| kingship | (noun) the dignity or rank or position of a king | - |
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| kingsnake | (noun) any of numerous nonvenomous North American constrictors; feed on other snakes and small mammals | Synonyms: king snake |
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| kingwood | (noun) Brazilian tree yielding a handsome cabinet wood | Synonyms: Dalbergia cearensis, kingwood tree |
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| (noun) handsome violet-streaked wood of the kingwood tree; used especially in cabinetwork | - |
| kinin | (noun) any of a class of plant hormones that promote cell division and delay the senescence of leaves | Synonyms: cytokinin |
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| kink | (noun) a difficulty or flaw in a plan or operation | - |
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| (noun) an eccentric idea | - |
| (noun) a person with unusual sexual tastes | - |
| (noun) a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight | Synonyms: twirl, twist |
| (noun) a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) | Synonyms: crick, rick, wrick |
| (verb) form a curl, curve, or kink | Synonyms: curl, curve |
| (verb) curl tightly | Synonyms: crape, crimp, frizz, frizzle, kink up |
| kinkajou | (noun) a kind of gray-brown lemur (Perodicticus potto) | Synonyms: Perodicticus potto, potto |
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| (noun) arboreal fruit-eating mammal of tropical America with a long prehensile tail | Synonyms: honey bear, Potos caudivolvulus, Potos flavus, potto |
| kinky | (adjective) (used of sexual behavior) showing or appealing to bizarre or deviant tastes | Synonyms: perverted |
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| (adjective) (of hair) in small tight curls | Synonyms: crisp, frizzly, frizzy, nappy |
| (adjective) (informal) strikingly unconventional | Synonyms: far-out, offbeat, quirky, way-out |
| kino | (noun) East Indian tree yielding a resin or extract often used medicinally and in e.g. tanning | Synonyms: Pterocarpus marsupium |
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| (noun) a gum obtained from various tropical plants; used as an astringent and in tanning | Synonyms: gum kino, kino gum |
| kinsfolk | (noun) people descended from a common ancestor | Synonyms: family, family line, folk, kinfolk, phratry, sept |
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| kinship | (noun) (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption | Synonyms: family relationship, relationship |
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| (noun) a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character | Synonyms: affinity |
| kinsman | (noun) a male relative | - |
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| kinsperson | (noun) a person having kinship with another or others | Synonyms: family, kin |
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| kinswoman | (noun) a female relative | - |
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| kiosk | (noun) small area set off by walls for special use | Synonyms: booth, cubicle, stall |
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| kip | (noun) a gymnastic exercise performed starting from a position with the legs over the upper body and moving to an erect position by arching the back and swinging the legs out and down while forcing the chest upright | Synonyms: upstart |
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| (noun) the basic unit of money in Laos | - |
| (noun) sleep | - |
| (verb) be asleep | Synonyms: catch some Z's, log Z's, sleep, slumber |
| kipper | (noun) salted and smoked herring | Synonyms: kippered herring |
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| kirk | (noun) a Scottish church | - |
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| kirpan | (noun) a ceremonial four-inch curved dagger that Sikh men and women are obliged to wear at all times | - |
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| kirsch | (noun) from fermented juice of black morello cherries | - |
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| kirtle | (noun) a long dress worn by women | - |
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| (noun) a garment resembling a tunic that was worn by men in the Middle Ages | - |
| kishke | (noun) (Judaism) roasted fowl intestines with a seasoned filling of matzo meal and suet | Synonyms: stuffed derma |
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| kismat | (noun) (Islam) the will of Allah | Synonyms: kismet |
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| kismet | (noun) (Islam) the will of Allah | Synonyms: kismat |
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| kiss | (noun) the act of caressing with the lips (or an instance thereof) | Synonyms: buss, osculation |
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| (noun) a light glancing touch | - |
| (noun) any of several bite-sized candies | Synonyms: candy kiss |
| (noun) a cookie made of egg whites and sugar | - |
| (verb) touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc. | Synonyms: buss, osculate, snog |
| (verb) touch lightly or gently | - |
| kisser | (noun) the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British) | Synonyms: countenance, mug, phiz, physiognomy, smiler, visage |
