Nouns in english starting with K

• Kleist — Noun – English ～ German dramatist whose works concern people torn between reason and emotion (1777-1811)
• kleptomania — Noun – English ～ an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive
• kleptomaniac — Noun – English ～ someone with an irrational urge to steal in the absence of an economic motive
• klick — Noun – English ～ a metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles)
• klimt — Noun – English ～ Austrian painter influenced by art nouveau (1862-1918)
• Kline — Noun – English ～ United States abstract expressionist painter (1910-1962)
• Klinefelter — Noun – English ～ United States physician who first described the XXY-syndrome (born in 1912)
• Klondike — Noun – English ～ a region in northwestern Canada where gold was discovered in 1896 but exhausted by 1910
• klondike — Noun – English ～ a form of solitaire that begins with seven piles of cards with the top cards facing up; descending sequences of cards of alternating colors are built on these piles; as aces become available they are placed above the seven piles; the object is to build sequences in suit from ace to king as the remaining cards are dealt out one at a time
• Klopstock — Noun – English ～ German poet (1724-1803)
• Klorvess — Noun – English ～ salt of potassium (KCl) (trade names K-Dur 20, Kaochlor and K-lor and Klorvess and K-lyte); taken in tablet form to treat potassium deficiency
• Klotho — Noun – English ～ the Greek goddess of fate who spins the thread of life
• kludge — Noun – English ～ a badly assembled collection of parts hastily assembled to serve some particular purpose (often used to refer to computing systems or software that has been badly put together)
• klutz — Noun – English ～ (Yiddish) a clumsy dolt
• Kluxer — Noun – English ～ a member of the Ku Klux Klan
• klystron — Noun – English ～ an electron tube used to generate or amplify electromagnetic radiation in the microwave region by velocity modulation
• klyuchevskaya — Noun – English ～ an inactive volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula; last erupted in 1946
• km/h — Noun – English ～ the ratio of the distance traveled (in kilometers) to the time spent traveling (in hours)
• km — Noun – English ～ a metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles)
• knack — Noun – English ～ a special way of doing something; "he had a bent for it"; "he had a special knack for getting into trouble"; "he couldn't get the hang of it"

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