English words: kengirge to keratoderma

300 English words, part 13 of 40 of the words starting with K, A to Z. 19 have a page of their own.

English words kengirge to keratoderma

kengirge noun: A large, double-sided Tuvan drum, often made of goatskin and adorned with bells, introduced by Tibetan Buddhists.
kenhsuite noun: An orthorhombic-pyramidal canary yellow mineral containing chlorine, mercury, and sulfur.
Kenichi proper noun: A male given name from Japanese.
Kenilworth proper noun: A town and civil parish with a town council in Warwick district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP2971).
Kenilworth ivy noun: Any member of the species Cymbalaria muralis.
Keniston proper noun: A surname.
Kenite noun: Any member of a nomadic clan in the ancient Levant, according to the Hebrew Bible.
Kenitra proper noun: A city in Kénitra province, Rabat-Sale-Kenitra region, Morocco.
Kenji proper noun: A male given name from Japanese.
kenjutsu noun: Japanese swordsmanship
kenke noun: Alternative form of kenkey.
kenken noun /ˈkɛn.kɛn/: Alternative form of KenKen
kenkeni noun: A small, metallic percussion instrument struck with a stick, typically used in concert with a dun dun.
kenkey noun: A West African staple food made from a ball of boiled and fermented dough, usually maize, wrapped with husk or large leaf.
kenkiid noun: Any member of the Kenkiidae.
kenky noun: Alternative form of kenkey.
Kenley proper noun: A surname from Old English.
kenlore noun: Epistemology; theory of knowledge.
Kenmare proper noun: A town in County Kerry, Ireland (Irish grid ref V9071).
Kenmore proper noun: A small village on Loch Tay, Perth and Kinross council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NN7745).
Kenmure proper noun: A surname.
Kenn proper noun: A village and civil parish in Teignbridge district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX9285).
Kenn number noun: A numeric code used on German postal mail in World War II to identify a field post office.
Kenna proper noun /ˈkɛnə/: A surname from Irish, a variant anglicization of Ó Cionaodha (Kinney).
Kennan proper noun: A surname.
Kennard proper noun: An English surname.
Kenneally proper noun: A surname from Irish.
Kennebec noun: A variety of potato originating in Maine.
kennebecker noun: A person from the region of the Kennebec river in Maine.
Kennebunk proper noun /ˈkɛniˌbʌŋk/: A town in York County, Maine, United States.
Kennebunker noun: A person from Kennebunk in Maine.
Kennebunkport proper noun /ˌkɛniˈbʌŋkˌpɔːrt/: A resort town and census-designated place therein, in York County, Maine, United States.
Kennedy proper noun /ˈkɛnədi/: A surname from Irish.
Kennedy disease noun: A condition of spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy.
Kennedy plea noun: A plea in criminal court in which the defendant does not admit guilt, but concedes that the state has sufficient evidence to obtain a conviction.
Kennedy's disease noun: Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy
Kennedy syndrome noun: Synonym of Foster Kennedy syndrome
Kennedyesque adjective: Reminiscent of John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), former president of the United States.
Kennedyite noun: A political supporter of US president John F. Kennedy.
Kennedynomics noun: Economic policies associated with the administration of John F. Kennedy, 1961–1963.
kennel noun, verb /ˈkɛn.əl/: A house or shelter for a dog.
kennel club noun: An organization concerning itself with the breeding, exhibiting and promotion of various breeds of dog.
kennel coal noun: cannel
kennel cough noun: A respiratory infection in dogs.
kennel council noun: Synonym of kennel club.
kennel maid noun: A woman whose job is to attend dogs at a kennel
kennel raker noun: A poor unskilled menial laborer who has no steady employment.
kennelful noun: As much as a kennel will hold.
Kennell proper noun: A surname.
kennellike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a kennel.
Kennelly proper noun: A surname from Irish.
