4-letter words containing n, k
- kean — Edmund, 1787–1833, English actor, especially known for performance of Shakespearean roles.
- keen — finely sharpened, as an edge; so shaped as to cut or pierce substances readily: a keen razor.
- keno — a game of chance, adapted from lotto for gambling purposes.
- kent — knowledge, understanding, or cognizance; mental perception: an idea beyond one's ken.
- kern — Jerome (David) 1885–1945, U.S. composer.
- khan — an inn or caravansary.
- khon — A Thai form of dance with music and narration.
- kiln — a furnace or oven for burning, baking, or drying something, especially one for firing pottery, calcining limestone, or baking bricks.
- kina — a cupronickel coin and monetary unit of Papua New Guinea, equal to 100 toea.
- kind — of a good or benevolent nature or disposition, as a person: a kind and loving person.
- kine — kinescope (defs 1, 2).
- king — one of the 12 paladins of Charlemagne. Compare Roland.
- kink — a twist or curl, as in a thread, rope, wire, or hair, caused by its doubling or bending upon itself.
- kino — (in Europe) a motion-picture theater; cinema.
- kins — a person's relatives collectively; kinfolk.
- kirn — a harvest celebration; a feast or party celebrating a successful harvest.
- klan — Ku Klux Klan.
- knaa — (Geordie) To know.
- knab — (colloquial) To nab or steal.
- knag — A short spur or stiff projection from the trunk or branch of a tree, such as the stunted dead branch of a fir.
- knap — a crest or summit of a small hill.
- knar — a knot on a tree or in wood.
- knaw — Archaic spelling of gnaw.
- knee — Anatomy. the joint of the leg that allows for movement between the femur and tibia and is protected by the patella; the central area of the leg between the thigh and the lower leg.
- knew — simple past tense of know1 .
- knit — to make (a garment, fabric, etc.) by interlocking loops of one or more yarns either by hand with knitting needles or by machine.
- knob — a projecting part, usually rounded, forming the handle of a door, drawer, or the like.
- knop — a small knob or similar rounded protuberance, especially for ornament.
- knor — Obsolete form of knur.
- knot — either of two large sandpipers, Calidris canutus or C. tenuirostris, that breed in the Arctic and winter in the Southern Hemisphere.
- know — to perceive or understand as fact or truth; to apprehend clearly and with certainty: I know the situation fully.
- knox — (William) Frank(lin) 1874–1944, U.S. publisher and government official.
- knub — the point, gist, or heart of something.
- knur — a knotty or hard protuberance or growth, as on a tree.
- knut — a.d. 994?–1035, Danish king of England 1017–35; of Denmark 1018–35; and of Norway 1028–35.
- koan — a nonsensical or paradoxical question to a student for which an answer is demanded, the stress of meditation on the question often being illuminating.
- koln — German name of Cologne.
- kona — a southwesterly winter wind in Hawaii, often strong and bringing rain.
- kong — In the game of mahjong, a set of four identical tiles.
- konk — Alternative spelling of conk.
- kran — a former silver coin of Iran.
- kuhn — Margaret ("Maggie") 1905–95, U.S. activist: a founder of the Gray Panthers.
- kuna — the basic monetary unit of Croatia, equal to 100 lipa.
- kung — Hans, born 1928, Swiss Roman Catholic theologian and writer: critic of papal authority.
- kurn — kirn2 .
- kyne — cows
- kyng — Obsolete spelling of king.
- lank — (of plants) unduly long and slender: lank grass; lank, leafless trees.
- link — a torch, especially of tow and pitch.
- lonk — a breed of large mountain sheep having horns in both male and female, a trim even fleece, and black face and legs, found only in Lancashire and Derbyshire, England