6-letter words containing k
- howker — (nautical) Alternative form of hooker.
- hucker — Someone who hucks (any meaning).
- huckle — the hip or haunch.
- hulked — Simple past tense and past participle of hulk.
- hunker — to squat on one's heels (often followed by down).
- hunkey — (US, pejorative) A Hungarian (or, more generally, eastern European) labourer.
- hunkie — a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of Hungarian or Slavic descent, especially an unskilled or semiskilled worker.
- hurkle — (intransitive) to draw in the parts of the body, especially with pain or cold.
- husked — Simple past tense and past participle of husk.
- husker — the dry external covering of certain fruits or seeds, especially of an ear of corn.
- hyksos — a nomadic people who conquered and ruled ancient Egypt between the 13th and 18th dynasties, c1700–1580 b.c.: believed to have been a Semitic people that originally migrated into Egypt from Asia.
- i know — I am already aware
- i-link — High Performance Serial Bus
- ickier — Comparative form of icky.
- ikaria — Icaria.
- ikaros — Icarus.
- ikonic — Alternative form of iconic.
- ilkley — a town in N England, in Bradford unitary authority, West Yorkshire: nearby is Ilkley Moor (to the south). Pop: 13 472 (2001)
- imbark — to cover in bark
- imbosk — (obsolete) To hide or conceal oneself.
- immask — to disguise
- impark — to enclose or shut up, as in a park.
- ink in — to use ink to go over pencil lines in (a drawing)
- ink up — to apply ink to (a printing machine) in preparing it for operation
- inkers — Plural form of inker.
- inkind — paid or given in goods, commodities, or services instead of money: in-kind welfare programs.
- inking — a fluid or viscous substance used for writing or printing.
- inkjet — A device, particularly one used in the printing of documents, which propels tiny droplets of ink to the paper.
- inkles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inkle.
- inkosi — A chief (particularly Zulu).
- inkpot — A pot for holding ink; inkwell.
- inlock — to lock up
- inlook — Introspection.
- intake — the place or opening at which a fluid is taken into a channel, pipe, etc.
- inupik — Inuit.
- inuvik — a town in the Northwest Territories, Canada, on the Mackenzie River at the Beaufort Sea.
- invoke — to call for with earnest desire; make supplication or pray for: to invoke God's mercy.
- inwick — to perform a curling stroke in which the stone bounces off another stone and stops close to the tee
- inwork — to work or produce (a result) in
- irking — to irritate, annoy, or exasperate: It irked him to wait in line.
- irokos — Plural form of iroko.
- isakmp — Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol
- ithaki — Greek name of Ithaca (def 1).
- jackal — any of several nocturnal wild dogs of the genus Canis, especially C. aureus, of Asia and Africa, that scavenge or hunt in packs.
- jacked — Carpentry. having a height or length less than that of most of the others in a structure; cripple: jack rafter; jack truss.
- jacker — any of various portable devices for raising or lifting heavy objects short heights, using various mechanical, pneumatic, or hydraulic methods.
- jacket — a short coat, in any of various forms, usually opening down the front.
- jackey — gin1 .
- jackie — Bill ("Bojangles") 1878–1949, U.S. tap dancer.
- jacksy — (slang, British) Backside.