Kennelly-Heaviside layer noun: A layer of ionized gas occurring between roughly 90–150 km (56–93 mi) above the ground. It reflects medium-frequency radio waves, and thus enables them to...
kennelmaid noun: A woman in charge of a kennel.
kennelman noun: A person employed to look after kennels.
kennelmate noun: A dog from the same kennel, or the same breeder.
kennelry noun: Synonym of kennel (place).
kennelwoman noun: A woman employed to look after kennels.
kenner noun: One who kens or knows.
Kennerly proper noun: A surname.
Kennesaw proper noun: A city in Cobb County, Georgia, United States.
kennet noun: A small hunting dog
Kenneth proper noun /ˈkɛn.əθ/: A male given name from Scottish Gaelic, originally used in Scotland, popular in all English-speaking countries in the 20th century.
kennetic adjective /ˌkɛˈnɛtɪk/: Relating to the acquisition of knowledge
kennetjie noun: A children’s (boy’s) game where a short stick is flipped into the air by a longer stick, batted and hopefully caught by ‘fielders’.
kennets noun: Alternative form of kennet.
Kennett proper noun: A surname.
Kennewick proper noun /ˈkɛnəˌwɪk/: A city in Benton County, in southeastern Washington, United States, along the southwest bank of the Columbia River.
Kenney proper noun: A surname.
kennick noun: An argot spoken by gypsies or tinkers.
Kennicott proper noun: A surname.
Kennicott's willow warbler noun: The bird Phylloscopus borealis kennicotti.
Kennie proper noun: A surname.
kenning noun, verb /ˈkɛnɪŋ/: Sight, view; specifically a distant view at sea.
Kennington proper noun /ˈkɛnɪŋtən/: A suburb of London in the borough of Lambeth, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3178).
Kennison proper noun: A surname.
Kennon proper noun: A surname.
Kenny proper noun /ˈkɛni/: A diminutive of the male given name Kenneth.
keno noun /ˈkiːnəʊ/: A gambling game, a variety of lotto, played with balls or knobs, numbered, and cards also numbered.
kenogenesis noun: Alternative form of caenogenesis.
kenogenetic adjective: Of or pertaining to kenogenesis.
kenogeny noun: Alternative form of caenogeny.
kenomicrolite noun: A mineral belonging to the pyrochlore supergroup.
Kenon proper noun: A surname.
kenong noun: A large, high-pitched gong in gamelan music.
kenophobia noun: An abnormal fear of empty spaces.
kenopsia noun /kəˈnɒp.si.ə/: The haunting quality of seeing a location typically full of people in a state of emptiness or abandonment.
Kenora proper noun /kəˈnɒrə/: A small city, the seat of the Kenora District, in northern Ontario, Canada, near the border with Manitoba.
Kenosha proper noun /kəˈnoʊʃə/: A city, the county seat of Kenosha County, Wisconsin, United States.
kenosis noun /kɪˈnəʊsɪs/: Christ's voluntary abasement consisting of humanity and the simultaneous occultation of the Divinity.
kenotheme noun: An intersection of n hypersurfaces in an n-dimensional projective space
kenotic adjective: Pertaining to kenosis
kenoticism noun: The doctrine of kenosis
kenoticist noun: kenotist
kenotism noun: kenoticism
kenotist noun: One who believes in the doctrine of kenosis.
kenotoxin noun: A supposed toxin thought to be generated by exertion and to cause fatigue.
kenotron noun /ˈkɛn.əˌtɹɒn/: A kind of vacuum rectifier, used for the power supply in X-ray equipment.
Kenova proper noun: A city in Wayne County, West Virginia, United States.
kenozooid noun: A small bryozoan heterozooid
kenozooidal adjective: Of or relating to kenozooids.
kenpaullone noun: A particular paullone, 9-bromo-7,12-dihydro-indolo [3,2-d] [1]benzazepin-6(5H)-one, that is an inhibitor of several cyclin-dependent kinases
kenpo noun: Any of various Japanese martial arts.
