Nouns in english starting with K

• knife pleat — Noun – English ～ a single pleat turned in one direction
• killdeer plover — Noun – English ～ American plover of inland waters and fields having a distinctive cry
• kitchen police — Noun – English ～ an enlisted person who is assigned to assist the cooks
• Kalmia polifolia — Noun – English ～ laurel of bogs of northwestern United States having small purple flowers and pale leaves that are glaucous beneath
• Karl Popper — Noun – English ～ British philosopher (born in Austria) who argued that scientific theories can never be proved to be true, but are tested by attempts to falsify them (1902-1994)
• kiddie porn — Noun – English ～ the illegal use of children in pornographic pictures or films
• kiddy porn — Noun – English ～ the illegal use of children in pornographic pictures or films
• Katherine Anne Porter — Noun – English ～ United States writer of novels and short stories (1890-1980)
• king post — Noun – English ～ post connecting the crossbeam to the apex of a triangular truss
• Kaffir pox — Noun – English ～ a mild form of smallpox caused by a less virulent form of the virus
• Kniphofia praecox — Noun – English ～ widely cultivated hybrid poker plant
• kingdom Prokaryotae — Noun – English ～ prokaryotic bacteria and blue-green algae and various primitive pathogens; because of lack of consensus on how to divide the organisms into phyla informal names are used for the major divisions
• ketoacidosis-prone diabetes — Noun – English ～ severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset; characterized by polyuria and excessive thirst and increased appetite and weight loss and episodic ketoacidosis; diet and insulin injections are required to control the disease
• ketosis-prone diabetes — Noun – English ～ severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset; characterized by polyuria and excessive thirst and increased appetite and weight loss and episodic ketoacidosis; diet and insulin injections are required to control the disease
• Kennedia prostrata — Noun – English ～ hairy trailing or prostrate western Australian vine with bright scarlet-pink flowers
• king protea — Noun – English ～ South African shrub whose flowers when open are cup-shaped resembling artichokes
• kingdom Protoctista — Noun – English ～ in most modern classifications, replacement for the Protista; includes: Protozoa; Euglenophyta; Chlorophyta; Cryptophyta; Heterokontophyta; Rhodophyta; unicellular protists and their descendant multicellular organisms: regarded as distinct from plants and animals
• Korsakoff's psychosis — Noun – English ～ dementia observed during the last stages of severe chronic alcoholism; involves loss of memory for recent events although long term memory is intact
• Korsakov's psychosis — Noun – English ～ dementia observed during the last stages of severe chronic alcoholism; involves loss of memory for recent events although long term memory is intact
• knockout punch — Noun – English ～ a hard punch that renders the opponent unable to continue boxing

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