Nouns

Words that name people, places, things, or ideas

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kanaf

noun

valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultiv...

kanamycin

noun

antibiotic (trade name Kantrex) used to treat severe infecti...

kananga

noun

a city in southwestern Congo; former name (until 1966) was L...

kanawha

noun

a tributary of the Ohio River in West Virginia

kanchil

noun

small chevrotain of southeastern Asia

kantrex

noun

antibiotic (trade name Kantrex) used to treat severe infecti...

kaochlor

noun

salt of potassium (KCl) (trade names K-Dur 20, Kaochlor and...

kaoline

noun

a fine usually white clay formed by the weathering of alumin...

kaopectate

noun

trade name for a fixed-combination antidiarrheal drug that u...

kapeika

noun

100 kapeikas equal 1 rubel in Belarus

kapsiki

noun

a Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad

karabiner

noun

an oblong metal ring with a spring clip; used in mountaineer...

karaites

noun

a Jewish sect that recognizes only the Hebrew Scriptures as...

karakalpak

noun

a member of a Turkic people living near Lake Aral in central...

karenic

noun

the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Thailand and Burmes...

karok

noun

a member of a North American Indian people of the Klamath ri...

karsavina

noun

Russian dancer who danced with Nijinsky (1885-1978)

kartikeya

noun

Hindu god of bravery

karttika

noun

the eighth month of the Hindu calendar

karyon

noun

a part of the cell containing DNA and RNA and responsible fo...

kashag

noun

the advisory board of the Tibetan government-in-exile

kastler

noun

French physicist (1902-1984)

katharobe

noun

an organism that lives in an oxygenated medium lacking organ...

katharometer

noun

measures thermal conductivity

katsina

noun

a city in northern Nigeria; a major center of the Hausa peop...

katsuwonidae

noun

in some classifications considered a separate family compris...

katsuwonus

noun

oceanic bonitos; in some classifications placed in its own f...

kattegatt

noun

a strait of the North Sea between Jutland and Sweden; connec...

kavakava

noun

an alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava...

kavrin

noun

an alkaloid medicine (trade name Kavrin) obtained from opium...

kawaka

noun

New Zealand timber tree resembling the cypress

kazakhstani

noun

a native or inhabitant of Kazakhstan

kbit

noun

a unit of information equal to 1000 bits

keenness

noun

a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something

keflex

noun

an oral cephalosporin (trade names Keflex and Keflin and Kef...

keflin

noun

an oral cephalosporin (trade names Keflex and Keflin and Kef...

keftab

noun

an oral cephalosporin (trade names Keflex and Keflin and Kef...

kegful

noun

the quantity contained in a keg

kekchi

noun

a Mayan language spoken by the Kekchi

kelpwort

noun

bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having...

kemadrin

noun

drug (trade name Kemadrin) used to reduce tremors in Parkins...

ken.

noun

a state in east central United States; a border state during...

kenalog

noun

a synthetic corticosteroid (trade names Aristocort or Aristo...

kennedia

noun

genus of Australian woody vines having showy red or purplish...

kennedya

noun

genus of Australian woody vines having showy red or purplish...

kentan

noun

east Asian perennial having large reddish-orange black-spott...

kentuckian

noun

a native or resident of Kentucky

kenyapithecus

noun

extinct primate having powerful chewing muscles along with l...

kenyata

noun

Kenyan statesman and the first president of independent Keny...

keratinisation

noun

organic process by which keratin is deposited in cells and t...