| kopje | (noun) a small hill rising up from the African veld | Synonyms: koppie |
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| koppie | (noun) a small hill rising up from the African veld | Synonyms: kopje |
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| kor | (noun) an ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs | Synonyms: homer |
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| korlan | (noun) the fruit from the korlan tree. | - |
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| koruna | (noun) the basic unit of money in Czech Republic | - |
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| (noun) the basic unit of money in Slovakia | - |
| kos | (noun) (in India) a unit of length having different values in different localities | Synonyms: coss |
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| kosher | (adjective) conforming to Jewish dietary laws | Synonyms: cosher |
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| (adjective) proper or legitimate | - |
| (noun) food that fulfills the requirements of Jewish dietary law | - |
| kosherness | (noun) The property of being fit to eat under Jewish dietary laws. | - |
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| koto | (noun) Japanese stringed instrument that resembles a zither; has a rectangular wooden sounding board and usually 13 silk strings that are plucked with the fingers | - |
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| kotow | (noun) a former Chinese custom of touching the ground with the forehead as a sign of respect or submission | Synonyms: kowtow |
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| (verb) try to gain favor by cringing or flattering | Synonyms: bootlick, fawn, kowtow, suck up, toady, truckle |
| koudou | (noun) either of two spiral-horned antelopes of the African bush | Synonyms: koodoo, kudu |
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| koumiss | (noun) an alcoholic beverage made from fermented mare's milk; made originally by nomads of central Asia | Synonyms: kumis |
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| kowhai | (noun) shrub or small tree of New Zealand and Chile having pendulous racemes of tubular golden-yellow flowers; yields a hard strong wood | Synonyms: Sophora tetraptera |
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| kowtow | (noun) a former Chinese custom of touching the ground with the forehead as a sign of respect or submission | Synonyms: kotow |
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| (verb) try to gain favor by cringing or flattering | Synonyms: bootlick, fawn, kotow, suck up, toady, truckle |
| (verb) bend the knees and bow in a servile manner | Synonyms: genuflect, scrape |
| kph | (noun) the ratio of the distance traveled (in kilometers) to the time spent traveling (in hours) | Synonyms: kilometers per hour, kilometres per hour, km/h |
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| kraal | (noun) a pen for livestock in southern Africa | - |
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| (noun) a village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa; usually surrounded by a stockade | - |
| kraft | (noun) strong wrapping paper made from pulp processed with a sulfur solution | Synonyms: kraft paper |
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| krait | (noun) brightly colored venomous but nonaggressive snake of southeastern Asia and Malay peninsula | - |
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| kraurosis | (noun) atrophy and shriveling of the skin or mucous membrane | - |
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| kremlin | (noun) citadel of a Russian town | - |
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| krennerite | (noun) an orthorhombic gold telluride mineral which can contain a relatively small amount of silver in the structure. | - |
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| krigia | (noun) any small branched yellow-flowered North American herb of the genus Krigia | - |
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| krill | (noun) shrimp-like planktonic crustaceans; major source of food for e.g. baleen whales | - |
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| kris | (noun) a Malayan dagger with a wavy blade | Synonyms: crease, creese |
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| krona | (noun) the basic unit of money in Iceland | Synonyms: Icelandic krona |
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| (noun) the basic unit of money in Sweden | Synonyms: Swedish krona |
| krone | (noun) the basic unit of money in Denmark | Synonyms: Danish krone |
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| (noun) the basic unit of money in Norway | Synonyms: Norwegian krone |
| kroon | (noun) the basic unit of money in Estonia | - |
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| krubi | (noun) malodorous tropical plant having a spathe that resembles the corolla of a morning glory and attains a diameter of several feet | Synonyms: Amorphophallus titanum, titan arum |
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| krummhorn | (noun) a Renaissance woodwind with a double reed and a curving tube (crooked horn) | Synonyms: cromorne, crumhorn |
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| krypton | (noun) a colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses; occurs in trace amounts in air | Synonyms: atomic number 36, Kr |
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| kt | (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, karat |
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| kudos | (noun) an expression of approval and commendation | Synonyms: congratulations, extolment, praise |
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| kudu | (noun) either of two spiral-horned antelopes of the African bush | Synonyms: koodoo, koudou |
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| kudzu | (noun) fast-growing vine from eastern Asia having tuberous starchy roots and hairy trifoliate leaves and racemes of purple flowers followed by long hairy pods containing many seeds; grown for fodder and forage and root starch; widespread in the southern United States | Synonyms: kudzu vine, Pueraria lobata |