Kenrick proper noun: A surname.
kensho noun: Prize money given to encourage rikishi by sponsors.
Kensinger proper noun: A surname from German.
kensington noun /ˈkɛn.zɪŋ.tən/: Alternative letter-case form of kensington (“sewing circle”).
Kensingtonian noun /ˌkɛn.zɪŋˈtəʊ.ni.ən/: An inhabitant of Kensington.
Kensit proper noun: A surname.
Kensitite noun: A member of the Protestant Truth Society founded by John Kensit in 1889.
kenspeck adjective /ˈkɛn.spɛk/: Easily known or seen; obvious; apparent.
kenspecked adjective /ˈkɛn.spɛkt/: Marked and easily recognized; kenspeck.
kenspeckle adjective /ˈkɛnspɛkəl/: Easily recognized, distinctive, conspicuous.
kent noun, verb /kɛnt/: A shepherd's staff.
Kent bugle noun: A curved bugle with six stops.
Kent Islander noun: A person from or resident of Kent Island, Maryland.
Kenta proper noun: A male given name from Japanese.
kentake noun: Alternative form of candace (a Nubian queen).
kental noun: Alternative form of quintal.
kentallenite noun: A monzonite containing olivine.
kentbrooksite noun: A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal yellowish brown mineral containing calcium, fluorine, hydrogen, lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, samarium,...
kente noun: A type of fabric made of interwoven cloth strips, native to Ghana.
kente cloth noun: Synonym of kente.
Kenter noun: A person from, or an inhabitant of, Kent.
Kentfield proper noun: A census-designated place in Marin County, California, United States.
Kenthurst proper noun: A suburb of Sydney in The Hills council area, New South Wales, Australia.
kentia noun: Any palm tree in the genus Howea.
Kenticism noun: A phrase or linguistic habit that is characteristic of people from Kent.
Kentish adjective /ˈkɛn.tɪʃ/: Of or relating to Kent or its inhabitants.
Kentish fire noun: An expression of emotion from an audience, either of approbation or derision; cheers; jeering.
Kentish glory noun: The moth Endromis versicolora.
Kentish plover noun: Charadrius alexandrinus, a small wader that breeds in a wide range, from southern Europe to Japan and in Ecuador, Peru, Chile, the southern United States...
Kentish rag noun: A rough fossiliferous limestone found in Kent.
Kentishman noun: A man from Kent, especially the western part.
kentjur noun: Any of a number of flowering plants in the Zingiberaceae family, native to Asia, and having rhizomes used as spices.
Kentland proper noun: A town, the county seat of Newton County, Indiana, also located in Jefferson Township. Originally named Kent, after Alexander J. Kent.
kentle noun: Alternative form of quintal.
kentledge noun: Weights (often scrap or pig iron) used as permanent ballast on ships.
Kentman noun: A Kentish man; a man from Kent.
Kentner proper noun: A surname from German.
Kenton proper noun /ˈkɛn.tən/: A village and civil parish in Teignbridge district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX9583).
kentriodontid noun: Any extinct cetacean in the family Kentriodontidae.
kentrogon noun: A parasitic larval form of a Sacculina barnacle.
kentrogonid noun: Any parasitic barnacle of the order Kentrogonida
kentrolite noun: An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing aluminum, iron, lead, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, silicon, and titanium.
Kentuckian adjective, noun /kɛnˈtʌkiən/: Of or pertaining to the US state of Kentucky.
Kentuckiana proper noun: The area in the Upland South region of the United States containing metropolitan areas with counties in both Kentucky and Indiana.
Kentucky proper noun /kənˈtʌki/: A state of the United States. Capital: Frankfort. Largest city: Louisville. Formally known as the Commonwealth of Kentucky, one of four such states known as...
Kentucky Admiral noun: The holder of an honor given by the director of the Kentucky Department for Natural Resources to individuals who have demonstrated fair and just stewardship...
