kerosine lamp
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ a lamp that burns oil (as kerosine) for light
Karl Landsteiner
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ United States pathologist (born in Austria) who discovered human blood groups (1868-1943)
Khoisan language
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– Engelsk
~ a family of languages spoken in southern Africa
Kadai language
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ a family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia
Kalmia latifolia
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ a North American evergreen shrub having glossy leaves and white or rose-colored flowers
Kepler's first law
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ a law stating that the orbit of each planet is an ellipse with the sun at one focus of the ellipse
Kepler's law
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ (astronomy) one of three empirical laws of planetary motion stated by Johannes Kepler
Korean lawn grass
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– Engelsk
~ lawn grass common in China and Japan; grown also in United States
Kirchhoff's laws
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ (physics) two laws governing electric networks in which steady currents flow: the sum of all the currents at a point is zero and the sum of the voltage gains and drops around any closed circuit is zero
Kennelly-Heaviside layer
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ a region of the ionosphere (from 50 to 90 miles up) that reflects radio waves of medium length
Kakatoe leadbeateri
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– Engelsk
~ white Australian cockatoo with roseate tinged plumage
King Lear
— Navneord
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~ the hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters
Kobus leche
— Navneord
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~ tawny-colored African antelope inhabiting wet grassy plains; a threatened species
Korean lespedeza
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ annual native to Korea but widely cultivated for forage and hay in hot dry regions
klieg light
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ carbon arc lamp that emits an intense light used in producing films
kudu lily
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ South African shrub having a swollen succulent stem and bearing showy pink and white flowers after the leaves fall; popular as an ornamental in tropics
key lime
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ small yellow-green limes of southern Florida
keyhole limpet
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ marine limpet having a conical shell with an opening at the apex
Karl Linne
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ Swedish botanist who proposed the modern system of biological nomenclature (1707-1778)
Kitty Litter
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ granulated clay; placed in a container where it absorbs the waste products of a cat or dog