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| kumis | (noun) an alcoholic beverage made from fermented mare's milk; made originally by nomads of central Asia | Synonyms: koumiss |
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| kummel | (noun) liqueur flavored with caraway seed or cumin | - |
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| kumquat | (noun) small oval citrus fruit with thin sweet rind and very acid pulp | - |
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| (noun) any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Fortunella bearing small orange-colored edible fruits with thick sweet-flavored skin and sour pulp | Synonyms: cumquat, kumquat tree |
| kunzite | (noun) a pinkish lilac crystal form of the mineral spodumene that is used as a gemstone | - |
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| kurakkan | (noun) East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient | Synonyms: African millet, coracan, corakan, Eleusine coracana, finger millet, ragee, ragi |
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| kurchee | (noun) tropical Asian tree with hard white wood and bark formerly used as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhea | Synonyms: conessi, Holarrhena antidysenterica, Holarrhena pubescens, ivory tree, kurchi |
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| kurchi | (noun) tropical Asian tree with hard white wood and bark formerly used as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhea | Synonyms: conessi, Holarrhena antidysenterica, Holarrhena pubescens, ivory tree, kurchee |
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| kurrajong | (noun) widely distributed tree of eastern Australia yielding a tough durable fiber and soft light attractively grained wood; foliage is an important emergency food for cattle | Synonyms: Brachychiton populneus, currajong |
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| kurrat | (noun) coarse Old World perennial having a large bulb and tall stalk of greenish purple-tinged flowers; widely naturalized | Synonyms: Allium ampeloprasum, Levant garlic, wild leek |
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| kurta | (noun) a loose collarless shirt worn by many people on the Indian subcontinent (usually with a salwar or churidars or pyjama) | - |
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| kuru | (noun) a progressive disease of the central nervous system marked by increasing lack of coordination and advancing to paralysis and death within a year of the appearance of symptoms; thought to have been transmitted by cannibalistic consumption of diseased brain tissue since the disease virtually disappeared when cannibalism was abandoned | - |
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| kurus | (noun) 100 kurus equal 1 lira in Turkey | Synonyms: piaster, piastre |
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| kutch | (noun) tannin extract derived from any of several mangrove barks of Pacific areas | Synonyms: cutch |
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| kuvasz | (noun) long-established Hungarian breed of tall light-footed but sturdy white dog; used also as a hunting dog | - |
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| kvass | (noun) fermented beverage resembling beer but made from rye or barley | - |
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| kvetch | (noun) (Yiddish) a nagging complaint | - |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) a constant complainer | - |
| (verb) express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness | Synonyms: complain, kick, plain, quetch, sound off |
| kwacha | (noun) the basic unit of money in Malawi | Synonyms: Malawi kwacha |
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| (noun) the basic unit of money in Zambia | Synonyms: Zambian kwacha |
| kwai | (noun) the basic unit of money in China | Synonyms: yuan |
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| kwanza | (noun) the basic unit of money in Angola | - |
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| kwashiorkor | (noun) severe malnutrition in children resulting from a diet excessively high in carbohydrates and low in protein | - |
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| kweek | (noun) trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions; used for lawns and pastures especially in southern United States and India | Synonyms: Bahama grass, Bermuda grass, Cynodon dactylon, devil grass, doob, scutch grass, star grass |
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| kwela | (noun) a kind of danceable music popular among black South Africans; includes a whistle among its instruments | - |
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| kyanite | (noun) a grey or greenish-blue mineral consisting of aluminum silicate in crystalline form; occurs in metaphoric rock, used as a refractory | Synonyms: cyanite |
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| kyat | (noun) the basic unit of money in Myanmar | - |
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| kylie | (noun) an Australian boomerang; one side flat and the other convex | Synonyms: kiley |
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| kylix | (noun) a shallow drinking cup with two handles; used in ancient Greece | Synonyms: cylix |
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| kymograph | (noun) scientific instrument consisting of a rotating drum holding paper on which a stylus traces a continuous record (as of breathing or blood pressure) | Synonyms: cymograph |
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| kyphosis | (noun) The property of having an abnormal convex curvature in the cervical or lumbar regions of the spine. | - |
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| (noun) an abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column | Synonyms: humpback, hunchback |
| kyphotic | (adjective) characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column | Synonyms: crookback, crookbacked, gibbous, humpbacked, humped, hunchbacked |
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