6-letter words containing a, k, e, r
- gawker — Someone who gawks, someone who stares stupidly.
- hacker — a person, as an artist or writer, who exploits, for money, his or her creative ability or training in the production of dull, unimaginative, and trite work; one who produces banal and mediocre work in the hope of gaining commercial success in the arts: As a painter, he was little more than a hack.
- hanker — to have a restless or incessant longing (often followed by after, for, or an infinitive).
- harked — to listen attentively; hearken.
- harken — Literary. to give heed or attention to what is said; listen.
- hawker — a person who offers goods for sale by shouting his or her wares in the street or going from door to door; peddler.
- jacker — any of various portable devices for raising or lifting heavy objects short heights, using various mechanical, pneumatic, or hydraulic methods.
- janker — a device for transporting logs
- kadder — (dialect) The jackdaw.
- kagera — a river in equatorial Africa flowing into Lake Victoria from the west: the most remote headstream of the Nile. 430 miles (690 km) long.
- kaiser — Henry J(ohn) 1882–1967, U.S. industrialist.
- karate — a method developed in Japan of defending oneself without the use of weapons by striking sensitive areas on an attacker's body with the hands, elbows, knees, or feet. Compare judo, jujitsu.
- kareem — a male given name: from an Arabic word meaning “generous.”.
- karree — (South African English) A plant root which produces honey beer when powdered and fermented.
- karrer — Paul, 1889–1971, Swiss chemist, born in Russia: Nobel Prize 1937.
- karter — a person who drives a kart
- kasher — kosher.
- kasper — a male given name, form of Caspar.
- kaveri — a river in S India, flowing SE from the Western Ghats in Karnatka state through Tamil Nadu state to the Bay of Bengal: sacred to the Hindus. 475 miles (765 km) long.
- kayser — A unit of wavenumber in the CGS system of units, equivalent to the number of waves in one centimeter.
- kearns — a town in N Utah, near Salt Lake City.
- kearny — Philip, 1814–62, U.S. general.
- kemari — An ancient Japanese ball game, still played in modern times, in which players cooperate to try to keep a deerskin ball in the air.
- kerala — a state in SW India: formerly the regions of Travancore and Cochin. 15,005 sq. mi. (38,836 sq. km). Capital: Thiruvananthapuram.
- kerana — (musical instrument) A long Persian trumpet.
- kerman — a city in SE Iran.
- kernal — kernel
- kerria — a yellow-flowered shrub, Kerria japonica, of the rose family, native to eastern Asia and widely cultivated as an ornamental.
- kevlar — Alternative capitalization of Kevlar.
- keytar — (music) A relatively lightweight keyboard or synthesizer supported by a strap around the neck and shoulders, as a guitar is supported by a guitar strap.
- khafre — (Chephren) flourished late 26th century b.c, Egyptian king of the fourth dynasty (son of Cheops): builder of second pyramid at El Giza.
- korean — of or relating to Korea, its inhabitants, or their language.
- kosrae — an island in the W Pacific: part of the Federated States of Micronesia. 42 sq. mi. (109 sq. km).
- kotare — a small greenish-blue kingfisher, Halcyon sanctus, found in New Zealand, Australia, and some Pacific islands to the north
- kraken — a legendary sea monster causing large whirlpools off the coast of Norway.
- kramer — John Albert (Jack) 1921–2009, U.S. tennis player and promoter.
- krater — a mixing bowl characterized by a wide mouth and body with two handles projecting vertically from the juncture of the neck and body, used to mix wine and water.
- lacker — to coat with lacquer.
- laiker — someone who is unemployed
- lakers — Plural form of laker; a ship used on a lake.
- lanker — (of plants) unduly long and slender: lank grass; lank, leafless trees.
- larked — Simple past tense and past participle of lark.
- larker — a merry, carefree adventure; frolic; escapade.
- lasker — Emanuel [ey-mah-noo-el] /eɪˈmɑ nu ɛl/ (Show IPA), 1868–1941, German chess player, mathematician, and author.
- leaker — an unintended hole, crack, or the like, through which liquid, gas, light, etc., enters or escapes: a leak in the roof.
- lekvar — a soft, jamlike spread made of sweetened prunes or apricots.
- makers — Plural form of maker.
- marked — strikingly noticeable; conspicuous: with marked success.
- markee — Archaic form of marquee.
- marker — a person or thing that marks.