Kentucky bluegrass noun: Poa pratensis; a perennial species of grass native to practically all of Europe, North Asia and the mountains of Algeria and Morocco, and, while not native...
Kentucky coffee tree noun: Alternative spelling of Kentucky coffeetree.
Kentucky coffeetree noun: A widely-dispersed but rare tree, of species Gymnocladus dioicus, native to the midwest of North America.
Kentucky Colonel noun /kənˈtʌki/: The greatest title of authority and honor bestown by the Commonwealth of Kentucky, recognizing noteworthy accomplishments, actions, deeds and service to a...
Kentucky lady's slipper noun: An orchid of species Cypripedium kentuckiense, native to the central United States.
Kentucky rifle noun: A distinctive type of flintlock (later percussion cap) rifle used on the American frontier from 1700 to the 1850s.
Kentucky warbler noun: Geothlypis formosa, a small, mostly ground-dwelling New World warbler with a short tail.
Kentucky windage noun: An adjustment made by a shooter to correct for wind (or motion of the target) by aiming at a point horizontal to the target's position in the sight rather...
Kentucky Wonder bean noun: Alternative letter-case form of Kentucky Wonder bean
Kentuckyish adjective: Similar to or resembling the US state of Kentucky.
Kentville proper noun /ˈkɛnt.vɪl/: A town in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Kentwood proper noun: A city in Kent County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
Kenwood proper noun: A census-designated place in Sonoma County, California, United States.
Kenworthy proper noun: A surname from Old English.
Kenwyn proper noun: A civil parish in Cornwall, England, north and west of Truro.
Kenya proper noun /ˈkɛn.jə/: A country in East Africa. Official name: Republic of Kenya.
Kenya tick typhus noun: Synonym of boutonneuse fever.
Kenyah noun: An indigenous, Austronesian-speaking people of Borneo.
kenyaite noun: A monoclinic white mineral containing hydrogen, oxygen, silicon, and sodium.
Kenyan adjective, noun /ˈkɛnjən/: A person from Kenya or of Kenyan descent.
Kenyan English noun: The English language as written and spoken in Kenya, and among Kenyan expatriates in other countries.
Kenyanism noun: A characteristically Kenyan cultural feature, such as a belief, custom or linguistic feature.
Kenyanization noun: The act or process of making something Kenyan.
Kenyanize verb: To make Kenyan.
Kenyanness noun: The quality of being Kenyan.
kenyapithecine noun: Any extinct ape of the subfamily †Kenyapithecinae
Kenyatta proper noun: A surname, notably borne by Jomo Kenyatta.
Kenyon proper noun: A surname.
Kenyon cell noun: Any of the intrinsic neurons of the mushroom body, essential for olfactory learning and memory.
kenyte noun: A form of trachydolerite lava from Mount Kenya.
Kenzi proper noun: A Nubian language of Egypt.
Kenzie proper noun: A female given name, short form of MacKenzie
Kenzo proper noun: A male given name from Japanese.
Keo proper noun: A surname.
Keogh proper noun /kjəʊ/: A surname from Irish.
Keogh plan noun: A type of retirement plan for self-employed people and small businesses in the United States.
Keoghan proper noun /ˈkjəʊɡən/: A surname.
keogram noun: A photographic method of capturing aurorae.
Keohane proper noun: A surname.
Keokuk proper noun: A city in Iowa, United States and one of the two county seats of Lee County.
keora noun: An Asian plant, Pandanus odoratissimus, that yields an essential oil
Keosauqua proper noun: A small city, the county seat of Van Buren County, Iowa, United States.
Keough proper noun: A surname from Irish.
Keown proper noun /kiːəʊn/: A surname.
kep noun: A traditional Fair Isle fisherman's cap.
kephale noun: A local or provincial governor in the late Byzantine Empire.
kephalic adjective: Dated form of cephalic.
kephalin noun: Alternative spelling of cephalin.
kephalomancy noun: Alternative spelling of cephalomancy.
