3-letter words starting with k
- kit — Christopher ("Kit") 1809–68, U.S. frontiersman and scout.
- kjv — King James Version (of the Bible)
- kkk — KKK is an abbreviation for Ku Klux Klan.
- kkt — king's knight
- kl0 — Kernel Language 0. A sequential logic language based on Prolog, used in the Japanese ICOT project.
- kl1 — Kernel Language 1. An experimental AND-parallel version of KL0 for the ICOT project in Japan. KL1 is an implementation of FGHC. Not to be confused with KL-ONE.
- klb — Known Lazy Bastard
- kms — Knowledge Management System
- kni — Streaming SIMD Extensions
- knp — king's knight's pawn
- knt — Knight
- koa — a Hawaiian acacia, Acacia koa, of the legume family, characterized by spreading branches and gray bark.
- kob — an African antelope, Kobus kob, related to the puku and the lechwe.
- kof — the nineteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- koi — any of various colorful cultivated forms of the common carp, Cyprinus carpio, apparently originating in Japan and other parts of eastern temperate Asia.
- koo — (Vi Kyuin) Wellington [wee gyin] /ˈwi ˈgyɪn/ (Show IPA), (Ku Wei-chün; Gu Weijun) 1887–1985, Chinese diplomat and statesman.
- kop — a hill.
- kor — homer2 .
- kos — a unit of land distance of various lengths from 1 to 3 miles (1.6 to 4.8 km).
- kpc — kiloparsec(s)
- kph — Kilometers per hour.
- kra — Isthmus of, the narrowest part of the Malay Peninsula, between the Bay of Bengal and the Gulf of Siam. 35 miles (56 km) wide.
- krc — Kent Recursive Calculator
- krl — Knowledge Representation Language. A frame-based language.
- krp — king's rook's pawn
- krs — (language) A frame-based language built on Common LISP.
- ksg — Knight of the Order of St Gregory the Great (a Papal honorary title)
- ksh — Korn Shell
- ksl — Knowledge Systems Laboratory
- ksr — 1. Keyboard Send Receive. 2. (company) Kendall Square Research.
- kth — Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan
- kue — the letter Q
- kun — Béla [bey-lo] /ˈbeɪ lɒ/ (Show IPA), 1885–1937, Hungarian Communist leader.
- kur — (in Sumerian mythology) the world of the dead.
- kut — A traditional Korean shamanic ritual.
- kvm — Keyboard Video Mouse
- kwa — of, belonging to, or constituting Kwa.
- kwh — a unit of energy, equivalent to the energy transferred or expended in one hour by one kilowatt of power; approximately 1.34 horsepower-hours. Abbreviation: kWh, K.W.H., kwhr.
- kwt — Kuwait (international car registration)
- kya — Thousand years ago.
- kyd — Thomas, 1558–94, English dramatist.
- kye — a private Korean-American banking club to which members pay contributions and from which they may take out loans, usually to start small businesses.
- kyu — A grade or rank in Japanese martial arts.
- kzn — KwaZulu-Natal