k
1: denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units [syn: {thousand}, {a thousand}, {one thousand}, {1000}, {m}] n 1: the basic unit of thermodynamic temperature adopted under the Systeme Intern...
K particle
1: an unstable meson produced as the result of a high-energy particle collision [syn: {kaon}, {kappa-meson}, {k-meson}]
K ration
1: a small package of emergency rations; issued to United States troops in World War II
K-Dur 20
1: salt of potassium (trade names K-Dur 20, Kaochlor and K-lor and Klorvess and K-lyte); taken in tablet form to treat potassium deficiency [syn: {potassium chloride}, {Kaochlor}, {K-lor}, {Klorvess},...
K-lor
1: salt of potassium (trade names K-Dur 20, Kaochlor and K-lor and Klorvess and K-lyte); taken in tablet form to treat potassium deficiency [syn: {potassium chloride}, {K-Dur 20}, {Kaochlor}, {Klorves...
K-lyte
1: salt of potassium (trade names K-Dur 20, Kaochlor and K-lor and Klorvess and K-lyte); taken in tablet form to treat potassium deficiency [syn: {potassium chloride}, {K-Dur 20}, {Kaochlor}, {K-lor},...
k-meson
1: an unstable meson produced as the result of a high-energy particle collision [syn: {kaon}, {kappa-meson}, {K particle}]
K.E.
1: the mechanical energy that a body has by virtue of its motion [syn: {kinetic energy}]
K2
1: a mountain peak in the Karakoram Range in northern Kashmir; the 2nd highest peak in the world (28,250 feet high) [syn: {Godwin Austen}, {Mount Godwin Austen}, {Dapsang}]
Ka
1: unknown god; an epithet of Prajapati and Brahma
Kaaba
1: (Islam) a black stone building in Mecca that is shaped like a cube and that is the most sacred Muslim pilgrim shrine; believed to have been given by Gabriel to Abraham; Muslims turn in its directio...
kabala
1: an esoteric or occult matter resembling the Kabbalah that is traditionally secret [syn: {cabala}, {cabbala}, {cabbalah}, {kabbala}, {kabbalah}, {qabala}, {qabalah}] 2: an esoteric theosophy of rabb...
kabbala
1: an esoteric or occult matter resembling the Kabbalah that is traditionally secret [syn: {cabala}, {cabbala}, {cabbalah}, {kabala}, {kabbalah}, {qabala}, {qabalah}] 2: an esoteric theosophy of rabbi...
kabbalah
1: an esoteric or occult matter resembling the Kabbalah that is traditionally secret [syn: {cabala}, {cabbala}, {cabbalah}, {kabala}, {kabbala}, {qabala}, {qabalah}] 2: an esoteric theosophy of rabbin...
Kabbalism
1: the doctrines of the Kabbalah [syn: {Cabalism}] 2: adherence to some extreme traditional theological concept or interpretation [syn: {cabalism}]
kabbalist
1: an expert who is highly skilled in obscure or difficult or esoteric matters [syn: {cabalist}] 2: a student of the Jewish Kabbalah [syn: {Cabalist}]
kabbalistic
1: having a secret or hidden meaning; "cabalistic symbols engraved in stone"; "cryptic writings"; "thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements"- John Gunther [syn: {cabalistic}, {qabalistic}, {...
