6-letter words containing a, l, k
- clanky — making clanking sounds
- clarke — Sir Arthur C(harles). 1917–2008, British science-fiction writer, who helped to develop the first communications satellites. He scripted the film 2001, A Space Odyssey (1968)
- cloaks — Plural form of cloak.
- dakhla — an oasis in S Egypt: source of ocher.
- daktyl — Dactyl.
- dankly — In a dank manner.
- darkle — to grow dark; darken
- darkly — so as to appear dark.
- dhokla — A food, visually similar to cake and compositionally similar to khaman, made from a batter of gram flour (from chickpeas), cooked by steaming and typically eaten in India.
- dholak — A dhol, especially a relatively small one.
- fakely — In a fake way, fraudulently.
- fankle — to entangle
- flacks — Plural form of flack.
- flaked — fake2 (defs 2, 3).
- flaker — a small, flat, thin piece, especially one that has been or become detached from a larger piece or mass: flakes of old paint.
- flakes — Plural form of flake.
- flakey — of or like flakes.
- flaks' — antiaircraft fire, especially as experienced by the crews of combat airplanes at which the fire is directed.
- flanks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flank.
- flasks — Plural form of flask.
- frakel — (obsolete) Fraked.
- galyak — a sleek, flat fur made from lambskin or from the pelt of a young goat.
- gilyak — Nivkh.
- glinka — Mikhail Ivanovich [mi-kah-eel i-vah-nuh-vich;; Russian myi-khuh-yeel ee-vah-nuh-vyich] /mɪ kɑˈil ɪˈvɑ nə vɪtʃ;; Russian myɪ xʌˈyil iˈvɑ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1803–57, Russian composer.
- hackle — one of the long, slender feathers on the neck or saddle of certain birds, as the domestic rooster, much used in making artificial flies for anglers.
- hackly — rough or jagged, as if hacked: Some minerals break with a hackly fracture.
- jackal — any of several nocturnal wild dogs of the genus Canis, especially C. aureus, of Asia and Africa, that scavenge or hunt in packs.
- kabala — a system of esoteric theosophy and theurgy developed by rabbis, reaching its peak about the 12th and 13th centuries, and influencing certain medieval and Renaissance Christian thinkers. It was based on a mystical method of interpreting Scripture by which initiates claimed to penetrate sacred mysteries. Among its central doctrines are, all creation is an emanation from the Deity and the soul exists from eternity.
- kabila — Laurent Désiré [loh-rahn dey-zee-rey] /loʊˈrɑn deɪ ziˈreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1939–2001, president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo 1997–2001.
- kabyle — a member of a branch of the Berber people dwelling in NE Algeria.
- kafila — Alternative form of cafila.
- kailas — a mountain in SW Tibet: highest peak of the Kailas Range in the Himalaya Mountains: sacred to Hindus and Buddhists. 22,028 feet (6714 meters).
- kailua — a city on SE Oahu, in Hawaii.
- kalais — the winged son of Boreas the north wind. As Argonauts he and his brother Zetes chased away the Harpies.
- kalakh — an ancient Assyrian city on the Tigris River, founded 1274 b.c. and destroyed by the Medes 612 b.c.: its ruins are at Nimrud near Mosul in northern Iraq.
- kaleva — a hero and progenitor of heroes in Finnish and Estonian folk epics.
- kalgan — Zhangjiakou.
- kalian — a Persian tobacco pipe in which the smoke is drawn through water; hookah.
- kalifs — Plural form of kalif.
- kalima — (Islam) the formal content of the shahada (declaration of faith):
- kaliph — a spiritual leader of Islam, claiming succession from Muhammad.
- kalisz — a city in central Poland.
- kalium — (obsolete) Potassium.
- kallis — Jacques (Henry), born 1975, South African cricketer; an all-rounder, in 166 tests (1995–2013) he scored 13,289 runs and took 292 wickets
- kalmar — a seaport in SE Sweden, on Kalmar Sound.
- kalmia — any North American evergreen shrub belonging to the genus Kalmia, of the heath family, having showy flowers, as the mountain laurel.
- kalong — a large flying fox of Southeast Asia.
- kalpak — calpac.
- kalpis — a form of the hydria.
- kaluga — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, SW of Moscow.