5 Letter Words That Start With K

kudos

Noun : Praise; accolades.

Noun : Credit for one's achievements.

Verb : (informal) To give praise or accolades.

knife

Noun : A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal (the blade), usually sharpened on one edge, attached to a handle. The blade may be pointed for piercing.

Noun : A weapon designed with the aforementioned specifications intended for slashing and/or stabbing and too short to be called a sword. A dagger.

Noun : Any blade-like part in a tool or a machine designed for cutting, such as that of a chipper.

kante

Noun : A surname.

karma

Noun : (Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism) The sum total of a person's actions, which determine the person's next incarnation in samsara, the cycle of death and rebirth.

Noun : A force or law of nature which causes one to reap what one sows; destiny; fate.

Noun : (uncommon) A distinctive feeling, aura, or atmosphere.

kneel

Verb : (intransitive) To rest on one's bent knees, sometimes only one; to move to such a position.

Verb : (intransitive, of a bus or other vehicle) To sink down so that the entrance is level with the pavement, making it easier for passengers to enter.

Verb : (transitive) To cause to kneel.

known

Adjective : Identified as a specific type; famous, renowned.

Adjective : Accepted, familiar, researched.

Noun : Any fact or situation which is known or familiar.

knack

Noun : A readiness in performance; aptness at doing something.

Noun : A petty contrivance; a toy.

Noun : Something performed, or to be done, requiring aptness and dexterity.

knock

Noun : An abrupt rapping sound, as from an impact of a hard object against wood.

Noun : A sharp impact.

Noun : (figuratively) A criticism.

knave

Noun : (archaic) A boy; especially, a boy servant.

Noun : (archaic) Any male servant; a menial.

Noun : A tricky, deceitful fellow; a dishonest person.

kiosk

Noun : A small enclosed structure, often freestanding, open on one side or with a window, used as a booth to sell newspapers, cigarettes, etc.

Noun : A similar unattended stand for the automatic dispensing of tickets, etc.

Noun : A public telephone booth.

knell

Verb : (intransitive) To ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll.

Verb : (transitive) To signal or proclaim something (especially a death) by ringing a bell.

Verb : (transitive) To summon by, or as if by, ringing a bell.

khaki

Noun : A dull, yellowish-brown colour, the colour of dust.

Noun : Khaki green, a dull green colour.

Noun : A strong cloth of wool or cotton, often used for military or other uniforms.

kinky

Adjective : Full of kinks; liable to kink or curl.

Adjective : (informal) Marked by unconventional sexual preferences or behavior, as fetishism, sadomasochism, and other sexual practices.

Adjective : Queer; eccentric; crotchety.

kreel

Noun : Alternative form of creel (“basket”) [A woven basket, especially a wicker basket and especially as follows:]

knead

Verb : (transitive) To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; especially, to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, the materials of bread, cake, etc.

Verb : (transitive, figuratively) To treat or form as if by kneading; to beat.

Verb : (intransitive, felinology) Of cats, to make an alternating pressing motion with the two front paws.

kayak

Noun : A type of small boat, covered over by a surface deck, powered by the occupant or occupants using a double-bladed paddle in a sitting position, from a hole in the surface deck

Verb : (intransitive) To use a kayak, to travel or race in a kayak.

Verb : (transitive) To traverse (a body of water) by kayak.

kapow

Noun : a sudden sharp soun

kapok

Noun : A silky fibre obtained from seed pods of the silk-cotton tree (Ceiba pentandra) used for insulation and stuffing for mattresses, pillows, etc.

Noun : A silk-cotton tree (Ceiba pentandra).

Noun : A cotton tree, Malabar silk-cotton tree, or red silk-cotton tree (Bombax ceiba).

kitty

Noun : (informal) A kitten or young cat.

Noun : (childish, sometimes capitalized) A pet name for a cat.

Noun : A money pool used for a particular purpose, such as for a card game or for shared expenses.

knoll

Noun : A small mound or rounded hill.

Noun : (oceanography) A rounded, underwater hill with a prominence of less than 1,000 metres, which does not breach the water's surface.

Noun : A knell.

kefir

Noun : A fermented milk drink from the Caucasus and Eastern Europe, similar to yogurt but more liquid.

