5-letter words starting with ka
- 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.
- kashi — a city in W Xinjiang Uygur, in extreme W China.
- kaska — a member of a group of North American Indians of northern British Columbia and southern Yukon Territory.
- kasme — I swear!
- kasra — In Arabic script, the vowel point for
- kassa — Hungarian name of Košice.
- kata- — cata-
- katal — the derived SI unit of catalytic activity equal to one mole per second
- katar — an independent emirate on the Persian Gulf; under British protection until 1971. 8500 sq. mi. (22,000 sq. km). Capital: Doha.
- katas — Plural form of kata.
- kathy — Kathrynne Ann ("Kathy") born 1939, U.S. golfer.
- katie — a female given name, form of Katherine or Catherine.
- katla — an ice-capped volcano in the Mýrdalsjökull glacier in south Iceland. Its last major eruption was in 1918. Height: 1512 m (4961 ft)
- kauai — an island in NW Hawaii. 511 sq. mi. (1325 sq. km).
- kauch — kiaugh.
- kauri — Also, kauri pine. a tall, coniferous tree, Agathis australis, of New Zealand, yielding a valuable timber and a resin.
- kauru — the edible stem of the cabbage tree
- kaury — kauri.
- kaval — an end-blown flute played in SE Europe
- kavos — a coastal village on Corfu: tourist resort. Pop: 830 (2001)
- kavya — a type of classical Sanskrit devotional poetry.
- kayak — an Eskimo canoe with a skin cover on a light framework, made watertight by flexible closure around the waist of the occupant and propelled with a double-bladed paddle.
- kayes — a city in W Mali.
- kayla — a female given name.
- kayle — A pin used in kayles or skittles.
- kayos — a knockout in boxing.
- kazan — Republic of, an autonomous republic in central Russia on the E European Plain, at the confluence of the Volga and Kama rivers. 26,192 sq. mi. (67,836 sq. km). Capital: Kazan.
- kazin — Alfred, 1915–98, U.S. literary critic.