7-letter words starting with ke
- kenosha — a port in SE Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan.
- kenosis — the doctrine that Christ relinquished His divine attributes so as to experience human suffering.
- kenotic — the doctrine that Christ relinquished His divine attributes so as to experience human suffering.
- kentish — of or relating to Kent or its people.
- kentuck — Kentucky.
- kepheus — Cepheus (def 2).
- keramic — ceramic.
- keratin — a scleroprotein or albuminoid substance, found in the dead outer skin layer, and in horn, hair, feathers, hoofs, nails, claws, bills, etc.
- kerato- — indicating horn or a horny substance
- kerbaya — a blouse worn by Malay women
- kerbela — a town in central Iraq: holy city of the Shiʿite sect.
- kerbing — the material forming a curb, as along a street.
- kercher — (obsolete) A kerchief.
- kerchoo — Alternative form of achoo.
- keresan — a family of languages spoken by Pueblo tribes of the Rio Grande valley and neighboring areas.
- kerflop — with or as if with a flop: He fell kerflop.
- kérkira — Corfu
- kerkyra — Greek name of Corfu.
- kermess — (in the Low Countries) a local, annual outdoor fair or festival.
- kernels — Plural form of kernel.
- kerning — Obsolete. a kernel, as of a nut; a grain, as of sand or wheat.
- kernish — of, belonging to, or resembling a kern
- kernite — a mineral, hydrated sodium borate, Na 2 B 4 O 7 ⋅4H 2 O, occurring in transparent colorless crystals: the principal source of boron compounds in the U.S.
- kerogen — the bituminous matter in oil shale, from which shale oil is obtained by heating and distillation.
- kerouac — Jack (Jean-Louis Lefris de Kérouac) 1922–69, U.S. novelist.
- kerrang — The sound of a power chord on an electric guitar.
- kerseys — Plural form of kersey.
- kerugma — the preaching of the gospel of Christ, especially in the manner of the early church.
- kerulen — a river in NE Mongolia, flowing S and E to Kulun Lake, in NE China: a headstream of the Amur River 785 miles (1263 km) long.
- kerygma — the preaching of the gospel of Christ, especially in the manner of the early church.
- kestral — Misspelling of kestrel.
- kestrel — a common small falcon, Falco tinnunculus, of northern parts of the Eastern Hemisphere, notable for hovering in the air with its head to the wind.
- keswick — a market town in NW England, in Cumbria in the Lake District: tourist centre. Pop: 4984 (2001)
- ketched — Simple past tense and past participle of ketch.
- ketches — Plural form of ketch.
- ketchup — a condiment consisting of puréed tomatoes, onions, vinegar, sugar, spices, etc.
- ketones — Plural form of ketone.
- ketonic — any of a class of organic compounds containing a carbonyl group, CO, attached to two alkyl groups, as CH 3 COCH 3 or CH 3 COC 2 H 5 .
- ketoses — the accumulation of excessive ketones in the body, as in diabetic acidosis.
- ketosis — the accumulation of excessive ketones in the body, as in diabetic acidosis.
- ketotic — Of, pertaining to, or afflicted with ketosis.
- kettled — Simple past tense and past participle of kettle.
- kettles — Plural form of kettle.
- ketubah — the formal contract in a Jewish religious marriage that includes specific financial protection for the wife in the event that the husband dies or divorces her.
- keturah — the second wife of Abraham. Gen. 25:1.
- ketuvim — the Hagiographa.
- kevalin — a person who is free of karmic matter, detached, and omniscient; Tirthankara.
- kewanee — a city in NW Illinois.
- kewpies — Plural form of kewpie.
- keycard — a plastic card, similar to a credit card, containing data on an embedded magnetized strip that can electronically unlock a door, activate a machine, etc.