| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| kaama | noun | The hartbeest. |
| kabob | noun & verb t. | See Cabob, n. & v. t. |
| kafal | noun | The Arabian name of two trees of the genus Balsamodendron, which yield a gum resin and a red aromatic wood. |
| kafir | noun | One of a race which, with the Hottentots and Bushmen, inhabit South Africa. They inhabit the country north of Cape Colony, the name being now specifically applied to the tribes living between Cape Colony and Natal; but the Zulus of Natal are true Kaffirs., One of a race inhabiting Kafiristan in Central Asia. |
| kahau | noun | A long-nosed monkey (Semnopithecus nasalis), native of Borneo. The general color of the body is bright chestnut, with the under parts, shoulders, and sides of the head, golden yellow, and the top of the head and upper part of the back brown. Called also proboscis monkey. |
| kalan | noun | The sea otter. |
| kalif | noun | See Caliph. |
| kalki | noun | The name of Vishnu in his tenth and last avatar. |
| kalpa | noun | One of the Brahmanic eons, a period of 4,320,000,000 years. At the end of each Kalpa the world is annihilated. |
| kapia | noun | The fossil resin of the kauri tree of New Zealand. |
| karma | noun | One’s acts considered as fixing one’s lot in the future existence. (Theos.) The doctrine of fate as the inflexible result of cause and effect; the theory of inevitable consequence. |
| karob | noun | The twenty-fourth part of a grain; — a weight used by goldsmiths. |
| kauri | noun | A lofty coniferous tree of New Zealand Agathis, / Dammara, australis), furnishing valuable timber and yielding one kind of dammar resin. |
| kayak | noun | A light canoe, made of skins stretched over a frame, and usually capable of carrying but one person, who sits amidships and uses a double-bladed paddle. It is peculiar to the Eskimos and other Arctic tribes. |
| kayko | noun | The dog salmon. |
| kecky | adjective | Resembling a kecksy. |
| kedge | noun | To move (a vessel) by carrying out a kedge in a boat, dropping it overboard, and hauling the vessel up to it., A small anchor used whenever a large one can be dispensed witch. See Kedge, v. t., and Anchor, n. |
| keech | noun | A mass or lump of fat rolled up by the butcher. |
| keels | noun pl. | Ninepins. See Kayles. |
| keesh | noun | See Kish. |
| keeve | noun | A vat or tub in which the mash is made; a mash tub., A bleaching vat; a kier., A large vat used in dressing ores., To set in a keeve, or tub, for fermentation., To heave; to tilt, as a cart. |
| kelpy | noun | An imaginary spirit of the waters, horselike in form, vulgarly believed to warn, by preternatural noises and lights, those who are to be drowned. |
| kempt | of Kemb, p. p. of Kemb. | |
| kempe | adjective | Rough; shaggy. |
| kemps | noun pl. | The long flower stems of the ribwort plantain (Plantago Lanceolata). |
| kerse | noun | A cress. |
| kerve | verb t. | To carve. |
| kesar | noun | See Kaiser. |
| ketch | noun | An almost obsolete form of vessel, with a mainmast and a mizzenmast, — usually from one hundred to two hundred and fifty tons burden., A hangman. See Jack Ketch., To catch. |
| ketol | noun | One of a series of series of complex nitrogenous substances, represented by methyl ketol and related to indol. |
| kevel | noun | A strong cleat to which large ropes are belayed., A stone mason’s hammer., Alt. of Kevin |
| kevin | noun | The gazelle. |
| kever | verb t. & | i. To cover. |
| keved | imp. & past participle | of Key |
| keyed | adjective | Furnished with keys; as, a keyed instrument; also, set to a key, as a tune. |
| khaya | noun | A lofty West African tree (Khaya Senegalensis), related to the mahogany, which it resembles in the quality of the wood. The bark is used as a febrifuge. |
| kiang | noun | The dziggetai. |
| kibed | adjective | Chapped; cracked with cold; affected with chilblains; as kibed heels. |
| kidde | imp. | of Kythe., of Kithe |
| kiddy | verb t. | To deceive; to outwit; to hoax., A young fellow; formerly, a low thief. |
| kieve | noun | See Keeve, n. |
| kilos | plural | of Kilo |
| kimbo | adjective | Crooked; arched; bent. |
| kimry | noun | See Cymry. |
| kinic | adjective | See Quinic. |
| kinky | adjective | Full of kinks; liable to kink or curl; as, kinky hair., Queer; eccentric; crotchety. |
| kiosk | noun | A Turkish open summer house or pavilion, supported by pillars. |
| kitte | imp. | of Kit, of Kit to cut. |
| kithe | verb t. | See Kythe., To make known; to manifest; to show; to declare. |
| kiver | verb t. | To cover., A cover. |
| klick | noun & verb | See Click. |
| kloof | noun | A glen; a ravine closed at its upper end. |
| knack | verb i. | To crack; to make a sharp, abrupt noise to chink., To speak affectedly., A petty contrivance; a toy; a plaything; a knickknack., A readiness in performance; aptness at doing something; skill; facility; dexterity., Something performed, or to be done, requiring aptness and dexterity; a trick; a device. |
| knarl | noun | A knot in wood. See Gnarl. |
