| brickkiln | (noun) a kiln for making bricks | - |
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| kildeer | (noun) American plover of inland waters and fields having a distinctive cry | Synonyms: Charadrius vociferus, killdeer, killdeer plover |
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| kilderkin | (noun) an obsolete British unit of capacity equal to 18 Imperial gallons | - |
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| kiley | (noun) an Australian boomerang; one side flat and the other convex | Synonyms: kylie |
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| kill | (noun) the act of terminating a life | Synonyms: killing, putting to death |
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| (noun) the destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile | - |
| (noun) the body of an animal, or bodies of animals, killed by a person or another animal | - |
| killdeer | (noun) American plover of inland waters and fields having a distinctive cry | Synonyms: Charadrius vociferus, kildeer, killdeer plover |
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| killer | (noun) predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas | Synonyms: grampus, killer whale, orca, Orcinus orca, sea wolf |
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| (noun) a difficulty that is hard to deal with | - |
| (noun) someone who causes the death of a person or animal | Synonyms: slayer |
| (noun) the causal agent resulting in death | Synonyms: cause of death |
| killifish | (noun) small mostly marine warm-water carp-like schooling fishes; used as bait or aquarium fishes or in mosquito control | - |
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| killing | (noun) the act of terminating a life | Synonyms: kill, putting to death |
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| (noun) an event that causes someone to die | Synonyms: violent death |
| (noun) a very large profit | Synonyms: cleanup |
| killjoy | (noun) someone who spoils the pleasure of others | Synonyms: party pooper, spoilsport, wet blanket |
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| kiln | (noun) a furnace for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks | - |
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| kilo | (noun) one thousand grams; the basic unit of mass adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites | Synonyms: kg, kilogram |
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| kilobit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 bits | Synonyms: kb, kbit |
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| kilobyte | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 bytes | Synonyms: K, kB, KB, KiB, kibibyte |
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| (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 bytes | Synonyms: K, kB, KB |
| kilocalorie | (noun) a unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one degree at one atmosphere pressure; used by nutritionists to characterize the energy-producing potential in food | Synonyms: Calorie, kilogram calorie, large calorie, nutritionist's calorie |
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| kilocycle | (noun) one thousand periods per second | Synonyms: kc, kHz, kilocycle per second, kilohertz |
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| kilogram | (noun) one thousand grams; the basic unit of mass adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites | Synonyms: kg, kilo |
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| kilohertz | (noun) one thousand periods per second | Synonyms: kc, kHz, kilocycle, kilocycle per second |
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| kiloliter | (noun) a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 1000 liters | Synonyms: cubic meter, cubic metre, kilolitre |
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| kilolitre | (noun) a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 1000 liters | Synonyms: cubic meter, cubic metre, kiloliter |
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| kilometer | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles) | Synonyms: kilometre, klick, km |
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| kilometrage | (noun) the number of kilometres travelled by a vehicle. | - |
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| kilometre | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles) | Synonyms: kilometer, klick, km |
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| kiloton | (noun) one thousand tons | - |
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| (noun) a measure of explosive power (of an atomic weapon) equal to that of 1000 tons of TNT | - |
| kilovolt | (noun) a unit of potential equal to a thousand volts | Synonyms: kV |
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| kilowatt | (noun) a unit of power equal to 1000 watts | Synonyms: kW |
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| kilt | (noun) a knee-length pleated tartan skirt worn by men as part of the traditional dress in the Highlands of northern Scotland | - |
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| kilter | (noun) in working order | Synonyms: kelter |
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| lambkill | (noun) North American dwarf shrub resembling mountain laurel but having narrower leaves and small red flowers; poisonous to young stock | Synonyms: Kalmia angustifolia, pig laurel, sheep laurel |
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| limekiln | (noun) a kiln used to reduce naturally occurring forms of calcium carbonate to lime | - |
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| overkill | (noun) any effort that seems to go farther than would be necessary to achieve its goal | - |
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| (noun) the capability to obliterate a target with more weapons (especially nuclear weapons) than are required | - |
| painkiller | (noun) a medicine used to relieve pain | Synonyms: analgesic, anodyne, pain pill |
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| poikilotherm | (noun) an animal whose body temperature varies with the temperature of its surroundings; any animal except birds and mammals | Synonyms: ectotherm |
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| roadkill | (noun) the dead body of an animal that has been killed on a road by a vehicle | - |
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| skill | (noun) ability to produce solutions in some problem domain | Synonyms: science |
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| (noun) an ability that has been acquired by training | Synonyms: accomplishment, acquirement, acquisition, attainment |
| skillessness | (noun) Lack of skill; ineptness. | - |
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| skillet | (noun) a pan used for frying foods | Synonyms: frying pan, frypan |
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| skilletfish | (noun) clingfish with typical skillet shape | Synonyms: Gobiesox strumosus, skillet fish |
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| skillfulness | (noun) the state of being cognitively skillful | - |
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| skilly | (noun) a thin porridge or soup (usually oatmeal and water flavored with meat) | - |
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| unskillfulness | (noun) a lack of cognitive skill | - |
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| weedkiller | (noun) a chemical agent that destroys plants or inhibits their growth | Synonyms: herbicide, weed killer |
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