5-letter words containing ka
- kajar — a dynasty that ruled Persia 1794–1925.
- kakke — Beriberi.
- kalam — (sometimes lowercase) a school of philosophical theology originating in the 9th century a.d., asserting the existence of God as a prime mover and the freedom of the will.
- kalan — (archaic) The sea otter.
- kalat — a region in S Baluchistan, in SW Pakistan.
- kales — Plural form of kale.
- kalif — a spiritual leader of Islam, claiming succession from Muhammad.
- kalon — Ideal perfect beauty in the physical and moral sense, especially as perceived by Greek philosophers.
- kalpa — a thousand cycles of Maha Yugas.
- kamal — A navigation device, known to the Arabs and Chinese of the ancient world, consisting of a wooden card and knotted string.
- kamba — an agricultural people of central Kenya, renowned as traders and woodcarvers.
- kames — Plural form of kame.
- kamet — a mountain on the border of China and India, west of Nepal in the Himalayas. Height: 7756 m (25 447 ft)
- kamik — a mukluk made of sealskin.
- 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.
- kapok — the silky down that invests the seeds of a silk-cotton tree (ka·pok tree) Ceiba pentandra, of the East Indies, Africa, and tropical America: used for stuffing pillows, life jackets, etc., and for acoustical insulation.
- kapos — a Nazi concentration camp prisoner who was given privileges in return for supervising prisoner work gangs: often a common criminal and frequently brutal to fellow inmates.
- kapow — Alternative spelling of kerpow.
- kappa — the tenth letter of the Greek alphabet (K, k).
- kaput — ruined; done for; demolished.
- karaj — a city in N Iran, near Tehran.
- karan — Donna. born 1948, US fashion designer; creator of the DKNY clothing label
- karas — Plural form of kara.
- karat — a unit for measuring the fineness of gold, pure gold being 24 karats fine. Abbreviation: k., kt.
- karel — Language featured in Karel the Robot: A Gentle Introduction to Computer Programming, Richard E. Pattis, Wiley 1981.
- karen — a group of people of eastern and southern Burma (Myanmar).
- karez — (in parts of central southern Asia) a qanat.
- karla — a female given name, form of Caroline.
- karma — Hinduism, Buddhism. action, seen as bringing upon oneself inevitable results, good or bad, either in this life or in a reincarnation: in Hinduism one of the means of reaching Brahman. Compare bhakti (def 1), jnana.
- karol — a female given name.
- karoo — a vast plateau in the Republic of South Africa, in Cape of Good Hope province. 100,000 sq. mi. (260,000 sq. km); 3000–4000 feet (900–1200 meters) above sea level.
- karri — an Australian gum tree, Eucalyptus diversicolor.
- karsh — Yousuf [yoh-suh f,, yoo-] /ˈyoʊ səf,, ˈyu-/ (Show IPA), 1908–2002, Armenian-Canadian photographer, born in Turkey.
- karst — an area of limestone terrane characterized by sinks, ravines, and underground streams.
- karts — Plural form of kart.
- karun — a river in SW Iran, flowing SW to the Shatt-al-Arab. About 515 miles (830 km) long.
- karyn — a female given name.
- kasai — a river in S central Africa, flowing from central Angola to and then NW along the Angola-Democratic Republic of the Congo border and through the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the Congo (Zaire) River. About 1100 miles (1770 km) long.
- kasha — a soft food prepared from hulled and crushed grain, especially buckwheat.