English words: kotch to Kratzer
300 English words, part 35 of 40 of the words starting with K, A to Z. 14 have a page of their own.
English words kotch to Kratzer
- kotch verb: Alternative form of cotch.
- kotehineri noun: A kimarite in which the attacker locks his opponents arm at the biceps then twists him around and down.
- koteka noun: A penis sheath, usually made from a dried gourd, traditionally worn by the men of certain ethnic groups of New Guinea.
- kotekan noun: A style of playing fast, complex, interlocking parts, in most varieties of Balinese gamelan music.
- Kotel proper noun /ˈkoʊtɛl/: The Western Wall.
- kotenage noun: A kimarite in which the attacker wraps his arm around that of his opponent and, when it is locked near the elbow, turning away from him.
- Koth proper noun: A surname.
- Kothari proper noun: An Indian surname.
- Kothe proper noun: A surname.
- kothi noun: A bungalow.
- kothon noun: an Ancient Greek cosmetic container with folded-over rim.
- kothornos noun: Alternative form of cothurnus.
- koti noun: Alternative form of kothi (“Indian gender role”).
- Kotick proper noun: A surname.
- Kotiria noun: An ethnic group in South America.
- kotjebi noun: A homeless child in North Korea.
- Kotka proper noun: A city and municipality of the Kymenlaakso region, in southern Finland.
- Kotler proper noun: A surname.
- kotlet noun: A type of Polish meat patty.
- kotleta noun: A meat patty or meatball made of ground pork and/or beef flattened into an oval shape, then seasoned and fried or baked.
- Kotlin proper noun: A cross-platform, statically typed, general-purpose object-oriented programming language with type inference, designed to interoperate with Java.
- kotlovina noun: A Croatian dish consisting of a kettle of various kinds of pork, such as sausages.
- koto noun: A Japanese stringed instrument having numerous strings, usually seven or thirteen, that are stretched over a convex wooden sounding board and are plucked...
- kotoist noun: Someone who plays the koto.
- kotoite noun: A mineral form of magnesium borate that is isostructural with jimboite
- Kotoko noun: A Chadic ethnic group living around the area of the former kingdom.
- kotolike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a koto (musical instrument).
- kotomolide noun: The lactone (3Z,4S)-4-hydroxy-5-methylidene-3-octylideneoxolan-2-one that has anticancer properties
- Kotor proper noun: A town and municipality of Montenegro.
- kotow noun, verb /ˈkoʊˈtaʊ/: Alternative spelling of kowtow.
- kotower noun: Alternative spelling of kowtower.
- kotowing noun, verb: Alternative form of kowtowing.
- Kotri proper noun: A city in Sindh, Pakistan.
- kotschubeite noun: A chromium chlorite mineral.
- Kott proper noun: A Yeniseian language which was spoken in Siberia and has been extinct for 150 years.
- kottabos noun: Alternative form of cottabus.
- Kottayam proper noun: A city in Kerala, India.
- Kotter proper noun: A surname.
- kotthu noun: Alternative form of kottu.
- köttigite noun: A rare hydrated zinc arsenate mineral.
- Kottke proper noun: A surname.
- Kottler proper noun: A surname.
- Köttstorfer value noun: Alternative form of Koettstorfer value.
- kottu noun: A Sri Lankan dish made with roti, vegetables, eggs, meat, etc.
- kotuku noun: The white heron Egretta alba.
- kotukutuku noun: A tree of New Zealand, Fuchsia excorticata, bearing edible purple berries.
- kotul noun: A mountain pass; a col.
- kotulskite noun: A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal mineral containing bismuth, palladium, and tellurium.
- kotwal noun: The leader of a kot or fort in medieval India.
- kotwali noun: A police station.
- kotyle noun: Synonym of cantharus (“a kind of ancient Greek and Roman cup”).
- kotyliskos noun: A small Ancient Greek vase with a small foot and with or without handles.
- kotylos noun: Synonym of cantharus (“a kind of ancient Greek and Roman cup”).
- Kotz proper noun: A surname.
- Kotzebue proper noun: A city, the borough seat of Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska, United States.
- kou noun: A tree of species Cordia subcordata.
- Kouba proper noun: A surname from Czech.
- Koubaru noun: Alternative form of Koupalu.
- Koubru noun: Alternative form of Koupalu.
- Koudelka proper noun: A surname from Czech.
- koudi noun: A very small Chinese flute.
- koudou noun: Alternative spelling of kudu.
- koufta noun: Alternative spelling of kofta.
