9-letter words starting with k
- king rail — a large, long-billed rail, Rallus elegans, of North America, having reddish-brown plumage.
- king-size — larger or longer than the usual size.
- kingbolts — Plural form of kingbolt.
- kingcraft — the art of ruling as king; royal statesmanship.
- kingdomed — with a kingdom
- kingklips — Plural form of kingklip.
- kingmaker — a person who has great power and influence in the choice of a ruler, candidate for public office, business leader, or the like.
- kingships — Plural form of kingship.
- kingsnake — Any of various colubrid snake of the genus Lampropeltis.
- kingsport — a city in NE Tennessee.
- kingstown — an island state in the S Windward Islands, in the SE West Indies comprising St. Vincent island and the N Grenadines: gained independence 1979. 150 sq. mi. (389 sq. km). Capital: Kingstown.
- kingswood — a city in South Gloucestershire, SW England.
- kinkaider — a person who received free land under the provisions of the Kinkaid Act.
- kinkajous — Plural form of kinkajou.
- kinkiness — full of kinks; closely twisted: a kinky wire.
- kinswoman — a female relative.
- kinswomen — Plural form of kinswoman.
- kintpuash — (Kintpuash) 1837?–73, Modoc leader.
- kippering — Present participle of kipper.
- kirchhoff — Gustav Robert [goo s-tahf roh-bert] /ˈgʊs tɑf ˈroʊ bɛrt/ (Show IPA), 1824–87, German physicist.
- kirghizia — a republic in central Asia, S of Kazakhstan and N of Tadzhikistan (Tajikistan). 76,460 sq. mi. (198,500 sq. km). Capital: Bishkek.
- kirikkale — city in central Turkey: pop. 233,000
- kirilenko — Andrei Pavlovich [uhn-dryey puh-vlaw-vyich;; English ahn-drey pav-loh-vich] /ʌnˈdryeɪ pʌˈvlɔ vyɪtʃ;; English ˈɑn dreɪ pævˈloʊ vɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1906–90, Soviet government official.
- kirinyaga — the local name of Mount Kenya
- kirkcaldy — a city in SE Fife, in E Scotland, on the Firth of Forth.
- kirovabad — a city in NW Azerbaijan.
- kirovakan — a city in W Armenia, N of Yerevan.
- kisangani — a city in the N Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the Congo (Zaire) River.
- kiselevsk — a city in the S Russian Federation in Asia.
- kiss curl — lock of hair curled on forehead
- kissagram — Alternative form of kissogram.
- kissimmee — a town in central Florida.
- kissinger — Henry A(lfred) born 1923, U.S. statesman, born in Germany: secretary of state 1973–77; Nobel Peace Prize 1973.
- kissingly — lightly; gently.
- kissogram — A novelty greeting or message delivered by a man or woman who accompanies it with a kiss, arranged as a humorous surprise for the recipient.
- kiswahili — Swahili (def 2).
- kitchener — Horatio Herbert (1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and of Broome) 1850–1916, English field marshal and statesman.
- kite-like — resembling a kite
- kiteboard — A specialized light weight wakeboard used for kiteboarding.
- kitesurfs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of kitesurf.
- kitikmeot — a region in Nunavut, Canada. 176,533 sq. mi. (457,209 sq. km).
- kitschify — to make something kitsch
- kittening — The giving birth of kittens.
- kittenish — coyly playful.
- kittiwake — either of two small, pearl-gray gulls of the genus Rissa, the black-legged R. tridactyla of the North Atlantic and the red-legged and red-billed R. brevirostris, of the Bering Sea, both nesting on narrow cliff ledges and having a rudimentary hind toe.
- kittredge — George Lyman, 1860–1941, U.S. literary scholar, philologist, and educator.
- kittyhawk — a village in NE North Carolina: Wright brothers' airplane flight 1903.
- kitzbühel — a town in W Austria, in the Tirol: centre for winter sports. Pop: 8574 (2001)
- kiungchow — Qiongzhou.
- kiungshan — Qiongshan.