7-letter words containing a, k, e, r
- karengo — an edible Pacific seaweed, Porphyra columbina
- karkheh — a river in SW Iran, flowing SW to marshes along the Tigris River. About 350 miles (565 km) long.
- kärnten — Carinthia
- kastler — Alfred [al-fred] /alˈfrɛd/ (Show IPA), 1902–84, French physicist, born in Germany: Nobel Prize 1966.
- kastner — Erich [ey-rikh] /ˈeɪ rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1899–1974, German writer.
- katrine — Loch, a lake in central Scotland. 8 miles (13 km) long.
- kauries — kauri.
- kaverin — Veniamin [ven-yuh-meen;; Russian vyi-nyi-uh-myeen] /ˌvɛn yəˈmin;; Russian vyɪ nyɪ ʌˈmyin/ (Show IPA), (Veniamin Aleksandrovich Zilberg) 1902–1989, Russian novelist.
- kayaker — Agent noun of kayak; one who kayaks.
- kayseri — a city in central Turkey.
- kearney — a city in S Nebraska, on the Platte.
- kenitra — a port in NW Morocco, NE of Rabat.
- keramic — ceramic.
- keratin — a scleroprotein or albuminoid substance, found in the dead outer skin layer, and in horn, hair, feathers, hoofs, nails, claws, bills, etc.
- kerato- — indicating horn or a horny substance
- kerbaya — a blouse worn by Malay women
- kerbela — a town in central Iraq: holy city of the Shiʿite sect.
- keresan — a family of languages spoken by Pueblo tribes of the Rio Grande valley and neighboring areas.
- kérkira — Corfu
- kerkyra — Greek name of Corfu.
- kerouac — Jack (Jean-Louis Lefris de Kérouac) 1922–69, U.S. novelist.
- kerrang — The sound of a power chord on an electric guitar.
- kerugma — the preaching of the gospel of Christ, especially in the manner of the early church.
- kerygma — the preaching of the gospel of Christ, especially in the manner of the early church.
- kestral — Misspelling of kestrel.
- keturah — the second wife of Abraham. Gen. 25:1.
- keycard — a plastic card, similar to a credit card, containing data on an embedded magnetized strip that can electronically unlock a door, activate a machine, etc.
- kiepura — Jan (Wiktor) [yahn vik-tawr] /yɑn ˈvɪk tɔr/ (Show IPA), 1904?–66, Polish tenor.
- kildare — a county in Leinster, in the E Republic of Ireland. 654 sq. mi. (1695 sq. km). County seat: Naas.
- klavern — a local branch of the Ku Klux Klan.
- klavier — any musical instrument having a keyboard, especially a stringed keyboard instrument, as a harpsichord, clavichord, or piano.
- knacker — a person who buys animal carcasses or slaughters useless livestock for a knackery or rendering works.
- knapper — One who knaps.
- knarled — Alternative form of gnarled.
- knavery — action or practice characteristic of a knave.
- kneader — A person who, or machine that kneads dough.
- krasner — Lee, 1908–84, U.S. abstract expressionist painter (wife of Jackson Pollock).
- kraters — Plural form of krater.
- kremvax — /krem-vaks/ (Or kgbvax) Originally, a fictitious Usenet site at the Kremlin, named like the then large number of Usenet VAXen with names of the form foovax. Kremvax was announced on April 1, 1984 in a posting ostensibly originated there by Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko. The posting was actually forged by Piet Beertema as an April Fool's joke. Other fictitious sites mentioned in the hoax were moskvax and kgbvax. This was probably the funniest of the many April Fool's forgeries perpetrated on Usenet (which has negligible security against them), because the notion that Usenet might ever penetrate the Iron Curtain seemed so totally absurd at the time. In fact, it was only six years later that the first genuine site in Moscow, demos.su, joined Usenet. Some readers needed convincing that the postings from it weren't just another prank. Vadim Antonov, senior programmer at Demos and the major poster from there up to mid-1991, was quite aware of all this, referred to it frequently in his own postings, and at one point twitted some credulous readers by blandly asserting that he *was* a hoax! Eventually he even arranged to have the domain's gateway site *named* kremvax, thus neatly turning fiction into truth and demonstrating that the hackish sense of humour transcends cultural barriers. Mr. Antonov also contributed some Russian-language material for the Jargon File. In an even more ironic historical footnote, kremvax became an electronic centre of the anti-communist resistance during the bungled hard-line coup of August 1991. During those three days the Soviet UUCP network centreed on kremvax became the only trustworthy news source for many places within the USSR. Though the sysops were concentrating on internal communications, cross-border postings included immediate transliterations of Boris Yeltsin's decrees condemning the coup and eyewitness reports of the demonstrations in Moscow's streets. In those hours, years of speculation that totalitarianism would prove unable to maintain its grip on politically-loaded information in the age of computer networking were proved devastatingly accurate - and the original kremvax joke became a reality as Yeltsin and the new Russian revolutionaries of "glasnost" and "perestroika" made kremvax one of the timeliest means of their outreach to the West.
- kundera — Milan, born 1929, Czech-born novelist resident in France.
- kwartje — a silver 25-cent piece of the Netherlands.
- kyriale — a liturgical book containing the text and musical notations for parts of the ordinary of the Mass.
- kythera — Cythera
- lackers — Plural form of lacker.
- lankier — Comparative form of lanky.
- leakers — Plural form of leaker.
- leakier — Comparative form of leaky.
- markers — Plural form of marker.
- markets — Plural form of market.
- maskers — Plural form of masker.