style or manner
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yuan
1. the basic unit of money in China
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gown
1. a woman's dress, usually with a close-fitting bodice and a long flared skirt, often worn on formal occasions
2. the members of a university as distinguished from the other residents of the town in which the university is located
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ruin
1. an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction
2. a ruined building
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toon
1. a film made by photographing a series of cartoon drawings to give the illusion of movement when projected in rapid sequence
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kern
1. the part of a metal type that projects beyond its body
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shin
1. the front part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle
2. a cut of meat from the lower part of the leg
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cyan
1. a primary subtractive color for light; has a blue-green color
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grin
1. a facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement
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fern
1. any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores
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hymn
1. a song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation)
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darn
1. something of little value
2. sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment)
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kiln
1. a furnace for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks
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exon
1. sequence of a gene's DNA that transcribes into protein structures
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wren
1. any of several small active brown birds of the Northern Hemisphere with short upright tails; they feed on insects
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boon
1. a desirable state
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pawn
1. an article deposited as security
2. a person used by another to gain an end
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elan
1. a feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause)
2. distinctive and stylish elegance
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moan
1. an utterance expressing pain or disapproval
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rein
1. one of a pair of long straps (usually connected to the bit or the headpiece) used to control a horse
2. any means of control
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bran
1. broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are separated from the flour by sifting
2. food prepared from the husks of cereal grains
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aeon
1. (Gnosticism) a divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe
2. the longest division of geological time
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loon
1. a worthless lazy fellow
2. large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the Northern Hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; related to the grebes
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omen
1. a sign of something about to happen
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muon
1. an elementary particle with a negative charge and a half-life of 2 microsecond; decays to electron and neutrino and antineutrino
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fawn
1. a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color
2. a young deer
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yawn
1. an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom
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tern
1. small slender gull having narrow wings and a forked tail
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loin
1. a cut of meat taken from the side and back of an animal between the ribs and the rump
2. either side of the backbone between the hipbone and the ribs in humans as well as quadrupeds
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morn
1. the time period between dawn and noon
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oxen
1. domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age
2. an adult castrated bull of the genus Bos; especially Bos taurus
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axon
1. long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron
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ikon
1. a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
2. a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church
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pion
1. a meson involved in holding the nucleus together; produced as the result of high-energy particle collision
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guan
1. any of several large turkey-like game birds of the family Cracidae; native to jungles of tropical America; resembling the curassows and valued as food
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goon
1. an awkward stupid person
2. an aggressive and violent young criminal
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roan
1. a soft sheepskin leather that is colored and finished to resemble morocco; used in bookbinding
2. a horse having a brownish coat thickly sprinkled with white or gray
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quin
1. one of five children born at the same time from the same pregnancy
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mien
1. dignified manner or conduct
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cran
1. a capacity unit used for measuring fresh herring
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tarn
1. a mountain lake (especially one formed by glaciers)
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jinn
1. (Islam) an invisible spirit mentioned in the Koran and believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals
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flan
1. open pastry filled with fruit or custard
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phon
1. a unit of subjective loudness
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kaon
1. an unstable meson produced as the result of a high-energy particle collision
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chon
1. 100 chon equal 1 won in South Korea
2. 100 chon equal 1 won in North Korea
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wain
1. large open farm wagon
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pean
1. (ancient Greece) a hymn of praise (especially one sung in ancient Greece to invoke or thank a deity)
2. a formal expression of praise
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koan
1. a paradoxical anecdote or a riddle that has no solution; used in Zen Buddhism to show the inadequacy of logical reasoning
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peon
1. a laborer who is obliged to do menial work
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naan
1. leavened bread baked in a clay oven in India; usually shaped like a teardrop
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agon
1. a festivity in ancient Greece at which competitors contended for prizes
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4-Letter Nouns Ending With N