English words: Keira to keng

300 English words, part 12 of 40 of the words starting with K, A to Z. 28 have a page of their own.

English words Keira to keng

Keira proper noun: A female given name from Irish.
Keiran proper noun: A male given name from Irish. An Irish spelling of the name Kieran or Kieron.
keiretsu noun /keɪˈɹɛtsu/: A set of Japanese companies with interlocking business relationships and shareholdings.
keirin noun: A form of track cycling originating in Japan, where riders must initially race behind a motorised pace-setter, the derny.
keirospasm noun: Alternative spelling of cheirospasm.
Keirseyan adjective: Of or pertaining to David West Keirsey (1921–2013), American psychologist.
Keiser proper noun: A surname.
Keisha proper noun /ˈkiːʃə/: A female given name originating as a coinage, of African American usage, possibly a variant of Kezia.
keishi noun: A Japanese police superintendent.
Keisler proper noun: A surname.
Keisling proper noun: A surname from German.
keister noun, verb: The anus or buttocks.
keitai noun: A mobile phone or smartphone.
Keith proper noun /kiːθ/: A Scottish surname.
Keith number noun: A repetitive Fibonacci-like integer which appears in a linear recurrence relation.
keithconnite noun: A trigonal-rhombohedral gray white mineral containing palladium and tellurium.
Keithley proper noun: A surname.
keitloa noun /ˈkaɪtloʊə/: A variety of the black rhinoceros.
Keitt proper noun: A surname.
keiyodoshi noun: An adjectival noun.
Keizer proper noun: A surname.
Kejia adjective, noun: Synonym of Hakka.
kek interjection, noun, verb /kɛk/: Used to indicate laughter or humour.
kek lapis noun /ˌkɛk ˈlæp.ɪs/: A layered cake, traditionally served in Sarawak, Malaysia on special occasions.
Keka proper noun: A surname.
kekaeshi noun: A kimarite in which the attacker sweeps his opponent's leg from under him by kicking it from the inside; often accompanied by a slap on the back.
Kekchi noun: Alternative form of Q'eqchi'
keke verb /ˈkiː.kiː/: To laugh, especially in a cackling or staccato-like manner.
kekeke interjection: The sound of a soft cackle.
kekeno noun: New Zealand fur seal (Arctocephalus forsteri)
Kekism noun: A jocular religion centered on the alt-right meme Kek.
Kekistan proper noun: A fictional country associated with Western alt-right values.
Kekistani adjective, noun: Of, relating to, or notionally originating in the fictional alt-right country of Kekistan.
kekomi noun: A thrusting kick.
keks noun, verb: Alternative spelling of kecks.
Kekulé proper noun: A surname.
Kekule formula noun: A skeletal formula, especially a schematic representation of benzene as a hexagon made up of alternating single and double lines that represent alternating...
Kekulean adjective: Pertaining to the system of structural formulae devised by Kekulé, especially the structure of benzene molecules.
kekulene noun: A circulene composed of twelve fused benzene rings, as a hollow hexagon ring, 3 benzene rings to a side.
kekuli noun: Synonym of quiggly hole.
kekuna noun: The flowering plant Canarium zeylanicum.
kekune oil noun: An oil obtained from the candlenut, used as a varnish and for various other purposes.
Kel proper noun: A female given name, clipping of Kelly.
KEL1 noun: A highly immunogenic antigen in the Kell antigen system; a specific protein found on the surface of human red blood cells.
Kelabit noun: A member of an indigenous tribe in the interior of Sarawak, Malaysia.
Kelabitic adjective: Of or relating to the Kelabit people or language.
kelampayoside noun: An aromatic glycoside present in Cinnamomum cassia.
Kelan proper noun: A county of Xinzhou, Shanxi, China.
Kelantan proper noun: A state in western Malaysia. Capital: Kota Bharu.
Kelantanese adjective: Of or pertaining to the state of Kelantan in Malaysia.
kelb-el-bahr noun: Synonym of elongate tigerfish.
Kelby proper noun: A hamlet in North Kevesten district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF004414).
Kelce proper noun /ˈkɛlsi/: A surname.
Kelcey proper noun /ˈkɛlsi/: A surname.
kelch noun: A particular sequence of amino acids found in many proteins of eukaryotic and bacterial species
Kelcy proper noun /ˈkɛlsi/: A unisex given name, variant of Kelsey.
keld adjective, noun: Having a kell or covering; webbed.
keldyshite noun: A triclinic-pinacoidal white mineral containing hydrogen, oxygen, silicon, sodium, and zirconium.
