5-letter words starting with ke
- kerel — a chap or fellow
- keres — a member of any of seven Indian pueblos in N.Mex., mostly on the Rio Grande
- kerfs — Plural form of kerf.
- keris — Alternative spelling of kris.
- kerki — a city in E Turkmenistan: trade center.
- kerky — stupid
- kerma — the quotient of the sum of the initial kinetic energies of all the charged particles liberated by indirectly ionizing radiation in a volume element of a material divided by the mass of the volume element. The SI unit is the gray
- kerne — a band of lightly armed foot soldiers of ancient Ireland.
- kerns — Plural form of kern.
- kerry — one of an Irish breed of small, black dairy cattle.
- kerst — Donald William, 1911–1994, U.S. physicist.
- kesey — Ken. 1935–2001, US novelist, best-known for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962)
- kesha — a female given name: from an African word meaning “favorite.”.
- kesia — a female given name: from an African word meaning “favorite.”.
- ketal — (chemistry) any acetal derived from a ketone.
- ketch — a sailing vessel rigged fore and aft on two masts, the larger, forward one being the mainmast and the after one, stepped forward of the rudderpost, being the mizzen or jigger.
- keto- — indicating that a chemical compound is a ketone or is derived from a ketone
- ketol — (organic chemistry) acyloin.
- kevel — a hammer for the rough dressing of stone, having one square face and one pyramidal face.
- kevil — A sturdy belaying pin for the heavier cables of a ship.
- kevin — a male given name, form of Kenneth.
- kexes — the dry, usually hollow stem or stalk of various plants, especially of large plants belonging to the parsley family, as cow parsnip or wild chervil.
- keyed — chief; major; important; essential; fundamental; pivotal: a key person in the company; key industries.
- keyer — One who, or that which, keys.