5-letter words containing a, k, e
- dalek — any of a set of fictional robot-like creations that are aggressive, mobile, and produce rasping staccato speech
- darke — Obsolete spelling of dark.
- deka- — deca-
- dmake — Required by uC++.
- drake — Sir Francis, c1540–96, English admiral and buccaneer: sailed around the world 1577–80.
- ekman — Vagn Walfrid (vaɣən wɑːlfriːd). 1874–1954, Swedish oceanographer: discoverer of the Ekman spiral (a complex interaction on the surface of the sea between wind, rotation of the earth, and friction forces) and the Ekman Layer (the thin top layer of the sea that flows at 90° to the wind direction)
- eskar — (geology) Alternative form of esker.
- faked — to lay (a rope) in a coil or series of long loops so as to allow to run freely without fouling or kinking (often followed by down).
- faker — anything made to appear otherwise than it actually is; counterfeit: This diamond necklace is a fake.
- fakes — Plural form of fake.
- fakey — (colloquial) Fake.
- fakie — (in skateboarding or snowboarding) a movement in which the board is ridden backward.
- flake — fake2 (defs 2, 3).
- fleak — A flake; a thread or twist.
- freak — a fleck or streak of color.
- hacek — a diacritical mark (ˇ) placed over a letter in some languages, as Czech and Lithuanian, and in some systems of phonetic transcription, especially to indicate that a sound is palatalized.
- hakea — any of various shrubs or trees of the genus Hakea, native to Australia, having evergreen, pinnate leaves and clusters of variously colored flowers.
- hakes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hake.
- hasek — Jaroslav [yah-raw-slahf] /ˈyɑ rɔˌslɑf/ (Show IPA), 1883–1923, Czech novelist and short-story writer.
- hawke — Robert (James Lee) born 1929, Australian political leader: prime minister 1983–91.
- hayek — Friedrich August von [free-drik aw-guh st von;; German free-drikh ou-goo st fuh n] /ˈfri drɪk ˈɔ gəst vɒn;; German ˈfri drɪx ˈaʊ gʊst fən/ (Show IPA), 1899–1992, British economist, born in Austria: Nobel Prize 1974.
- hecka — (slang) very.
- hekla — an active volcano in SW Iceland. 4892 feet (1491 meters).
- hmake — (programming) A compilation manager for Haskell. hmake recompiles a given module or program by extracting dependencies between source modules and issuing appropriate compiler commands to rebuild only changed modules. hmake can use whatever Haskell compilers and preprocessors you have installed. If an .hi interface file is unchanged then changes in the corresponding implementation code will not trigger recompilation of calling code. Malcolm Wallace of the York Functional Programming Group developed hmake in 2005 based on Thomas Hallgren's hbcmake and nhc13make.
- ikeda — Hayato [hah-yah-taw] /hɑˈyɑ tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1899–1965, Japanese statesman: prime minister 1960–64.
- ikeja — a town in SW Nigeria, capital of Lagos state: residential and industrial suburb of Lagos. Pop (local government area): 313 196 (2006)
- imake — A tool which generates Makefiles from a template, a set of cpp macros, and a per-directory input file called an Imakefile. This allows machine dependencies (such has compiler options, alternate command names, and special make rules) to be kept separate from the descriptions of the various items to be built. imake is distributed with, and used extensively by, the X Window System.
- jakes — a male given name, form of Jacob.
- jakey — a homeless alcoholic
- jakie — A South American striped frog, Pseudis paradoxa, remarkable for having a tadpole larger than the adult form.
- kabwe — a city in central Zambia: oldest mining town; cave site where the fossil skull of Rhodesian man was found.
- kafre — (Chephren) flourished late 26th century b.c, Egyptian king of the fourth dynasty (son of Cheops): builder of second pyramid at El Giza.
- kafue — a river in S central Africa, flowing SE along the Zaire-Zambia border and then SW and E through Zambia to the Zambezi River above Kariba Lake. About 600 miles (965 km) long.
- kakke — Beriberi.
- kales — Plural form of kale.
- kames — Plural form of kame.
- kamet — a mountain on the border of China and India, west of Nepal in the Himalayas. Height: 7756 m (25 447 ft)
- kaneh — an ancient Hebrew measure of six cubits
- karel — Language featured in Karel the Robot: A Gentle Introduction to Computer Programming, Richard E. Pattis, Wiley 1981.
- karen — a group of people of eastern and southern Burma (Myanmar).
- karez — (in parts of central southern Asia) a qanat.
- kasme — I swear!
- katie — a female given name, form of Katherine or Catherine.
- kayes — a city in W Mali.
- kayle — A pin used in kayles or skittles.
- keats — a young guinea fowl.
- kebab — Usually, kebabs. small pieces of meat or seafood seasoned or marinated and broiled, often with tomatoes, green peppers, onions, or other vegetables, usually on a skewer.
- kebap — Alternative spelling of kebab.
- kedah — a state in Malaysia, on the W central Malay Peninsula. 3660 sq. mi. (9480 sq. km). Capital: Alor Star.
- kedar — the second son of Ishmael. Gen. 25:13.