6-letter words containing a, k, s
- lasket — (nautical) latching.
- latkes — Plural form of latke.
- leukas — Levkas.
- levkas — an island in the Ionian group, off the W coast of Greece. 114 sq. mi. (295 sq. km).
- likasi — a city in the S Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- lukacs — George, 1885–1971, Hungarian literary critic.
- lusaka — a republic in S Africa: formerly a British protectorate and part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland; gained independence 1964; a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 288,130 sq. mi. (746,256 sq. km). Capital: Lusaka.
- makers — Plural form of maker.
- makest — Archaic second-person singular form of make.
- markes — Plural form of marke.
- masked — using or wearing a mask or masks: a masked burglar; masked actors.
- masker — a person who masks; a person who takes part in a masque.
- maskil — an advocate or supporter of the Haskalah.
- miskal — a unit of weight used esp in Iran, usually equal to about 4.6 grams
- moksha — freedom from the differentiated, temporal, and mortal world of ordinary experience.
- moskva — Russian name of Moscow.
- muskat — Obsolete form of musk cat.
- nakfas — Plural form of nakfa.
- 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.
- okapis — Plural form of okapi.
- ostiak — Ostyak.
- ostyak — Khanty.
- outask — (transitive) To ask or proclaim for the last time.
- ozarks — a town in SE Alabama.
- padkos — snacks and provisions for a journey
- parkes — Sir Henry. 1815–96, Australian journalist and politician born in England, five times premier of New South Wales, advocate of free trade and Federation, and a founder of the public education system
- pashka — a rich Russian dessert made of cottage cheese, cream, almonds, currants, etc, set in a special wooden mould and traditionally eaten at Easter
- paskha — an Easter dessert of pot cheese mixed with sugar, butter, cream, raisins, nuts, etc., and pressed into a pyramidal mold: usually served with kulich.
- polska — Polish name of Poland.
- puskas — Ferenc (ˈfɛrɛnk). 1927–2006, Hungarian footballer; played for Hungary (1945–56) and Real Madrid (1958–66)
- quacks — Plural form of quack.
- quakes — Plural form of quake.
- quarks — Physics. any of the hypothetical particles with spin 1/2, baryon number 1/3, and electric charge 1/3 or −2/3 that, together with their antiparticles, are believed to constitute all the elementary particles classed as baryons and mesons; they are distinguished by their flavors, designated as up (u), down (d), strange (s), charm (c), bottom or beauty (b), and top or truth (t), and their colors, red, green, and blue. Compare color (def 18), flavor (def 5), quantum chromodynamics, quark model.
- rakish — smart; jaunty; dashing: a hat worn at a rakish angle.
- resoak — to soak again
- roszak — Theodore, 1907–81, U.S. sculptor, born in Poland.
- sabkha — a flat coastal plain with a salt crust, common in Arabia
- sacked — the plundering of a captured place; pillage: the sack of Troy.
- sacker — a person who sacks; plunderer; pillager.
- saikei — a Japanese ornamental miniature landscape
- sakkos — an embroidered vestment worn by a bishop and corresponding to the dalmatic.
- saktas — a person who worships Shakti as the wife of Shiva.
- 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.
- samekh — the 15th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- sandek — the man who holds the child during the Jewish rite of circumcision.
- sanjak — (in Turkey) one of the administrative districts into which a vilayet is divided.
- sankey — Ira David. 1840–1908, US evangelist and hymnodist, noted for his revivalist campaigns in Britain and the US with D. L. Moody
- sarouk — a tightly woven Oriental rug with soft colors and, usually, a center design.
- screak — to screech.