Words in english starting with K

• Karl Wilhelm Scheele — Noun – English ～ Swedish chemist (born in Germany) who discovered oxygen before Priestley did (1742-1786)
• Kaiser Wilhelm — Noun – English ～ grandson of Queen Victoria and Kaiser of Germany from 1888 to 1918; he was vilified as causing World War I (1859-1941)
• King William pine — Noun – English ～ evergreen of Tasmanian mountains having sharp-pointed leaves that curve inward
• Kirkia wilmsii — Noun – English ～ small African deciduous tree with spreading crown having leaves clustered toward ends of branches and clusters of creamy flowers resembling lilacs
• katabatic wind — Noun – English ～ a wind caused by the downward motion of cold air
• Karol Wojtyla — Noun – English ～ the first Pope born in Poland; the first Pope not born in Italy in 450 years (1920-2005)
• Kaspar Friedrich Wolff — Noun – English ～ German anatomist (1733-1794)
• kept woman — Noun – English ～ an adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man
• Kentucky wonder — Noun – English ～ flat-podded green bean
• Kentucky wonder bean — Noun – English ～ flat-podded green bean
• key word — Noun – English ～ a significant word used in indexing or cataloging
• key word — Noun – English ～ a word that is used as a pattern to decode an encrypted message
• Kurdistan Workers Party — Noun – English ～ a Marxist-Leninist terrorist group of Kurds trying to establish an independent Kurdish state in eastern Turkey
• kidney wort — Noun – English ～ widely spreading evergreen shrub of southwestern United States with flower heads in a leafy panicle
• Kentucky yellowwood — Noun – English ～ small handsome roundheaded deciduous tree having showy white flowers in terminal clusters and heavy hardwood yielding yellow dye
• Kuan Yin — Noun – English ～ (Buddhism) a female Bodhisattva; often called goddess of mercy and considered an aspect of the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara; identified with Japanese Kwannon
• Kwan-yin — Noun – English ～ (Buddhism) a female Bodhisattva; often called goddess of mercy and considered an aspect of the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara; identified with Japanese Kwannon
• Konrad Zacharias Lorenz — Noun – English ～ Austrian zoologist who studied the behavior of birds and emphasized the importance of innate as opposed to learned behaviors (1903-1989)
• Karl Waldemar Ziegler — Noun – English ～ German chemist honored for his research on polymers (1898-1973)
• kill zone — Noun – English ～ an area where a battle has occurred with many fatalities

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