Nouns

kohlrabi

noun

plant cultivated for its enlarged fleshy turnip-shaped edibl...

koine

noun

a common language used by speakers of different languages

kokka

noun

the branch of Shinto recognized as the official state religi...

komi

noun

the Finnic language spoken by the Komi

komondor

noun

Hungarian breed of large powerful shaggy-coated white dog; u...

konakri

noun

a port and the capital of Guinea

konoye

noun

Japanese statesman who set Japan's expansionist policies and...

koodoo

noun

either of two spiral-horned antelopes of the African bush

korchnoi

noun

Russian chess master (born in 1931)

kordofan

noun

a mountainous province of central Sudan

kordofanian

noun

a group of languages spoken in the relatively small Kordofan...

kopje

noun

a small hill rising up from the African veld

kosciusko

noun

Polish patriot and soldier who fought with Americans in the...

koruna

noun

the basic unit of money in Czech Republic

korzybski

noun

United States semanticist (born in Poland) (1879-1950)

kotow

noun

a former Chinese custom of touching the ground with the fore...

koussevitzky

noun

United States conductor (born in Russia) who was noted for p...

kovno

noun

a city in central Lithuania

koweit

noun

a seaport on the Persian Gulf and capital of Kuwait

krait

noun

brightly colored venomous but nonaggressive snake of southea...

krakau

noun

an industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula

kraurosis

noun

atrophy and shriveling of the skin or mucous membrane

kreisler

noun

United States violinist (born in Austria) (1875-1962)

kroeber

noun

United States anthropologist noted for his studies of cultur...

kronecker

noun

German mathematician (1823-1891)

kroon

noun

the basic unit of money in Estonia

kshatriya

noun

a member of the royal or warrior Hindu caste

kuangchou

noun

a city on the Zhu Jiang delta in southern China; the capital...

kuenlun

noun

a mountain range in western China that extends eastward from...

kulun

noun

the capital and largest city of Mongolia

kumasi

noun

a city in southern Ghana

kunzite

noun

a pinkish lilac crystal form of the mineral spodumene that i...

kurrajong

noun

widely distributed tree of eastern Australia yielding a toug...

kuroshio

noun

a warm ocean current that flows northeastwardly off the coas...

kurus

noun

100 kurus equal 1 lira in Turkey

kutch

noun

tannin extract derived from any of several mangrove barks of...

kuvasz

noun

long-established Hungarian breed of tall light-footed but st...

kwakiutl

noun

a member of the Wakashan people living around Queen Charlott...

kwangchow

noun

a city on the Zhu Jiang delta in southern China; the capital...

kwangtung

noun

a province in southern China

kwashiorkor

noun

severe malnutrition in children resulting from a diet excess...

kyanite

noun

a grey or greenish-blue mineral consisting of aluminum silic...

kyat

noun

the basic unit of money in Myanmar

kyd

noun

English dramatist (1558-1594)

kylix

noun

a shallow drinking cup with two handles; used in ancient Gre...

kymograph

noun

scientific instrument consisting of a rotating drum holding...

kyphosis

noun

an abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column

l'aquila

noun

the provincial capital of the Abruzzi region in central Ital...

l

noun

the cardinal number that is the product of ten and five

l'enfant

noun

United States architect (born in France) who laid out the ci...