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| (noun) someone who kisses | Synonyms: osculator |
| kissing | (noun) affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) | Synonyms: caressing, cuddling, fondling, hugging, necking, petting, smooching, snuggling |
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| kit | (noun) young of any of various fur-bearing animals | - |
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| (noun) gear consisting of a set of articles or tools for a specified purpose | Synonyms: outfit |
| (noun) a case for containing a set of articles | - |
| (verb) supply with a set of articles or tools | Synonyms: kit out, kit up |
| kitambilla | (noun) maroon-purple gooseberry-like fruit of India having tart-sweet purple pulp used especially for preserves | Synonyms: ketembilla, kitembilla |
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| (noun) a small shrubby spiny tree cultivated for its maroon-purple fruit with sweet purple pulp tasting like gooseberries; Sri Lanka and India | Synonyms: Ceylon gooseberry, Dovyalis hebecarpa, ketembilla, ketembilla tree, kitembilla |
| kitbag | (noun) a knapsack (usually for a soldier) | Synonyms: kit bag |
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| kitchen | (noun) a room equipped for preparing meals | - |
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| kitchenette | (noun) small kitchen | - |
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| kitchenware | (noun) hardware utensils for use in a kitchen | - |
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| kite | (noun) any of several small graceful hawks of the family Accipitridae having long pointed wings and feeding on insects and small animals | - |
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| (noun) plaything consisting of a light frame covered with tissue paper; flown in wind at end of a string | - |
| (noun) a bank check drawn on insufficient funds at another bank in order to take advantage of the float | - |
| (noun) a bank check that has been fraudulently altered to increase its face value | - |
| (verb) fly a kite | - |
| (verb) soar or fly like a kite | - |
| (verb) get credit or money by using a bad check | - |
| (verb) increase the amount (of a check) fraudulently | - |
| kitembilla | (noun) maroon-purple gooseberry-like fruit of India having tart-sweet purple pulp used especially for preserves | Synonyms: ketembilla, kitambilla |
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| (noun) a small shrubby spiny tree cultivated for its maroon-purple fruit with sweet purple pulp tasting like gooseberries; Sri Lanka and India | Synonyms: Ceylon gooseberry, Dovyalis hebecarpa, ketembilla, ketembilla tree, kitambilla |
| kith | (noun) your friends and acquaintances | - |
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| kitsch | (noun) excessively garish or sentimental art; usually considered in bad taste | - |
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| kitschy | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
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| kittee | (noun) a form of torture used by American Indians in which sensitive parts of the body were squeezed between two boards until the victim could bear no more | - |
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| kitten | (noun) young domestic cat | Synonyms: kitty |
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| (verb) give birth to kittens | - |
| kittenish | (adjective) playful like a lively kitten | Synonyms: frisky |
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| kittiwake | (noun) small pearl-grey gull of northern regions; nests on cliffs and has a rudimentary hind toe | - |
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| kittul | (noun) fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago | Synonyms: Caryota urens, jaggery palm, kitul, kitul tree, toddy palm, wine palm |
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| kitty | (noun) informal terms referring to a domestic cat | Synonyms: kitty-cat, puss, pussy, pussycat |
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| (noun) young domestic cat | Synonyms: kitten |
| (noun) the combined stakes of the betters | Synonyms: pool |
| (noun) the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker) | Synonyms: jackpot, pot |
| kitul | (noun) fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago | Synonyms: Caryota urens, jaggery palm, kittul, kitul tree, toddy palm, wine palm |
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| kiwano | (noun) a fruit that has orange skin and lime green, jelly-like flesh with a refreshingly fruity taste, and texture similar to a passionfruit or pomegranate; grows on the annual vine Cucumis metuliferus. | - |
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| kiwi | (noun) nocturnal flightless bird of New Zealand having a long neck and stout legs; only surviving representative of the order Apterygiformes | Synonyms: apteryx |
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| (noun) fuzzy brown egg-shaped fruit with slightly tart green flesh | Synonyms: Chinese gooseberry, kiwi fruit |
| (noun) climbing vine native to China; cultivated in New Zealand for its fuzzy edible fruit with green meat | Synonyms: Actinidia chinensis, Actinidia deliciosa, Chinese gooseberry, kiwi vine |
| knocking | (noun) the sound of knocking (as on a door or in an engine or bearing) | Synonyms: knock |
