7-letter words containing k, l
- kabylia — a historic and ethnic region in the north of Algeria
- kahului — a town on N Maui, in central Hawaii.
- kailasa — a Brahmanical temple dedicated to Shiva, at Ellora, India: architecturally one of the finest of ancient cave temples.
- kalemie — a city in the E Democratic Republic of the Congo, on Lake Tanganyika.
- kalends — the first day of the month in the ancient Roman calendar, from which the days of the preceding month were counted backward to the ides.
- kalimba — mbira.
- kalinin — Mikhail Ivanovich [myi-khuh-yeel ee-vah-nuh-vyich] /myɪ xʌˈyil iˈvɑ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1875–1946, Russian revolutionary: president of the U.S.S.R. 1923–46.
- kalmias — Plural form of kalmia.
- kalmuck — a member of any of a group of Buddhistic Mongol tribes of a region extending from western China to the valley of the lower Volga River.
- kalooki — a form of rummy played with two packs of cards
- kalypso — Calypso (def 1).
- kampala — an independent state in E Africa, between the NE Democratic Republic of the Congo and Kenya: member of the Commonwealth of Nations; formerly a British protectorate. 91,065 sq. mi. (241,068 sq. km). Capital: Kampala.
- kanchil — A small, agile chevrotain of the genus Tragulus.
- kantele — a Finnish stringed instrument, similar to a zither
- kaolack — a city in W Senegal.
- kaoline — Alternative spelling of kaolin.
- karakul — one of an Asian breed of sheep having curly fleece that is black in the young and brown or gray in the adult: raised especially for lambskins used in the fur industry. Compare broadtail, Persian lamb.
- karbala — Kerbela.
- karelia — a region in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, comprising Lake Ladoga and Onega Lake and the adjoining area along the E border of Finland.
- karloff — Boris (William Henry Pratt) 1887–1969, British actor in the U.S.
- kassala — a city in the E Sudan, near Eritrea.
- kastler — Alfred [al-fred] /alˈfrɛd/ (Show IPA), 1902–84, French physicist, born in Germany: Nobel Prize 1966.
- kavalla — a seaport in E Greece.
- kaylied — intoxicated; drunk
- keelage — a toll on a merchant ship entering a port.
- keelies — Plural form of keelie.
- keeling — Present participle of keel.
- keelman — someone who works on a barge or who is in charge of a keel
- keelson — any of various fore-and-aft structural members lying above or parallel to the keel in the bottom of a hull.
- keelung — Chilung.
- keerful — Eye dialect of careful.
- keglers — Plural form of kegler.
- kegling — the sport of bowling.
- keitele — Lake, a lake in S Finland. About 175 sq. mi. (455 sq. km).
- keitloa — a variety of the black rhinoceros having the posterior horn equal to or longer than the anterior horn.
- kellion — a small community of monks.
- kellogg — Frank Billings, 1856–1937, U.S. statesman: secretary of state 1925–29; Nobel Peace Prize 1929.
- keloids — Plural form of keloid.
- kelowna — a city in S British Columbia, in SW Canada.
- kelpies — Plural form of kelpie.
- kelping — any large, brown, cold-water seaweed of the family Laminariaceae, used as food and in various manufacturing processes.
- kelvins — Plural form of kelvin.
- kendall — Edward Calvin, 1886–1972, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1950.
- kennels — Plural form of kennel.
- kerbela — a town in central Iraq: holy city of the Shiʿite sect.
- kerflop — with or as if with a flop: He fell kerflop.
- kernels — Plural form of kernel.
- kerulen — a river in NE Mongolia, flowing S and E to Kulun Lake, in NE China: a headstream of the Amur River 785 miles (1263 km) long.
- kestral — Misspelling of kestrel.
- kestrel — a common small falcon, Falco tinnunculus, of northern parts of the Eastern Hemisphere, notable for hovering in the air with its head to the wind.