Words with the [k] sound
Voiceless velar stop; back of tongue to soft palate.
Common spellings: c, k, ck. Examples: cat, kite.
- mercury's
- mex
- microbe
- microcode
- micrometer
- miscalculated
- mitotic
- mohawks
- monarchists
- moralistic
- mosca
- mucking
- munk
- mystique
- nic
- nicked
- nicki
- nicolae
- nighthawks
- nondescript
- nonspecific
- oak's
- octavius
- oklahoma's
- oratorical
- organically
- outflanked
- painkiller
- parkman
- parkside
- pasternak
- pennsauken
- pentax
- perfectionist
- perks
- phlegmatic
- photoelectric
- pickett's
- piquant
- placards
- plotkin
- polkas
- pollux
- postmark
- predicates
- predictors
- preschools
- printmaker
- procreation
- promiscuity
- propionic
- pyrrhic
- quaintly
- qualitatively
- quantitatively
- querulous
- questionnaires
- quizzical
- radiological
- rakes
- receptacles
- reconnected
- reconvene
- redecorated
- replicators
- requisites
- rescuer
- revoke
- ricard
- rickard
- sacrilegious
- saks
- sarcoma
- scandalized
- schechter
- schiphol
- scholes
- schoolers
- scorns
- scorsese
- scrawl
- scriptwriters
- scruggs
- scrutinizing
- scull
- scullin
- shanklin
- sheepskin
- shirking
- silicates
- sixers
- skelly
- skyward
- slacken
- smacking
- sneaker
- sophomoric
- spadework
- speakership
- speckle