4-letter words containing k, r
- khor — (in the Middle East) a seasonal or dry watercourse
- kier — a large vat in which fibers, yarns, or fabrics are boiled, bleached, or dyed.
- kirk — Grayson (Louis) 1903–1997, U.S. educator: president of Columbia University 1953–68.
- kirn — a harvest celebration; a feast or party celebrating a successful harvest.
- knar — a knot on a tree or in wood.
- knor — Obsolete form of knur.
- knur — a knotty or hard protuberance or growth, as on a tree.
- kora — A West African musical instrument shaped like a lute, with 21 strings passing over a high bridge, and played like a harp.
- kore — Greek Antiquity. a sculptured representation of a young woman, especially one produced prior to the 5th century b.c.
- kori — The monetary unit of w Kutch prior to 1947, divided into 24 dokda.
- koro — a culture-specific syndrome, occurring chiefly in China and southeastern Asia, characterized by anxiety and the fear of retraction of the penis or breasts and labia into the body.
- koru — a stylized curved pattern used esp in carving
- krab — Short for carabiner.
- krai — A region or province in Russia (край).
- krak — Kerak.
- kran — a former silver coin of Iran.
- krim — Crimea
- krio — an English-based creole of Sierra Leone, a first language of the residents of Freetown and its environs, and a lingua franca elsewhere in the country.
- kris — a short sword or heavy dagger with a wavy blade, used by the Malays.
- krym — the, a peninsula in SE Ukraine, between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
- kura — a river flowing from NE Turkey, through the Georgian Republic and Azerbaijan SE to the Caspian Sea. 950 miles (1530 km) long.
- kurd — a member of an Islamic people speaking Kurdish and dwelling chiefly in Kurdistan.
- kure — a seaport on SW Honshu, in SW Japan.
- kuri — a mongrel dog
- kurn — kirn2 .
- kurt — a male given name.
- kuru — a fatal degenerative disease of the central nervous system characterized by progressive lack of coordination and dementia, known only among certain Melanesian peoples, especially the Fore of New Guinea, and caused by a slow virus: now virtually extinct.
- kwhr — a unit of energy, equivalent to the energy transferred or expended in one hour by one kilowatt of power; approximately 1.34 horsepower-hours. Abbreviation: kWh, K.W.H., kwhr.
- kyra — a female given name.
- lark — a merry, carefree adventure; frolic; escapade.
- lirk — (transitive, UK dialectal) To jerk.
- lurk — lurking
- mark — Marcus Alonzo ("Mark") 1837–1904, U.S. merchant and politician: senator 1897–1904.
- merk — mark2 (def 3).
- mirk — darkness; gloom: the murk of a foggy night.
- murk — darkness; gloom: the murk of a foggy night.
- nark — a government agent or detective charged with the enforcement of laws restricting the use of narcotics.
- nerk — a fool, idiot, or insignificant person
- nork — (slang, chiefly in plural) A woman's breast.
- oker — OK; all right.
- okra — a shrub, Abelmoschus esculentus, of the mallow family, bearing beaked pods.
- okri — Ben. born 1959, Nigerian writer; his books include the Booker-prizewinning The Famished Road (1991), Dangerous Love (1996), and In Arcadia (2002)
- orsk — a city in the S Russian Federation in Europe, on the Ural River.
- park — Mungo [muhng-goh] /ˈmʌŋ goʊ/ (Show IPA), 1771–1806? Scottish explorer in Africa.
- perk — to become lively, cheerful, or vigorous, as after depression or sickness (usually followed by up): The patients all perked up when we played the piano for them.
- pork — the flesh of hogs used as food.
- rack — the neck portion of mutton, pork, or veal.
- raik — a route, a journey
- raka — a portion of the salat, the prescribed prayers said five times a day, that combines a ritual of bows and prostrations with the recitation of prayers.
- rake — inclination or slope away from the perpendicular or the horizontal.