Noun : Alternative form of kafir [(Islam, countable, offensive, religious slur) A disbeliever, a denier: someone who rejects or disbelieves in Allah or the tenets of Islam; or more broadly any non-Muslim.]

ketch

Noun : A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen being stepped forward of the rudder post.

Verb : (rare) To hang.

Noun : A hangman.

kendo

Noun : A Japanese martial art using "swords" of split bamboo.

kedge

Noun : (nautical) A small anchor used for warping a vessel.

Noun : (Yorkshire) A glutton.

Verb : (transitive) To warp (a vessel) by carrying out a kedge in a boat, dropping it overboard, and hauling the vessel up to it.

kulfi

Noun : A flavoured frozen dessert of South Asia, made from milk and resembling ice cream.

kaput

Adjective : (informal) Out of order; not working.

korea

Noun : A nation in East Asia. Since World War II, Korea has been divided into two sovereign states, commonly called South Korea and North Korea.

Noun : (informal) The Republic of Korea (South Korea).

Noun : (informal) The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea).

koala

Noun : A tree-dwelling marsupial, Phascolarctos cinereus, that resembles a small bear with a broad head, large ears and sharp claws, mainly found in eastern Australia.

Noun : (countable) A surname.

Noun : A West African placename

kodak

Noun : (dated) A camera: a device for taking still photographs.

Noun : (dated) A still photograph.

Verb : (transitive, dated) To photograph.

kanji

Noun : (uncountable) The system of writing Japanese using Chinese characters.

Noun : Any individual Chinese character as used in the Japanese language.

Noun : A North Indian fermented drink made with beetroot, black mustard seeds, carrots etc.

kiddo

Noun : (US, Australia) A close friend; especially used as a form of address.

Noun : (US, Australia) A child.

kebab

Noun : (Britain) A dish of pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted on a skewer or spit, especially a doner kebab.

Noun : (Australia) A hand-held dish consisting of pieces of meat roasted on an upright skewer mixed with fresh vegetables and sauces and rolled up in a round piece of unleavened bread.

Noun : (US) A shish kebab or any other food on a skewer.

kudzu

Noun : An Asian vine (several species in the genus Pueraria, but mostly Pueraria montans var. lobata, syn. Pueraria lobata in the US), grown as a root starch, and which is a notorious invasive weed in the United States.

Noun : (cooking, medicine) A starch extracted from the root that is used in traditional East Asian medicine and cuisine.

karat

Noun : (US) A unit of fineness or concentration of gold equalling 1/24 part of gold in an alloy.

kelly

Noun : A surname from Irish, Anglicised from the Irish Ó Ceallaigh.

Noun : A unisex given name transferred from the surname

Noun : A male given name transferred from the surname.

knick

Verb : Alternative spelling of nick [(transitive) To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way.]

kooky

Adjective : (slang) Eccentric, strange, or foolish; crazy or insane; kookish.

Adjective : (surfing) Behaving like a kook (a person with poor style or skill); kook-like.

Noun : (childish) Alternative form of kookie (“kookaburra”) [(childish) A kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae) .]

krill

Noun : any of several small marine crustacean species of plankton in the order Euphausiacea in the class Malacostraca.

Noun : A surname.

karst

Noun : (geology) A type of land formation, usually with many caves formed through the dissolving of limestone by underground drainage.

Noun : A mountainous region in northeastern Italy and southwestern Slovenia.

kauri

Noun : A conifer of the genus Agathis, family Araucariaceae, found in Australasia and Melanesia.

Noun : (New Zealand) Agathis australis, a large conifer of the family Araucariaceae.

Noun : A resinous product of the kauri tree, found in the form of yellow or brown lumps in the ground where the trees have grown. It is used for making varnish, and as a substitute for amber.

kazoo

Noun : (music) A simple musical instrument (a membranophone) consisting of a pipe with a hole in it, producing a buzzing sound when the player hums into it.

Verb : To play the kazoo.

knurl

Noun : A contorted knot in wood.

Noun : A crossgrained protuberance; a nodule; a boss or projection.

Noun : A lined or crossgrained pattern of ridges or indentations rolled or pressed into a part for grip.

klute

Noun : a 1971 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed and produced by Alan J. Pakula, written by Andy and Dave Lewis, and starring Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, and Roy Scheider.

Noun : the primary recording alias of Tom Withers, a drum and bass producer and DJ from Ipswich, UK.

