English Words: K

9,255 words · Page 12 of 186

kalamkarinoun

a type of hand-printed cotton cloth from India

kalampokiphobianoun

The fear of corn or maize (Zea mays).

kalannoun

The sea otter.

kalanchoenoun

Any of the genus Kalanchoe of tropical, succulent flowering plants.

Kalaniname

A unisex given name from Hawaiian.

Kalapuyanadj

Of or relating to the Kalapuya people.

kalarnoun

Burmese people of South Asian origin, especially Bengali, Rohingya, or any South Asian Muslim or Hindus.

kalarippayattunoun

A Dravidian martial art from the Indian state of Kerala.

Kalasname

A surname.

Kalashnoun

A Dardic indigenous group residing in the Chitral District of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. They speak the Kalasha language.

kalashanoun

A metal pot with a large base and small mouth, used in Hindu rites, in which it is filled with water, coins, grain, etc. and topped with a coconut.

Kalasha-munname

Kalasha

Kalashnikovname

A particular model of Russian assault rifle.

kalasienoun

A long-tailed monkey, Presbytis rubicundus, native to Borneo.

Kalasinname

A province of Thailand.

Kalasmaicname

Synonym of Kalašma (“an extinct Indo-European language spoken in the ancient state of Kalašma”).

Kalataname

A surname from Polish.

kalathosnoun

Alternative form of calathus.

Kalavatiname

A female given name from Sanskrit.

Kalavrytaname

A town and municipality in Achaea, West Greece, Greece.

Kalayaanname

Synonym of Spratly Islands.

Kalašmaname

A late Bronze Age polity in Northern Anatolia on the border of the Hittite Empire.

Kalbachname

A surname from German.

Kalbfleischname

A surname from German.

kalbinoun

A Korean barbecued rib dish, usually made from beef

kalborsitenoun

A tetragonal-scalenohedral mineral containing aluminum, boron, chlorine, hydrogen, oxygen, potassium, and silicon.

Kalderashnoun

A dialect of Vlax Romani language belonging to the Romani languages.

kalderetanoun

A goat stew from the Philippines, commonly made with vegetables and liver paste.

Kaldor-Hicks improvementnoun

An economic reallocation of resources among people, such that those who are made better off could hypothetically compensate those who are made worse off and lead to a Pareto-improving outcome.

Kaldorianadj

Of or relating to Nicholas Kaldor (1908–1986), Hungarian economist.

kalenoun

An edible plant, similar to cabbage, with curled leaves that do not form a dense head (Brassica oleracea var. acephala)

Kalebname

A male given name from Hebrew, a less common modern spelling variant of Caleb.

Kaleckianadj

Of or relating to Michał Kalecki (1899–1970), Polish economist.

kaleidographnoun

A late 19th or early 20th century device for duplicating documents that use colored ink, consisting of a tray with a rubbery substance that takes an impression of the document and then transfers it onto blank sheets of paper.

kaleidoscopenoun

An instrument consisting of a tube containing mirrors and loose, colourful beads or other objects; when the tube is looked into and rotated, a succession of symmetrical designs can be seen.

kaleidoscopelikeadj

Resembling or characteristic of a kaleidoscope.

kaleidoscopicadj

Of, relating to, or produced by a kaleidoscope.

kaleidoscopicallyadv

In a kaleidoscopic, continuously changing manner.

Kaleighname

A female given name originating as a coinage.

kalelikeadj

Resembling or characteristic of the vegetable kale.

Kalemaname

A violent surf that occurs on the coast of the Guinea region of West Africa.

kalemianoun

The presence of potassium in the blood, and (usually, especially) the degree (that is, its concentration).

kalemicadj

Of or pertaining to kalemia: (usually, especially) regarding trends of potassium (K) concentration over time.

kalendarialadj

Alternative form of calendarial.

kalendsnoun

Alternative spelling of calends.

kalesnoun

plural of kale

Kaletaname

A surname.

kaleteznoun

A type of thin buckwheat pancake in Breton cuisine.

kalettenoun

A vegetable that is a hybrid of kale and Brussels sprouts.

Kalevalaname

The Finnish national epic.

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The English alphabetical index for the letter K contains 9,255 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 186 pages, and you are currently viewing page 12. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.

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