5-letter words containing ka
- parka — a fur coat, shirtlike and hooded, for wear in the arctic and other regions of extreme cold.
- patka — a head covering worn by Sikh men
- pbkac — PEBCAK
- pekan — the fisher, Martes pennanti.
- pikau — a pack, knapsack, or rucksack
- poaka — a stilt (bird) native to New Zealand
- pokal — a large German standing cup of silver, glass, or other material.
- polka — a lively couple dance of Bohemian origin, with music in duple meter.
- pooka — (in folklore) an Irish spirit, mischievous but not malevolent, corresponding to the English Puck.
- pucka — genuine, reliable, or good; proper.
- pukka — genuine, reliable, or good; proper.
- pulka — a reindeer-drawn sleigh of Lapland, shaped like the front half of a canoe, in which a single rider sits with back against a vertical support and legs stretched forward.
- punka — (especially in India) a fan, especially a large, swinging, screenlike fan hung from the ceiling and moved by a servant or by machinery.
- rakah — a portion of the salat, the prescribed prayers said five times a day, that combines a ritual of bows and prostrations with the recitation of prayers.
- rieka — a seaport in W Croatia, on the Adriatic.
- ruska — Ernst (August Friedrich) [ernst ou-goo st free-drikh] /ɛrnst ˈaʊ gʊst ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1906–88, German physicist and electrical engineer: developed electron microscope; Nobel prize 1986.
- sakai — a member of a tribal people of Malaya.
- shaka — died 1828, Zulu military leader, who founded the Zulu Empire in southern Africa
- sitka — a town in SE Alaska, on an island in the Alexander Archipelago: the capital of former Russian America.
- skaif — a wheel on which diamonds and other gems are ground or polished.
- skail — a scattering or dispersal
- skald — one of the ancient Scandinavian poets.
- skank — Slang. to dance rhythmically in a loose-limbed manner.
- skate — a person; fellow: He's a good skate.
- skatt — a throw
- sloka — a couplet or distich of Sanskrit verse, especially one with each line containing 16 syllables.
- stuka — a German two-seated dive bomber with a single in-line engine, used by the Luftwaffe in World War II.
- tanka — a Japanese poem consisting of 31 syllables in 5 lines, with 5 syllables in the first and third lines and 7 in the others.
- tikal — an ancient Mayan city occupied c200 b.c. to a.d. 900, an important center of Mayan civilization, situated in Petén in the jungles of northern Guatemala and the site of significant archaeological discoveries in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
- tikka — (of meat, esp chicken or lamb) marinated in spices then dry-roasted, usually in a clay oven
- tokay — an aromatic wine made from Furmint grapes grown in the district surrounding Tokay, a town in NE Hungary.
- tunka — wax gourd.
- ukaea — United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority
- ukase — (in czarist Russia) an edict or order of the czar having the force of law.
- vakas — an outer garment worn by priests in the Armenian church
- vodka — an unaged, colorless, distilled spirit, originally made in Russia.
- wanka — (British English) eye dialect of wanker.
- wekas — Plural form of weka.
- wokas — a yellow pond lily, Nuphar polysepalum, of northwestern North America, having heart-shaped leaves and cup-shaped flowers.
- yakka — work, especially hard work.
- yokai — Any of various supernatural monsters, sometimes shapeshifters, in Japanese folklore.
- zakah — a tax, comprising percentages of personal income of every kind, levied as almsgiving for the relief of the poor: the third of the Pillars of Islam.
- zakat — a tax, comprising percentages of personal income of every kind, levied as almsgiving for the relief of the poor: the third of the Pillars of Islam.
- ziska — Johann [yoh-hahn] /ˈyoʊ hɑn/ (Show IPA), Žižka, Jan.
- zizka — Jan [yahn] /yɑn/ (Show IPA), c1370–1424, Bohemian Hussite military leader.
- `akka — a city and port in N Israel, strategically situated on the Bay of Acre in the E Mediterranean: taken and retaken during the Crusades (1104, 1187, 1191, 1291), taken by the Turks (1517), by Egypt (1832), and by the Turks again (1839). Pop: 45 600 (2001)