Noun : a crater on the Moon's far side.

kafir

Noun : (Islam, countable, offensive, religious slur) A disbeliever, a denier: someone who rejects or disbelieves in Allah or the tenets of Islam; or more broadly any non-Muslim.

Noun : (obsolete) The Nuristani language family.

Noun : (uncountable) Short for kafir corn.

krait

Noun : Any of several brightly-coloured, venomous snakes, of the genus Bungarus, of southeast Asia.

karoo

Noun : Any vast prairie bordering a desert.

Noun : (South Africa) Any of the composite bushes typical of the Karoo.

Noun : The vast plain in South Africa that borders the Kalahari Desert.

knees

Noun : In humans, the joint or the region of the joint in the middle part of the leg between the thigh and the shank.

Noun : In the horse and allied animals, the carpal joint, corresponding to the wrist in humans.

Noun : The part of a garment that covers the knee.

kafka

Noun : A surname from German.

Noun : Franz Kafka (1883–1924), a German-language writer from Prague.

karen

Noun : A female given name from Ancient Greek.

Noun : (slang, originally African-American Vernacular, derogatory) A middle-aged white woman exhibiting a sense of entitlement or white privilege.

Noun : (by extension, derogatory) Any person, especially female, exhibiting an exaggerated sense of entitlement.

klutz

Noun : (US, derogatory) A clumsy or stupid person.

Noun : A surname.

kraft

Noun : A surname.

Noun : A kind of strong, smooth brown wrapping paper.

kempt

Adjective : (now humorous) Neat and tidy; especially used of hair.

kappa

Noun : The tenth letter of the Greek alphabet.

Noun : (finance) A measurement of the sensitivity of the value of an option to changes in the implied volatility of the price of the underlying asset.

Noun : (Japanese mythology) A tortoise-like demon or imp.

kasha

Noun : A porridge made from boiled buckwheat groats, or sometimes from other cereal groats.

Noun : A kind of dry curry from Bengal.

Noun : A female given name.

kenya

Noun : A country in East Africa. Official name: Republic of Kenya.

klopp

Noun : A surname.

knish

Noun : An Eastern European Jewish, or Yiddish, snack food consisting of a dumpling covered with a shell of baked or fried dough

klein

Noun : A surname from German, equivalent to English Small.

kraal

Noun : In Central and Southern Africa, a small rural community.

Noun : In Central and Southern Africa, a rural village of huts surrounded by a stockade.

Noun : An enclosure for livestock.

kiang

Noun : A large wild ass, Equus kiang, native to the Tibetan Plateau.

Noun : (obsolete) Synonym of Yangtze, the chief river of central China.

Noun : A surname from Chinese.

kneck

Noun : (UK, nautical) The twisting of a rope or cable, as it is running out.

kinda

Verb : (colloquial) Kind of; somewhat.

Noun : A subspecies of baboon, Papio cynocephalus kindae, primarily found in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, and possibly western Tanzania.

krone

Noun : The currency of Iceland, Denmark (including Greenland and the Faroe Islands) and Norway, divided into 100 øre, except in Iceland where 1 króna = 100 aurar.

Noun : (historical) The currency of German-Austria and Liechtenstein after the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1919) until the introduction of the Austrian schilling and, in Liechtenstein, the Swiss franc.

koran

Noun : A surname from Czech.

Noun : Alternative spelling of Qur'an [The Islamic holy book, considered by Muslims to be the word of God as revealed to Muhammad.]

kings

Noun : (poker slang) A pair of kings (playing cards).

Noun : (card games) A drinking game that uses playing cards.

Noun : (biblical) One of the various books called Kings in the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh.

knelt

Verb : (intransitive) To rest on one's bent knees, sometimes only one; to move to such a position.

Verb : (intransitive, of a bus or other vehicle) To sink down so that the entrance is level with the pavement, making it easier for passengers to enter.

Verb : (transitive) To cause to kneel.

kerry

Noun : A county of Ireland.

Noun : A village and community in Powys, Wales, originally in Montgomeryshire (OS grid ref SO1489). Welsh spelling: Ceri.

Noun : A surname from Middle English derived from the place name, or from the Middle English given name Kendrick.

koine

Noun : The “common” Greek language that developed and flourished between 300 B.C.E. and 300 C.E. (the time of the Roman Empire), and from which Modern Greek descended. It was based on the Attic and Ionian dialects of Ancient Greek.

