Words in english starting with K

• keep up — Verb – English ～ keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction; "We preserve these archeological findings"; "The old lady could not keep up the building"; "children must be taught to conserve our national heritage"; "The museum curator conserved the ancient manuscripts"
• keep up — Verb – English ～ lengthen or extend in duration or space; "We sustained the diplomatic negotiations as long as possible"; "prolong the treatment of the patient"; "keep up the good work"
• keep up — Verb – English ～ prevent from going to bed at night; "The anticipation of the trip kept the children up all night"; "I kept myself up all night studying for the exam"
• kit up — Verb – English ～ supply with a set of articles or tools
• kink up — Verb – English ～ curl tightly; "crimp hair"
• kept up — Adjective – English ～ kept in good condition
• Kingston-upon Hull — Noun – English ～ a large fishing port in northeastern England
• kitchen utensil — Noun – English ～ a utensil used in preparing food
• Kniphofia uvaria — Noun – English ～ clump-forming plant of South Africa with spikes of scarlet flowers
• Kobuk Valley National Park — Noun – English ～ a national park in Alaska having mountains and forests and tundra and sand dunes and archeological sites
• Kaposi's varicelliform eruption — Noun – English ～ a now rare complication of vaccinia superimposed on atopic dermatitis with high fever and generalized vesicles and papulovesicles
• Korean velvet grass — Noun – English ～ Asiatic creeping perennial grass; introduced in southern United States as a drought-resistant lawn grass
• kokoi venom — Noun – English ～ a potent neurotoxin found in a particular frog
• Karl Adolph Verner — Noun – English ～ Danish philologist (1846-1896)
• King James Version — Noun – English ～ an English translation of the Bible published in 1611
• kidney vetch — Noun – English ～ perennial Eurasian herb having heads of red or yellow flowers and common in meadows and pastures; formerly used medicinally for kidney disorders
• Kund Johan Victor Rasmussen — Noun – English ～ Danish ethnologist and Arctic explorer; led expeditions into the Arctic to find support for his theory that Eskimos and North American Indians originally migrated from Asia (1879-1933)
• kudzu vine — Noun – English ～ fast-growing vine from eastern Asia having tuberous starchy roots and hairy trifoliate leaves and racemes of purple flowers followed by long hairy pods containing many seeds; grown for fodder and forage and root starch; widespread in the southern United States
• kiwi vine — Noun – English ～ climbing vine native to China; cultivated in New Zealand for its fuzzy edible fruit with green meat
• Kosteletzya virginica — Noun – English ～ subshrub of southeastern United States to New York

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