5-letter words that end in k
- kapok — the silky down that invests the seeds of a silk-cotton tree (ka·pok tree) Ceiba pentandra, of the East Indies, Africa, and tropical America: used for stuffing pillows, life jackets, etc., and for acoustical insulation.
- 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.
- kelek — a raft or float supported on inflated animal skins used in Iraq, parts of Turkey, etc.
- kerak — Kerak.
- kiack — Alternative form of kayak.
- kiosk — a small structure having one or more sides open, used as a newsstand, refreshment stand, bandstand, etc.
- klick — a kilometer.
- kluck — Alexander von [ah-le-ksahn-duh r fuh n] /ˌɑ lɛˈksɑn dər fən/ (Show IPA), 1846–1934, German general.
- knack — a special skill, talent, or aptitude: He had a knack for saying the right thing.
- kneck — (UK, nautical) The twisting of a rope or cable, as it is running out.
- knick — Alternative spelling of nick.
- knock — to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
- knuck — Informal. knuckle.
- kodak — (dated) A camera: a device for taking still photographs.
- kodok — a village in the SE Sudan, on the White Nile: conflict of British and French colonial interests 1898 (Fashoda Incident)
- konak — a large, usually official residence.
- kopek — A monetary unit of Russia and some other countries of the former Soviet Union, equal to one hundredth of a ruble.
- krunk — Alternative spelling of crunk.
- kulak — a comparatively wealthy peasant who employed hired labor or possessed farm machinery and who was viewed and treated by the Communists during the drive to collectivize agriculture in the 1920s and 1930s as an oppressor and class enemy.
- kursk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe.
- kyack — 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.
- lasik — a surgical procedure to correct nearsightedness, farsightedness, or astigmatism in which a laser is used to remove inner layers of corneal tissue.
- lutsk — a city in NW Ukraine, on the Styr River.
- malik — Adam, 1917–84, Indonesian politician and diplomat.
- manak — a wooden ball fitted with hooks and attached to a rope, used by Eskimos to secure and haul in seals killed offshore.
- merck — Obsolete spelling of mark (15th-17th c.).
- minsk — Official name Belarus. Formerly White Russian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. a republic in E Europe, N of Ukraine: formerly a part of the Soviet Union. 80,154 sq. mi. (207,600 sq. km). Capital: Minsk.
- miwok — a member of an American Indian people formerly living in several noncontiguous areas of California north of San Francisco Bay and eastward from the San Joaquin-Sacramento delta to the Sierras.
- monck — Sir Charles Stanley (4th Viscount Monck, 1st Baron Monck) 1819–94, British colonial administrator, born in Ireland: governor general of Canada 1861–68.
- mujik — a Russian peasant.
- muzak — Alternative capitalization of Muzak.
- nanak — ("Guru") 1469–1539, Indian religious leader: founder of Sikhism.
- nasik — a city in W Maharashtra, in W central India: pilgrimage city of the Hindus.
- ntalk — (chat) ("new talk") An update of the Unix "talk" program, old versions of "talk" being referred to as "old talk". New talk and old talk are generally incompatible, and attempts to get them to communicate result in entirely unhelpful error messages. On most modern Unix systems, the program "talk" is new talk, with some SunOS versions being a notable and annoying exception to this.
- ozark — a town in SE Alabama.
- pajek — (mathematics) A program for analysing and visualising large networks. "Pajek" is Slovene for spider. The program runs on Windows and is free for noncommercial use. Pajek is developed by Vladimir Batagelj and Andrej Mrvar with contributions from Matjaž Zaveršnik.
- pamuk — Orhan. born 1952, Turkish novelist and writer; author of The Black Book (1990), My Name is Red (1998), Snow (2002), and Istanbul: Memories of a City (2003). Nobel prize for literature 2006
- pasok — Panhellenic Socialist Movement
- pbcak — PEBCAK
- pbook — a printed book. Compare e-book.
- perak — a state in Malaysia, on the SW Malay Peninsula. 7980 sq. mi. (20,668 sq. km). Capital: Ipoh.
- pinsk — a city in SW Byelorussia (Belarus), E of Brest.
- plack — a very small copper coin used in Scotland in the 15th and 16th centuries as a four-penny piece.
- plank — a long, flat piece of timber, thicker than a board.
- plink — to shoot, as with a rifle, at targets selected at whim: to plink at coins tossed in the air.
- plock — a city in central Poland, on the Vistula River.
- plonk — inferior or cheap wine.
- plouk — a pimple
- pluck — to pull off or out from the place of growth, as fruit, flowers, feathers, etc.: to pluck feathers from a chicken.
- plunk — to pluck (a stringed instrument or its strings); twang: to plunk a guitar.