- kouhai noun: Alternative spelling of kohai.
- kouign-amann noun /ˌkwiːn æˈmæn/: A traditional Breton cake made of layers of butter, dough, and sugar.
- koukoulion noun: A traditional headdress worn by monks of the highest degree in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
- koula noun: A gold coin of Tonga, worth one 16th of a pound, issued in 1962.
- koulak noun: Alternative form of kulak.
- koulan noun: A subspecies of onager (Equus hemionus), Equus hemionus kulan.
- koulibiac noun: Alternative spelling of coulibiac.
- koulibiaca noun: Alternative form of coulibiac.
- koulibiak noun: Alternative spelling of coulibiac.
- koulouri noun: A bagel or ring doughnut shaped bread roll covered with sesame or sunflower seeds, often sold on the streets of Greece and Cyprus.
- koumbara noun: A female koumbaros.
- koumbaros noun: The person who, during a Greek Orthodox wedding, exchanges the crowns over the couple's heads and has other related roles
- koumis noun: Alternative form of koumiss.
- koumiss noun /ˈkuːmɪs/: A fermented drink made from mare's milk, common among peoples of the Central Asian steppes.
- koumpounophobia noun: The fear of buttons (clothing fasteners).
- koumys noun: Alternative form of koumiss.
- koumyss noun: Alternative form of koumiss.
- Koungmiut noun: An Eskimo tribe of the west coast of Hudson Bay.
- Kounis syndrome noun: An acute coronary syndrome caused by an allergic reaction or a strong immune reaction to a drug or other substance.
- Kountze proper noun: A city, the county seat of Hardin County, Texas, United States.
- kouprey noun: A wild, forest-dwelling ox, Bos sauveli, from Cambodia and surrounding countries.
- kouproh noun: Alternative form of kouprey.
- koura noun: A freshwater crayfish of the genus Paranephrops, only found in New Zealand.
- kourabiedes noun: Almond biscuits or cookies popular in the Greek and Cypriot communities.
- kourabiethes noun: Alternative form of kourabiedes.
- kourai noun: animate statues of beautiful maidens, forged out of gold by the divine smith Hephaistos, who attended the Olympian gods
- Kouranko noun: Alternative form of Kuranko.
- kourbash noun, verb: Alternative spelling of kurbash.
- Kouri noun: Alternative form of Kuri (“ethnic group of Chad”).
- kouros noun /ˈkuːɹɒs/: A sculpture of a naked youth in Ancient Greece, the male equivalent of a kore.
- kourotrophic adjective: Relating to the goddess Kourotrophos.
- kourotrophos noun: Any of a class of Mycenaean terracotta figurines depicting women carrying children.
- Kourou proper noun /kəˈɹu/: A commune of French Guiana department, France.
- Kourtney proper noun: A unisex given name transferred from the surname, variant of Courtney.
- Koury proper noun: A surname.
- kousapw noun: A local polity of Pohnpei, usually consisting of a group of houses, ruled by a Soumas.
- kouse noun /kaʊs/: A plant or herb with edible roots, in the genus Lomatium, used in traditional Native American foods and medicines.
- Koushik proper noun: A male given name from Bengali.
- kouskous noun: Alternative spelling of couscous.
- Koussevitzky proper noun: A surname from Russian.
- koussin noun: An anthelmintic resin derived from kousso.
- kousso noun /ˈkʊsəʊ/: An Ethiopian rosaceous tree whose flowers were used as a vermifuge, of species Hagenia abyssinica.
- koutchie noun: A pipe for smoking cannabis.
- koutekite noun: A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal gray blue mineral containing arsenic and copper.
- kouxian noun: A type of mouth harp, of Chinese origin, usually made of bamboo or sometimes brass, and often consisting of more than one lamellae.
- kouza noun: An old unit of liquid measure in Cyprus, equivalent to 9 quarts.
- Kovac proper noun /ˈkoʊvæk/: A surname from Czech, Slovak, Slovene, or Serbo-Croatian.
- Kovac's reagent noun: A biochemical reagent consisting of isoamyl alcohol, paradimethylaminobenzaldehyde and concentrated hydrochloric acid.
- Kovacevic proper noun: A surname from Serbo-Croatian.
- Kovacevich proper noun: A surname from Serbo-Croatian.
- Kovach proper noun: A surname.
- Kovacic proper noun: A surname from Serbo-Croatian or Slovene.
- Kovack proper noun /ˈkoʊvæk/: A surname from Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Serbo-Croatian, or Hungarian.
- Kovacs proper noun: A surname from Hungarian.