Noun : A lingua franca.

Noun : A regional language that becomes standard over time.

knipe

Noun : A surname.

kalon

Noun : Ideal perfect beauty in the physical and moral sense, especially as perceived by Greek philosophers.

kulak

Noun : (historical) A prosperous peasant in the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union, who owned land and could hire workers.

Noun : A surname.

kyrie

Noun : (Christianity) A short prayer or petition including the phrase kyrie eleison, meaning “Lord, have mercy”.

Noun : (music) A setting of the traditional kyrie text to music for a Mass.

kabob

Noun : US spelling of kebab [(Britain) A dish of pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted on a skewer or spit, especially a doner kebab.]

Verb : US spelling of kebab [(transitive) To roast in the style of a kebab]

krupp

Noun : A surname from German.

knots

Noun : A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without passing one or both ends of the material through its loops.

Noun : (of hair, etc) A tangled clump.

Noun : A maze-like pattern.

kevin

Noun : A male given name from Irish.

Noun : (Britain, derogatory, slang) A working-class male.

kuder

Noun : A surname.

knout

Noun : A leather scourge (multi-tail whip), in the severe version known as 'great knout' with metal weights on each tongue, notoriously used in imperial Russia.

Verb : To flog or beat with a knout.

klunk

Noun : A surname.

Noun : Alternative form of clunk [A dull, metallic sound, especially one made by two bodies coming into contact.]

Verb : Alternative form of clunk [To make such a sound.]

kvass

Noun : A fermented cereal-based low alcoholic beverage, often flavored with fruit, honey and herbs.

kicks

Noun : (colloquial) Pleasures, thrills.

Noun : (colloquial) Shoes.

Noun : (colloquial) Commissary, or the balance of a commissary account.

kyoto

Noun : A prefecture of Japan.

Noun : The capital city of Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, and the country's former capital.

Noun : (international law) The Kyoto Protocol.

knows

Verb : (nonstandard) All persons, singular and plural, present form of know.

kinds

Noun : A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.

Noun : A makeshift or otherwise atypical specimen.

Noun : (archaic) One's inherent nature; character, natural disposition.

kauai

Noun : The oldest and fourth-largest island of Hawaii.

kneed

Adjective : Having a knee or knees, or, in combination, the stated type of knee or knees.

Adjective : (botany) Having angular joints like the knee.

koons

Noun : A surname.

keats

Noun : A surname transferred from the nickname or originating as a patronymic.

Noun : John Keats (1795–1821), English poet and key figure of the Romantic movement.

katie

Noun : A diminutive of the female given name Catherine or any of its variant spellings.

Noun : The Missouri, Kansas and Texas (MKT) Railroad.

Noun : (poker slang) A king and a ten as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em due to phonetic similarity with "K-T"

keith

Noun : (countable) A Scottish surname.

Noun : (countable) A male given name transferred from the surname.

Noun : A placename.

krona

Noun : The official currency of Sweden.

kloof

Noun : (South Africa) A deep glen or ravine.

keyed

Adjective : (Internet slang, originally 4chan) Praiseworthy and admirable, often through exhibiting independence and security; based.

Adjective : (slang, African-American Vernacular) Intoxicated by recreational or illegal drugs; drunk or high.

kegel

Noun : The pubococcygeal muscles.

Noun : A contraction of the pubococcygeal muscles, performed for the purpose of strengthening them.

Verb : To clench one's perineum and pelvic muscles.

kraut

Noun : (ethnic slur, offensive, derogatory, slang) A German.

Noun : Clipping of sauerkraut. [(countable, uncountable) A dish made by fermenting finely chopped cabbage.]

Noun : Alternative letter-case form of Kraut (“German person”) [(ethnic slur, offensive, derogatory, slang) A German.]

kalki

Noun : (Hinduism) The tenth avatar of Vishnu.

kitch

Noun : A surname.

kirby

Noun : An English placename.

Noun : A hamlet in Ontario, Canada.

Noun : An unincorporated census-designated place in Pike County, Arkansas, United States.

kluge

Noun : Something that should not work, but does.

Noun : A device assembled from components intended for disparate purposes.

Noun : A surname.

kiddy

Noun : (obsolete, UK, slang) A man or boy.

Noun : (obsolete, UK, slang) A low thief.

Verb : (archaic) To kid; to hoax or tease.

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