Words in english starting with K

• Kuala Lumpur — Noun – English ～ the largest city and former capital of Malaysia until 2005
• K-lyte — 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
• knitting machine — Noun – English ～ a textile machine that makes knitted fabrics
• king mackerel — Noun – English ～ large mackerel with long pointed snout; important food and game fish of the eastern Atlantic coast southward to Brazil
• Kazimir Malevich — Noun – English ～ Russian abstract painter (1878-1935)
• Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp — Noun – English ～ New Zealand writer of short stories (1888-1923)
• Katherine Mansfield — Noun – English ～ New Zealand writer of short stories (1888-1923)
• knotted marjoram — Noun – English ～ aromatic European plant native to Mediterranean and Turkey; not widespread in Europe
• Karl Marx — Noun – English ～ founder of modern communism; wrote the Communist Manifesto with Engels in 1848; wrote Das Kapital in 1867 (1818-1883)
• kitchen match — Noun – English ～ a wooden friction match that will light on any granular surface; useful to light wood or gas stoves
• Karl Augustus Menninger — Noun – English ～ United States psychiatrist and son of Charles Menninger (1893-1990)
• Karl Menninger — Noun – English ～ United States psychiatrist and son of Charles Menninger (1893-1990)
• kappa-meson — Noun – English ～ an unstable meson produced as the result of a high-energy particle collision
• k-meson — Noun – English ～ an unstable meson produced as the result of a high-energy particle collision
• kilogram-meter — Noun – English ～ a unit of work equal to the work done by a one kilogram force operating through a distance of one meter
• Klemens Metternich — Noun – English ～ Austrian statesman (1773-1859)
• kitchen midden — Noun – English ～ (archeology) a mound of domestic refuse containing shells and animal bones marking the site of a prehistoric settlement
• kingdom Monera — 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
• Kennesaw Mountain — Noun – English ～ battle of the American Civil War (1864); Union forces under William Tecumseh Sherman were repulsed by Confederate troops under Joseph Eggleston Johnston
• Kunlun Mountains — Noun – English ～ a mountain range in western China that extends eastward from the Indian border for 1000 miles

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