kabob
1: cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables [syn: {kebab}, {shish kebab}]
Kabolin
1: an androgen (trade names Durabolin or Kabolin) that is used to treat testosterone deficiency or breast cancer or osteoporosis [syn: {nandrolone}, {Durabolin}]
Kabul
1: the capital and largest city of Afghanistan; located in eastern Afghanistan [syn: {capital of Afghanistan}]
Kach
1: a terrorist organization founded for Jewish defense; fights antisemitism and hopes to restore the biblical state of Israel [syn: {Kahane Chai}]
Kachaturian
1: Armenian composer who incorporated oriental folk music (1903-1978) [syn: {Aram Kachaturian}]
Kachin
1: Tibeto-Burman languages spoken in northernmost Burma and adjacent China and India [syn: {Kachinic}]
Kachinic
1: Tibeto-Burman languages spoken in northernmost Burma and adjacent China and India [syn: {Kachin}]
Kadai
1: a family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia [syn: {Kam-Tai}, {Kadai language}]
Kadai language
1: a family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia [syn: {Kadai}, {Kam-Tai}]
Kadikoy
1: a former town on the Bosporus (now part of Istanbul); site of the Council of Chalcedon [syn: {Chalcedon}]
kaffir
1: important for human and animal food; growth habit and stem form similar to Indian corn but having sawtooth-edged leaves [syn: {great millet}, {kafir corn}, {kaffir corn}, {Sorghum bicolor}] 2: an o...
kaffir boom
1: small semi-evergreen of South Africa having dense clusters of clear scarlet flowers and red seeds [syn: {Transvaal kafferboom}, {Erythrina lysistemon}] 2: small semi-evergreen broad-spreading tree ...
kaffir bread
1: South African cycad; the farinaceous pith of the fruit used as food [syn: {Encephalartos caffer}]
kaffir cat
1: widely distributed wildcat of Africa and Asia Minor [syn: {caffer cat}, {Felis ocreata}]
kaffir corn
1: important for human and animal food; growth habit and stem form similar to Indian corn but having sawtooth-edged leaves [syn: {great millet}, {kaffir}, {kafir corn}, {Sorghum bicolor}]
Kaffir pox
1: a mild form of smallpox caused by a less virulent form of the virus [syn: {alastrim}, {variola minor}, {pseudosmallpox}, {pseudovariola}, {milk pox}, {white pox}, {West Indian smallpox}, {Cuban itc...
kaffiyeh
1: an Arab headdress consisting of a square piece of cloth folded into a triangle and fastened over the crown by an agal
kafir
1: an offensive term for any Black African [syn: {kaffir}, {caffer}, {caffre}] 2: a member of the Kafir people in northeastern Afghanistan
kafir corn
1: important for human and animal food; growth habit and stem form similar to Indian corn but having sawtooth-edged leaves [syn: {great millet}, {kaffir}, {kaffir corn}, {Sorghum bicolor}]
Kafiri
1: a Dardic language spoken by the Kafir people in northeastern Afghanistan
Kafka
1: Czech novelist who wrote in German about a nightmarish world of isolated and troubled individuals (1883-1924) [syn: {Franz Kafka}]
Kafkaesque
1: relating to or in the manner of Franz Kafka or his writings 2: characterized by surreal distortion and a sense of impending danger; "the kafkaesque terror of the endless interrogations"
Kafocin
1: antibiotic related to cephalosporin but no longer in common use [syn: {cephaloglycin}]
kaftan
1: a woman's dress style that imitates the caftan cloaks worn by men in the Near East [syn: {caftan}] 2: a (cotton or silk) cloak with full sleeves and sash reaching down to the ankles; worn by men in...
Kahane Chai
1: a terrorist organization founded for Jewish defense; fights antisemitism and hopes to restore the biblical state of Israel [syn: {Kach}]
kahikatea
1: New Zealand evergreen valued for its light easily worked wood [syn: {New Zealand Dacryberry}, {New Zealand white pine}, {Dacrycarpus dacrydioides}, {Podocarpus dacrydioides}]
Kahlil Gibran
1: United States writer (born in Lebanon) (1883-1931) [syn: {Gibran}]
Kahlua
1: coffee-flavored liqueur made in Mexico
Kahn
1: United States architect (born in Estonia) (1901-1974) [syn: {Louis Isadore Kahn}]
Kahoolawe
1: an island of south-central Hawaii [syn: {Kahoolawe Island}]
kai apple
1: South African fruit smelling and tasting like apricots; used for pickles and preserves
kail
1: a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head [syn: {kale}, {cole}, {borecole}, {colewort}, {Brassica oleracea acephala}] 2: coarse curly-leafed cabbage [syn: {kale}, {cole}]
kainite
1: a white mineral consisting of magnesium sulphate and potassium chloride; a source of potassium salts; used as a fertilizer
kainogenesis
1: introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (as addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution) [s...