- Kovacsian adjective: Of or relating to Ernie Kovacs (1919–1962), American entertainer, whose visually experimental and often spontaneous comedic style influenced numerous...
- Koval proper noun: A surname from Ukrainian.
- Kovalainen proper noun: A surname from Finnish.
- Kovalchuk proper noun: A surname from Ukrainian.
- Kovalenko proper noun: A surname.
- Kovaleski proper noun: A surname from Polish.
- Kovar proper noun: A surname.
- Kovarik proper noun: A surname.
- kovbasa noun: Alternative form of kubasa.
- kovdorskite noun: A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing carbon, hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, and phosphorus.
- Kovel proper noun /ˈkɔʋɛlʲ/: An urban hromada of Kovel Raion, Volyn Oblast, Ukraine, established in June 2020.
- kovil noun /ˈkoːvɪl/: A Hindu temple built in a distinct style of Dravidian architecture.
- kovsh noun: A Russian ladle or drinking bowl
- Kovtun proper noun: A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Ковтун (Kovtun).
- KOW proper noun: The station code of Kowloon in Hong Kong.
- kow-tow verb: Alternative spelling of kowtow.
- kowabonga interjection: Alternative spelling of cowabunga.
- kowabunga interjection: Alternative spelling of cowabunga.
- Kowagmiut noun: A group of Eskimos living near the Kobuk River in northwestern Alaska.
- Kowal proper noun: A surname from Polish.
- Kowalchuk proper noun: A surname from Ukrainian.
- Kowalczyk proper noun: A surname from Polish.
- Kowalewski proper noun: A surname from Polish.
- Kowalik proper noun: A surname from Polish.
- Kowalski proper noun: A surname from Polish.
- Kowalsky proper noun: A surname.
- kowari noun: A small carnivorous rat-like marsupial, Dasyuroides byrnei, endemic to the dry grasslands and deserts of central Australia.
- Kowarski syndrome noun: A kind of growth disorder.
- kowhai noun /ˈkoʊfaɪ/: Any of several small woody legume trees in the genus Sophora native to New Zealand that have yellow flowers. The national flower of New Zealand.
- kowl noun: Alternative form of cowle (“Indian lease or grant”).
- kowliang noun: Alternative form of kaoliang.
- Kowloon proper noun /kaʊˈluːn/: A region, peninsula, and urban area of Hong Kong.
- kowrie noun: Alternative spelling of kauri.
- kowtow noun, verb /ˈkaʊˌtaʊ/: To kneel and bow low enough to touch one’s forehead to the ground.
- kowtower noun: One who kowtows; a sycophant.
- kowtowing noun, verb: The act of one who kowtows; a submissive bow.
- Koxinga proper noun /kɔkˈsɪŋɡə/: A Chinese-Japanese Ming loyalist who resisted the Qing conquest of China's southeastern coast.
- Koy proper noun: A surname.
- Koya proper noun: A precolonial African state from 1505 to 1896 in the north of present-day Sierra Leone, founded by the Temne ethnic group.
- koyak adjective: spoilt, damaged
- Koyal proper noun: A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- Koyama proper noun: A surname from Japanese.
- koyan noun: Alternative form of kojang (“former unit of weight”).
- koyang noun: Alternative form of kojang (“former unit of weight”).
- Koyasu proper noun: A neighborhood of Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
- Koybal noun: Alternative form of Koibal.
- koyemshi noun: An attendant and interpreter of the kachinas.
- koyil noun: Alternative form of kovil.
- koyok noun [ˈk˭ojoʔ]: A phoney or fraudulent item; anything deceptively promoted as genuine or of high quality.
- Koyukon noun: A member of an Athabascan people of northern Alaska, whose traditional home is along the Koyukuk and Yukon rivers.
- Koyukuk proper noun: A city in Alaska.
- Koza proper noun: A surname.
- kozachok noun /ˌkazəˈtʃɒk/: A Ukrainian and Russian couple-dance with constantly increasing tempo.
- Kozak proper noun: A surname.
- Kozar proper noun: A surname.
- Kozel proper noun: A surname from Czech
- Kozhikode proper noun: A city in Kerala, in southwestern India.
- Kozi noun: A German communist.
- Kozik proper noun: A surname.
- Koziol proper noun: A surname from Polish.
- Kozlov proper noun: A surname.
- Kozlovsky proper noun: A raion of Chuvash, Russia.
- Kozlowski proper noun: A surname from Polish.
- kozogami noun: Japanese tissue.