Kele noun: A Bantu ethnic group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
kelebe noun: A type of krater
keleh noun: A Middle Eastern unit of volume, 16.5 litres.
Keleher proper noun: A surname.
kelek noun: A kind of raft supported on inflated animal skins.
kelep noun: The Guatemalan stinging ant Ectatomma tuberculatum.
kelewele noun: A Ghanaian food made of fried plantains seasoned with spices.
Kelham proper noun: A village and civil parish in Newark and Sherwood district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK7755).
kelim noun: Alternative spelling of kilim.
kelipot noun: Alternative spelling of Qliphoth.
keliximab noun: A chimeric monoclonal antibody used in treating severe chronic asthma.
kelk noun, verb: To beat.
kell noun /kɛl/: The caul (membrane)
Kell system noun: A complex blood group family that encompasses more than 30 different antigens.
Kellam proper noun: A surname.
Kellan proper noun: A male given name from Irish.
Kelland proper noun: A surname.
Kellar proper noun: A surname.
Kellas proper noun: A village in Angus council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO4535).
kellaut noun: Alternative form of khalat.
kelleg noun: Alternative form of killock.
Kelleher proper noun /ˈkɛlɪhə/: A surname from Irish.
Kellen proper noun: A male or female given name.
Kellenberger proper noun: A surname.
keller noun: A beer cellar in Germany or Austria
Keller graph noun: Any of a certain family of graphs related to Keller's conjecture, such that the vertices of the Keller graph of dimension n are the 4ⁿ elements (m₁,...,mₙ)...
keller synth noun: A subgenre of dungeon synth, closely related to tänzelcore.
kellerbier noun: A type of German beer, a lager, which is typically neither clarified nor pasteurised.
Kellerian adjective: Of or relating to Gottfried Keller (1819–1890), Swiss poet and writer of German literature.
Kellerman proper noun: A surname.
Kellermann proper noun: A surname.
kellet noun: A weight placed on an anchor to stop it dragging.
Kellett proper noun: A surname.
Kelley proper noun: A surname from Irish, a less common spelling of Kelly.
Kelley-Seegmiller syndrome noun: Lesch-Nyhan syndrome
Kelli proper noun: A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Kelly.
Kellian adjective: Related to the work or theories of George Kelly, especially personal construct theory.
kellidar noun: Alternative form of kiladar.
Kellie proper noun: A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Kelly.
Kelliher proper noun: A surname from Irish.
Kelling proper noun: A surname.
kellion noun /kɛˈliːɑn/: A small group of monks.
kellipot noun: Alternative spelling of Qliphoth.
Kellis proper noun: A surname from Greek.
Kellison proper noun: A surname.
Kellman proper noun: A surname.
Kellogg proper noun: An English surname transferred from the nickname.
Kellogg oak noun: The North American tree Quercus kelloggii.
kellong noun: Alternative form of kelong.
Kellum proper noun: A surname.
kelly noun /ˈkɛli/: Kelly green.
Kelly Bundy noun: A ditzy woman who is sexually desirable and promiscuous.
Kelly criterion noun: A formula used to determine the optimal size of a series of bets in order to maximize the logarithm of wealth.
kelly drive noun: A type of well drilling device on an oil or gas drilling rig that employs a section of pipe with a polygonal or splined outer surface.
kelly green noun: A bright green colour.
Kelly Kettle noun: A portable outdoor water boiler.
Kelly pool noun: A pocket billiards game using numbered markers, called peas or pills, and a standard set of sixteen pool balls. Players draw peas at random from a shake...
Kelly's eye noun: A traditional call for the number one.
Kelly tool noun: A firefighter's multipurpose tool, similar to a Halligan bar but without the right-angled pointed tip.
Kellyana noun: memorabilia associated with the outlaw Ned Kelly and his gang.
Kellyanne proper noun: A female given name.
kellyite noun: A hexagonal-pyramidal mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, and silicon.
Kellyville proper noun: A suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Kelm proper noun: A surname.
Kelman proper noun: A surname.
Kelmscott proper noun: A village and civil parish (without a council) in West Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SU2499).
Kelner proper noun: A surname.
keloid noun, verb [ˈkiː.lɔɪd]: A hard raised growth of scar tissue at the site of an injury.
keloidal adjective: Of, pertaining to or causing keloids.
keloidosis noun: The presence or occurrence of keloids.
kelong noun: A wooden offshore platform for fishermen found in Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, and Singapore.
keloplasty noun: The surgical removal of a scar or keloid.
kelosomia noun: A rare congenital malformation of the chest wall leading to protrusion of the abdominal or thoracic viscera; sternal cleft.
kelotomy noun: Alternative form of celotomy.
