5-letter words containing a, k, e
- keema — (in Indian cookery) minced meat
- kehua — a ghost or spirit
- keita — Modibo [maw-dee-baw] /mɔˈdi bɔ/ (Show IPA), 1915–77, African statesman: president of Mali 1960–68.
- kenaf — a tropical plant, Hibiscus cannabinus, of the mallow family, yielding a fiber resembling jute.
- kenya — a republic in E Africa: member of the Commonwealth of Nations; formerly a British crown colony and protectorate. 223,478 sq. mi. (578,808 sq. km). Capital: Nairobi.
- kerak — Kerak.
- kerma — the quotient of the sum of the initial kinetic energies of all the charged particles liberated by indirectly ionizing radiation in a volume element of a material divided by the mass of the volume element. The SI unit is the gray
- kesha — a female given name: from an African word meaning “favorite.”.
- kesia — a female given name: from an African word meaning “favorite.”.
- ketal — (chemistry) any acetal derived from a ketone.
- kheda — (in India) an enclosure constructed to ensnare wild elephants.
- kiawe — a thorny tree, Prosopis juliflora, of the legume family, native to South America and widely naturalized in Hawaii.
- knave — an unprincipled, untrustworthy, or dishonest person.
- knead — to work (dough, clay, etc.) into a uniform mixture by pressing, folding, and stretching.
- korea — a former country in E Asia, on a peninsula SE of Manchuria and between the Sea of Japan and the Yellow Sea: a kingdom prior to 1910; under Japanese rule 1910–45; now divided at 38° N into North Korea and South Korea. Compare Korean War.
- kwela — a type of pop music popular among the Black communities of South Africa
- laked — Simple past tense and past participle of lake.
- laker — a person associated with a lake, as a resident, visitor, or worker.
- lakes — Plural form of lake.
- lakme — an opera (1883) by Léo Delibes.
- latke — a pancake, especially one made of grated potato.
- leaks — Plural form of leak.
- leaky — allowing liquid, gas, etc., to enter or escape: a leaky boat; a leaky container.
- macke — August [ou-goo st] /ˈaʊ gʊst/ (Show IPA), 1887–1914, German painter.
- maked — (nonstandard, colloquial) Simple past tense and past participle of make.
- makee — Eye dialect of makes.
- maker — a person or thing that makes.
- makes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of make.
- marke — Obsolete spelling of mark.
- mekka — Mecca (def 1).
- naked — being without clothing or covering; nude: naked children swimming in the lake.
- naker — A kettledrum.
- oaked — (of wine) matured in an oak barrel or other container.
- oaken — made of oak: the old oaken bucket.
- omake — A portion of video that complements an episode of anime.
- opake — Alternative form of opaque.
- pajek — (mathematics) A program for analysing and visualising large networks. "Pajek" is Slovene for spider. The program runs on Windows and is free for noncommercial use. Pajek is developed by Vladimir Batagelj and Andrej Mrvar with contributions from Matjaž Zaveršnik.
- pakse — a city in S Laos, on the Mekong River.
- peake — Mervyn. 1911–68, English novelist, poet, and illustrator. In his trilogy Gormenghast (1946–59), he creates, with vivid imagination, a grotesque Gothic world
- peaky — peaked2 .
- pekan — the fisher, Martes pennanti.
- perak — a state in Malaysia, on the SW Malay Peninsula. 7980 sq. mi. (20,668 sq. km). Capital: Ipoh.
- poake — a waste matter from the tanning of hides
- quake — (of persons) to shake or tremble from cold, weakness, fear, anger, or the like: He spoke boldly even though his legs were quaking.
- radek — Karl [kahrl] /kɑrl/ (Show IPA), 1885–1939? Russian writer and politician.
- raked — inclining from the vertical or from the horizontal: raked masts; a raked stage.
- rakee — a spirituous liquor distilled from grain, grapes, plums, etc., in southeastern Europe and the Near East.
- raker — an inclined member, as a pile or shore.
- ranke — Leopold von [ley-aw-pawlt fuh n] /ˈleɪ ɔˌpɔlt fən/ (Show IPA), 1795–1886, German historian.
- rieka — a seaport in W Croatia, on the Adriatic.