5-letter words containing k, l
- elkes — Plural form of elke.
- flack — antiaircraft fire, especially as experienced by the crews of combat airplanes at which the fire is directed.
- flake — fake2 (defs 2, 3).
- flaky — of or like flakes.
- flank — the side of an animal or a person between the ribs and hip.
- flask — the armored plates making up the sides of a gun-carriage trail.
- fleak — A flake; a thread or twist.
- fleck — a speck; a small bit: a fleck of dirt.
- fleek — flawlessly styled, groomed, etc.; looking great: eyebrows that stay on fleek; her totally on-fleek outfit.
- flick — a motion picture.
- flisk — a whim; a fancy
- flock — a lock or tuft of wool, hair, cotton, etc.
- flook — A fluke of an anchor.
- fluke — Unlikely chance occurrence, especially a surprising piece of luck.
- fluky — obtained by chance rather than skill.
- flunk — to fail in a course or examination.
- folks — Usually, folks. (used with a plural verb) people in general: Folks say there wasn't much rain last summer.
- folky — folk singer.
- glaik — a flash of light
- 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.
- gleek — to make a joke; jest.
- glisk — a glimpse
- glock — a type of pistol
- glook — (rare,chiefly,AAVE) Alternative form of glug (sound made when a liquid is poured out of a jug or bottle).
- glork — /glork/ 1. Used as a name for just about anything. See foo. 2. Similar to glitch, but usually used reflexively. "My program just glorked itself." See also glark.
- gluck — Alma (Reba Fiersohn; Mme. Efrem Zimbalist) 1884–1938, U.S. operatic soprano, born in Romania.
- hekla — an active volcano in SW Iceland. 4892 feet (1491 meters).
- hulks — Plural form of hulk.
- hulky — hulking.
- ickle — (dialectal) An icicle.
- inkle — a linen tape used for trimmings.
- kabul — a republic in central Asia, NW of India and E of Iran. 250,000 sq. mi. (647,500 sq. km). Capital: Kabul.
- kahal — a Jewish agricultural cooperative community
- kahlo — Frida [free-duh] /ˈfri də/ (Show IPA), 1907–54, Mexican painter (wife of Diego Rivera).
- kajal — (Asia) kohl.
- kalam — (sometimes lowercase) a school of philosophical theology originating in the 9th century a.d., asserting the existence of God as a prime mover and the freedom of the will.
- kalan — (archaic) The sea otter.
- kalat — a region in S Baluchistan, in SW Pakistan.
- kales — Plural form of kale.
- kalif — a spiritual leader of Islam, claiming succession from Muhammad.
- kalon — Ideal perfect beauty in the physical and moral sense, especially as perceived by Greek philosophers.
- kalpa — a thousand cycles of Maha Yugas.
- kamal — A navigation device, known to the Arabs and Chinese of the ancient world, consisting of a wooden card and knotted string.
- karel — Language featured in Karel the Robot: A Gentle Introduction to Computer Programming, Richard E. Pattis, Wiley 1981.
- karla — a female given name, form of Caroline.
- karol — a female given name.
- katal — the derived SI unit of catalytic activity equal to one mole per second
- katla — an ice-capped volcano in the Mýrdalsjökull glacier in south Iceland. Its last major eruption was in 1918. Height: 1512 m (4961 ft)
- kaval — an end-blown flute played in SE Europe
- kayla — a female given name.