| 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. |