Kaiser
1: the title of the Holy Roman Emperors or the emperors of Austria or of Germany until 1918
Kaiser Bill
1: grandson of Queen Victoria and Kaiser of Germany from 1888 to 1918; he was vilified as causing World War I (1859-1941) [syn: {Wilhelm II}, {Kaiser Wilhelm}]
kaiser roll
1: rounded raised poppy-seed roll made of a square piece of dough by folding the corners in to the center
Kaiser Wilhelm
1: grandson of Queen Victoria and Kaiser of Germany from 1888 to 1918; he was vilified as causing World War I (1859-1941) [syn: {Wilhelm II}, {Kaiser Bill}]
Kakatoe
1: a genus of Psittacidae [syn: {genus Kakatoe}, {Cacatua}, {genus Cacatua}]
Kakatoe galerita
1: white cockatoo with a yellow erectile crest [syn: {sulphur-crested cockatoo}, {Cacatua galerita}]
Kakatoe leadbeateri
1: white Australian cockatoo with roseate tinged plumage [syn: {pink cockatoo}]
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Kakemono
1: a Japanese (paper or silk) wall hanging; usually narrow with a picture or writing on it and a roller at the bottom
kaki
1: small deciduous Asiatic tree bearing large red or orange edible astringent fruit [syn: {Japanese persimmon}, {Diospyros kaki}] 2: blackish stilt of New Zealand sometimes considered a color phase of...
kala azar
1: sores resulting from a tropical infection by protozoa of the genus Leishmania which are spread by sandflies [syn: {leishmaniasis}, {leishmaniosis}]
kala-azar
1: leishmaniasis of the viscera [syn: {visceral leishmaniasis}, {Assam fever}, {dumdum fever}]
Kalaallit Nunaat
1: the largest island in the world; between the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans; a self-governing province of Denmark [syn: {Greenland}, {Gronland}]
Kalahari
1: a desert in southwestern Africa - largely Botswana [syn: {Kalahari Desert}]
Kalahari Desert
1: a desert in southwestern Africa - largely Botswana [syn: {Kalahari}]
kalansuwa
1: a cap that is wrapped around by a turban and worn by Muslim religious elders
kalantas
1: Philippine timber tree having hard red fragrant wood [syn: {Philippine mahogany}, {Philippine cedar}, {Toona calantas}, {Cedrela calantas}]
Kalapooia
1: a member of the North American Indian people of Oregon [syn: {Kalapuya}, {Calapooya}, {Calapuya}]
Kalapooian
1: a Penutian language spoken by the Kalapuya people [syn: {Kalapuyan}]
Kalapuya
1: a member of the North American Indian people of Oregon [syn: {Kalapooia}, {Calapooya}, {Calapuya}]
Kalapuyan
1: a Penutian language spoken by the Kalapuya people [syn: {Kalapooian}]
Kalashnikov culture
1: the attitudes and behavior in a social group that resolves political disputes by force of arms; "the Kalashnikov culture in Afghanistan"
kale
1: informal terms for money [syn: {boodle}, {bread}, {cabbage}, {clams}, {dinero}, {dough}, {gelt}, {lettuce}, {lolly}, {lucre}, {loot}, {moolah}, {pelf}, {scratch}, {shekels}, {simoleons}, {sugar}, {...
kaleidoscope
1: an optical toy in a tube; it produces symmetrical patterns as bits of colored glass are reflected by mirrors
kaleidoscopic
1: continually shifting or rapidly changing [syn: {kaleidoscopical}]
kaleidoscopical
1: continually shifting or rapidly changing [syn: {kaleidoscopic}]
kalemia
1: the presence of excess potassium in the circulating blood
kali
1: bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash [syn: {saltwort}, {barilla}, {glasswort}, {kelpwort}, {Salsola kali}, {Salsola soda}]...
kalian
1: an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water; "a bipolar world with the hookah and Turkish coffee versus hamburgers...
kalif
1: the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state considered to be a representative of Allah on earth; "many radical Muslims believe a Khalifah will unite all Islamic lands and people and subjugate ...
