5-letter words containing n, k
- ensky — To place in the sky.
- fenks — the parts of the blubber of a whale which contain the oil
- finks — Plural form of fink.
- flank — the side of an animal or a person between the ribs and hip.
- flunk — to fail in a course or examination.
- frank — direct and unreserved in speech; straightforward; sincere: Her criticism of my work was frank but absolutely fair.
- frink — /frink/ The unknown ur-verb, fill in your own meaning. Found especially on the Usenet newsgroup news:alt.fan.lemurs, where it is said that the lemurs know what "frink" means, but they aren't telling. Compare gorets.
- funks — Plural form of funk.
- funky — Jazz. having an earthy, blues-based quality or character.
- ginks — a person; fellow.
- gronk — /gronk/ Popularised by Johnny Hart's comic strip "B.C." but the word apparently predates that. 1. To clear the state of a wedged device and restart it. More severe than "to frob" (sense 2). 2. [TMRC] To cut, sever, smash, or similarly disable. 3. The sound made by many 3.5-inch diskette drives. In particular, the microfloppies on a Commodore Amiga go "grink, gronk".
- gunky — Informal. of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling gunk.
- hanks — a male given name, form of Henry.
- hanky — a handkerchief.
- hinky — acting in a nervous or very cautious way.
- hokan — a proposed genetic grouping of American Indian languages comprising otherwise unclassified language families and isolates of California, the U.S. Southwest, and Mexico, including Yana, Pomo, Chumash, and Yuman.
- honks — Plural form of honk.
- honky — a contemptuous term used to refer to a white person.
- hunks — a large piece or lump; chunk.
- hunky — Slang. (of a male) having a handsome, well-developed physique.
- ikons — Plural form of ikon.
- inked — (slang) Having a tattoo or tattoos.
- inker — A person or device that applies ink.
- inkle — a linen tape used for trimmings.
- janky — (slang) of poor quality, odd.
- jinks — jinks, prankish or frolicsome activities.
- junks — narcotics, especially heroin.
- junky — of the nature of junk; trashy.
- kagan — Alternative spelling of khagan.
- kalan — (archaic) The sea otter.
- kalon — Ideal perfect beauty in the physical and moral sense, especially as perceived by Greek philosophers.
- kanak — a native or inhabitant of New Caledonia who seeks independence from France
- kandy — a city in central Sri Lanka: famous Buddhist temples.
- kaneh — an ancient Hebrew measure of six cubits
- kanga — (Sikhism) A comb, required to be worn at all times by Sikhs, one of the five Ks.
- kango — A Japanese word of Chinese origin, or a Japanese word coined along Chinese lines (a Sino-Japanese word).
- kanin — Garson [gahr-suh n] /ˈgɑr sən/ (Show IPA), 1912–1999, U.S. playwright, actor, and director.
- kanji — a system of Japanese writing using Chinese-derived characters.
- kanon — (musical instrument) synonym of monochord (used mainly in reference to ancient Greek music).
- kansa — a member of a North American Indian people formerly of eastern Kansas, now living mostly in northern Oklahoma.
- kansu — Wade-Giles. Gansu.
- kanzu — a long, usually white robe worn especially by men in central and eastern Africa.
- kaons — Plural form of kaon.
- karan — Donna. born 1948, US fashion designer; creator of the DKNY clothing label
- karen — a group of people of eastern and southern Burma (Myanmar).
- karun — a river in SW Iran, flowing SW to the Shatt-al-Arab. About 515 miles (830 km) long.
- karyn — a female given name.
- kazan — Republic of, an autonomous republic in central Russia on the E European Plain, at the confluence of the Volga and Kama rivers. 26,192 sq. mi. (67,836 sq. km). Capital: Kazan.
- kazin — Alfred, 1915–98, U.S. literary critic.
- keene — a city in SW New Hampshire.