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6-letter words containing a, k, i

  • mikvah — a ritual bath to which Orthodox Jews are traditionally required to go on certain occasions, as before the Sabbath and after each menstrual period, to cleanse and purify themselves.
  • miskal — a unit of weight used esp in Iran, usually equal to about 4.6 grams
  • napkin — a small piece of cloth or paper, usually square, for use in wiping the lips and fingers and to protect the clothes while eating.
  • narvik — a seaport in N Norway.
  • nashik — a city in W Maharashtra, in W central India: pilgrimage city of the Hindus.
  • naskhi — the cursive variety of Arabic script from which was derived the variety used in modern printed works.
  • natick — a town in E Massachusetts, W of Boston.
  • nickar — a hard, round seed with a smooth, bluish or yellowish shell, produced by the tropical plant Caesalpinia (nickar tree)
  • okapis — Plural form of okapi.
  • oomiak — an open Eskimo boat that consists of a wooden frame covered with skins and provided with several thwarts: used for transport of goods and passengers.
  • ostiak — Ostyak.
  • packit — (file format, tool)   A file format used on the Apple Macintosh to represent collections of Mac files, possibly Huffman compressed. Packing many small related files together before a MacBinary transfer or a translation to BinHex 4.0 is common practice.
  • paczki — a traditional Polish doughnut, filled with jam or another sweet filling and covered with powdered sugar or icing.
  • pakahi — acid land that is unsuitable for cultivation
  • pakihi — an area of swampy infertile land
  • parkie — a park keeper
  • parkin — (in Britain and New Zealand) a moist spicy ginger cake usually containing oatmeal
  • pickax — a pick, especially a mattock.
  • pikake — a climbing vine, Jasminium sambac, of the olive family, probably of Asian origin, having fragrant white flowers used to flavor jasmine tea and, in Hawaii, to make leis.
  • pitaka — a collection of scriptures, originally recorded from oral traditions in the 1st century b.c., divided into one of three parts (Pitaka) sermons () the rules of the Buddhist order () and several treatises on philosophy and psychology ()
  • raking — inclination or slope away from the perpendicular or the horizontal.
  • rakish — smart; jaunty; dashing: a hat worn at a rakish angle.
  • rankin — Jeannette, 1880–1973, U.S. women's-rights leader and pacifist: first woman elected to Congress; served 1917–19, 1941–43.
  • rijeka — a seaport in W Croatia, on the Adriatic.
  • rumaki — a dish of chicken liver and sliced water chestnuts wrapped in bacon
  • saikei — a Japanese ornamental miniature landscape
  • saluki — (sometimes lowercase) one of a breed of black and tan, white, gold, or tricolor dogs resembling the greyhound and having fringes of long hair on the ears, legs, and thighs, raised originally in Egypt and southwestern Asia.
  • shaikh — sheik (def 1).
  • shakti — the female principle or organ of generative power.
  • sheika — the wife of a sheik.
  • shikar — the hunting of game for sport.
  • shiksa — a term used especially by a Jew to refer to a girl or woman who is not Jewish.
  • sifaka — either of two large rare arboreal lemuroid primates, Propithecus diadema or P. verreauxi, of Madagascar, having long strikingly patterned or coloured fur: family Indriidae
  • sikang — a former province in W China, now part of Sichuan.
  • sirkar — a government
  • skaith — injury; damage
  • skikda — a seaport in NE Algeria.
  • suakin — a port in the NE Sudan, on the Red Sea: formerly the chief port of the African Red Sea; now obstructed by a coral reef. Pop: reliable recent estimates are not available
  • tackie — a sneaker.
  • tadjik — Tajik.
  • tajiki — a member of a people living mainly in Tadzhikistan, as well as parts of Afghanistan and China.
  • taking — the act of taking.
  • talkie — talking picture.
  • tankia — a population of boat-people who live off the coast of Guangzhou, China
  • tanuki — a Japanese raccoon dog, formerly believed in Japan to be a mischievous animal capable of shape-shifting
  • tarski — Alfred, 1902–1983, U.S. mathematician and logician, born in Poland.
  • troika — a Russian carriage, wagon, or sleigh drawn by a team of three horses abreast.
  • uakari — any of several medium-sized, tree-dwelling Amazon basin monkeys of the genus Cacajao, the only New World monkeys having a short tail: all are now rare.
  • unakin — not related or comparable
  • wakiki — shells formerly used as currency in Melanesia
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