10-letter words starting with k
- kirovohrad — Kirovograd.
- kiss up to — be obsequious towards
- kissagrams — Plural form of kissagram.
- kissograms — Plural form of kissogram.
- kisspeptin — a protein molecule that is responsible for triggering the onset of puberty in humans
- kissy-face — affectionate kissing; necking: playing kissy-face.
- kitakyushu — a seaport on N Kyushu, in S Japan: formed in 1963 by the merger of five cities (Kokura, Moji, Tobata, Wakamatsu, and Yawata)
- kitambilla — a shrub or small tree, Dovyalis hebecarpa, of India and Sri Lanka, having velvety, maroon-purple fruit.
- kitchendom — the domain of the kitchen
- kiteflying — an act or instance of flying a kite.
- kitembilla — a shrub or small tree, Dovyalis hebecarpa, of India and Sri Lanka, having velvety, maroon-purple fruit.
- kitesurfer — A person who kitesurfs.
- kitschiest — Superlative form of kitschy.
- kitschness — the quality of being kitsch
- kittenlike — Resembling a kitten or some aspect of one.
- kitty hawk — a village in NE North Carolina: Wright brothers' airplane flight 1903.
- kiwi fruit — A kiwi fruit is a fruit with a brown hairy skin and green flesh.
- kiwisports — a fitness programme developed for schools, involving a selection of sports such as rounders, cricket, and netball
- klaberjass — a card game played with a 32-card pack, made by removing all cards below the sevens from a regular 52-card pack, in which scoring values are assigned to certain cards taken in tricks, to sequences in the same suit, to the king and queen of trumps, and to the last trick.
- klagenfurt — a province in S Austria. 3681 sq. mi. (9535 sq. km). Capital: Klagenfurt.
- klangfarbe — instrumental timbre or tone colour
- klebsiella — any of several rod-shaped, aerobic bacteria of the genus Klebsiella, certain species of which, as K. pneumoniae, are found in the respiratory, intestinal, and genitourinary tracts of humans and animals and are sometimes pathogenic.
- klendusity — (in plants) the ability to resist disease
- kleptocrat — a government official who is a thief or exploiter.
- kline test — a test for syphilis in which the formation of a microscopic precipitate in a mixture of the patient's serum and an antigen indicates a syphilitic condition.
- klinotaxis — a wavering side-to-side motion of the head occurring as an organism moves forward in response to a source of stimulation, caused by the alternating reaction of sensory receptors on either side of the body.
- klootchman — a North American Indian woman
- klutziness — clumsy; awkward: If you weren't so klutzy you wouldn't have dropped it.
- knackebrod — flat, thin, brittle unleavened rye bread.
- knackeries — Plural form of knackery.
- knackiness — the quality or condition of being knacky
- knackwurst — a short, thick, highly seasoned sausage.
- knagginess — the state or quality of being knaggy or knotty
- knapsacked — Simple past tense and past participle of knapsack.
- knee brace — a diagonal member for bracing the angle between two joined members, as a stud or column and a joist or rafter, being joined to each partway along its length.
- knee joint — articulation of the leg
- kneecapped — Simple past tense and past participle of kneecap.
- kneecapper — Person doing kneecapping.
- knickknack — an ornamental trinket or gimcrack; a bit of bric-a-brac.
- knickpoint — a break in the slope of a river profile caused by renewed erosion by a rejuvenated river
- knife edge — the cutting edge of a knife.
- knife rest — something upon which to rest a knife when it is not being used.
- knife-edge — You can use knife-edge to refer to something that is very exciting or tense because you do not know what is going to happen next.
- knifepoint — the sharp tip of a knife.
- knighthead — either of a pair of upright members flanking and securing the bowsprit of a ship at the bow, often used as mooring bitts; apostle.
- knighthood — the rank or dignity of a knight: to confer knighthood upon him.
- knightless — not suitable or seemly for a knight
- knightlike — Knightly; bold, gallant, etc.
- knightship — The honor bestowed that makes someone a knight.
- knob latch — a latch having a spring bolt controlled by a knob on one or both sides.