7-letter words that end in k
- cossack — (formerly) any of the free warrior-peasants of chiefly East Slavonic descent who lived in communes, esp in Ukraine, and served as cavalry under the tsars
- cowlick — a tuft of hair over the forehead
- cowpock — Obsolete form of cowpox.
- critick — Archaic spelling of critic.
- cutback — A cutback is a reduction that is made in something.
- cutbank — the outer, steeper bank of a bend or meander in a river or stream
- cuttack — a city in NE India, in E Odisha (formerly Orissa) near the mouth of the Mahanadi River: former state capital until 1948. Pop: 535 139 (2001)
- cutwork — openwork embroidery in which the pattern is cut away from the background
- d quark — the quark having electric charge −1/3 times the elementary charge, with strangeness, charm, and other quark quantum numbers equal to 0.
- daddock — the rotten carcass of a dead tree
- daglock — a dung-caked lock of wool around the hindquarters of a sheep
- danmark — Denmark
- dawcock — the male of the jackdaw
- daybook — a book in which the transactions of each day are recorded as they occur
- daymark — a marker or construction that is only visible by day and that is used by sailors to navigate
- daypack — a small rucksack
- daysack — a small bag carried on the back for items that will be required in the course of a day out
- daywork — a form of work that is calculated and paid for on a daily basis
- de-link — to make independent; dissociate; separate: The administration has delinked human rights from economic aid to underdeveloped nations.
- de-risk — to eliminate risk (from)
- deblock — (computing) To separate the logical records that have been combined into a physical block for storage.
- defrock — If a priest is defrocked, he is forced to stop being a priest because of bad behaviour.
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- denmark — a kingdom in N Europe, between the Baltic and the North Sea: consists of the mainland of Jutland and about 100 inhabited islands (chiefly Zealand, Lolland, Funen, Falster, Langeland, and Bornholm); extended its territory throughout the Middle Ages, ruling Sweden until 1523 and Norway until 1814, and incorporating Greenland as a province from 1953 to 1979; joined the Common Market (now the EU) in 1973; an important exporter of dairy produce. Language: Danish. Religion: Christian, Lutheran majority. Currency: krone. Capital: Copenhagen. Pop: 5 556 452 (2013 est). Area: 43 031 sq km (16 614 sq miles)
- derrick — A derrick is a machine that is used to move cargo on a ship by lifting it in the air.
- destock — (of a retailer) to reduce the amount of stock held or cease to stock certain products
- dhansak — any of a variety of Indian dishes consisting of meat or vegetables braised with water or stock and lentils
- dieback — a condition in a plant in which the branches or shoots die from the tip inward, caused by any of several bacteria, fungi, or viruses or by certain environmental conditions.
- dik-dik — any antelope of the genus Madoqua or Rhynchotragus, of eastern and southwestern Africa, growing only to 14 inches (36 cm) high at the shoulder.
- diquark — a low-energy configuration of two quarks attracted to one another by virtue of having antisymmetric colours and spins
- disbark — (transitive) To strip of bark.
- dislink — to disunite
- dismask — to remove the mask from
- dispark — to release from confinement
- disrank — to deprive (oneself or another) of rank, to demote
- donetsk — a city in E Ukraine, in the Donets Basin.
- dorhawk — nightjar
- dornick — a small stone that is easy to throw.
- drydock — (nautical) A dock that can be drained of water and is used in the repair and construction of ships.
- dundalk — a town in central Maryland, near Baltimore.
- dunkirk — French Dunkerque [dœn-kerk] /dœ̃ˈkɛrk/ (Show IPA). a seaport in N France: site of the evacuation of a British expeditionary force of over 330,000 men under German fire May 29–June 4, 1940.
- dunnock — hedge sparrow.
- dvornik — a Russian doorkeeper, caretaker, or groundsman
- earlock — a lock of hair worn near or in front of the ear.
- earmark — any identifying or distinguishing mark or characteristic: The mayor's statement had all the earmarks of dirty politics.
- earpick — an implement for picking at the ear and removing earwax
- elflock — (now rare) A lock of hair that is tangled.
- eyebank — a place in which corneas are stored for use in corneal grafts
- eyehook — A hook with an eye or ring attached.
- eyewink — a wink of the eye