5-letter words containing an
- kansa — a member of a North American Indian people formerly of eastern Kansas, now living mostly in northern Oklahoma.
- kansu — Wade-Giles. Gansu.
- kanzu — a long, usually white robe worn especially by men in central and eastern Africa.
- karan — Donna. born 1948, US fashion designer; creator of the DKNY clothing label
- 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.
- khana — (India, Pakistan) food, a meal.
- khans — Plural form of khan.
- kiang — a wild ass, Equus kiang, of Tibet and Mongolia.
- kisan — (in India) a peasant.
- klang — a tone composed of several notes sounding together
- koans — Plural form of koan.
- koban — old oval-shaped Japanese gold coin
- koran — the sacred text of Islam, divided into 114 chapters, or suras: revered as the word of God, dictated to Muhammad by the archangel Gabriel, and accepted as the foundation of Islamic law, religion, culture, and politics.
- krang — The carcass of a whale after the blubber has been removed.
- krans — a former silver coin of Iran.
- kuban — a river flowing NW from the Caucasus Mountains to the Black and the Azov seas. 512 miles (825 km) long.
- kulan — the Asiatic wild ass of the Russian steppes, probably a variety of kiang or onager
- laban — the father of Leah and Rachel and the father-in-law of Jacob. Gen. 24:29; 29:16–30.
- lacan — Jacques, 1901–81, French philosopher and psychoanalyst.
- lagan — anything sunk in the sea, but attached to a buoy or the like so that it may be recovered.
- lanai — a veranda, especially a fully furnished one used as a living room.
- lance — a male given name.
- lanch — (UK, dialect) A large bed of flints.
- lancs — Lancashire
- lande — a type of moorland in SW France
- lando — died a.d. 914, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 913–914.
- lands — any part of the earth's surface not covered by a body of water; the part of the earth's surface occupied by continents and islands: Land was sighted from the crow's nest.
- landy — John Michael, born 1930, Australian track athlete and political leader: governor of Victoria 2001–06.
- laned — Divided into lanes, as with a road.
- laner — lone.
- lanes — Plural form of lane.
- lange — Christian Louis [kris-tyahn loo-ee,, -is] /ˈkrɪs tyɑn ˈlu i,, -ɪs/ (Show IPA), 1869–1938, Norwegian historian: Nobel Peace Prize 1921.
- lanky — ungracefully thin and rawboned; bony; gaunt: a very tall and lanky man.
- lanny — a male given name, form of Lenny.
- lansa — langsat.
- lanus — a city in E Argentina, S of Buenos Aires.
- lanza — Mario (Alfredo Arnold Cocozza) 1921–59, U.S. tenor and film actor.
- lauan — Philippine mahogany.
- leane — Obsolete form of lean.
- leans — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lean.
- leant — a past participle and simple past tense of lean1 .
- leany — (obsolete) lean.
- leban — Coagulated sour milk diluted with water.
- leman — Lake. Geneva, Lake of.
- lexan — a polycarbonate resin, used in molded products, as a substitute for glass, etc.
- liana — any of various usually woody vines that may climb as high as the tree canopy in a tropical forest.
- liane — Archaic form of liana.
- liang — a Chinese unit of weight, equal to 1/16 (0.0625) catty, and equivalent to about 1.33 ounces (38 grams).
- ligan — lagan.
- liman — a muddy lagoon, marsh, or lake near the mouth of a river behind part of the delta and more or less protected from open water by a barrier or spit.