6-letter words containing k, y
- kabyle — a member of a branch of the Berber people dwelling in NE Algeria.
- karyo- — indicating the nucleus of a cell
- karyon — (cytology) The nucleus of a cell.
- kayaks — Plural form of kayak.
- kayles — (uncountable, only as plural, obsolete, or, dialect) The game of skittles or ninepins, or the set of pins used in the game.
- kaymak — A creamy dairy product, similar to clotted cream, made in the Balkans, Turkey, the Middle East, Central Asia, Iran, Afghanistan, and India. It is made from the milk of water buffalos in the East or of cows in the West.
- kayoed — Simple past tense and past participle of kayo.
- kayoes — Plural form of kayo.
- kaypoh — (Singapore) busybody.
- kayser — A unit of wavenumber in the CGS system of units, equivalent to the number of waves in one centimeter.
- kearny — Philip, 1814–62, U.S. general.
- kebaya — A light, loose tunic worn by women in Malaysia, Indonesia, and other Southeast Asian countries.
- kecksy — a hollow stalk of a plant such as cow parsley
- keeley — Leslie Enraught [en-rawt] /ˈɛn rɔt/ (Show IPA), 1834–1900, U.S. physician.
- keenly — finely sharpened, as an edge; so shaped as to cut or pierce substances readily: a keen razor.
- kelcey — a female given name.
- kelsey — a male or female given name.
- kempty — (of wool) Coarse or rough, like kemp.
- kenyan — a republic in E Africa: member of the Commonwealth of Nations; formerly a British crown colony and protectorate. 223,478 sq. mi. (578,808 sq. km). Capital: Nairobi.
- kenyon — John Samuel, 1874–1959, U.S. phonetician and educator.
- kerrys — a county in W Munster province, in the SW Republic of Ireland. 1815 sq. mi. (4700 sq. km). County seat: Tralee.
- kersey — a heavy overcoating of wool or wool and cotton, similar to beaver and melton.
- key in — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
- key up — a small metal instrument specially cut to fit into a lock and move its bolt.
- keyage — Alternative form of quayage.
- keycap — The part of a key (on a keyboard) that is pressed by the user, as opposed to any electromechanical unit underneath.
- keyfob — Alternative spelling of key fob.
- keying — Present participle of key.
- keyman — a person highly important or essential to the functioning of an organization, as the head of a sales force or branch office.
- keymap — A collection of keymappings.
- keynes — John Maynard, 1st Baron, 1883–1946, English economist and writer.
- keypad — a separate section on some computer keyboards, grouping together numeric keys and those for mathematical or other special functions in an arrangement like that of a calculator.
- keypal — The e-mail equivalent of a penpal; someone with whom to exchange e-mail for the simple joy of communicating.
- keyset — a device consisting of a set of computer keys that can be used together for a particular purpose, for example for a computer game
- keytar — (music) A relatively lightweight keyboard or synthesizer supported by a strap around the neck and shoulders, as a guitar is supported by a guitar strap.
- keyway — Machinery. a groove in a shaft, the hub of a wheel, etc., for receiving part of a key holding it to another part.
- khanty — a member of a Uralic people now living in scattered settlements along the river Ob and its tributaries in Siberia, and known from historical records to have lived in northern European Russia.
- khayal — a kind of Indian classical vocal music
- khlyst — a member of a rigorously ascetic Russian sect originating in the 17th century and believing that each successive leader of the sect was an incarnation of Christ.
- khyber — (Cockney rhyming slang) arse.
- kidney — Anatomy. either of a pair of bean-shaped organs in the back part of the abdominal cavity that form and excrete urine, regulate fluid and electrolyte balance, and act as endocrine glands.
- kikuyu — a member of an indigenous people of Kenya having an agricultural economy and notable as being the originators of the Mau Mau.
- kilroy — a fictitious American male, created by American troops who left the inscription “Kilroy was here” on walls, property, etc., all over the world in the years during and after World War II.
- kindly — having, showing, or proceeding from a benevolent disposition or spirit; kindhearted: kindly people.
- kingly — stately or splendid, as resembling, suggesting, or befitting a king; regal: He strode into the room with a kingly air.
- kinkly — a little kink.
- kinsey — Alfred Charles, 1894–1956, U.S. zoologist; directed studies of human sexual behavior.
- kirbys — a male given name.
- kirkby — a town in NW England, in Knowsley unitary authority, Merseyside. Pop: 40 006 (2001)
- kludgy — Sloppy, hasty, shoddy, or inelegant.