6-letter words containing a, l, k
- lakota — the westernmost branch of the Dakota Indians.
- laksas — Plural form of laksa.
- lanark — a historic county in S Scotland.
- lanked — Simple past tense and past participle of lank.
- lanker — (of plants) unduly long and slender: lank grass; lank, leafless trees.
- lankly — In a lank way.
- larked — Simple past tense and past participle of lark.
- larker — a merry, carefree adventure; frolic; escapade.
- larkin — Philip, 1922–85, English poet and critic.
- lasker — Emanuel [ey-mah-noo-el] /eɪˈmɑ nu ɛl/ (Show IPA), 1868–1941, German chess player, mathematician, and author.
- lasket — (nautical) latching.
- latkes — Plural form of latke.
- leaked — Simple past tense and past participle of leak.
- leaker — an unintended hole, crack, or the like, through which liquid, gas, light, etc., enters or escapes: a leak in the roof.
- leakey — Louis Seymour Bazett [baz-it] /ˈbæz ɪt/ (Show IPA), 1903–72, British archaeologist and anthropologist.
- lekvar — a soft, jamlike spread made of sweetened prunes or apricots.
- 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.
- likuta — a paper money, aluminum coin, and monetary unit of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the 100th part of a zaire.
- litvak — a Jew from Lithuania or a neighboring country or region.
- 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.
- mackle — a blur in printing, as from a double impression.
- makalu — a mountain in the Himalayas, on the boundary between Nepal and Tibet. 27,790 feet (8470 meters).
- maliki — one of the four schools of Islamic law, founded by Malik ibn Anas (c715–795).
- malkin — an untidy woman; slattern.
- maluku — Moluccas
- mankle — a man's bare ankle, especially when displayed for the purpose of fashion
- maskil — an advocate or supporter of the Haskalah.
- melaka — Malacca (defs 1, 2).
- miskal — a unit of weight used esp in Iran, usually equal to about 4.6 grams
- nuxalk — a member of a Salishan Native Canadian people of British Columbia
- oakley — Annie (Phoebe Anne Oakley Mozee) 1860–1926, U.S. sharpshooter.
- olekma — a river in E Siberian Russia, flowing N to the Lena River. 820 miles (1319 km) long.
- palkee — a palanquin
- parkly — of, relating to, or resembling a park
- planck — Max Karl Ernst [mahks kahrl ernst] /mɑks kɑrl ɛrnst/ (Show IPA), 1858–1947, German physicist: Nobel prize 1918.
- plokta — /plok't*/ Press Lots Of Keys To Abort. To press random keys in an attempt to get some response from the system. One might plokta when the abort procedure for a program is not known, or when trying to figure out if the system is just sluggish or really hung. Plokta can also be used while trying to figure out any unknown key sequence for a particular operation. Someone going into "plokta mode" usually places both hands flat on the keyboard and mashes them down, hoping for some useful response. A slightly more directed form of plokta can often be seen in mail messages or Usenet articles from new users - the text might end with ^X^C q quit :q ^C end x exit ZZ ^D ? help as the user vainly tries to find the right exit sequence, with the incorrect tries piling up at the end of the message.
- polack — Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a Pole or person of Polish descent.
- polska — Polish name of Poland.
- rackle — headstrong; rash.
- rankle — (of unpleasant feelings, experiences, etc.) to continue to cause keen irritation or bitter resentment within the mind; fester; be painful.
- rankly — growing with excessive luxuriance; vigorous and tall of growth: tall rank weeds.
- 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.
- skylab — a U.S. earth-orbiting space station that was periodically staffed by three separate crews of astronauts and remained in orbit 1973–79.
- slacks — the fine screenings of coal.
- slaker — a person or thing that slakes.
- slovak — one of a Slavic people dwelling in Slovakia.
- splake — the hybrid offspring of a lake trout and a brook trout.