9-letter words containing k, i, t
- jujitsuka — A practitioner of any type of jujitsu/jujutsu martial arts, except judo.
- junketing — Present participle of junket.
- kadaitcha — Alternative form of kurdaitcha.
- kahikatea — A tall coniferous New Zealand tree used for its timber and resin. Its seeds, which are borne on conspicuous red stems, were formerly eaten by the Maoris.
- kakotopia — Alternative form of cacotopia.
- kallithea — a city in E Greece, a suburb of Athens.
- kallitype — an photographic printing process using silver and ferric salts, popular in the 19th century
- kamarhati — a city in West Bengal state, in NE India, a suburb of Kolkata.
- kaolinite — a very common mineral, hydrated aluminum disilicate, Al 2 Si 2 O 5 (OH) 4 , formed by the alteration of other minerals, especially feldspar: the most common constituent of kaolin.
- karateist — A person who does karate.
- katabasis — a march from the interior of a country to the coast, as that of the 10,000 Greeks after their defeat and the death of Cyrus the Younger at Cunaxa.
- katabatic — (of a wind or air current) moving downward or down a slope. Compare anabatic (def 1).
- katabolic — Alternative form of catabolic.
- katalysis — catalysis.
- kathakali — a form of dance drama of S India using mime and based on Hindu literature
- katharine — a popular female first name
- katharsis — Alt form catharsis.
- katherine — a female given name: from the Greek word meaning “pure.”.
- kathiawar — a peninsula on the W coast of India.
- keep time — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- kenneth i — surnamed MacAlpine. died 858, king of the Scots of Dalriada and of the Picts (?844–858): considered the first Scottish king
- keratitis — inflammation of the cornea.
- keratosis — any skin disease characterized by a horny growth, as a wart.
- keratotic — any skin disease characterized by a horny growth, as a wart.
- kermesite — a mineral, antimony oxysulfide, Sb 2 S 2 O, occurring usually in tufts of red capillary crystals.
- ketchikan — a seaport in SE Alaska: transportation and communications center.
- ketogenic — the production of ketone bodies in the body, as in diabetes mellitus or low-carbohydrate weight-loss diets.
- ketolysis — the breaking down of ketones.
- ketolytic — the breaking down of ketones.
- ketonemia — the presence of ketone bodies in the blood.
- ketonuria — the presence of ketone bodies in the urine.
- ketoximes — Plural form of ketoxime.
- kettering — Charles Franklin, 1876–1958, U.S. engineer and inventor.
- key fruit — a samara.
- key light — (in photography or motion pictures) the main light that illuminates the subject being photographed or filmed.
- keynoting — Present participle of keynote.
- khalifate — the rank, jurisdiction, or government of a caliph.
- kharijite — a member of an ultraconservative, sometimes fanatical, sect emphasizing the importance of strict adherence to Muslim principles of conduct, and advocating the killing of anyone seriously violating those principles.
- khuzistan — a province in SW Iran, on the Persian Gulf. About 35,000 sq. mi. (90,650 sq. km). Capital: Ahwaz.
- kibbitzed — Simple past tense and past participle of kibbitz.
- kibbutzim — A communal settlement in Israel, typically a farm.
- kibitzers — Plural form of kibitzer.
- kibitzing — to act as a kibitzer.
- kick turn — a turn from a stationary position in which a skier lifts one ski to a point where the heel is nearly at right angles to the snow, then faces the ski outward, sets it down in the direction to be turned, and swings the other ski around so that both skis are parallel.
- kickabout — An informal amateur game of football/soccer.
- kickstand — a device for supporting a bicycle or motorcycle when not in use, pivoted to the rear axle in such a way that it can be kicked down below the rear wheel.
- kickstart — a starter, as of a motorcycle, that operates by a downward kick on a pedal.
- kid stuff — something appropriate only for children.
- kidstakes — pretense or nonsense.
- kieserite — a mineral, hydrous magnesium sulfate, MgSO 4 ⋅H 2 O, having a white or yellowish color and found with salt deposits.