5-letter words containing k, a
- black — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
- blake — Sir Peter. born 1932, British painter, a leading exponent of pop art in the 1960s: co-founder of the Brotherhood of Ruralists (1969)
- blank — Something that is blank has nothing on it.
- bleak — If a situation is bleak, it is bad, and seems unlikely to improve.
- bobak — a species of marmot found in the steppes of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia
- borak — rubbish; nonsense
- brake — Brakes are devices in a vehicle that make it go slower or stop.
- braky — overgrown with brambles or ferns
- brank — (esp of horses) to prance or strut
- break — When an object breaks or when you break it, it suddenly separates into two or more pieces, often because it has been hit or dropped.
- burka — burqa
- cacky — of or like excrement
- caked — If something is caked with mud, blood, or dirt, it is covered with a thick dry layer of it.
- cakes — Plural form of cake.
- cakey — a sweet, baked, breadlike food, made with or without shortening, and usually containing flour, sugar, baking powder or soda, eggs, and liquid flavoring.
- cakra — any of the points of spiritual power located along the body, usually given as six in number. The points are personified by gods and can be released through the proper exercises.
- capek — Karel (ˈkarɛl). 1890–1938, Czech dramatist and novelist; author of R.U.R. (1921), which introduced the word "robot", and (with his brother Josef) The Insect Play (1921)
- carks — Plural form of cark.
- carky — Obsolete spelling of khaki (19th century).
- casks — Plural form of cask.
- casky — (of wine) having a musty smell due to resting too long in the cask
- caulk — If you caulk something such as a boat, you fill small cracks in its surface in order to prevent it from leaking.
- chack — to bite or snap the teeth or beak
- chalk — Chalk is a type of soft white rock. You can use small pieces of it for writing or drawing with.
- chank — a large sea conch found off the shores of India and Sri Lanka, used as a horn or to make ornaments
- chark — charred wood or coal; charcoal
- chawk — a jackdaw
- cheka — the secret police set up in 1917 by the Bolshevik government: reorganized in the Soviet Union in Dec 1922 as the GPU
- choak — Obsolete form of choke.
- clack — If things clack or if you clack them, they make a short loud noise, especially when they hit each other.
- clank — When large metal objects clank, they make a noise because they are hitting together or hitting against something hard.
- clark — Helen. born 1950, New Zealand Labour politician; prime minister (1999–2008); administrator of the United Nations Development Programme from 2009
- cloak — A cloak is a long, loose, sleeveless piece of clothing which people used to wear over their other clothes when they went out.
- coaks — (in a scarf joint) a tenon in one member fitting into a corresponding recess of the other.
- crack — If something hard cracks, or if you crack it, it becomes slightly damaged, with lines appearing on its surface.
- crake — any of several rails that occur in the Old World, such as the corncrake and the spotted crake
- crank — If you call someone a crank, you think their ideas or behaviour are strange.
- creak — If something creaks, it makes a short, high-pitched sound when it moves.
- croak — When a frog or bird croaks, it makes a harsh, low sound.
- dacko — David, 1930–2003, African statesman: president of the Central African Republic 1960–66, 1979–81.
- dacks — (Australia, NZ, informal) Alternative form of daks.
- dakar — the capital and chief port of Senegal, on the SE side of Cape Verde peninsula. Pop: 2 313 000 (2005 est)
- daker — a unit of commodities equivalent to ten
- dakir — Alternative form of daker.
- dalek — any of a set of fictional robot-like creations that are aggressive, mobile, and produce rasping staccato speech
- darke — Obsolete spelling of dark.
- darks — Plural form of dark.
- darky — an offensive word for a Black person
- datuk — (in Malaysia) a title denoting membership of a high order of chivalry
- dawks — a person who advocates neither a conciliatory nor a belligerent national attitude.