English Words: K

9,255 words · Page 3 of 186

kamikazenoun

An attack requiring the suicide of the one carrying it out, especially when done with an aircraft.

Kaminskiname

A surname from Polish.

Kamloopsname

A city, the seat of the Regional District of Thompson-Nicola, British Columbia, Canada, located at the confluence of the two branches of the Thompson River.

Kamoname

Any of various places in Japan, most notably Kamo, Niigata.

kampadj

homosexual

Kampalaname

The capital of, and largest city in, Uganda.

kampongnoun

A landing, a port; a river town.

Kampucheaname

Former name of Cambodia: a country in Southeast Asia, used from 1975 to 1989.

kampungnoun

A traditional village.

kannoun

Archaic form of khan.

kananoun

The hiragana and katakana syllabaries. These are made up of characters that represent individual syllables, which are used to write Japanese words and particles. Kana are derived from kanji.

Kanaanname

A surname from Arabic.

Kanagawaname

A prefecture of Japan.

kanakanoun

A person of Hawaiian descent.

Kanazawaname

The capital city of Ishikawa Prefecture, central Honshū, Japan.

kanbannoun

A card containing a set of manufacturing specifications and requirements, used to regulate the supply of components.

Kandaharname

A city, the capital of the province of Kandahar in southern Afghanistan.

Kandyname

A city, the capital of Central Province, Sri Lanka.

Kanename

A surname from Irish.

Kanekoname

A surname from Japanese.

Kaneohename

A census-designated place in Honolulu, Hawaii.

kangnoun

A traditional long platform of brick, clay or concrete, used for heating in colder parts of China and suitable for sleeping on at night.

kanganoun

A comb, required to be worn at all times by Sikhs, one of the five Ks.

kangaroonoun

A member of the Macropodidae family of large marsupials with strong hind legs for hopping, native to Australia.

Kangaroosnoun

The Australia national rugby league team.

kanjinoun

The system of writing Japanese using Chinese characters.

Kankakeename

A city, the county seat of Kankakee County, Illinois, United States.

Kannadanoun

The Dravidian language that is the official language of the state of Karnataka, India.

Kannanname

A male given name from Tamil or Malayalam.

kanonoun

A male American.

kanonnoun

Synonym of monochord (used mainly in reference to ancient Greek music)

Kanpurname

A large city, district, and division of Uttar Pradesh, India.

Kansainame

A region of Japan, located in Honshū.

Kansasname

A state of the midwest United States. Capital: Topeka. Largest city: Wichita.

Kantname

A surname from German.

kantarnoun

a unit of weight used in Eastern Mediterranean countries, varying from place to place (44.93 kg in Egypt)

Kantename

A surname.

Kantername

A surname.

Kantianadj

Of, pertaining to, or resembling the philosophical views of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804).

Kantorname

A surname.

Kanyakumariname

A district of Tamil Nadu, India.

Kanyename

A male given name.

Kaohsiungname

A city and special municipality in southern Taiwan, and the third largest city in Taiwan.

kaolinnoun

A fine clay, rich in kaolinite, used in ceramics, papermaking, etc.

Kaoruname

A unisex given name from Japanese.

Kapilname

A Vedic rishi credited as the founder of the Samkhya school, and the son of Prajapati Kardama and Devahuti

Kaplanname

A surname.

Kapoorname

A kshatriya Punjabi surname from Hindi.

kappnoun

A headcovering worn by many women of certain Anabaptist Christian traditions (especially Mennonites and Amish) for religious reasons.

kappanoun

The tenth letter of the Greek alphabet.

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 3. 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.