English Words: K
9,255 words · Page 24 of 186
The eleventh letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
A Vedic rishi credited as the founder of the Samkhya school, and the son of Prajapati Kardama and Devahuti
A Vedic rishi credited as the founder of the Samkhya school, and the son of Prajapati Kardama and Devahuti
Of or relating to Kapingamarangi, an atoll and municipality of the Federated States of Micronesia.
A pre-Christian shrine from Slavic cultures, usually in the form of a field, a sacred fire, and an idol of a god.
Any of a group of Polish painters of the 1930s who saw art as independent from any historical tradition or symbolism.
According to certain Marxist beliefs, the modern capitalist state when regarded as controlled or influenced by government, rather than being a true free market.
A territorial authority on the west coast of Wellington region, New Zealand; in full, Kapiti Coast District.
A resistance to the flow of heat across the interface between liquid helium and a solid that produces a temperature discontinuity.
A water turbine that has adjustable blades so that a constant rate of revolution is achieved.
Of or relating to Mordecai Kaplan (born Mottel Kaplan; 1881–1983), Lithuanian-born American rabbi, writer, Jewish educator, professor, theologian, philosopher, activist, and religious leader who founded the Reconstructionist branch of Judaism along with his son-in-law Ira Eisenstein.
A prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp who was given food and privileges in return for supervising other prisoners doing forced labor.
A silky fibre obtained from seed pods of the silk-cotton tree (Ceiba pentandra) used for insulation and stuffing for mattresses, pillows, etc.
Ceiba pentandra, a tree of the tropical Americas and west-central Africa, with white flowers, cultivated in south-east Asia for its seed fibre.
A protein, associated with Kaposi's sarcoma, that enhances the release of pathogenetically important proinflammatory cytokines.
A headcovering worn by many women of certain Anabaptist Christian traditions (especially Mennonites and Amish) for religious reasons.
A customary atonement ritual practised by Orthodox Jews on the eve of Yom Kippur, involving the waving of money or a chicken over a person's head before it is donated to charity or to feed the hungry.
A non-negative integer, the representation of whose square in its base can be split into two parts that add up to itself (such as 297, whose square, 88209, can be split into 88 and 209, totalling 297).
A polyimide film that remains stable across a wide range of temperatures, used in flexible printed circuits, thermal blankets, etc.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
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 24. 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.
On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.
For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented English headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "K" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.