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18-letter words starting with k

  • kakorrhaphiophobia — (rare) the fear of failure or defeat.
  • kansas gay-feather — prairie button snakeroot.
  • kawasaki's disease — a disease of children that causes a rash, fever, and swelling of the lymph nodes and often damages the heart muscle
  • keep at a distance — to be reserved or cool toward; treat aloofly
  • keep one's chin up — the lower extremity of the face, below the mouth.
  • keep one's hand in — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • keep your hair on! — keep calm
  • keep your shirt on — refrain from losing your temper (often used as an exhortation to another)
  • kentucky bluegrass — a grass, Poa pratensis, of the Mississippi valley, used for pasturage and lawns.
  • kerry blue terrier — one of an Irish breed of terriers having a soft, wavy, bluish-gray coat.
  • keyword in context — (algorithm, information science)   (KWIC) A document search method that creates indexes of document text or titles. Each keyword is stored in the resulting index along with some surrounding text, usually the word or phrase that precedes or follows the keyword in the text or title.
  • kill with kindness — to deprive of life in any manner; cause the death of; slay. Synonyms: slaughter, massacre, butcher; hang, electrocute, behead, guillotine, strangle, garrote; assassinate.
  • killer application — a highly innovative, very powerful, or extremely useful computer application; esp one sufficiently important as to justify purchase of the equipment or software
  • king james version — Authorized Version.
  • king of the castle — most powerful figure
  • king of the forest — the oak tree.
  • king william's war — the war (1689–97) in which England and its American colonies and Indian allies opposed France and its Indian allies and which constituted the American phase of the War of the Grand Alliance.
  • king's regulations — (in Britain and the Commonwealth when the sovereign is male) the code of conduct for members of the armed forces that deals with discipline, aspects of military law, etc
  • king-of-the-salmon — a ribbonfish, Trachypterus altivelis, of northern parts of the Pacific Ocean.
  • kingston upon hull — official name of Hull.
  • kingston-upon-hull — official name of Hull.
  • kirkcudbrightshire — a historic county in SW Scotland.
  • kirtland's warbler — a wood warbler, Dendroica kirtlandii, breeding only in north-central Michigan and wintering in the Bahamas, bluish gray above, striped with black and pale yellow below: an endangered species.
  • kitchen-sink drama — a type of drama of the 1950s depicting the sordid aspects of domestic reality
  • knight of the bath — a member of a knightly order founded by George I of England in 1725.
  • knight of the road — a tramp
  • knights of pythias — a fraternal order founded in Washington, D.C., in 1864.
  • knotted cranesbill — a British wildflower, Geranium nodosum, an meadow geranium with bright pink or purple flowers
  • known lazy bastard — (abuse)   (KLB) A term, used among technical support staff, for a user who repeatedly asks for help with problems whose solutions are clearly explained in the documentation, and persists in doing so after having been told to RTFM. KLBs are singled out for special treatment (i.e. ridicule), especially if they have been heard to say "It's so boring to read the manual! Why don't you just tell me?". The deepest pit in Hell is reserved for KLBs whose questions reveal total ignorance of the basic concepts (e.g., "How do I make a font in Excel?", "Where do I turn on my RAM?"), and who refuse to accept that their questions are neither simple nor well-formed.
  • komsomolsk-on-amur — city in SE Russia, on the Amur River: pop. 309,000
  • krause's corpuscle — any of numerous encapsulated nerve endings occurring in the skin and mucous membranes, functioning as sensory cold receptors.
  • kura kaupapa māori — a primary school where teaching is based on Māori language and culture

On this page, we collect all 18-letter words starting with letter K. It’s easy to find right word with a certain length. It is the easiest way to find 18-letter word that beginning with K to use in Scrabble or Crossword puzzles.

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