| cheapskate | (noun) a miserly person | Synonyms: tightwad |
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| cockateel | (noun) small grey Australian parrot with a yellow crested head | Synonyms: cockatiel, cockatoo parrot, Nymphicus hollandicus |
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| cockatiel | (noun) small grey Australian parrot with a yellow crested head | Synonyms: cockateel, cockatoo parrot, Nymphicus hollandicus |
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| cockatoo | (noun) white or light-colored crested parrot of the Australian region; often kept as cage birds | - |
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| cockatrice | (noun) monster hatched by a reptile from a cock's egg; able to kill with a glance | - |
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| debarkation | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting off of a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: disembarkation, disembarkment |
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| disembarkation | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting off of a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: debarkation, disembarkment |
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| embarkation | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: boarding, embarkment |
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| hackathon | (noun) an event involving a marathon coding session | - |
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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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| 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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| katabatic | (adjective) of an air current or wind; moving downward or down a slope because of cooling especially at night | Synonyms: catabatic |
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| katabolic | (adjective) characterized by destructive metabolism | Synonyms: catabolic |
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| (adjective) relating to or characterized by catabolism | Synonyms: catabolic |
| 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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| katharobic | (adjective) of living being in an oxygenated environment 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 |
| meerkat | (noun) a mongoose-like viverrine of South Africa having a face like a lemur and only four toes | Synonyms: mierkat |
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| mierkat | (noun) a mongoose-like viverrine of South Africa having a face like a lemur and only four toes | Synonyms: meerkat |
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| mukataa | (noun) an Arabic word for headquarters or administrative center | - |
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| muskat | (noun) any of several cultivated grapevines that produce sweet white grapes | Synonyms: muscat |
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| saskatoon | (noun) edible purple or red berries | Synonyms: juneberry, serviceberry, shadberry |
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| skate | (noun) large edible rays having a long snout and thick tail with pectoral fins continuous with the head; swim by undulating the edges of the pectoral fins | - |
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| (noun) sports equipment that is worn on the feet to enable the wearer to glide along and to be propelled by the alternate actions of the legs | - |
| (verb) move along on skates | - |
| skateboard | (noun) a board with wheels that is ridden in a standing or crouching position and propelled by foot | - |
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| (verb) ride on a flat board with rollers attached to the bottom | - |
| skateboarder | (noun) someone who skates on a skateboard | - |
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| skateboarding | (noun) the sport of skating on a skateboard | - |
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| skater | (noun) someone who skates | - |
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| skating | (noun) the sport of gliding on skates | - |
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| speedskater | (noun) an ice-skater who races competitively; usually around an oval course | Synonyms: speed skater |
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| talkative | (adjective) friendly and open and willing to talk | Synonyms: expansive |
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| (adjective) unwisely talking too much | Synonyms: bigmouthed, blabbermouthed, blabby |
| (adjective) full of trivial conversation | Synonyms: chatty, gabby, garrulous, loquacious, talky |
| talkatively | (adverb) in a chatty loquacious manner | Synonyms: garrulously, loquaciously, talkily |
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| talkativeness | (noun) the quality of being wordy and talkative | Synonyms: garrulity, garrulousness, loquaciousness, loquacity |
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| untalkative | (adjective) temperamentally disinclined to talk | Synonyms: reticent |
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| zakat | (noun) the fourth pillar of Islam is almsgiving as an act of worship | - |
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