6-letter words containing i, r, k
- kirbys — a male given name.
- kirkby — a town in NW England, in Knowsley unitary authority, Merseyside. Pop: 40 006 (2001)
- kirkuk — a city in N Iraq.
- kirman — a Persian rug marked by ornate flowing designs and light, muted colors.
- kirpan — a small dagger worn by orthodox Sikhs.
- kirsch — a fragrant, colorless, unaged brandy distilled from a fermented mash of cherries, produced especially in Germany, Switzerland, and Alsace, France.
- kirtan — A call-and-response chant performed in India's devotional traditions.
- kirtle — a woman's loose gown, worn in the Middle Ages.
- kiruna — a city in N Sweden: important iron-mining center.
- kisser — a person who kisses.
- knifer — Someone who sells knives.
- kokiri — a rough-skinned New Zealand triggerfish, Parika scaber, known also as leatherjacket
- korari — a native New Zealand flax plant, Phormium tenax
- kouroi — a sculptured representation of a young man, especially one produced prior to the 5th century b.c.
- kraits — Plural form of krait.
- krises — Plural form of kris.
- kuiper — Gerard Peter, 1905–73, U.S. astronomer, born in the Netherlands.
- kukris — Plural form of kukri.
- kumari — maiden: used in some courtesy titles for young women
- kuprin — Alexander Ivanovich [al-ig-zan-der i-vah-nuh-vich,, -zahn-;; Russian uh-lyi-ksahndr ee-vah-nuh-vyich] /ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər ɪˈvɑ nə vɪtʃ,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian ʌ lyɪˈksɑndr iˈvɑ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1870–1938, Russian novelist and short-story writer.
- kuroki — Tamemoto [tah-me-maw-taw] /ˈtɑ mɛˈmɔ tɔ/ (Show IPA), Count, 1844–1923, Japanese general.
- kurtis — Plural form of kurti.
- kymric — Cymric
- kypris — Cypris.
- laiker — someone who is unemployed
- larkin — Philip, 1922–85, English poet and critic.
- licker — to pass the tongue over the surface of, as to moisten, taste, or eat (often followed by up, off, from, etc.): to lick a postage stamp; to lick an ice-cream cone.
- likers — of the same form, appearance, kind, character, amount, etc.: I cannot remember a like instance.
- likker — liquor.
- linker — one of the rings or separate pieces of which a chain is composed.
- mark i — (computer) (Or "Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator", "ASCC") A first generation computer that was designed by Howard Aiken of Harvard University, taking inspiration from Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine. The Mark I, as the Harvard University staff called it, was built by IBM between 1939 to 1944. It was delivered to Harvard University and became operational in March 1944. The Mark I is considered to be the first full-sized digital computer. It was built from clutches, relays, rotating shafts and switches. It read its instructions from one paper tape and data from another. It could store 72 numbers, each of 23 decimal digits. It weighed about 4500 Kg, had 800 Km of wiring, was used only for numeric calculations, and took three seconds to carry out one multiplication. The IBM archives call it the, "...industry's largest electromechanical calculator." One of the Mark I's first programers was John von Neumann. The Mark I was retired in 1959, and disassembled. Parts are archived at Harvard in the Science Center. It was followed by the Mark II.
- merkin — false hair for the female pudenda.
- mikron — micron.
- milker — a person or thing that milks.
- morike — Eduard [ey-doo-ahrt] /ˈeɪ duˌɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1804–75, German poet.
- morkin — an animal that died in an accident or from a disease
- narvik — a seaport in N Norway.
- nickar — a hard, round seed with a smooth, bluish or yellowish shell, produced by the tropical plant Caesalpinia (nickar tree)
- nicker — a person or thing that nicks.
- oinker — (slang, countable) A pig: an animal of the genus Sus.
- parkie — a park keeper
- parkin — (in Britain and New Zealand) a moist spicy ginger cake usually containing oatmeal
- perkin — Sir William Henry, 1838–1907, English chemist.
- pernik — former name of Dimitrovo.
- picker — someone or something that picks.
- pinker — a color varying from light crimson to pale reddish purple.
- pokier — puttering; slow; dull: poky drivers.
- pricky — prickly.
- prusik — a sliding knot that locks under pressure and can be used to form a loop (prusik loop) in which a climber can place his foot in order to stand or ascend a rope
- quirks — Plural form of quirk.