4-letter words containing k, a
- duka — (Kenya) A shop, store.
- dyak — Dayak.
- ekka — (India) A small vehicle used in India, pulled by a single horse.
- fack — (UK dialectal) One of the four stomachs of a ruminating animal; rumen; paunch.
- faik — a fold or pleat
- fake — to lay (a rope) in a coil or series of long loops so as to allow to run freely without fouling or kinking (often followed by down).
- falk — (UK, dialect) The razorbill.
- fank — A pen for enclosing sheep.
- fark — (Australia, NZ, vulgar) eye dialect of fucktrue, used to express surprise, etc.
- flak — antiaircraft fire, especially as experienced by the crews of combat airplanes at which the fire is directed.
- frak — (euphemistic) fuck.
- gack — (often, repeated several times) The sound of a cat coughing up a hairball.
- gank — (transitive, slang) To swindle.
- gawk — to stare stupidly; gape: The onlookers gawked at arriving celebrities.
- hack — to place (something) on a hack, as for drying or feeding.
- haik — an oblong cloth used as an outer garment by the Arabs.
- haka — a ceremonial Maori war dance that involves chanting.
- hake — any marine fish of the genus Merluccius, closely related to the cods, especially M. bilinearis, found off the New England coast.
- hako — Pawnee Indian ceremony celebrating the union of Earth and Heaven and the genesis of life.
- haku — (in Hawaii) a crown of fresh flowers.
- halk — (obsolete) A nook; a corner.
- hank — Angelo ("Hank") 1916–2002, U.S. basketball player.
- hark — to listen attentively; hearken.
- hask — (obsolete) A basket made of rushes or flags, as for carrying fish.
- hawk — a medium-range, mobile U.S. surface-to-air missile system.
- ikan — (in Malaysia) fish used esp in names of cooked dishes
- ikat — a method of printing woven fabric by tie-dyeing the warp yarns (warp ikat) the weft yarns (weft ikat) or both (double ikat) before weaving.
- ilka — every; each.
- irak — a republic in SW Asia, N of Saudi Arabia and W of Iran, centering in the Tigris-Euphrates basin of Mesopotamia. 172,000 sq. mi. (445,480 sq. km). Capital: Baghdad.
- jack — Sir John Arthur ("Jack") 1926–2014, Australian racing-car driver and designer.
- jake — satisfactory; OK; fine: Everything's jake with me.
- jank — (computing, slang, rare) Problematic blocking of a software application's user interface due to slow operations.
- jark — A seal (stamp or impression of a stamp).
- jauk — to dally; dawdle.
- ka9q — (networking) A popular implementation of TCP/IP and associated protocols for amateur packet radio systems and personal computers connected via serial lines. It was named after the call-sign of Phil Karn - the radio ham who first wrote it for MS-DOS on the IBM PC. KA9Q is currently maintained by Anthony Frost <[email protected]> (call-sign G8UDV) and Adam Goodfellow <[email protected]>. It has been ported to the Archimedes by Jonathan Naylor (G4KLX).
- kaal — naked
- kaas — a Dutch-style cabinet or wardrobe
- kaba — a small, cubical building in the courtyard of the Great Mosque at Mecca containing a sacred black stone: regarded by Muslims as the House of God and the objective of their pilgrimages.
- kade — The vern sheep ked, Melophagus ovinus.
- kadi — qadi.
- kads — Knowledge Analysis and Design System
- kady — A man's straw hat.
- kael — Pauline, 1919–2001, U.S. film critic.
- kage — (archaic) A chantry chapel enclosed with latticework or screenwork.
- kago — (in Japan) a small basketwork palanquin strung from a pole each end of which rests on the shoulder of a bearer.
- kagu — a raillike bird, Rhinochetus jubatus, of the island of New Caledonia, having a gray body, black-and-white wings, and a long, shaggy crest: an endangered species.
- kahn — Louis Isadore, 1901–74, U.S. architect, born in Estonia.
- kaid — A local governor or leader, especially in North Africa or Moorish Spain; an alcaide.
- kail — Also called borecole. a cabbagelike cultivated plant, Brassica oleracea acephala, of the mustard family, having curled or wrinkled leaves: used as a vegetable.
- kain — sarong.