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5-letter words containing k, a, r

  • freak — a fleck or streak of color.
  • glark — /glark/ To figure something out from context. "The System III manuals are pretty poor, but you can generally glark the meaning from context." Interestingly, the word was originally "glork"; the context was "This gubblick contains many nonsklarkish English flutzpahs, but the overall pluggandisp can be glorked [sic] from context" (David Moser, quoted by Douglas Hofstadter in his "Metamagical Themas" column in the January 1981 "Scientific American"). It is conjectured that hackish usage mutated the verb to "glark" because glork was already an established jargon term. Compare grok, zen.
  • harks — to listen attentively; hearken.
  • iraki — a native of Iraq.
  • kabir — fl. late 15th century, Hindu religious reformer.
  • kadar — János [yah-nawsh] /ˈyɑ nɔʃ/ (Show IPA), 1912–89, Hungarian political leader: general secretary of the Communist Party 1956–88.
  • kafir — Also called Nuristani. a member of an Indo-European people of Nuristan.
  • kafre — (Chephren) flourished late 26th century b.c, Egyptian king of the fourth dynasty (son of Cheops): builder of second pyramid at El Giza.
  • kajar — a dynasty that ruled Persia 1794–1925.
  • karaj — a city in N Iran, near Tehran.
  • karan — Donna. born 1948, US fashion designer; creator of the DKNY clothing label
  • karas — Plural form of kara.
  • karat — a unit for measuring the fineness of gold, pure gold being 24 karats fine. Abbreviation: k., kt.
  • karel — Language featured in Karel the Robot: A Gentle Introduction to Computer Programming, Richard E. Pattis, Wiley 1981.
  • karen — a group of people of eastern and southern Burma (Myanmar).
  • karez — (in parts of central southern Asia) a qanat.
  • karla — a female given name, form of Caroline.
  • karma — Hinduism, Buddhism. action, seen as bringing upon oneself inevitable results, good or bad, either in this life or in a reincarnation: in Hinduism one of the means of reaching Brahman. Compare bhakti (def 1), jnana.
  • karol — a female given name.
  • karoo — a vast plateau in the Republic of South Africa, in Cape of Good Hope province. 100,000 sq. mi. (260,000 sq. km); 3000–4000 feet (900–1200 meters) above sea level.
  • karri — an Australian gum tree, Eucalyptus diversicolor.
  • karsh — Yousuf [yoh-suh f,, yoo-] /ˈyoʊ səf,, ˈyu-/ (Show IPA), 1908–2002, Armenian-Canadian photographer, born in Turkey.
  • karst — an area of limestone terrane characterized by sinks, ravines, and underground streams.
  • karts — Plural form of kart.
  • karun — a river in SW Iran, flowing SW to the Shatt-al-Arab. About 515 miles (830 km) long.
  • karyn — a female given name.
  • kasra — In Arabic script, the vowel point for
  • katar — an independent emirate on the Persian Gulf; under British protection until 1971. 8500 sq. mi. (22,000 sq. km). Capital: Doha.
  • kauri — Also, kauri pine. a tall, coniferous tree, Agathis australis, of New Zealand, yielding a valuable timber and a resin.
  • kauru — the edible stem of the cabbage tree
  • kaury — kauri.
  • kedar — the second son of Ishmael. Gen. 25:13.
  • kerak — Kerak.
  • kerma — the quotient of the sum of the initial kinetic energies of all the charged particles liberated by indirectly ionizing radiation in a volume element of a material divided by the mass of the volume element. The SI unit is the gray
  • knaur — A knot or burl in a tree.
  • kokra — a type of hard even-grained wood obtained from an Indian tree of the genus Aporosa, used to make decorative objects, furniture, and instruments such as flutes
  • kolar — a city in SE Karnataka, in S India: rich mining district.
  • korah — a Levite who led a rebellion against Moses and Aaron. Num. 16.
  • korai — Greek Antiquity. a sculptured representation of a young woman, especially one produced prior to the 5th century b.c.
  • koran — the sacred text of Islam, divided into 114 chapters, or suras: revered as the word of God, dictated to Muhammad by the archangel Gabriel, and accepted as the foundation of Islamic law, religion, culture, and politics.
  • koras — Plural form of kora.
  • korat — any of a breed of domestic cat with a glossy, silver-blue coat and large, round, greenish eyes
  • korda — Sir Alexander (Sándor Kellner) 1893–1956, British film producer, born in Hungary.
  • korea — a former country in E Asia, on a peninsula SE of Manchuria and between the Sea of Japan and the Yellow Sea: a kingdom prior to 1910; under Japanese rule 1910–45; now divided at 38° N into North Korea and South Korea. Compare Korean War.
  • korma — A mildly spiced Indian curry dish of meat or fish marinated in yogurt or curds.
  • koura — either of two New Zealand freshwater crayfish of the genus Paranephrops
  • kovar — an alloy that consists mostly of iron, nickel, and cobalt, and has the same heat expansion properties as heat-resistant glass: it is usually fused to glass to form a gas seal
  • kraal — an enclosure for cattle and other domestic animals in southern Africa.
  • krabs — Plural form of krab.
  • kraft — a strong, usually brown paper processed from wood pulp, used chiefly for bags and as wrapping paper.
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