Kelowna proper noun /kəˈloʊnə/: A city in British Columbia, Canada, headquarters of the Regional District of Central Okanagan.
kelp noun, verb /kɛlp/: Any of several large brown algae seaweeds (especially of order Laminariales).
kelp bass noun: A fish (Paralabrax clathratus, syn. Labrax clathratus, Serranus clathratus).
kelp bed noun: A small kelp forest.
kelp forest noun: An underwater area rich in kelp.
kelp goose noun: A goose (Chloephaga hybrida), native to southern South America.
kelp greenling noun: A ray-finned fish of species Hexagrammos decagrammus.
kelp gull noun: A black-backed gull found on coasts of much of the Southern Hemisphere (Larus dominicanus).
kelp pigeon noun: A snowy sheathbill (Chionis albus).
kelp salmon noun: A fish (Paralabrax clathratus, syn. Labrax clathratus, Serranus clathratus).
kelper noun /ˈkɛlpə/: One that makes or gathers kelp.
kelpfish noun: A perciform fish in the family Chironemidae, native to coastal Australia and New Zealand.
kelpie noun: A malevolent shapeshifting spirit, most often in the form of a horse, believed to haunt the rivers and lochs of Scotland.
kelpware noun: kelp
kelpwort noun: The plant kali.
kelpy noun: Alternative form of kelpie (shapeshifting spirit).
Kels proper noun /kɛls/: A diminutive of the female given name Kelsey.
Kelsall proper noun: A village in Cheshire West and Chester borough, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ5268).
Kelsay proper noun: A surname.
Kelsch proper noun: A surname.
Kelsea proper noun: A female given name.
Kelsemaht noun: A First Nation group, now amalgamated with the Ahousaht, based on the west coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.
Kelsenian adjective: Of or relating to Hans Kelsen (1881–1973), Austrian legal and political philosopher.
Kelsey proper noun /ˈkɛlsi/: A habitational surname from Old English.
Kelseyville proper noun: A census-designated place in Lake County, California, United States.
Kelsie proper noun /ˈkɛlsi/: A unisex given name, variant of Kelsey.
Kelso proper noun /ˈkɛl.soʊ/: A town in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT7234).
Kelso's hunchback noun: Synonym of kyphosis (“an abnormal convex curvature of the spine in the cervical or lumbar regions of the spine”)
kelson noun: Alternative spelling of keelson.
Kelston proper noun: A small village and civil parish in Bath and North East Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST7067).
Kelsy proper noun /ˈkɛlsi/: A unisex given name, variant of Kelsey.
kelt noun /kɛlt/: A thin, recently spawned iteroparous salmon.
kelter noun /ˈkɛltə/: Archaic form of kilter (“(good) condition, form, or order; fettle”).
Kelticize verb: Alternative spelling of Celticize.
keltium noun: Alternative spelling of celtium.
Keltner proper noun: A surname.
Keltoi noun: The Celts.
Kelton proper noun: A surname.
Kelty proper noun: A surname.
Kelvedon proper noun: A village and civil parish in Braintree district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL8618).
kelvin noun /ˈkɛlvɪn/: In the International System of Units, the base unit of thermodynamic temperature; ¹⁄_(273.16) of the thermodynamic temperature of the triple point of water.
Kelvin balance noun: a sensitive apparatus for measuring electric current.
Kelvin bridge noun: A specialized form of a Wheatstone bridge network designed to eliminate the effect of lead and contact resistance and thus permit accurate measurement of...
Kelvin function noun: Any of class of special functions, usually denoted as two pairs of functions berₙ(x), beiₙ(x), kerₙ(x) and keiₙ(x) with variable x and given order number n....
Kelvin-Joule effect noun: Synonym of Joule-Thomson effect.
Kelvin scale noun: A scale for measuring temperature, with zero defined as absolute zero, with kelvins as the units (equivalent to degrees Celsius).
Kelvin-Voigt material noun: The simplest kind of viscoelastic material, with typical rubbery properties, being purely elastic on long timescales but with additional resistance to fast...
Kelvin wake pattern noun: The wake pattern produced by waterfowls, boats, etc. crossing water, consisting of two wake lines that form the arms of a V, with the source of the wake at...
