5-letter words that end in k
- prank — a trick of an amusing, playful, or sometimes malicious nature.
- prick — a puncture made by a needle, thorn, or the like.
- prink — to deck or dress for show.
- pronk — a display leap performed by springbok and other antelope
- płock — a town in central Poland, on the River Vistula: several Polish kings are buried in the cathedral: oil refining, petrochemical works. Pop: 130 000 (2005 est)
- quack — a fraudulent or ignorant pretender to medical skill.
- quark — Physics. any of the hypothetical particles with spin 1/2, baryon number 1/3, and electric charge 1/3 or −2/3 that, together with their antiparticles, are believed to constitute all the elementary particles classed as baryons and mesons; they are distinguished by their flavors, designated as up (u), down (d), strange (s), charm (c), bottom or beauty (b), and top or truth (t), and their colors, red, green, and blue. Compare color (def 18), flavor (def 5), quantum chromodynamics, quark model.
- querk — (transitive) To throttle; choke; stifle; suffocate.
- quick — done, proceeding, or occurring with promptness or rapidity, as an action, process, etc.; prompt; immediate: a quick response.
- quirk — a peculiarity of action, behavior, or personality; mannerism: He is full of strange quirks.
- quonk — an accidental noise picked up on a microphone while broadcasting
- radek — Karl [kahrl] /kɑrl/ (Show IPA), 1885–1939? Russian writer and politician.
- reink — a fluid or viscous substance used for writing or printing.
- rojak — (in Malaysia) a salad dish served in chilli sauce
- rurik — died a.d. 879, Scandinavian prince: founder of the Russian monarchy.
- sansk — Sanskrit
- saruk — a tightly woven Oriental rug with soft colors and, usually, a center design.
- sculk — to lie or keep in hiding, as for some evil reason: The thief skulked in the shadows.
- sepik — a river in N Papua New Guinea, flowing E to the Bismarck Sea. 700 miles (1126 km) long.
- shack — a rough cabin; shanty.
- shank — Anatomy. the part of the lower limb in humans between the knee and the ankle; leg.
- shark — a person who preys greedily on others, as by cheating or usury.
- sheik — Also, shaikh, sheikh. (in Islamic countries) the patriarch of a tribe or family; chief: a term of polite address.
- shirk — to evade (work, duty, responsibility, etc.).
- shmek — a faint smell
- shock — a thick, bushy mass, as of hair.
- shook — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
- shuck — a husk or pod, as the outer covering of corn, hickory nuts, chestnuts, etc.
- simak — Clifford, 1904–88, U.S. science-fiction writer.
- skank — Slang. to dance rhythmically in a loose-limbed manner.
- skink — any of numerous lizards of the family Scincidae, common in many regions of the Old and New World, typically having flat, smooth, overlapping scales and comprising terrestrial, arboreal, and fossorial species.
- skrik — South African. a sudden fright or panic.
- skulk — to lie or keep in hiding, as for some evil reason: The thief skulked in the shadows.
- skunk — a small North American mammal, Mephitis mephitis, of the weasel family, having a black coat with a white, V -shaped stripe on the back, and ejecting a fetid odor when alarmed or attacked.
- slack — not tight, taut, firm, or tense; loose: a slack rope.
- slank — simple past tense of slink.
- slask — Polish name of Silesia.
- sleek — smooth or glossy, as hair, an animal, etc.
- slick — smooth and glossy; sleek.
- slink — to move or go in a furtive, abject manner, as from fear, cowardice, or shame.
- slunk — a simple past tense and the past participle of slink.
- smaak — to like, love, or be keen on (someone or something)
- smack — Arthur, 1863–1935, British statesman and labor leader: Nobel Peace Prize 1934.
- smaik — a Scots word for a rascal or rogue
- smeek — the fumes or smoke produced from something burning
- smirk — to smile in an affected, smug, or offensively familiar way.
- smock — a loose, lightweight overgarment worn to protect the clothing while working.
- snack — a small portion of food or drink or a light meal, especially one eaten between regular meals.
- snark — rude or sarcastic criticism.
- sneak — to go in a stealthy or furtive manner; slink; skulk.