6-letter words containing k
- bugaku — a classical Japanese dance of Chinese origin, originally designed as entertainment for the imperial palace: performed exclusively by men, who serve as both dancers and musicians.
- bukavu — a port in E Democratic Republic of Congo, on Lake Kivu: commercial and industrial centre. Pop: 294 000 (2005 est)
- bulker — magnitude in three dimensions: a ship of great bulk.
- bunker — A bunker is a place, usually underground, that has been built with strong walls to protect it against heavy gunfire and bombing.
- bunkie — bunkmate.
- bunkum — If you say that something that has been said or written is bunkum, you mean that you think it is completely untrue or very stupid.
- burked — to murder, as by suffocation, so as to leave no or few marks of violence.
- burker — a person who burkes
- burkha — all-enveloping garment worn by Muslim women
- busker — Chiefly British. to entertain by dancing, singing, or reciting on the street or in a public place.
- busket — a bouquet
- buskin — (formerly) a sandal-like covering for the foot and leg, reaching the calf and usually laced
- buzuki — bouzouki.
- bytalk — trivial conversation
- bywork — work done outside usual working hours
- cacked — Simple past tense and past participle of cack.
- cackle — If someone cackles, they laugh in a loud unpleasant way, often at something bad that happens to someone else.
- cackly — Resembling or characterised by cackling.
- cakery — A cake shop.
- caking — Present participle of cake.
- calked — Simple past tense and past participle of calk.
- calker — a person who caulks the seams of boats or the like.
- calkin — calk2 (def 1).
- canker — A canker is something evil that spreads and affects things or people.
- cankle — a thickened area between the calf and ankle in an overweight person, obscuring where one ends and the other begins
- canuck — a Canadian
- carack — a merchant vessel having various rigs, used especially by Mediterranean countries in the 15th and 16th centuries; galleon.
- casked — a container made and shaped like a barrel, especially one larger and stronger, for holding liquids.
- casket — A casket is a small box in which you keep valuable things.
- catkin — A catkin is a long, thin, soft flower that hangs on some trees, for example birch trees and hazel trees.
- caulks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of caulk.
- cawker — a metal projection on a horse's shoe which prevents slipping
- chabuk — (in Asia, especially the East) a horsewhip, formerly often used for inflicting corporal punishment.
- chakra — (in yoga) any of the seven major energy centres in the body
- chalks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chalk.
- chalky — Something that is chalky contains chalk or is covered with chalk.
- chanks — Plural form of chank.
- charka — (in India and the East Indies) a cotton gin or spinning wheel.
- chaulk — (obsolete, now only nonstandard, rare) alternative spelling of chalk.
- chaunk — (cooking) A garnish made by frying mustard seed, asafoetida, and other whole spices in oil or ghee to release the flavours. Added to soups, curries, etc., at the end of cooking.
- checks — Plural form of check.
- checky — having squares of alternating tinctures or furs; checked
- cheeks — either side of the face below the eye and above the jaw.
- cheeky — If you describe a person or their behaviour as cheeky, you think that they are slightly rude or disrespectful but in a charming or amusing way.
- chiack — to tease or banter
- chicks — Plural form of chick.
- chicky — (childish) chicken.
- chikee — chickee (def 1).
- chinks — Plural form of chink.
- chinky — Full of chinks, laden with small cracks or openings.