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Words ending with key

3 letter words ending with key

  • key — a small metal instrument specially cut to fit into a lock and move its bolt.
  • allen key — an L-shaped tool consisting of a rod having a hexagonal cross section, used to turn a screw (Allen screw) with a hexagonal recess in the head. A different size of key is required for each size of screw
  • alt key — either of two keys on a PC keyboard that is held down while pressing another key, as to perform a specific operation or type a special character.
  • any key — (humour, hardware)   The key that particularly confused users look for on their computer keyboards when instructed to "Press any key to continue". "But my keyboard doesn't have a key labelled 'any'!".
  • arrow key — (hardware)   One of four keys on a keyboard marked with arrows pointing up, down, left and right. The arrow keys are used for such things as moving the cursor in a text document, for moving the input focus between the fields of a form or sometimes for scrolling a picture.

4 letter words ending with key

  • ikey — a student at the University of Cape Town, esp one representing the University in a sport
  • okey — (dated) Alternative form of OK.

5 letter words ending with key

  • ackey — a silver coin minted in England in the late 18th and early 19th centuries for use in western Africa.
  • askey — Arthur. 1900–82, British comedian
  • cakey — a sweet, baked, breadlike food, made with or without shortening, and usually containing flour, sugar, baking powder or soda, eggs, and liquid flavoring.
  • dikey — dyke2 .
  • dykey — a contemptuous term used to refer to a lesbian.

6 letter words ending with key

  • ashkey — the winged fruit of the ash
  • blakey — Art, full name Arthur Blakey. (1919–90), US Black jazz drummer and leader of the Jazz Messengers band
  • chokey — (dated, British) prison.
  • crikey — Some people say crikey in order to express surprise, especially at something unpleasant.
  • darkey — (slang, offensive, ethnic slur) A person with dark skin.

7 letter words ending with key

  • cheskey — a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of Czech extraction, usually an immigrant.
  • chunkey — A sport or game played by the Cherokee and other Native Americans in the Carolinas, which involved rolling stone disks across the ground and throwing spears at them in an attempt to place the spear as close to the stopped stone as possible.
  • debakeyMichael Ellis, 1908–2008, U.S. physician: pioneer in heart surgery.
  • flunkey — flunky.
  • low-key — of reduced intensity; restrained; understated.

8 letter words ending with key

  • card-key — a small plastic card with magnetic coding that is read electronically when inserted into a scanner and used in place of a key to open locks, hotel doors, etc.
  • dohickey — Alternative spelling of doohickey.
  • high-key — (of a photograph) having chiefly light tones, usually with little tonal contrast (distinguished from low-key).
  • latchkey — a key for releasing a latch or springlock, especially on an outer door.
  • malarkey — speech or writing designed to obscure, mislead, or impress; bunkum: The claims were just a lot of malarkey.

9 letter words ending with key

  • chromakey — (in colour television) a special effect in which a coloured background can be eliminated and a different background substituted
  • color-key — color-code.
  • doohickey — a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
  • mccloskeyJohn, 1810–85, U.S. Roman Catholic clergyman: first U.S. cardinal 1875.
  • mullarkey — Alternative form of malarkey.

10 letter words ending with key

  • hokeypokey — (US) A group dance performed in a circle, in which people move various of their body parts in and out of the middle, and shake them about.

11 letter words ending with key

  • cold-turkey — to withdraw from (an addictive substance or a habit) abruptly and completely.
  • hokey-pokey — hocus-pocus; trickery.
  • wakey-wakey — used for telling someone that they should wake up or should pay attention

14 letter words ending with key

  • bonded-whiskey — something that binds, fastens, confines, or holds together.

On this page, we collect all words that ending in KEY. To make easier to find the right word we have divided all 213 words to groups according to their length. So you should go to appropriate page if can’t find the word that ends in KEY that you are searching. Also you can use this page in Scrabble.

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