- Kozue proper noun: A female given name from Japanese.
- kozulite noun: A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, iron, manganese, oxygen, silicon, and sodium.
- kozunak noun: Alternative form of cozonac.
- kozyrevskite noun: An arsenate analogue of milkovoite.
- KP noun: Initialism of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
- kpanlogo noun: A form of dance and music that originated in the 1960s among urban youth in Accra, Ghana.
- kpc noun: Abbreviation of kiloparsec.
- KPD noun: Initialism of key position defender.
- KPDH noun: Initialism of KPop Demon Hunters.
- Kpelle noun /kəˈpɛlə/: A member of the largest ethnic group of Liberia.
- KPF noun: Initialism of key position forward.
- kph noun /ˌkeɪpiˈeɪt͡ʃ/: Initialism of kilometre(s) per hour.
- KPI noun: Initialism of kingpin inclination.
- kpkb verb: Alternative letter-case form of KPKB.
- KPL proper noun: The Lao News Agency.
- kpm noun: Initialism of key per minute.
- KPO proper noun: Communist Party of Germany (Opposition).
- Kpod noun: Etomidate, as an unlawfully-used controlled drug mixed in e-cigarette liquid.
- kpomo noun: cowhide used as food.
- KPop noun: Alternative letter-case form of K-pop.
- KPP noun: Initialism of key performance parameter.
- KPRA noun: Initialism of kingpin to rear axle (“length measurement of a semi-trailer truck”).
- kps noun: Initialism of kilometers per second or klicks per second.
- KPSS test noun: Initialism of Kwiatkowski-Phillips-Schmidt-Shin test.
- Kpuesi noun: Synonym of Kpelle (“African people”).
- Kpwe noun: Alternative form of Kwe (“a Bantu ethnic group”).
- kra noun: The letter Κʻ or ĸ, formerly used to write the Kalaallisut language of Greenland, replaced in 1973 by the letter q.
- Kra-Dai adjective: Pertaining to that language family.
- Kraak ware noun: A kind of Chinese export porcelain produced mainly in the late Ming dynasty.
- kraakware noun: Alternative form of Kraak ware.
- kraal noun, verb /kɹɑːl/: In Central and Southern Africa, a small rural community.
- kraalhead noun: The traditional leader of a kraal.
- kraar noun: Alternative form of krar.
- Kraatz proper noun: A surname from German.
- krab noun: Clipping of carabiner.
- Krabbe proper noun: A surname.
- Krabbe disease noun: globoid cell leukodystrophy, or galactosylceramide lipidosis; a rare, often fatal degenerative disorder that affects the myelin sheath of the nervous system
- Krabi proper noun: A province of Thailand.
- krachai noun: In Thai cuisine, fingerroot (Boesenbergia rotunda).
- Kracht proper noun: A surname.
- Kraemer proper noun: A surname.
- kraemeriid noun: Any fish in the family Kraemeriidae, the sand gobies.
- Kraepelinian adjective, noun: Relating to Emil Kraepelin (1856–1926), German psychiatrist who believed that psychiatric disorders were the result of biological and genetic malfunction.
- kraft noun: A kind of strong, smooth brown wrapping paper.
- kraft leather noun: A type of imitation leather used in bookbinding.
- kraft paper noun: Strong paper made from kraft pulp, often used for making corrugated board; usually brown.
- kraft process noun: A chemical process for the conversion of wood into wood pulp (for paper manufacture).
- kraft pulp noun: Pulp used in making kraft paper produced by delignifying woodchips by cooking in a vessel under pressure using an alkaline cooking liquor.
- Kraftwerkian adjective: Of or relating to the pioneering German electronic music group Kraftwerk (formed in 1970).
- Krag noun: The Springfield Model 1892–99, a bolt-action rifle adopted in 1892 as the standard United States Army military longarm.
- Kragujevac proper noun: A city in Serbia.
- Krahn noun: A member of an ethnic group from Liberia and Ivory Coast
- krai noun /kɹaɪ̯/: A region or province in Russia.
- kraisslite noun: A hexagonal-trapezohedral mineral containing arsenic, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, silicon, and zinc.
- krait noun /kɹaɪt/: Any of several brightly-coloured, venomous snakes, of the genus Bungarus, of southeast Asia.
- Krajewski proper noun: A surname from Polish.
- Krajina proper noun: A Serb protostate within and opposing the newly independent Republic of Croatia, active during the Croatian War of Independence (1991–95).
