8-letter words containing ka
- diddikai — a person of partial Gypsy extraction.
- djakarta — a seaport in and the capital of Indonesia, on the NW coast of Java.
- drunkard — a person who is habitually or frequently drunk.
- dunkable — (informal) Suitable for dunking (as of food).
- fanakalo — a lingua franca based on English, Afrikaans, Xhosa, and Zulu, used especially in the mines of South Africa.
- flokatis — Plural form of flokati.
- gavaskar — Sunil Manohar (ˈsʊnɪl ˈmænəʊhɑː). born 1949, Indian cricketer: played in 125 test matches (1971–87), 47 as captain; first batsman to score more than 10,000 test runs
- gorlovka — a city in SE Ukraine, N of Donetsk.
- hackable — (computing) That can be hacked or broken into; insecure, vulnerable.
- hakafoth — a ceremony on Simhath Torah and on other occasions in which members of a synagogue congregation carry Torah scrolls around the synagogue seven or more times.
- hanukkah — a Jewish festival lasting eight days, celebrated from the 25th day of the month of Kislev to the 2nd of Tevet in commemoration of the rededication of the Temple by the Maccabees following their victory over the Syrians under Antiochus IV, characterized chiefly by the lighting of the menorah on each night of the festival.
- haskalah — an 18th–19th-century movement among central and eastern European Jews, begun in Germany under the leadership of Moses Mendelssohn, designed to make Jews and Judaism more cosmopolitan in character by promoting knowledge of and contributions to the secular arts and sciences and encouraging adoption of the dress, customs, and language of the general population.
- hayakawa — S(amuel) I(chiye) [ih-chee-ey] /ɪˈtʃi eɪ/ (Show IPA), 1906–92, U.S. semanticist, educator, and politician, born in Canada: senator 1977–83.
- hirakata — a city on S Honshu, in Japan, NE of Osaka.
- hokkaido — a large island in N Japan. 30,303 sq. mi. (78,485 sq. km).
- horokaka — a New Zealand low-growing plant, Disphyma australe with fleshy leaves and pink or white flowers
- hrdlicka — Aleš [ah-lesh] /ˈɑ lɛʃ/ (Show IPA), 1869–1943, U.S. anthropologist, born in Austria-Hungary.
- hrvatska — Croatian name of Croatia.
- ichikawa — a city on E Honshu, in Japan, NE of Tokyo.
- jackaroo — an inexperienced person working as an apprentice on a sheep ranch.
- jackatar — a Newfoundland native of mixed French and Amerindian descent.
- jickajog — a jogging or rolling motion
- ka-ching — expressing sth moneymaking
- kaapstad — Afrikaans name of Cape Town.
- kabbalah — a system of esoteric theosophy and theurgy developed by rabbis, reaching its peak about the 12th and 13th centuries, and influencing certain medieval and Renaissance Christian thinkers. It was based on a mystical method of interpreting Scripture by which initiates claimed to penetrate sacred mysteries. Among its central doctrines are, all creation is an emanation from the Deity and the soul exists from eternity.
- kabeljou — a large marine sciaenid fish, Argyrosomus hololepidotus, that is an important food fish of South African waters
- kabinett — cabinet (def 10).
- kablooey — (colloquial) alternative spelling of kablooie.
- kablooie — (colloquial) A failure, meltdown; or explosion; a splat or splash.
- kabloona — a white man; a European.
- kaboodle — Alternative spelling of caboodle.
- kabouter — (Dutch mythology) A tiny folkloric man who traditionally wears a pointy red hat, lives in harmony with nature and resides in mushrooms, similar to a gnome, leprechaun or a smurf.
- kachahri — (in India) a courthouse
- kachinas — Plural form of kachina.
- kaffiyeh — an Arab headdress for men; made from a diagonally folded square of cloth held in place by an agal wound around the head.
- kaieteur — a waterfall in central Guyana, on a tributary of the Essequibo River. 741 feet (226 meters) high.
- kailyard — a kitchen garden.
- kaimakam — a deputy governor or lieutenant
- kaingang — Caingang.
- kairouan — a city in NE Tunisia: a holy city of Islam.
- kaiserin — the wife of a Kaiser
- kaitiaki — (NZ) The M\u0101ori concept of guardianship of the natural environment.
- kakariki — any of various green-feathered New Zealand parrots of the genus Cyanoramphus
- kakemono — a vertical hanging scroll containing either text or a painting, intended to be viewed on a wall and rolled when not in use.
- kakiemon — a Japanese porcelain design credited to Kakiemon Sakaida, first produced in the 17th century and widely collected and imitated in the West
- kakinada — a port city in Andhra Pradesh state, SE India.
- kakogawa — a city in S Honshu, Japan.
- kalahari — a desert region in SW Africa, largely in Botswana. 100,000 sq. mi. (259,000 sq. km).
- kalamata — Kalamata olive.
- kalamdan — a Persian pen-box