4-letter words starting with k
- koki — (South Africa) A fibre-tip pen.
- koko — lebbek (def 2).
- koku — a Japanese unit of dry measure equivalent to 5.12 bushels (1.8 hectoliters).
- kola — a carbonated soft drink containing an extract made from kola nuts, together with sweeteners and other flavorings.
- koli — a people of low caste in northern India.
- kolk — (geology) an underwater vortex similar to a whirlwind. Capable of dislodging, picking up, and moving boulders.
- koln — German name of Cologne.
- kolo — a Serbian folk dance performed by a group arranged in a circle, with the soloists in the center.
- komi — a member of a Uralic people of northeastern European Russia.
- kona — a southwesterly winter wind in Hawaii, often strong and bringing rain.
- kong — In the game of mahjong, a set of four identical tiles.
- konk — Alternative spelling of conk.
- kook — an eccentric, strange, or foolish person.
- kool — (slang, informal) alternative spelling of cool.
- koph — the nineteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- kora — A West African musical instrument shaped like a lute, with 21 strings passing over a high bridge, and played like a harp.
- kore — Greek Antiquity. a sculptured representation of a young woman, especially one produced prior to the 5th century b.c.
- kori — The monetary unit of w Kutch prior to 1947, divided into 24 dokda.
- koro — a culture-specific syndrome, occurring chiefly in China and southeastern Asia, characterized by anxiety and the fear of retraction of the penis or breasts and labia into the body.
- koru — a stylized curved pattern used esp in carving
- koss — Alternative form of coss.
- kota — a city in NW India, in Rajasthan on the Chambal River: textile industry. Pop.: 695 899 (2001)
- koto — a Japanese musical instrument having numerous strings, usually seven or thirteen, that are stretched over a convex wooden sounding board and are plucked with three plectra, worn on the thumb, index finger, and middle finger of one hand.
- kqml — Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language
- krab — Short for carabiner.
- krai — A region or province in Russia (край).
- krak — Kerak.
- kran — a former silver coin of Iran.
- krim — Crimea
- krio — an English-based creole of Sierra Leone, a first language of the residents of Freetown and its environs, and a lingua franca elsewhere in the country.
- kris — a short sword or heavy dagger with a wavy blade, used by the Malays.
- krym — the, a peninsula in SE Ukraine, between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
- kstj — Knight of the Order of St John
- kthx — (chat) OK, thanks. Can be used as a (sarcastic) prefix, as in "plz2stfukthx".
- kudo — honor; glory; acclaim: No greater kudo could have been bestowed.
- kudu — a large African antelope, Tragelaphus strepsiceros, the male of which has large corkscrewlike horns.
- kueh — (in Malaysia) any cake of Malay, Chinese, or Indian origin
- kufa — a town in central Iraq: former seat of Abbassid caliphate; Muslim pilgrimage center.
- kufi — A type of brimless, rounded cap worn by people of African descent.
- kuhn — Margaret ("Maggie") 1905–95, U.S. activist: a founder of the Gray Panthers.
- kuia — a Māori female elder or elderly woman
- kuip — Kernel User Interface Package
- kuku — a mussel
- kula — (in some Pacific communities) an interisland system of ceremonial gift exchange as a prelude to or at the same time as regular trading.
- kuli — Archaic spelling of coolie.
- kuna — the basic monetary unit of Croatia, equal to 100 lipa.
- kung — Hans, born 1928, Swiss Roman Catholic theologian and writer: critic of papal authority.
- kura — a river flowing from NE Turkey, through the Georgian Republic and Azerbaijan SE to the Caspian Sea. 950 miles (1530 km) long.
- kurd — a member of an Islamic people speaking Kurdish and dwelling chiefly in Kurdistan.
- kure — a seaport on SW Honshu, in SW Japan.