10-letter words starting with k
- kabalevsky — Dmitri [duh-mee-tree;; Russian dmyee-tryee] /dəˈmi tri;; Russian ˈdmyi tryi/ (Show IPA), 1904–1987, Russian composer.
- kabalistic — cabalistic.
- kabaragoya — The water monitor, Varanus salvator, a large lizard of Southeast Asia.
- kaempferol — (organic compound) A flavonoid, isolated from tea and other plants, that may reduce the risk of heart disease.
- kaffrarian — a region in the S Republic of South Africa: inhabited mostly by the Xhosa.
- kafiristan — former name of Nuristan.
- kafkaesque — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling the literary work of Franz Kafka: the Kafkaesque terror of the endless interrogations.
- kahanamoku — Duke Paoa [pah-oh-ah] /pɑˈoʊ ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1890–1968, U.S. swimmer and surfer.
- kairomones — Plural form of kairomone.
- kaisership — the office of kaiser.
- kalaburagi — a city in Karnataka state, in S central India.
- kalanchoes — Plural form of kalanchoe.
- kalgoorlie — a city in SW Australia: chief center of gold-mining industry in Australia.
- kalimantan — Indonesian name of Borneo, especially referring to the southern, or Indonesian, part.
- kallikrein — a type of protease that liberates kinins from kininogens
- kama sutra — a Hindu religious treatise written c. a.d. 400, that deals with pleasure, love, and sexuality
- kamchatkan — a peninsula in the NE Russian Federation in Asia, extending S between the Bering Sea and the Sea of Okhotsk. 750 miles (1210 km) long; 104,200 sq. mi. (269,880 sq. km) wide.
- kamehameha — ("the Great") 1737?–1819, king of the Hawaiian Islands 1810–19.
- kampuchean — People's Republic of, a former official name of Cambodia.
- kannapolis — a town in W North Carolina.
- kans grass — kans.
- kantianism — the philosophy of Kant, who held that the content of knowledge comes a posteriori from sense perception, but that its form is determined by a priori categories of the mind: he also declared that God, freedom, and immortality, although they cannot be proved or disproved, are necessary postulates of a rational morality
- kaolinitic — Of or relating to kaolinite.
- kaolinosis — the inhalation of clay dust leading to pneumoconiosis
- kapfenberg — an industrial town in E Austria, in Styria. Pop: 22 234 (2001)
- kapok tree — any of several tropical bombacaceous trees of the genus Ceiba, esp Ceiba pentandra, having seeds covered with silky hairs from which kapok is obtained
- karamanlis — Konstantinos [kawn-stahn-dee-naws] /ˌkɔn stɑnˈdi nɔs/ (Show IPA), 1907–98, Greek politician: prime minister 1955–63, 1974–80; president 1980–85, 1990–95.
- karaya gum — the dried exudate of an Asian tree, Sterculia urens, used for finishing textiles and as a thickening agent in cosmetics and foodstuffs.
- kariba dam — dam on the Zambezi River, on the Zambian-Zimbabwean border: 420 ft (128 m) high: it has created a lake (Kariba Lake), 2,000 sq mi (5,180 sq km)
- karlskrona — a port in S Sweden: Sweden's main naval base since 1680. Pop: 61 097 (2004 est)
- karmically — In a karmic context.
- karri-tree — princess tree.
- karttikeya — the Hindu god of bravery.
- karyograms — Plural form of karyogram.
- karyologic — of or relating to karyology
- karyolymph — The liquid part of the nucleus of a cell.
- karyolysis — the dissolution of a cell nucleus.
- karyoplasm — nucleoplasm.
- karyosomes — Plural form of karyosome.
- karyotyped — Simple past tense and past participle of karyotype.
- karyotypes — Plural form of karyotype.
- karyotypic — Of or pertaining to karyotypes.
- kashmirian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Kashmir or the Kashmiri.
- katabolism — Alternative form of catabolism.
- kataphatic — Alternative form of cataphatic.
- katholikos — catholicos.
- kazakhstan — a republic in central Asia, NE of the Caspian Sea and W of China. 1,049,155 sq. mi. (2,717,311 sq. km). Capital: Akmola.
- kazatskies — Plural form of kazatsky.
- keelhauled — Simple past tense and past participle of keelhaul.
- keep books — to keep a record of business transactions
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