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| kookie | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| lacking | (adjective) inadequate in amount or degree | Synonyms: deficient, wanting |
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| (adjective) nonexistent | Synonyms: absent, missing, wanting |
| 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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| lambkin | (noun) a very young lamb | - |
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| lambskin | (noun) the skin of a lamb with the wool still on | - |
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| (noun) skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on | Synonyms: parchment, sheepskin |
| lankiness | (noun) a tall and thin physique | - |
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| latakia | (noun) aromatic Turkish tobacco | - |
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| lawmaking | (noun) the act of making or enacting laws | Synonyms: legislating, legislation |
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| leakiness | (noun) the condition of permitting leaks or leakage | - |
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| licking | (noun) the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | Synonyms: beating, drubbing, lacing, thrashing, trouncing, whacking |
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| (noun) an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest | Synonyms: defeat |
| liking | (noun) a feeling of pleasure and enjoyment | - |
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| limekiln | (noun) a kiln used to reduce naturally occurring forms of calcium carbonate to lime | - |
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| limpkin | (noun) wading bird of Florida, Cuba and Jamaica having a drooping bill and a distinctive wailing call | Synonyms: Aramus pictus |
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| locking | (noun) the act of locking something up to protect it | Synonyms: lockup |
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| looking | (adjective) appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms | Synonyms: sounding |
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| (noun) the act of searching visually | Synonyms: looking for |
| (noun) the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually; look | Synonyms: look, looking at |
| lovemaking | (noun) sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people | Synonyms: love, love life, making love, sexual love |
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| luckily | (adverb) by good fortune | Synonyms: as luck would have it, fortuitously, fortunately |
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| luckiness | (noun) an auspicious state resulting from favorable outcomes | Synonyms: good fortune, good luck |
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| lymphokine | (noun) a cytokine secreted by helper T cells in response to stimulation by antigens and that acts on other cells of the immune system (as by activating macrophages) | - |
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| mackinaw | (noun) a heavy woolen cloth heavily napped and felted, often with a plaid design | - |
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| (noun) a flat-bottomed boat used on upper Great Lakes | Synonyms: Mackinaw boat |
| (noun) a thick plaid blanket formerly used in the northwestern United States | Synonyms: Mackinaw blanket |
| (noun) a short plaid coat made of made of thick woolen material | Synonyms: Mackinaw coat |
| mackintosh | (noun) a lightweight waterproof (usually rubberized) fabric | Synonyms: macintosh |
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| (noun) a waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric | Synonyms: mac, macintosh, mack |
| making | (noun) the act that results in something coming to be | Synonyms: devising, fashioning |
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| (noun) (usually plural) the components needed for making or doing something | - |
| (noun) an attribute that must be met or complied with and that fits a person for something | Synonyms: qualification |
| manakin | (noun) any of numerous small bright-colored birds of Central America and South America having short bills and elaborate courtship behavior | - |
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| (noun) a life-size dummy used to display clothes | Synonyms: form, manikin, mannequin, mannikin |
| (noun) a woman who wears clothes to display fashions | Synonyms: fashion model, manikin, mannequin, mannikin, model |
| manikin | (noun) a life-size dummy used to display clothes | Synonyms: form, manakin, mannequin, mannikin |
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| (noun) a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal | Synonyms: homunculus, mannikin |
| (noun) a woman who wears clothes to display fashions | Synonyms: fashion model, manakin, mannequin, mannikin, model |
| mankind | (noun) all of the living human inhabitants of the earth | Synonyms: human beings, human race, humanity, humankind, humans, man, world |
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| mannikin | (noun) a life-size dummy used to display clothes | Synonyms: form, manakin, manikin, mannequin |
