7-letter words containing a, k, e
- hoecake — an unleavened cake made with flour or corn meal: originally baked on a hoe but now usually cooked on a griddle.
- hotcake — A pancake.
- hoylake — a town and resort in NW England, in Wirral unitary authority, Merseyside, on the Irish Sea. Pop: 25 524 (2001)
- icepack — Alternative spelling of ice pack.
- ikebana — the Japanese art of arranging flowers.
- in-take — the place or opening at which a fluid is taken into a channel, pipe, etc.
- inbreak — a breaking in; invasion
- intaken — Past participle of intake.
- intaker — One who or that which takes or draws in.
- intakes — Plural form of intake.
- jackeen — a slick self-assertive lower-class Dubliner
- jackers — Plural form of jacker.
- jackets — Plural form of jacket.
- jackleg — unskilled or untrained for one's work; amateur: a jackleg electrician.
- jacksie — (slang, UK) alternative spelling of jacksy.
- jamlike — similar to jam
- janacek — Leoš [le-awsh] /ˈlɛ ɔʃ/ (Show IPA), 1854–1928, Czech composer.
- jawlike — resembling a jaw or pair of jaws.
- jetpack — a jet-powered backpack used by astronauts to move around in space away from a spacecraft.
- kachera — short trousers traditionally worn by Sikhs as a symbol of their religious and cultural loyalty: originally worn for ease of horse riding
- kacheri — Alt form kachcheri.
- kaesong — a city in S North Korea.
- kaifeng — a city in NE Henan province, in E China: a former provincial capital.
- kainite — a mineral, hydrous sulfate of magnesium and potassium chloride, occurring in granular crystalline masses, a source of potassium salts.
- kaisers — Plural form of kaiser.
- kalemie — a city in the E Democratic Republic of the Congo, on Lake Tanganyika.
- kalends — the first day of the month in the ancient Roman calendar, from which the days of the preceding month were counted backward to the ides.
- kamenev — Lev Borisovich [lev bawree-suh-vich;; Russian lyef buh-ryee-suh-vyich] /ˈlɛv ˈbɔri sə vɪtʃ;; Russian ˈlyɛf bəˈryi sə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), (Lev Borisovich Rosenfeld) 1883–1936, Soviet Communist and government leader: executed during Stalinist purge.
- kamerad — a shout of surrender, used by German soldiers
- kamerun — German name of Cameroons.
- kamseen — khamsin
- kaneohe — a town on E Oahu, in Hawaii.
- kang-de — Pu-yi, Henry.
- kantele — a Finnish stringed instrument, similar to a zither
- kaoline — Alternative spelling of kaolin.
- kapteyn — Jacobus Cornelis [yah-koh-bys kawr-ney-lis] /yɑˈkoʊ büs kɔrˈneɪ lɪs/ (Show IPA), 1851–1922, Dutch astronomer.
- karaite — a member of a sect, founded in Persia in the 8th century a.d. by the religious leader Anan ben David, that rejected the Talmud and the teachings of the rabbis in favor of strict adherence to the Bible as the only source of Jewish law and practice.
- karaoke — an act of singing along to a music video, especially one from which the original vocals have been electronically eliminated.
- karelia — a region in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, comprising Lake Ladoga and Onega Lake and the adjoining area along the E border of Finland.
- 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
- kassite — a member of an ancient people related to the Elamites, who ruled Babylonia from c1650 to c1100 b.c.
- 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.
- katayev — Valentin Petrovich [vuh-lyin-tyeen pyi-traw-vyich] /və lyɪnˈtyin pyɪˈtrɔ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1897–1986, Russian 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.
- kawagoe — a city in central Honshu, Japan, NW of Tokyo.