This is a list of words that end in ‘lk.’ A few words that end in ‘lk’ are no longer used in our current literature; therefore, you may not find the definition of those words in the dictionary.
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Alk
Alkaline.
Backtalk
Impudent, insolent, or argumentative replies.
Back-talk
Impudent, insolent, or argumentative replies.
Balk
To refuse abruptly —used with at; to stop short and refuse to proceed; to commit a balk.
Beanstalk
The stem of a bean plant.
Bilk
To block the free development of : frustrate; to cheat out of something valuable : defraud; to evade payment of or to.
Bytalk
Small talk.
By-talk
Small talk.
Bywalk
A secluded or private walk : byway.
By-walk
A secluded or private walk : byway.
Blk
Black; block; bulk.
Boardwalk
A walk constructed of planking; a walk constructed along a beach.
Bulk
Magnitude; material that forms a mass in the intestine; especially : fiber; body; especially : a large or corpulent human body.
Buttermilk
The liquid left after butter has been churned from milk or cream; cultured milk made by the addition of suitable bacteria to sweet milk.
Cakewalk
A one-sided contest : an easy victory; an easy task; an african american entertainment having a cake as prize for the most accomplished steps and figures in walking.
Calk
To stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe).
Catwalk
A narrow walkway (as along a bridge); a platform along which models walk in a fashion show : runway.
Caulk
To stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe).
Chalk
A soft white, gray, or buff limestone composed chiefly of the shells of foraminifers; a prepared form of chalk or a material resembling chalk especially when used (as for writing on blackboards) as a crayon; a mark made with chalk.
Chalk-talk
A talk or lecture illustrated at a blackboard.
Churnmilk
Buttermilk.
Clk
Clerk.
Colk
Eider duck.
Cornstalk
A stalk of corn.
Corn-stalk
A stalk of corn.
Countryfolk
Fellow countrymen; country dwellers : rustics.
Crosstalk
Unwanted signals in a communication channel (as in a telephone, radio, or computer) caused by transference of energy from another circuit (as by leakage or coupling); conversation that does not relate to the main topic being discussed.
Crosswalk
A specially paved or marked path for pedestrians crossing a street or road.
Defalk
Defalcate.
Dog-whelk
Any of certain thick-shelled marine snails: such as; basket shell; any of numerous members of the genus thais that feed chiefly on other mollusks.
Double-talk
Language that appears to be earnest and meaningful but in fact is a mixture of sense and nonsense; inflated, involved, and often deliberately ambiguous language.
Duckwalk
To walk while in a crouch or full squatting position.
Dundalk
Town and port on dundalk bay (inlet of the irish sea), northeastern ireland; capital of county louth area population 37,816.
Eyestalk
One of the movable peduncles bearing an eye at the tip in a decapod crustacean.
Elk
Moose —used for one of the old world; a large gregarious deer (cervus elaphus) of north america, europe, asia, and northwestern africa with the male having large antlers and many tines and that often form large herds —called also red deer, wapiti.
Fast-talk
To influence or persuade by fluent, facile, and usually deceptive or tricky talk.
Fisherfolk
People who fish especially for a living.
Floss-silk
Floss; also : floss (as for embroidery) of silk.
Folk
People generally; a certain kind, class, or group of people; the persons of one’s own family; especially : parents.
Footfolk
Infantry.
Footstalk
Petiole; peduncle; the lower part of a millstone spindle.
Footwalk
A surface paved or constructed for walking along often with a handrail (as on a bridge or on a parapet); sidewalk.
Foremilk
First-drawn milk; colostrum.
Foretalk
Preface.
Fruitstalk
Peduncle.
Fulk
To move the hand unfairly in shooting marbles.
Gentlefolk
Persons of gentle or good family and breeding.
Gottschalk
Louis moreau 1829—1869 american composer.
Herrenvolk
Master race.
Hulk
A heavy clumsy ship; the body of an old ship unfit for service; a ship used as a prison —usually used in plural.
Ilk
Sort, kind.
Yolk
The yellow spheroidal mass of stored food that forms the inner portion of the egg of a bird or reptile and is surrounded by the white; the whole contents of an animal ovum consisting of a protoplasmic formative portion and an inert nutritive portion.
Jaywalk
To cross a street carelessly or in an illegal manner so as to be endangered by traffic.
Kinfolk
Relatives.
Kinsfolk
Relatives.
Layfolk
Ordinary people : laymen.
Landfolk
The people of a country.
Leafstalk
Petiole.
Matchstalk
Matchstick.
Menfolk
Men in general; the men of a family or community.
Men-folk
Men in general; the men of a family or community.
Merfolk
A legendary people of the sea having human head, trunk, and arms and the tail of a fish.
Milk
A fluid secreted by the mammary glands of females for the nourishment of their young; milk from an animal and especially a cow used as food by people; a food product produced from seeds or fruit that resembles and is used similarly to cow’s milk.
Moonwalk
To dance by gliding backwards while appearing to make forward walking motions.
Muschelkalk
Of, relating to, or constituting a subdivision of the european triassic.
Norfolk
City in northeastern nebraska population 24,210; city and port on the elizabeth river in southeastern virginia south of the hampton roads channel population 242,803.
Norwalk
City southeast of los angeles in southern california population 105,549; city in southwestern connecticut on long island sound population 85,603.
Outbulk
To surpass in bulk : to be larger than.
Outtalk
To outdo or surpass in talking : to talk more than; to get the better of by talking.
Outwalk
To outdo in walking : to walk faster or farther than; to walk past or beyond.