Kelvin wave noun: A non-dispersive wave in the ocean or atmosphere that balances the Earth's Coriolis force against a topographic boundary such as a coastline, or a waveguide...
Kelvinside proper noun: A district of Glasgow, Scotland, north of the River Clyde (OS grid ref NS5568).
kelyanite noun: A trigonal-pyramidal mineral containing antimony, bromine, chlorine, mercury, and oxygen.
kelyphite noun: A substitution mineral found surrounding garnet in peridotites.
KEM noun: Initialism of key encapsulation mechanism.
Kemal proper noun: A male given name.
Kemalism proper noun: Kemalist ideology
Kemalist adjective, noun: Of or pertaining to the ideology of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk; following the ideals of Kemalism, including separation of the new Turkish state from its Ottoman...
kemanak noun: A type of percussion instrument used in Javanese music.
kemancha noun: Alternative spelling of kamancheh.
Kemar proper noun: A male given name.
kemari noun: An ancient Japanese ball game, still played in modern times, in which players cooperate to try to keep a deerskin ball in the air.
Kemball proper noun: A surname.
kemben noun: A torso wrap historically worn by women in Indonesia.
Kemble proper noun: A village in Kemble and Ewen parish, Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST9897).
kembster noun: A woman who cleans or combs out wool
kemenche noun: Alternative spelling of kamancheh.
Kemerovo proper noun: An oblast of Russia in Siberia.
Kemet proper noun: Synonym of Ancient Egypt.
Kemetic adjective: Pertaining to ancient Egypt's religion, culture, or language, whether Ancient Egyptian or the modern Coptic language and its dialects.
Kemetism noun: Neopagan revivals of Ancient Egyptian religions.
Kemetist noun: Someone who practices Kemetism (a neopagan revival of Ancient Egyptian religion).
Kemi proper noun: A town and municipality of Lapland, Finland, near the border with Sweden.
keming noun /ˈkɛmɪŋ/: Improper kerning.
kemiri noun: candlenut, Aleurites moluccanus or Aleurites moluccana
Kemite noun: Synonym of Ancient Egyptian (an inhabitant of Ancient Egypt)
Kemmer proper noun: A surname.
Kemmerer proper noun: A surname from German.
kemmlitzite noun: A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral mineral containing aluminum, arsenic, calcium, cerium, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, oxygen, phosphorus, silicon, strontium,...
kemo sabe noun: Alternative spelling of ke-mo sah-bee.
kemong noun: Synonym of klentong.
kemono noun /kɛˈməʊ.nəʊ/: Clipping of kemonomimi: A Japanese or Japanese-style fictional anthropomorphic animal character.
kemonomimi noun: A humanoid fictional character who has animal ears and/or tail(s).
kemosabe noun: An appellation given to a wise, trustworthy friend.
kemosabi noun: Alternative spelling of kemosabe.
kemp adjective, noun, verb /kɛmp/: A coarse or bristly hair, whisker; (in the plural) knotty hairs that will not felt.
Kemp's loggerhead noun: Synonym of Kemp's ridley sea turtle.
Kemp's ridley noun: Alternative form of Kemp's ridley sea turtle.
Kemp's ridley sea turtle noun: Lepidochelys kempii, a species of sea turtle
kempane noun: A particular tetracyclic diterpene that is the basis of many natural products
kempas noun: A Malaysian tree Koompassia malaccensis; the hardwood of this tree
Kempe proper noun: A surname.
Kempen proper noun: A surname.
kemper noun: One who kemps, or strives, for superiority; a champion or knight-errant.
kempery-man noun: A mediaeval knight-errant or champion.
Kempf proper noun: A surname from German.
kempferol noun: Alternative form of kaempferol.
kempite noun: An orthorhombic-dipyramidal emerald green mineral containing chlorine, hydrogen, manganese, and oxygen.
kemplang noun: A kind of Indonesian savoury fish cracker.
kemple noun /ˈkɛmp(ə)l/: The size of a standard load of straw, approximately 450 pounds.
Kempner proper noun: A surname.
Kempner series noun: A modification of the harmonic series, formed by omitting all terms whose denominator expressed in base 10 contains the digit 9.
kempo noun: Alternative form of kenpo.
Kempsey proper noun: A village and civil parish in Malvern Hills district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO8549).
kempster noun: Alternative form of kembster.
Kempston proper noun: A suburban town and civil parish with a town council in Bedford borough, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL0347).
kempt adjective, verb /kɛm(p)t/: Of a person's beard or hair: combed.
