k | (noun) the 11th letter of the Roman alphabet | Synonyms: K |
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kabala | (noun) an esoteric or occult matter resembling the Kabbalah that is traditionally secret | Synonyms: cabala, cabbala, cabbalah, kabbala, kabbalah, qabala, qabalah |
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kabbala | (noun) an esoteric or occult matter resembling the Kabbalah that is traditionally secret | Synonyms: cabala, cabbala, cabbalah, kabala, kabbalah, qabala, qabalah |
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kabbalah | (noun) an esoteric or occult matter resembling the Kabbalah that is traditionally secret | Synonyms: cabala, cabbala, cabbalah, kabala, kabbala, qabala, qabalah |
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kabbalism | (noun) adherence to some extreme traditional theological concept or interpretation | Synonyms: cabalism |
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kabbalist | (noun) an expert who is highly skilled in obscure or difficult or esoteric matters | Synonyms: cabalist |
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kabob | (noun) cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables | Synonyms: kebab, shish kebab |
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kachina | (noun) a carved doll wearing the costume of a particular Pueblo spirit; usually presented to a child as a gift | - |
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(noun) a deified spirit of the Pueblo people | - |
(noun) a masked dancer during a Pueblo religious ceremony who is thought to embody some particular spirit | - |
kaffir | (noun) an offensive and insulting term for any Black African | Synonyms: caffer, caffre, kafir |
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(noun) important for human and animal food; growth habit and stem form similar to Indian corn but having sawtooth-edged leaves | Synonyms: great millet, kaffir corn, kafir corn, Sorghum bicolor |
kaffiyeh | (noun) an Arab headdress consisting of a square piece of cloth folded into a triangle and fastened over the crown by an agal | - |
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kafir | (noun) an offensive and insulting term for any Black African | Synonyms: caffer, caffre, kaffir |
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kaftan | (noun) a (cotton or silk) cloak with full sleeves and sash reaching down to the ankles; worn by men in the Levant | Synonyms: caftan |
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(noun) a woman's dress style that imitates the caftan cloaks worn by men in the Near East | Synonyms: caftan |
kagura | (noun) a stately dance of the Shinto religion that now forms a part of Japanese village festivals. | - |
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kahikatea | (noun) New Zealand evergreen valued for its light easily worked wood | Synonyms: Dacrycarpus dacrydioides, New Zealand Dacryberry, New Zealand white pine, Podocarpus dacrydioides |
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kail | (noun) coarse curly-leafed cabbage | Synonyms: cole, kale |
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(noun) a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head | Synonyms: borecole, Brassica oleracea acephala, cole, colewort, kale |
kainite | (noun) a white mineral consisting of magnesium sulphate and potassium chloride; a source of potassium salts; used as a fertilizer | - |
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kainogenesis | (noun) introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (such as the addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution) | Synonyms: caenogenesis, cainogenesis, cenogenesis, kenogenesis |
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kaki | (noun) blackish stilt of New Zealand sometimes considered a color phase of the white-headed stilt | Synonyms: Himantopus novae-zelandiae |
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(noun) small deciduous Asiatic tree bearing large red or orange edible astringent fruit | Synonyms: Diospyros kaki, Japanese persimmon |
kalansuwa | (noun) a cap that is wrapped around by a turban and worn by Muslim religious elders | - |
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kalantas | (noun) Philippine timber tree having hard red fragrant wood | Synonyms: Cedrela calantas, Philippine cedar, Philippine mahogany, Toona calantas |
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kale | (noun) coarse curly-leafed cabbage | Synonyms: cole, kail |
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(noun) a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head | Synonyms: borecole, Brassica oleracea acephala, cole, colewort, kail |
(noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
kaleidoscope | (noun) an optical toy in a tube; it produces symmetrical patterns as bits of colored glass are reflected by mirrors | - |
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(noun) a complex pattern of constantly changing colors and shapes | - |
kalemia | (noun) the presence of excess potassium in the circulating blood | - |
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kali | (noun) bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash | Synonyms: barilla, glasswort, kelpwort, Salsola kali, Salsola soda, saltwort |
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kalian | (noun) an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water | Synonyms: calean, chicha, hookah, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, water pipe |
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kalif | (noun) the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state considered to be a representative of Allah on earth | Synonyms: calif, caliph, kaliph, khalif, khalifah |
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kaliph | (noun) the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state considered to be a representative of Allah on earth | Synonyms: calif, caliph, kalif, khalif, khalifah |
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kaliuresis | (noun) the presence of excess potassium in the urine | Synonyms: kaluresis |
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kalmia | (noun) any plant of the genus Kalmia | - |
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kalpac | (noun) a high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus | Synonyms: calpac, calpack |
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kalumpang | (noun) large tree of Old World tropics having foul-smelling orange-red blossoms followed by red pods enclosing oil-rich seeds sometimes used as food | Synonyms: Java olives, Sterculia foetida |