Kephart proper noun: A surname.
kephir noun: Alternative spelling of kefir.
kepi noun /ˈkɛpi/: A cap with a flat circular top and a visor, particularly associated with French uniforms.
Kepler proper noun: A surname from German.
Kepler-Poinsot polyhedron noun: Synonym of Kepler solid.
Kepler's laws noun: The three laws of planetary motion discovered by Kepler in the early 17th century, stating that (i) the orbit of a planet is an ellipse with the Sun at one...
Kepler shear noun: The effect of differential rotation speeds in the rings of Saturn
Kepler solid noun: Any of several nonconvex regular polyhedra with regular pentagrammatic faces or vertex figures and which can be obtained by stellation of the dodecahedron...
Keplerate noun: Any structure containing both Platonic and Archimedean solids, one inside the other.
keplerian adjective: Of or pertaining to Johannes Kepler, German astronomer and mathematician.
Keplerian telescope noun: An improvement on the Galilean telescope, having a convex lens as the eyepiece instead of Galileo's concave one.
Kepley proper noun: A surname.
Keplinger proper noun: A surname.
Kepner proper noun: A surname.
Kepnes proper noun: A surname.
kepo adjective, noun, verb: Alternative spelling of kaypoh.
kepone noun: A carcinogenic insecticide related to mirex, used between 1966 and 1975 in the US for ant and roach baits.
Keppel proper noun: A surname.
Keppen-Lubinsky syndrome noun: A rare congenital disorder characterized by postnatal growth failure, an aged facial appearance with tight skin, generalized lipodystrophy, microcephaly,...
Kepple proper noun: A surname.
Keppler proper noun: A surname.
kepstrum noun /ˈkɛpstɹəm/: The theoretical quantity that a cepstrum measures.
kept boy noun: Synonym of kept man.
kept man noun: A man who lives off his lover.
kept woman noun: A woman who is supported financially by a lover (usually a married man).
ker noun, prefix: A chief of the Luo people.
ker-thump interjection: Alternative spelling of kerthump.
Kera proper noun: An East Chadic language spoken in southwestern Chad and northern Cameroon.
kerabu noun: A Malaysian salad dressed with lime juice, sugar and chilli
keracyanin noun: antirrhinin
Kerait adjective: Of or pertaining to a Kypchaq nation which dominated the central Eurasian steppe prior to the rise of the Mongol empire.
Kerala proper noun /ˈkɛ.ɹə.lə/: A state in southern India. Capital: Thiruvananthapuram (formerly known as Trivandrum). Largest city: Kochi (formerly known as Cochin).
Keralan adjective, noun: Pertaining to the Indian state of Kerala.
Keralite adjective, noun: A native or inhabitant of the state of Kerala, India.
Keram proper noun: A river in Papua New Guinea.
kerambit noun: A small, double-edged, curved Southeast Asian knife, with a finger ring, resembling a tiger's claw.
keramidium noun: Synonym of cystocarp.
Keramik proper noun /keɪˈɹamɪk/: A rural settlement in Ocheretyne settlement hromada, Pokrovsk Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.
keramographic adjective: Suitable to be written or capable of being written upon
kerana noun: A long Persian trumpet.
Keranen proper noun: A surname.
Kerang proper noun: A town in the Shire of Gannawarra, northern Victoria, Australia.
keraphyllocele noun: A horny tumor which forms on the internal surface of the wall of a horse's foot, at the expense of the keraphyllous tissue, which becomes hypertrophied.
kerargyrite noun: Alternative form of cerargyrite.
kerasin noun: A cerebroside, supposed to be present in the brain, and closely related to cerebrin.
kerat- prefix: Alternative form of kerato-.
