7-letter words containing a, m, k
- kalemie — a city in the E Democratic Republic of the Congo, on Lake Tanganyika.
- kalimba — mbira.
- kalmias — Plural form of kalmia.
- kalmuck — a member of any of a group of Buddhistic Mongol tribes of a region extending from western China to the valley of the lower Volga River.
- kam-tai — a linguistic family including Kam and related languages as well as the Tai and Kadai groups.
- kamenev — Lev Borisovich [lev bawree-suh-vich;; Russian lyef buh-ryee-suh-vyich] /ˈlɛv ˈbɔri sə vɪtʃ;; Russian ˈlyɛf bəˈryi sə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), (Lev Borisovich Rosenfeld) 1883–1936, Soviet Communist and government leader: executed during Stalinist purge.
- kamerad — a shout of surrender, used by German soldiers
- kamerun — German name of Cameroons.
- kamichi — A South American bird with a long, slender, horn-like ornament on its head and two sharp spurs on each wing, the horned screamer, Anhima cornuta.
- kampala — an independent state in E Africa, between the NE Democratic Republic of the Congo and Kenya: member of the Commonwealth of Nations; formerly a British protectorate. 91,065 sq. mi. (241,068 sq. km). Capital: Kampala.
- kampong — a small village or community of houses in Malay-speaking lands.
- kamseen — khamsin
- karaism — the beliefs and doctrines of the Karaite sect
- karmapa — the head of the Kagyupa, Karma Kagyu or Black Hat sect of Tibetan Buddhism, third in importance in the hierarchy of lamas
- kashmir — the fine, downy wool at the roots of the hair of the Kashmir goat.
- kaufman — George S(imon) 1889–1961, U.S. dramatist.
- keelman — someone who works on a barge or who is in charge of a keel
- keramic — ceramic.
- kerugma — the preaching of the gospel of Christ, especially in the manner of the early church.
- kerygma — the preaching of the gospel of Christ, especially in the manner of the early church.
- khamsin — a hot southerly wind, varying from southeast to southwest, that blows regularly in Egypt and over the Red Sea for about 50 days, commencing about the middle of March.
- khatami — Mohammed, born 1943, president of Iran 1997–2005.
- khayyam — Omar, Omar Khayyám.
- kimball — a male given name.
- kinsman — a blood relative, especially a male.
- kirkman — a member or follower of the Kirk.
- kitimat — a seaport on the coast of W British Columbia, in SW Canada.
- klamath — a member of an American Indian people belonging to the Lutuamian group and located in southern Oregon.
- kolomna — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, SE of Moscow.
- komatik — A sled drawn by dogs, used by the people of Labrador.
- kremvax — /krem-vaks/ (Or kgbvax) Originally, a fictitious Usenet site at the Kremlin, named like the then large number of Usenet VAXen with names of the form foovax. Kremvax was announced on April 1, 1984 in a posting ostensibly originated there by Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko. The posting was actually forged by Piet Beertema as an April Fool's joke. Other fictitious sites mentioned in the hoax were moskvax and kgbvax. This was probably the funniest of the many April Fool's forgeries perpetrated on Usenet (which has negligible security against them), because the notion that Usenet might ever penetrate the Iron Curtain seemed so totally absurd at the time. In fact, it was only six years later that the first genuine site in Moscow, demos.su, joined Usenet. Some readers needed convincing that the postings from it weren't just another prank. Vadim Antonov, senior programmer at Demos and the major poster from there up to mid-1991, was quite aware of all this, referred to it frequently in his own postings, and at one point twitted some credulous readers by blandly asserting that he *was* a hoax! Eventually he even arranged to have the domain's gateway site *named* kremvax, thus neatly turning fiction into truth and demonstrating that the hackish sense of humour transcends cultural barriers. Mr. Antonov also contributed some Russian-language material for the Jargon File. In an even more ironic historical footnote, kremvax became an electronic centre of the anti-communist resistance during the bungled hard-line coup of August 1991. During those three days the Soviet UUCP network centreed on kremvax became the only trustworthy news source for many places within the USSR. Though the sysops were concentrating on internal communications, cross-border postings included immediate transliterations of Boris Yeltsin's decrees condemning the coup and eyewitness reports of the demonstrations in Moscow's streets. In those hours, years of speculation that totalitarianism would prove unable to maintain its grip on politically-loaded information in the age of computer networking were proved devastatingly accurate - and the original kremvax joke became a reality as Yeltsin and the new Russian revolutionaries of "glasnost" and "perestroika" made kremvax one of the timeliest means of their outreach to the West.
- kumayri — a city in NW Armenia.
- kumayry — city in NW Armenia: pop. 120,000
- kumbaya — The title of the etymological folk song, used with varying degrees of sincerity or sarcasm to refer to the song's evocations of spiritual unity and interpersonal harmony.
- kumquat — a small, round or oblong citrus fruit having a sweet rind and acid pulp, used chiefly for preserves.
- lakshmi — the Hindu goddess of fortune.
- lamarck — Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de [zhahn ba-teest pyer ahn-twan duh maw-ne duh] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist pyɛr ɑ̃ˈtwan də mɔˈnɛ də/ (Show IPA), 1744–1829, French naturalist: pioneer in the field of comparative anatomy.
- lambkin — a little lamb.
- lampuki — a large marine fish, Coryphaena hippurus or C. equisetis
- leukoma — a dense, white opacity of the cornea.
- linkman — Adult linkboy; one bearing a torch or light.
- lockman — (Scotland, archaic) A public executioner.
- lockram — a rough-textured linen cloth.
- macdink — /mak'dink/ To make many incremental and unnecessary cosmetic changes to a program or file. Often the subject of the macdinking would be better off without them. The Macintosh is said to encourage such behaviour. See also fritterware, window shopping.
- mack on — a pimp.
- macking — a pimp.
- mackled — Simple past tense and past participle of mackle.
- mackles — Plural form of mackle.
- maddock — (obsolete) an earthworm, a maggot.
- maffick — to celebrate with extravagant public demonstrations.