| knave | noun | A boy; especially, a boy servant., Any male servant; a menial., A tricky, deceitful fellow; a dishonest person; a rogue; a villain., A playing card marked with the figure of a servant or soldier; a jack. |
| knead | verb t. | To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; esp., to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, as the materials of bread, cake, etc.; as, to knead dough., Fig.: To treat or form as by kneading; to beat. |
| kneck | noun | The twisting of a rope or cable, as it is running out. |
| kneed | adjective | Having knees;- used chiefly in composition; as, in-kneed; out-kneed; weak-kneed., Geniculated; forming an obtuse angle at the joints, like the knee when a little bent; as, kneed grass. |
| knelt | imp. & past participle | of Kneel, of Kneel. |
| kneel | verb i. | To bend the knee; to fall or rest on the knees; — sometimes with down. |
| knell | noun | The stoke of a bell tolled at a funeral or at the death of a person; a death signal; a passing bell; hence, figuratively, a warning of, or a sound indicating, the passing away of anything., To sound as a knell; especially, to toll at a death or funeral; hence, to sound as a warning or evil omen., To summon, as by a knell. |
| knife | noun | An instrument consisting of a thin blade, usually of steel and having a sharp edge for cutting, fastened to a handle, but of many different forms and names for different uses; as, table knife, drawing knife, putty knife, pallet knife, pocketknife, penknife, chopping knife, etc.., A sword or dagger., To prune with the knife., To cut or stab with a knife. |
| knits | noun pl. | Small particles of ore. |
| knock | verb i. | To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another., To strike or beat with something hard or heavy; to rap; as, to knock with a club; to knock on the door., To strike with something hard or heavy; to move by striking; to drive (a thing) against something; as, to knock a ball with a bat; to knock the head against a post; to knock a lamp off the table., To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door., A blow; a stroke with something hard or heavy; a jar., A stroke, as on a door for admittance; a rap. |
| knoll | noun | A little round hill; a mound; a small elevation of earth; the top or crown of a hill., To ring, as a bell; to strike a knell upon; to toll; to proclaim, or summon, by ringing., To sound, as a bell; to knell., The tolling of a bell; a knell. |
| knosp | noun | Same as Knop,2. |
| knout | noun | A kind of whip for flogging criminals, formerly much used in Russia. The last is a tapering bundle of leather thongs twisted with wire and hardened, so that it mangles the flesh., To punish with the knout. |
| known | past participle | of Know, of Know. |
| knubs | noun pl. | Waste silk formed in winding off the threads from a cocoon. |
| knuff | noun | A lout; a clown. |
| knurl | noun | A contorted knot in wood; a crossgrained protuberance; a nodule; a boss or projection., One who, or that which, is crossgrained., To provide with ridges, to assist the grasp, as in the edge of a flat knob, or coin; to mill. |
| koala | noun | A tailless marsupial (Phascolarctos cinereus), found in Australia. The female carries her young on the back of her neck. Called also Australian bear, native bear, and native sloth. |
| kodak | noun | A kind of portable camera. |
| konze | noun | A large African antelope (Alcelaphus Lichtensteini), allied to the hartbeest, but having shorter and flatter horns, and lacking a black patch on the face. |
| koord | noun | See Kurd. |
| koran | noun | The Scriptures of the Mohammedans, containing the professed revelations to Mohammed; — called also Alcoran. |
| korin | noun | The gazelle. |
| kotow | noun | The prostration made by mandarins and others to their superiors, either as homage or worship, by knocking the forehead on the ground. There are degrees in the rite, the highest being expressed by three knockings., To perform the kotow. |
| kraal | noun | A collection of huts within a stockade; a village; sometimes, a single hut., An inclosure into which are driven wild elephants which are to be tamed and educated. |
| krait | noun | A very venomous snake of India (Bungarus coeruleus), allied to the cobra. Its upper parts are bluish or brownish black, often with narrow white streaks; the belly is whitish. |
| krang | noun | The carcass of a whale after the blubber has been removed. |
| kreel | noun | See Creel. |
| krems | noun | A variety of white lead. See Krems lead, under Lead, n. |
| kreng | noun | See Krang. |
| krone | noun | A coin of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, of the value of about twenty-eight cents. See Crown, n., 9. |
| kudos | noun | Glory; fame; renown; praise., To praise; to extol; to glorify. |
| kufic | adjective | See Cufic. |
| kulan | noun | See Koulan. |
| kutch | noun | The packet of vellum leaves in which the gold is first beaten into thin sheets., See Catechu. |
| kydde | imp. of Kythe, to show., of Kithe | |
| kyley | noun | A variety of the boomerang. |
| kymry | noun | See Cymry. |
| kyrie | noun | See Kyrie eleison. |
| kythe | verb t. | Alt. of Kithe, To come into view; to appear. |