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kaluresis | (noun) the presence of excess potassium in the urine | Synonyms: kaliuresis |
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kameez | (noun) a long tunic worn by many people from the Indian subcontinent (usually with a salwar or churidars) | - |
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kamikaze | (noun) a fighter plane used for suicide missions by Japanese pilots in World War II | - |
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(noun) a pilot trained and willing to cause a suicidal crash | - |
kamilavka | (noun) A headdress worn among Orthodox Christian monastics and clergy. | - |
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kampong | (noun) a native malay village | Synonyms: campong |
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kanaf | (noun) valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation | Synonyms: bimli, bimli hemp, Bombay hemp, deccan hemp, Hibiscus cannabinus, Indian hemp, kenaf |
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kanamycin | (noun) antibiotic (trade name Kantrex) used to treat severe infections | Synonyms: Kantrex |
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kanchil | (noun) small chevrotain of southeastern Asia | Synonyms: Tragulus kanchil |
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kangaroo | (noun) any of several herbivorous leaping marsupials of Australia and New Guinea having large powerful hind legs and a long thick tail | - |
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kanzu | (noun) (Swahili) a long garment (usually white) with long sleeves; worn by men in East Africa | - |
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kaoliang | (noun) sorghums of China and Manchuria having small white or brown grains (used for food) and dry pithy stalks (used for fodder, fuel and thatching) | - |
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kaolin | (noun) a fine usually white clay formed by the weathering of aluminous minerals (as feldspar); used in ceramics and as an absorbent and as a filler (e.g., in paper) | Synonyms: china clay, china stone, kaoline, porcelain clay, terra alba |
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kaoline | (noun) a fine usually white clay formed by the weathering of aluminous minerals (as feldspar); used in ceramics and as an absorbent and as a filler (e.g., in paper) | Synonyms: china clay, china stone, kaolin, porcelain clay, terra alba |
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kaolinite | (noun) a mineral consisting of aluminum silicate; main source of kaolin | - |
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kaon | (noun) an unstable meson produced as the result of a high-energy particle collision | Synonyms: k-meson, K particle, kappa-meson |
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kapeika | (noun) 100 kapeikas equal 1 rubel in Belarus | - |
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kaph | (noun) the 11th letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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kapok | (noun) massive tropical tree with deep ridges on its massive trunk and bearing large pods of seeds covered with silky floss; source of the silky kapok fiber | Synonyms: Bombay ceiba, Ceiba pentandra, ceiba tree, God tree, silk-cotton tree, white silk-cotton tree |
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(noun) a plant fiber from the kapok tree; used for stuffing and insulation | Synonyms: silk cotton, vegetable silk |
kappa | (noun) the 10th letter of the Greek alphabet | - |
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kapuka | (noun) small New Zealand broadleaf evergreen tree often cultivated in warm regions as an ornamental | Synonyms: Griselinia littoralis |
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karabiner | (noun) an oblong metal ring with a spring clip; used in mountaineering to attach a rope to a piton or to connect two ropes | Synonyms: carabiner, snap ring |
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karakul | (noun) hardy coarse-haired sheep of central Asia; lambs are valued for their soft curly black fur | Synonyms: broadtail, caracul |
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karaoke | (noun) singing popular songs accompanied by a recording of an orchestra (usually in bars or nightclubs) | - |
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karat | (noun) the unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy; 18-karat gold is 75% gold; 24-karat gold is pure gold | Synonyms: carat, kt |
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karate | (noun) a traditional Japanese system of unarmed combat; sharp blows and kicks are given to pressure-sensitive points on the body of the opponent | - |
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karma | (noun) (Hinduism and Buddhism) the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation | - |
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karyokinesis | (noun) organic process consisting of the division of the nucleus of a cell during mitosis or meiosis | - |
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karyolymph | (noun) a clear liquid in the cell nucleus in which the nucleolus and chromatin and other structures are dispersed | - |
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karyolysis | (noun) disintegration and dissolution of a cell nucleus when a cell dies | - |
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karyon | (noun) a part of the cell containing DNA and RNA and responsible for growth and reproduction | Synonyms: cell nucleus, nucleus |
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karyoplasm | (noun) the protoplasm that constitutes the nucleus of a cell | Synonyms: nucleoplasm |
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karyotype | (noun) the appearance of the chromosomal makeup of a somatic cell in an individual or species (including the number and arrangement and size and structure of the chromosomes) | - |
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kasbah | (noun) an older or native quarter of many cities in northern Africa; the quarter in which the citadel is located | Synonyms: casbah |
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kasha | (noun) boiled or baked buckwheat | - |
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kat | (noun) the leaves of the shrub Catha edulis which are chewed like tobacco or used to make tea; has the effect of a euphoric stimulant | Synonyms: African tea, Arabian tea, cat, khat, qat, quat |