Kalimantan
1: the part of Indonesia on the southern side of the island of Borneo [syn: {Indonesian Borneo}] 2: 3rd largest island in the world; in the western Pacific north of Java; largely covered by dense jung...
Kalinin
1: soviet statesman and head of state of the USSR (1875-1946) [syn: {Mikhail Kalinin}, {Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin}]
kaliph
1: the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state considered to be a representative of Allah on earth; "many radical Muslims believe a Khalifah will unite all Islamic lands and people and subjugate ...
kaliuresis
1: the presence of excess potassium in the urine [syn: {kaluresis}]
Kalka
1: the Mongol people living in the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia [syn: {Khalkha}, {Khalka}] 2: the language of the Khalkha people that is the official language of the Mongolian People's ...
Kalki
1: the 10th and last incarnation of Vishnu
Kallman's syndrome
1: hypogonadism with anosmia; a congenital sexual disorder that prevents the testicles from maturing at puberty
kalmia
1: any plant of the genus Kalmia
Kalmia angustifolia
1: North American dwarf shrub resembling mountain laurel but having narrower leaves and small red flowers; poisonous to young stock [syn: {sheep laurel}, {pig laurel}, {lambkill}]
Kalmia latifolia
1: a North American evergreen shrub having glossy leaves and white or rose-colored flowers [syn: {mountain laurel}, {wood laurel}, {American laurel}, {calico bush}]
Kalmia polifolia
1: laurel of bogs of northwestern United States having small purple flowers and pale leaves that are glaucous beneath [syn: {swamp laurel}, {bog laurel}, {bog kalmia}]
Kalon Tripa
1: the chairman of the Kashag and essentially head of the Tibetan government-in-exile
Kalotermes
1: type genus of Kalotermitidae; termites destructive of wood and living trees [syn: {genus Kalotermes}]
Kalotermitidae
1: primitive termites of warm regions [syn: {family Kalotermitidae}]
kalpac
1: a high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus [syn: {calpac}, {calpack}]
Kaluga
1: a city of central Russia south of Moscow
kalumpang
1: large tree of Old World tropics having foul-smelling orange-red blossoms followed by red pods enclosing oil-rich seeds sometimes used as food [syn: {Java olives}, {Sterculia foetida}]
kaluresis
1: the presence of excess potassium in the urine [syn: {kaliuresis}]
Kam Muang
1: a branch of the Tai languages [syn: {Tai Yuan}]
Kam-Sui
1: a group of Kadai languages
Kam-Tai
1: a family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia [syn: {Kadai}, {Kadai language}]
Kama
1: god of love and erotic desire; opposite of Mara
Kamarupan
1: the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in northeastern India and adjacent regions of western Burma
Kamasutra
1: (Hinduism) an ancient Sanskrit text giving rules for sensuous and sensual pleasure and love and marriage in accordance with Hindu law
Kamba
1: a Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya
Kamchatkan sea eagle
1: found on coasts of the northwestern Pacific [syn: {Stellar's sea eagle}, {Haliaeetus pelagicus}]
kameez
1: a long tunic worn by many people from the Indian subcontinent (usually with a salwar or churidars)
Kamehameha I
1: Hawaiian king who united the islands under his rule (1758-1819) [syn: {Kamehameha the Great}]
Kamehameha the Great
1: Hawaiian king who united the islands under his rule (1758-1819) [syn: {Kamehameha I}]
Kamet
1: a mountain in the Himalayas in northern India (25,450 feet high)
Kami
1: one the Shinto deities (including mythological beings, spirits of distinguished men, forces of nature)
Kamia
1: a member of a North American Indian people of southeastern California and northwestern Mexico 2: the Yuman language spoken by the Kamia people
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