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| (noun) a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal | Synonyms: homunculus, manikin |
| (noun) a woman who wears clothes to display fashions | Synonyms: fashion model, manakin, manikin, mannequin, model |
| mapmaking | (noun) the making of maps and charts | Synonyms: cartography |
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| marking | (noun) evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score | Synonyms: grading, scoring |
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| (noun) the act of making a visible mark on a surface | - |
| (noun) a pattern of marks | - |
| (noun) a distinguishing symbol | Synonyms: mark, marker |
| masking | (noun) the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it | Synonyms: cover, covering, screening |
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| (noun) scenery used to block the audience's view of parts of the stage that should not be seen | Synonyms: masking piece |
| (noun) the blocking of one sensation resulting from the presence of another sensation | - |
| matchmaking | (noun) mediation in order to bring about a marriage between others | - |
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| matrikin | (noun) one related on the mother's side | Synonyms: enate, matrilineal kin, matrilineal sib, matrisib |
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| mawkish | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
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| mawkishly | (adverb) in a mawkish and emotional manner | Synonyms: drippily |
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| mawkishness | (noun) falsely emotional in a maudlin way | Synonyms: drippiness, mushiness, sentimentality, sloppiness, soupiness |
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| (noun) insincere pathos | Synonyms: bathos |
| meatpacking | (noun) wholesale packaging of meat for future sale (including slaughtering and processing and distribution to retailers) | Synonyms: meat-packing business, meat packing |
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| merrymaking | (noun) a boisterous celebration; a merry festivity | Synonyms: conviviality, jollification |
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| metalworking | (noun) the activity of making things out of metal in a skillful manner | Synonyms: metalwork |
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| miniskirt | (noun) a very short skirt | Synonyms: mini |
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| mistaking | (noun) putting the wrong interpretation on | Synonyms: misinterpretation, misunderstanding |
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| mocking | (adjective) abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule | Synonyms: derisive, gibelike, jeering, taunting |
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| (adjective) playfully vexing (especially by ridicule) | Synonyms: quizzical, teasing |
| mockingbird | (noun) long-tailed grey-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds | Synonyms: Mimus polyglotktos, mocker |
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| mockingly | (adverb) in a disrespectful and mocking manner | Synonyms: derisively, derisorily, scoffingly |
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| (adverb) in a disrespectful jeering manner | Synonyms: gibingly, jeeringly |
| moleskin | (noun) a durable cotton fabric with a velvety nap | - |
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| moneymaking | (adjective) profit oriented | Synonyms: commercial, mercantile, mercenary |
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| (adjective) producing a sizeable profit | Synonyms: lucrative, remunerative |
| (noun) the act of making money (and accumulating wealth) | - |
| monkish | (adjective) befitting a monk; inclined to self-denial | - |
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| moviemaking | (noun) the production of movies | Synonyms: film making, movie making |
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| muckraking | (noun) the exposure of scandal (especially about public figures) | - |
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| mudskipper | (noun) found in tropical coastal regions of Africa and Asia; able to move on land on strong pectoral fins | Synonyms: mudspringer |
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| murkily | (adverb) with a dim light | Synonyms: dimly |
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| (adverb) unclearly; opaquely | - |
| murkiness | (noun) the quality of being cloudy | Synonyms: cloudiness, muddiness |
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| (noun) an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance | Synonyms: fog, fogginess, murk |
| muskiness | (noun) having the olfactory properties of musk | - |
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| mutchkin | (noun) a Scottish unit of liquid measure equal to 0.9 United States pint | - |
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| napkin | (noun) a small piece of table linen that is used to wipe the mouth and to cover the lap in order to protect clothing | Synonyms: serviette, table napkin |
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| (noun) garment consisting of a folded cloth drawn up between the legs and fastened at the waist; worn by infants to catch excrement | Synonyms: diaper, nappy |