English Words: K

9,255 words · Page 26 of 186

Karakoramname

A mountain range located in Gilgit, Ladakh and Baltistan, containing more than sixty peaks above 7,000 m (22,960 ft), including K2, the second highest peak in the world.

Karakoram Highwayname

The highest paved international road in the world, which connects Xinjiang, China, to Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, across the Karakoram mountain range, through the Khunjerab Pass, at an altitude of 4,693 metres (15,397 feet).

Karakorumname

A city, once capital of the Mongol Empire (1235–1260) and later of the Northern Yuan (1371–1388).

karakulnoun

A sheep of a Central Asian breed.

Karakulovname

A transliteration of the Russian surname Каракулов (Karakulov).

karakurtnoun

Synonym of malmignatte.

karamnoun

The tree Adina cordifolia.

Karamanname

A province in the Central Anatolia region, Turkey.

Karamanianname

A surname from Armenian.

Karamanlisname

A transliteration of the Greek surname Καραμανλής (Karamanlís).

Karamanlismnoun

The particular style of governance and general management of political life (pragmatic, synthetical, systematic instead of ideological, analytical, and haphazard) introduced by Konstantinos Karamanlis.

Karamanovname

A transliteration of the Bulgarian surname Караманов (Karamanov).

Karamanyanname

A surname from Armenian.

Karamayname

A prefecture-level city in northern Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

Karamazovianadj

sensual; lustful; passionate

Karambelkarname

A surname from Marathi.

karambitnoun

A small, curved Southeast Asian knife resembling a Sumatran tiger's claw.

karambolanoun

Rare spelling of carambola.

Karamojongname

A Nilo-Saharan language of Uganda.

karamunoun

The feast eaten as part of Kwanzaa celebrations.

Karanname

A male given name from Sanskrit, of Indian usage.

karanganoun

In Māori culture, an exchange of calls that forms part of the pōhiri.

karanjinoun

A sweet dumpling made with coconut.

karanjinnoun

A furanoflavonol obtained from the seeds of the karanja tree, and used as a pesticide and insecticide.

karaokenoun

A form of entertainment popular in clubs, at parties, etc, in which individual members of the public sing along to pre-recorded instrumental versions of popular songs, the lyrics of which are displayed for the singer on a screen in time with the music.

karaoke machinenoun

A machine which plays recorded (typically instrumental) tracks that can be sung along to with a microphone and with reference to lyrics displayed on a screen.

Karapetianname

A surname from Armenian.

Karapetyanname

A surname from Armenian.

karapinchanoun

curry tree

Karasname

A surname.

Karasburgname

A town in ǁKaras Region, southern Namibia.

Karasinskiname

A surname from Polish.

Karasjokname

A village and municipality of Finnmark, in northern Norway.

karassnoun

A network or group of people who are somehow affiliated or linked spiritually.

karasugitenoun

A monoclinic-prismatic colorless mineral containing aluminum, calcium, fluorine, hydrogen, oxygen, and strontium.

karasuminoun

Dried salted mullet roe, a Japanese delicacy.

Karataname

A North Caucasian language spoken in south-west Daghestan.

Karatauname

A mountain range in Kazakhstan, the westernmost extension of the Tian Shan.

karatenoun

An Okinawan martial art involving primarily punching and kicking, but additionally, advanced throws, arm bars, grappling and all means of fighting.

karateginoun

A karate uniform.

karateistnoun

A person who does karate.

karatekanoun

A practitioner of karate.

karatelikeadj

Resembling or characteristic of karate.

karatemannoun

A male practitioner of karate.

karatistnoun

One who practices karate.

Karatsuba algorithmnoun

A fast multiplication algorithm that reduces the multiplication of two n-digit numbers to at most n^(log ₂₃)≈n^(1.585) single-digit multiplications.

Karatsuba multiplicationnoun

Multiplication by means of the Karatsuba algorithm.

Karatzidisname

A surname from Greek.

karayuki-sannoun

A Japanese girl from a poor agricultural region who was sent abroad to work as a prostitute.

Karbala'name

Alternative form of Karbala.

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 26. 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.

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