Overmilk
To milk (something) excessively:; to draw milk from (an animal) too long or too often; to exploit (something) to an excessive degree.
Overtalk
To talk too much or too long about (something).
Overwalk
To walk over or upon; to exhaust or injure (oneself) by walking.
Polk
James knox 1795—1849 11th president of the u.s. (1845—49).
Pulk
A muddy pond; mudhole.
Restbalk
A ridge of land between furrows.
Rest-balk
A ridge of land between furrows.
Ringwalk
A walk made by hunters around a wood or other covert.
Rootstalk
Rhizome.
Ropewalk
A long covered walk, building, or room where ropes are manufactured.
Salk
Jonas edward 1914—1995 american physician.
Seafolk
Seafaring people : mariners.
Seedstalk
The fruiting stalk of a flowering plant.
Sheepwalk
A pasture or range for sheep.
Shoptalk
The jargon or subject matter peculiar to an occupation or a special area of interest.
Showfolk
The performers in any kind of show business.
Sidewalk
A usually paved walk for pedestrians at the side of a street.
Side-walk
A usually paved walk for pedestrians at the side of a street.
Silk
A fine continuous protein fiber produced by various insect larvae usually for cocoons; especially : a lustrous tough elastic fiber produced by silkworms and used for textiles; thread, yarn, or fabric made from silk filaments; a garment of silk.
Skim-milk
Milk from which the cream has been taken —called also skimmed milk.
Skywalk
A usually enclosed aerial walkway connecting two buildings.
Skulk
To move in a stealthy or furtive manner; to hide or conceal something (such as oneself) often out of cowardice or fear or with sinister intent; malinger.
Sleave-silk
Floss silk that is easily separated into filaments for embroidery.
Sleepwalk
To walk while or as if while asleep; to proceed in a passive often lethargic manner.
Small-talk
Light or casual conversation : chitchat.
Snake-milk
Flowering spurge.
Soymilk
A high-protein liquid made from ground cooked soybeans that is usually fortified (as with calcium and vitamins) and used as a milk substitute.
Spacewalk
A period of activity spent outside a spacecraft by an astronaut in space.
Spelk
Splinter; spar.
Stalk
A slender upright object or supporting or connecting part; especially : peduncle; the main stem of an herbaceous plant often with its dependent parts; a part of a plant (such as a petiole or stipe) that supports another.
Suffolk
Any of a breed of chestnut-colored draft horses of english origin —called also suffolk punch; any of a breed of large hornless black-faced sheep of english origin raised chiefly for mutton.
Sulk
To be moodily silent.
Sweet-talk
Cajole, coax; to use flattery.
Table-talk
Informal conversation at or as if at a dining table; especially : the social talk of a celebrity recorded for publication.
Talk
To express or exchange ideas by means of spoken words; to convey information or communicate in any way (as with signs or sounds); to use speech : speak.
Thilk
That same : this, that.
Tongue-walk
Scold.
Townsfolk
Townspeople.
Town-talk
The common talk of a place (as a city or town) : public gossip; the matter (as the subject or object) of public gossip.
Tradesfolk
People in trade; specifically : tradesmen.
Twisted-stalk
A plant of the genus streptopus of the family liliaceae with slightly twisted stem, nodding usually greenish or purplish flowers, and red berries —called also liverberry.
Walk
To move along on foot : advance by steps; to come or go easily or readily; to go at a walk.
Ward-walk
A periodical round of the wards of a hospital by a member of the medical staff for observation of patients and for clinical instruction—usually used in plural.
Welk
To lose freshness or greenness : dry up : fade, wilt, wither; to become less (as in power or brightness) : wane.
Whelk
Any of numerous large marine snails (as of the genus buccinum); especially : one (b. undatum) used as food in europe.
Wolf’smilk
Spurge: such as; leafy spurge; sun spurge.
Womanfolk
Woman; the women of a group (as a family or community).
Womenfolk
Women.
Workfolk
Working people; especially : farm workers.
The following words also end in lk; however, we couldn’t find definitions of these words from the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
| Aftermilk | Almsfolk |
| Amawalk | Astalk |
| Baulk | Bechalk |
| Belk | Betalk |
| Bierbalk | Bitstalk |
| Bolk | Bondfolk |
| Cityfolk | Clansfolk |
| Crow-silk | Dalesfolk |
| Dalk | Down-talk |
| Elfenfolk | Embulk |
| Faailk | Fairyfolk |
| Falk | Fastwalk |
| Forwalk | Forwelk |
| Foulk | Grapestalk |
| Gravel-walk | Half-silk |
| Holk | Homefolk |
| Yelk | Yesilk |
| Inculk | Intertalk |
| Kalk | Kelk |
| Khalk | Kilk |
| Kolk | Likewalk |
| Make-talk | Matemilk |
| Mid-walk | Moosemilk |
| Mulk | Near-silk |
| Nightwalk | Outsulk |
| Overbulk | Playfolk |
| Plainsfolk | Rebulk |
| Recalk | Red-silk |
| Retalk | Runefolk |
| Sculk | Sheer-hulk |
| Shopfolk | Shot-silk |
| Sokulk | Speedwalk |
| Sweet-tulk | Talky-talk |
| Tatmjolk | Townfolk |
| Tribesfolk | Uncalk |
| Undertalk | Underwalk |
| Vinestalk | Volk |
| Werefolk | Wheatstalk |
| Whilk | Whipstalk |
| Whulk | Wilk |
| Wolk | Wulk |