Kempten proper noun: An independent town in Allgäu, Swabia region, Bavaria, Germany.
kemptide noun: A commercial protein kinase
Kempton proper noun: A village in Clunbury parish, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO359829).
kempty adjective: Coarse or rough, like kemp.
kempul noun: A set of pitched hanging knobbed gongs used in gamelan music.
kempur noun: A medium-sized gong used in gamelan music.
kempy adjective: Alternative form of kemp.
Kemsley proper noun: A suburb of Sittingbourne, Swale borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ9066).
Kemu noun: Alternative form of Khmu.
ken noun, verb /kɛn/: To give birth, conceive, beget, be born; to develop (as a fetus); to nourish, sustain (as life).
Ken Burns effect noun: A filmmaker's technique of panning and zooming over still imagery such as photographs.
Ken doll noun: A flawlessly handsome, but possibly dull or shallow, young man.
kena noun, verb /ˈkənɑ/: Alternative form of quena (“traditional flute of the Andes”).
kenacho noun: Alternative form of quenacho.
kenaf noun: Hibiscus cannabinus, an annual or biennial herbaceous plant found mainly in Asia.
Kenai proper noun: A city, peninsula, and river in Alaska.
Kenan proper noun: A surname from Hebrew.
Kenansville proper noun: An unincorporated community in Osceola County, Florida, United States.
Kenard proper noun: A male given name of African-American usage.
kenare noun: Alternative form of kenareh (“kind of rug”).
kenareh noun: A smaller Persian rug serving as a side or end runner for a larger rug.
kench noun: A bin or enclosure in which fish or skins are salted.
kencur noun: cutcherry, Kaempferia galanga
Kendal proper noun /ˈkɛndəl/: A town and civil parish with a town council in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD5192).
Kendal green adjective, noun: A coarse green woolen cloth.
Kendal mint cake noun: A glucose-based confectionery flavored with peppermint, popular with climbers as a source of energy.
Kendal sneck noun: A kind of fishing hook.
Kendall proper noun /ˈkɛndəl/: A habitational surname from Old English.
Kendall rank correlation coefficient noun: A measure of the ordinal association between two measured quantities.
Kendall tau distance noun: A distance function that counts the pairwise disagreements between two ranking lists and thus determines how dissimilar the lists are.
kendama noun /ˈkɛnˌdɑːmə/: A traditional Japanese toy with an attached ball that can be caught in any of three cups or on a spike.
kendang noun: Alternative form of kendhang.
Kendari proper noun: The capital and largest city of Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Kendell proper noun /ˈkɛndəl/: A surname.
kendhang noun: A drum used in gamelan music.
kendi noun: A container of Asian derivation, usually handleless, used to hold liquid with a broad opening on top for inserting liquid and usually only one spout for...
Kendian adjective: Relating to American author and historian Ibram X. Kendi, or his political and social ideas.
Kendig proper noun: A surname.
kendir noun: A strong bast fibre from the plant Apocynum venetum.
Kendle proper noun: A surname.
Kendler proper noun: A surname.
kendo noun: A Japanese martial art using "swords" of split bamboo.
kendoist noun: A practitioner of the martial art of kendo.
kendoka noun: A practitioner of kendo
kendomycin noun: An anticancer macrolide present in Streptomyces violaceoruber
kendra noun: center
Kendrapara proper noun: A district of Odisha, India.
Kendrick proper noun /ˈkɛn.dɹɪk/: A surname.
Kendrick Extrication Device noun: A specialized immobilization backboard device used to protect the spinal cord in patients that are found in a confined or seated position such as a car in...
kendrin noun: A calmodulin-binding protein.
kendu noun: Coromandel ebony (Diospyros malanoxylon).
kendyr noun: Alternative form of kendir.
kène noun: Alternative spelling of khene.
Keneally proper noun: A surname from Irish.
Kenealy proper noun: A surname from Irish.
Kenedy proper noun: A surname.
Kenefick proper noun: A surname.
Kenelm proper noun: Saint Kenelm, an Anglo-Saxon saint
Kenema proper noun: A city, the administrative centre of the Eastern Province, Sierra Leone.
keneme noun: Alternative form of ceneme.
kenesa noun: An Eastern European or Persian Karaite synagogue.
Kenfig proper noun: A village in Cornelly community, Bridgend borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SS8081).
keng verb [ˈkeŋ˦]: Synonym of chao keng (“to malinger, to shirk military duties by reporting sick”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under K: 11,912 words, in 40 parts.