Words with the [k] sound
Voiceless velar stop; back of tongue to soft palate.
Common spellings: c, k, ck. Examples: cat, kite.
- decapitated
- deductions
- democracies
- discordant
- docklands
- docs
- domestics
- ducts
- embarking
- encountering
- encyclopaedia
- erika
- escorting
- eunuch
- excise
- exigencies
- fink
- fluctuated
- freaks
- handicrafts
- hasidic
- hawkes
- heterosexual
- housekeeping
- inflection
- intersecting
- invoke
- irrespective
- kashmiri
- keenest
- kid's
- kinetics
- kingfisher
- kirkpatrick
- lecturing
- locates
- lockdown
- manufacturer's
- mcconaughey
- mccormack
- metalworking
- michelangelo
- minuscule
- murky
- musicologist
- nexus
- overcrowded
- oxidized
- parc
- pelican
- postscript
- procter
- psycho
- qi
- quicksand
- quits
- recognises
- recyclable
- reflector
- rescuers
- rheumatic
- sarcophagus
- schofield
- scribe
- scribes
- scully
- seeker
- selectively
- shaker
- sketched
- sketchy
- sophistication
- spec
- sumac
- symmetrically
- talkative
- tankers
- texan
- ticks
- tranquility
- twinkled
- unclean
- abdication
- abercrombie
- acquiesced
- actin
- acutely
- aeronautics
- algonquian
- aqua
- asymptomatic
- asymptotic
- authenticated
- becket
- brokerage
- bucking
- cadiz
- caine
- cali
- californian