6-letter words containing k, l
- klippe — Numismatics. a square or lozenge-shaped coin.
- kloofs — Plural form of kloof.
- kludge — a software or hardware configuration that, while inelegant, inefficient, clumsy, or patched together, succeeds in solving a specific problem or performing a particular task.
- kludgy — Sloppy, hasty, shoddy, or inelegant.
- klutzy — clumsy; awkward: If you weren't so klutzy you wouldn't have dropped it.
- kmodel — An ancestor of Model-K. "Preliminary Results on the BEHAVIOUR Specifications Language KMODEL-0", BEHAVIOUR Memo 5-91, 1991, GMD, Sankt Augustin, Germany
- knawel — any of several plants belonging to the genus Scleranthus, of the pink family, native to Eurasia, especially S. annuus, a common, low-growing weed that forms dense mats.
- kneels — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of kneel.
- knells — Plural form of knell.
- knolls — Plural form of knoll.
- knolly — Having knolls; replete with knolls.
- knurls — Plural form of knurl.
- knurly — having knurls or knots; gnarled.
- koalas — Plural form of koala.
- kobold — a spirit or goblin, often mischievous, that haunts houses.
- kodaly — Zoltán [zawl-tahn] /ˈzɔl tɑn/ (Show IPA), 1882–1967, Hungarian composer.
- koelie — Lb South Africa alternative spelling of coolie.
- kohler — Wolfgang [vawlf-gahng] /ˈvɔlf gɑŋ/ (Show IPA), 1887–1967, German psychologist.
- kolima — a river in the NE Russian Federation in Asia, flowing NE to the Arctic Ocean. 1000 miles (1610 km) long.
- kolyma — a river in the NE Russian Federation in Asia, flowing NE to the Arctic Ocean. 1000 miles (1610 km) long.
- korlan — Nephelium hypoleucum, a tropical tree of the Sapindaceae family.
- kossel — Albrecht [ahl-brekht] /ˈɑl brɛxt/ (Show IPA), 1853–1927, German chemist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1910.
- kotwal — an Indian police officer.
- koulan — A subspecies of onager (Equus hemionus), Equus hemionus kulan.
- kozlov — Frol R(omanovich) [frawl ruh-mah-nuh-vyich] /frɔl rʌˈmɑ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1908–65, Russian government official.
- kpelle — a member of an indigenous people living mainly in Liberia.
- kraals — Plural form of kraal.
- kudlik — an Inuit soapstone seal-oil lamp
- kugels — Plural form of kugel.
- kulaks — a comparatively wealthy peasant who employed hired labor or possessed farm machinery and who was viewed and treated by the Communists during the drive to collectivize agriculture in the 1920s and 1930s as an oppressor and class enemy.
- kulfis — Plural form of kulfi.
- kulich — a sweetened, dome-shaped yeast bread, rich in butter and eggs and also containing raisins and topped with a sugar icing: traditionally made at Easter and served with paskha.
- kultur — (in Nazi Germany) native culture, held to be superior to that of other countries and subordinating the individual to national interests.
- kummel — a colorless cordial or liqueur flavored with cumin, caraway seeds, etc., made especially in the Baltic area.
- kunlun — a mountain range in China, bordering on the N edge of the Tibetan plateau and extending W across central China: highest peak, 25,000 feet (7620 meters).
- kvaløy — two islands in the Arctic Ocean, off the N coast of Norway: North Kvaløy, 329 sq km (127 sq miles), and South Kvaløy, 735 sq km (284 sq miles)
- kylies — Plural form of kylie.
- lacked — deficiency or absence of something needed, desirable, or customary: lack of money; lack of skill.
- lacker — to coat with lacquer.
- lackey — A servant, esp. a liveried footman or manservant.
- ladakh — a region in Jammu and Kashmir, India, on the borders of China (Tibet) and Pakistan. 45,762 sq. mi. (118,524 sq. km).
- laiker — someone who is unemployed
- lakers — Plural form of laker; a ship used on a lake.
- laking — Present participle of lake.
- lakish — similar to the poetry of the Lake poets
- lakota — the westernmost branch of the Dakota Indians.
- laksas — Plural form of laksa.
- lanark — a historic county in S Scotland.
- lanked — Simple past tense and past participle of lank.
- lanker — (of plants) unduly long and slender: lank grass; lank, leafless trees.