- Krakatoa proper noun /ˌkɹɑ.kəˈtoʊ.ə/: a volcanic island made of ʻaʻā lava in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in Indonesia
- Krakatoan adjective: Of or relating to Krakatoa.
- kraken noun /ˈkɹæ.kən/: Alternative form of Kraken.
- Krakow proper noun /ˈkɹækaʊ/: A city on the Vistula River, the capital of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in southern Poland and the former capital (until 1596) of Poland as a whole.
- krakowiak noun: A lively, syncopated Polish dance in duple time.
- Krakowski proper noun: A surname from Polish.
- Kralik proper noun: A surname from Czech.
- Kraljevo proper noun: A city in Raška district, Serbia.
- krama noun: A traditional Cambodian garment with many uses, including as a scarf or bandana or to carry children.
- Kramatorsk proper noun /kɹæməˈtɔːsk/: A city in Kramatorsk urban hromada, Kramatorsk Raion, Donetsk Oblast, in eastern Ukraine; seat of the Donetsk province.
- Kramer verb /ˈkɹeɪmɚ/: To suddenly enter or go through somewhere unexpectedly and suddenly.
- krameria noun: Any member of the genus Krameria of rhatanies.
- krameric adjective: Pertaining to, or derived from, plants of the genus Krameria (rhatany).
- Kramers pair noun: Any pair of states related by Kramers' theorem.
- Kramp proper noun: A surname from German.
- Krampus proper noun /ˈkɹɑmpəs/: A beast in the folklore of Alpine countries, said to punish misbehaving children during the Christmas season.
- kran noun: Alternative form of qiran.
- Krane proper noun: A surname from German.
- krang noun /ˈkɹæŋ/: The portions of a whale that remain after the blubber has been removed, especially the flesh and organs.
- Krank proper noun: A surname from German.
- kranocyte noun: A form of fibroblast that caps certain Schwann cells
- krans noun: Alternative form of krantz.
- kransekage noun: A cake constructed from a stack of rings of decreasing diameter, each made of marzipan, egg whites and sugar.
- kransekake noun: Synonym of kransekage.
- Kransky noun: A Slovenian-style sausage.
- Krant proper noun: A surname.
- Kranti proper noun: A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- krantikari noun: A revolutionary.
- krantz noun: An encircling or overhanging wall of rock.
- krantzite noun: A variety of amber.
- kranz noun: Alternative form of krantz.
- Krapf proper noun: A surname.
- krapfen noun: A Berliner (doughnut with sweet filling).
- krar noun: A five-stringed, bowl-shaped lyre of Eritrea and Ethiopia.
- krarist noun: Someone who plays a krar.
- Krasinski proper noun: A surname from Polish.
- Kraska proper noun /ˈkɹaskə/: A surname from Polish.
- Krasner proper noun: A surname.
- Krasnodar proper noun: A krai of Russia, unofficially called Kuban.
- Krasnov proper noun: A transliteration of the Russian surname Красно́в (Krasnóv).
- krasnovite noun: An orthorhombic-dipyramidal pale blue mineral containing aluminum, barium, carbon, hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, and phosphorus.
- Krasnow proper noun: A surname from Russian.
- Krasnoyarsk proper noun: A krai of Russia, Krasnoyarsk Krai.
- krasnozem noun: Synonym of ferrosol.
- Krass proper noun: A surname from German.
- Kraszewski proper noun: A surname from Polish.
- kratagonist noun: Any of a group of agonist proteins in anopheline saliva that inhibit host immunological response
- krater noun: An ancient Greek vessel for mixing water and wine.
- kraterocracy noun: Synonym of kratocracy.
- kraterocratic adjective: Of or relating to kraterocracy.
- Kratky proper noun: A surname.
- Kratochvil proper noun: A surname from Czech.
- kratochvilite noun: A rare organic mineral, an orthorhombic hydrocarbon formed by combustion of coal or pyritic black shale deposits.
- kratocracy noun: A government established by the forceful or cunning seizure of power and maintained by strength.
- kratocratic adjective: Of or relating to kratocracy.
- kratogen noun: Stable rock, not deformed by orogeny.
- kratom noun /ˈkɹeɪtəm/: A tree, Mitragyna speciosa, endemic to Southeast Asia.
- kraton noun: A Javanese or Balinese royal court or palace.
- Kratos proper noun /ˈkɹatɒs/: The god and personification of power and strength.
- Kratt proper noun: A surname from German [in turn originating as an occupation], meaning “basketmaker”.
- Kratz proper noun: A surname.
- Kratzer proper noun: A surname from German.
Part 34 · Part 36 · English words: K
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.