6-letter words containing h, a, k
- khanda — an Indian sword, having a broad, usually single-edged blade and a disklike pommel with a point.
- khania — Greek name of Canea.
- khanka — Lake, a lake in far SE Russia and NE China, N of Vladivostok. 1700 sq. mi. (4400 sq. km).
- khanty — a member of a Uralic people now living in scattered settlements along the river Ob and its tributaries in Siberia, and known from historical records to have lived in northern European Russia.
- kharif — (in India) a crop sown in early summer for harvesting in the autumn.
- khatri — a person who belongs to a Hindu mercantile caste alleged to originate with the Kshatriyas.
- khatti — Hatti.
- khayal — a kind of Indian classical vocal music
- khelat — a region in S Baluchistan, in SW Pakistan.
- khilat — (in India and the Middle East) a ceremonial robe or other gift given to someone by a superior as a mark of honour
- khimar — A head covering or veil worn in public by some Muslim women, typically covering the head, neck, and shoulders.
- khotan — Older Spelling. Hotan.
- khowar — an Indo-Iranian language of northwest Pakistan.
- khulna — a city in S Bangladesh, on the delta of the Ganges.
- khurta — a long-sleeved, hip-length shirt worn by men in India.
- kiaugh — trouble or worry.
- kiblah — the point toward which Muslims turn to pray, especially the Kaʿba, or House of God, at Mecca.
- kippah — The cloth skullcap or yarmulke traditionally worn by male Jews.
- kishka — Also called stuffed derma. Jewish Cookery. a beef or fowl intestine stuffed with a mixture, as of flour, fat, onion, and seasonings, and roasted.
- kiswah — a decorative veil draped over the walls of the Kaʿba, now made of black brocade embroidered in gold with inscriptions from the Koran.
- klatch — a casual gathering of people, especially for refreshments and informal conversation: a sewing klatsch.
- klesha — any of the five hindrances to enlightenment, which are ignorance or avidya, egocentricity, attachments, aversions, and the instinctive will to live.
- kochia — any plant of the widely distributed annual genus Kochia, esp K. Scoparia trichophila, grown for its foliage, which turns dark red in the late summer: family Chenopodiaceae
- kohima — a state in NE India. 6366 sq. mi. (16,488 sq. km). Capital: Kohima.
- kowhai — a New Zealand tree, Sophora tetraptera, of the legume family, having clusters of golden-yellow flowers.
- kuhnau — Johann [yoh-hahn] /ˈyoʊ hɑn/ (Show IPA), 1660–1722, German clavier composer, organist, and author.
- kutcha — crude, imperfect, or temporary.
- kwacha — a cupronickel coin, paper money, and monetary unit of Malawi, equal to 100 tambala. Abbreviation: K.
- ladakh — a region in Jammu and Kashmir, India, on the borders of China (Tibet) and Pakistan. 45,762 sq. mi. (118,524 sq. km).
- lakish — similar to the poetry of the Lake poets
- maketh — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of make.
- makkah — Mecca (def 1).
- 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.
- mohawk — a member of a tribe of the most easterly of the Iroquois Five Nations, formerly resident along the Mohawk River, New York.
- moksha — freedom from the differentiated, temporal, and mortal world of ordinary experience.
- 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.
- oakham — a market town in E central England, the administrative centre of Rutland. Pop: 9620 (2001)
- ockham — William of, died 1349? English scholastic philosopher.
- pachak — the fragrant roots of an Asian plant, used as incense
- pakahi — acid land that is unsuitable for cultivation
- pakeha — (in New Zealand) a person who is not of Māori ancestry, esp a White person
- pakihi — an area of swampy infertile land
- 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.
- phreak — phone phreak.
- punkah — (especially in India) a fan, especially a large, swinging, screenlike fan hung from the ceiling and moved by a servant or by machinery.
- rakish — smart; jaunty; dashing: a hat worn at a rakish angle.
- sabkha — a flat coastal plain with a salt crust, common in Arabia
- samekh — the 15th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.