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katabolism | (noun) breakdown in living organisms of more complex substances into simpler ones together with release of energy | Synonyms: catabolism, destructive metabolism, dissimilation |
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katamorphism | (noun) metamorphism that occurs at or near the earth's surface; breaks down complex minerals into simpler ones | - |
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katharobe | (noun) an organism that lives in an oxygenated medium lacking organic matter | - |
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katharometer | (noun) measures thermal conductivity | - |
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katharsis | (noun) (psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions | Synonyms: abreaction, catharsis |
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(noun) purging the body by the use of a cathartic to stimulate evacuation of the bowels | Synonyms: catharsis, purgation |
katydid | (noun) large green long-horned grasshopper of North America; males produce shrill sounds by rubbing together special organs on the forewings | - |
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katzenjammer | (noun) loud confused noise from many sources | Synonyms: brouhaha, hubbub, uproar |
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(noun) disagreeable aftereffects from the use of drugs (especially alcohol) | Synonyms: hangover |
kauri | (noun) tall timber tree of New Zealand having white straight-grained wood | Synonyms: Agathis australis, kaury |
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(noun) white close-grained wood of a tree of the genus Agathis especially Agathis australis | - |
(noun) resin of the kauri trees of New Zealand; found usually as a fossil; also collected for making varnishes and linoleum | Synonyms: kauri copal, kauri gum, kauri resin |
kaury | (noun) tall timber tree of New Zealand having white straight-grained wood | Synonyms: Agathis australis, kauri |
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kava | (noun) an alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub | Synonyms: kavakava |
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kavakava | (noun) an alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub | Synonyms: kava |
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kawaka | (noun) New Zealand timber tree resembling the cypress | Synonyms: Libocedrus plumosa |
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kayak | (noun) a small canoe consisting of a light frame made watertight with animal skins; used by Eskimos | - |
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kayo | (noun) a blow that renders the opponent unconscious | Synonyms: knockout, KO |
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kazoo | (noun) a toy wind instrument that has a membrane that makes a sound when you hum into the mouthpiece | - |
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kb | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 bits | Synonyms: kbit, kilobit |
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kbit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 bits | Synonyms: kb, kilobit |
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kc | (noun) one thousand periods per second | Synonyms: kHz, kilocycle, kilocycle per second, kilohertz |
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kea | (noun) large brownish-green New Zealand parrot | Synonyms: Nestor notabilis |
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kebab | (noun) cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables | Synonyms: kabob, shish kebab |
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kedgeree | (noun) a dish of rice and hard-boiled eggs and cooked flaked fish | - |
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keel | (noun) one of the main longitudinal beams (or plates) of the hull of a vessel; can extend vertically into the water to provide lateral stability | - |
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(noun) the median ridge on the breastbone of birds that fly | - |
(noun) a projection or ridge that suggests a keel | - |
keelboat | (noun) river boat with a shallow draught and a keel but no sails; used to carry freight; moved by rowing or punting or towing | - |
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keelson | (noun) a longitudinal beam connected to the keel of ship to strengthen it | - |
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keen | (noun) a funeral lament sung with loud wailing | - |
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keenness | (noun) thinness of edge or fineness of point | Synonyms: sharpness |
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(noun) a quick and penetrating intelligence | Synonyms: acuity, acuteness, sharpness |
(noun) a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something | Synonyms: avidity, avidness, eagerness |
keep | (noun) the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress | Synonyms: donjon, dungeon |
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(noun) a cell in a jail or prison | Synonyms: hold |
(noun) the financial means whereby one lives | Synonyms: bread and butter, livelihood, living, support, sustenance |
keeper | (noun) one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals | Synonyms: custodian, steward |
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(noun) someone in charge of other people | - |
keeping | (noun) the responsibility of a guardian or keeper | Synonyms: guardianship, safekeeping |
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(noun) conformity or harmony | - |
(noun) the act of retaining something | Synonyms: holding, retention |
keepsake | (noun) something of sentimental value | Synonyms: relic, souvenir, token |
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keeshond | (noun) a spitz-like dog having a shaggy greyish coat and tightly curled tail originating in Holland | - |
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keg | (noun) small cask or barrel | - |
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(noun) the quantity contained in a keg | Synonyms: kegful |
kegful | (noun) the quantity contained in a keg | Synonyms: keg |
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keister | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
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