7-letter words containing a, k, e
- knaidel — a dumpling, especially a small ball of matzo meal, eggs, and salt, often mixed with another foodstuff, as ground almonds or grated potato, usually served in soup.
- knapped — Simple past tense and past participle of knap.
- knapper — One who knaps.
- knarled — Alternative form of gnarled.
- knavery — action or practice characteristic of a knave.
- knawels — Plural form of knawel.
- kneaded — Simple past tense and past participle of knead.
- kneader — A person who, or machine that kneads dough.
- kneecap — the patella.
- kneepad — a pad of leather, foam rubber, etc., as one worn by football or basketball players to protect the knee.
- kneepan — the kneecap or patella.
- kocaeli — Izmit.
- koekoea — a common New Zealand cuckoo, Eudynamis taitensis, found in forest areas
- kokanee — any of several lacustrine sockeye salmons.
- kolache — a sweet bun filled with jam or pulped fruit.
- 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.
- kutenai — a river flowing from SW Canada through NW Montana and N Idaho, swinging back into Canada to the Columbia River. 400 miles (645 km) long.
- kutenay — a member of a North American Indian people of British Columbia, Montana, and Idaho.
- kwaiken — a curved knife formerly used by Japanese women to commit suicide.
- kwartje — a silver 25-cent piece of the Netherlands.
- kyanite — a mineral, aluminum silicate, Al 2 SiO 5 , occurring in blue or greenish bladed triclinic crystals, used as a refractory.
- kyanize — to treat (wood) against decay with a solution of mercuric chloride.
- 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.
- lacketh — Archaic third-person singular form of lack.
- lackeys — Plural form of lackey.
- lake no — a lake in South Sudan, where the Bahr el Jebel (White Nile) is joined by the Bahr el Ghazal. Area: about 103 sq km (40 sq miles)
- lakebed — the bottom or floor of a lake.
- lakelet — A small lake.
- lankier — Comparative form of lanky.
- laskets — Plural form of lasket.
- lawlike — the principles and regulations established in a community by some authority and applicable to its people, whether in the form of legislation or of custom and policies recognized and enforced by judicial decision.
- leacock — Stephen (Butler) 1869–1944, Canadian humorist and economist.
- leakage — an act of leaking; leak.
- leakers — Plural form of leaker.
- leakier — Comparative form of leaky.
- leakily — In a leaky way.
- leaking — Present participle of leak.
- leukoma — a dense, white opacity of the cornea.
- likable — readily or easily liked; pleasing: a likable young man.
- linkage — the act of linking; state or manner of being linked.
- lockage — the construction, use, or operation of locks, as in a canal or stream.
- lockean — an adherent of the philosophy of Locke.
- mackled — Simple past tense and past participle of mackle.
- mackles — Plural form of mackle.
- maitake — Grifola frondosa, an edible polypore mushroom that grows in clusters at the bases of trees.