keratalgia noun: Pain of the cornea
keratan noun: A glycosaminoglycan whose sulfated form is found in the cornea, cartilage, and bone
keratan sulfate noun: Any of several sulfated glycosaminoglycans that have been found especially in the cornea, cartilage, and bone, and act to absorb mechanical shock in joints.
keratanase noun: Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of a keratan sulfate
keratectasia noun: An abnormal bulging of the cornea due to thinning and scarring.
keratectatic adjective: Relating to keratectasia
keratectomy noun: An operation that removes part of the cornea, as in keratomileusis
keratein noun: The easily digested reduction product of keratin, in which the disulfide links are reduced to SH groups, the individual peptide chains having been separated.
keraterpetontid noun: Any lepospondyl in the family Keraterpetontidae.
keratiasis noun: The presence of hard, horny tumors.
keratic adjective: Arising from the cornea.
keratin noun /ˈkɛɹətɪn/: The protein of which hair and nails are composed.
keratinaceous adjective: Synonym of keratinous.
keratinase noun: A proteolytic proteinase enzyme produced in the presence of keratin-containing substrate.
keratineous adjective: Alternative form of keratinous.
keratinic adjective: Synonym of keratinous.
keratinisation noun: Alternative spelling of keratinization.
keratinise verb: Alternative form of keratinize.
keratinization noun /kəˌɹætɪnaɪˈzeɪʃən/: The process by which cells from beneath the skin are converted to hair and nails (made of keratin).
keratinize verb /ˈkɛrətnˌaɪz/: To convert into keratin.
keratinocyte noun: A cell in the epidermis that produces keratin; keratinocytes comprise 90% of the epidermis' cells.
keratinocytic adjective: Related to or composed of keratinocytes.
keratinogenesis noun: the production of keratin cells
keratinoid adjective: Resembling, or composed of keratin
keratinolysis noun: The breakdown of keratin
keratinolytic adjective, noun: Relating to keratinolysis
keratinolytically adverb: In a keratinolytic manner
keratinophage noun: An organism that feeds on keratin.
keratinophagous adjective: That feeds on keratin
keratinophilic adjective: Capable of thriving on keratin.
keratinophylic adjective: Alternative form of keratinophilic.
keratinosome noun: lamellar granule
keratinous adjective: Consisting of, or made from keratin.
keratitis noun: Inflammation of the cornea.
keratitis-ichthyosis-deafness syndrome noun: A disorder presenting at birth or in infancy, characterized by progressive corneal opacification, either mild generalized hyperkeratosis or discrete...
kerato- prefix: horn
keratoacanthoma noun: A common low-grade malignancy of the skin.
keratoacanthomatous adjective: Relating to a keratoacanthoma.
keratoangioma noun: Angioma of the cornea.
keratoatrophoderma noun: porokeratosis
keratoblast noun: A corneal stem cell which differentiates into a keratocyte.
keratocan noun: A protein that is important to the transparency of the cornea.
keratocele noun: A herniation of Descemet's membrane in the eye.
keratoconic adjective: Relating to keratoconus.
keratoconjunctival adjective: Relating to keratoconjunctivitis
keratoconjunctive adjective: Alternative form of keratoconjunctival.
keratoconjunctivitis noun: The inflammation of the cornea and conjunctiva of the eye, often caused by infections, allergies, dryness, or irritation.
keratoconjunctivitis sicca noun: Dry eye syndrome.
keratoconjunctivity noun: Alternative form of keratoconjunctivitis.
keratoconus noun: A degenerative noninflammatory disorder of the eye in which structural changes within the cornea cause it to thin and change to a more conical shape than...
keratocyst noun: An odontogenic cyst composed of keratinized squamous epithelial tissue
keratocystic adjective: Related to, or composed of, keratocysts.
keratocyte noun: A fibroblastic cell in the tissue of the cornea.
keratocytic adjective: Relating to keratocytes
keratocytosis noun: Any disease associated with keratocytes
keratode noun: keratose
keratoderma noun: Any of various skin conditions causing horny skin.

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.