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9-letter words starting with k

  • keelhauls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of keelhaul.
  • keep away — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
  • keep back — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
  • keep cool — avoid getting hot
  • keep dark — to keep secret or hidden
  • keep down — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
  • keep from — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
  • keep pace — go as fast
  • keep step — to remain walking, marching, dancing, etc, in unison or in a specified rhythm
  • keep time — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
  • keepsakes — Plural form of keepsake.
  • keg party — a beer bust.
  • kei-apple — a thorny shrub or small tree, Dovyalis caffra, of southern Africa, having round, yellow, juicy-pulped, cranberry-flavored fruit that is edible only when cooked.
  • kelp bass — a sea bass, Paralabrax clathratus, of southern California coastal waters, valued as a food and game fish.
  • kelp crab — any of several spider crabs common among kelp beds along the Pacific coast of North America.
  • kennebunk — a town in SW Maine, near resorts.
  • kennelled — Simple past tense and past participle of kennel.
  • kennelman — a man who works in a kennels
  • kenneth i — surnamed MacAlpine. died 858, king of the Scots of Dalriada and of the Picts (?844–858): considered the first Scottish king
  • kennewick — a city in S Washington, on the Columbia River.
  • kentledge — pig iron used as permanent ballast.
  • keratitis — inflammation of the cornea.
  • keratoses — having a skeleton formed of horny fibers, as certain sponges.
  • keratosis — any skin disease characterized by a horny growth, as a wart.
  • keratotic — any skin disease characterized by a horny growth, as a wart.
  • kerbstone — one of the stones, or a range of stones, forming a curb, as along a street.
  • kerchiefs — Plural form of kerchief.
  • kerflooey — Informal. to cease functioning, especially suddenly and completely; fall apart; fail: As soon as the storm hit, every light in town went kerflooey.
  • kerfuffle — Chiefly British Informal. a fuss; commotion.
  • kerguelen — an archipelago in the S Indian Ocean: a possession of France. 2394 sq. mi. (6200 sq. km).
  • kermesite — a mineral, antimony oxysulfide, Sb 2 S 2 O, occurring usually in tufts of red capillary crystals.
  • kerneling — the softer, usually edible part contained in the shell of a nut or the stone of a fruit.
  • kerplunks — Plural form of kerplunk.
  • kerr cell — a transparent cell filled with a fluid, usually nitrobenzene, and containing two electrodes placed between two polarizing light filters, suitable for demonstrating the Kerr effect and often used as a high-speed camera shutter.
  • kerrville — a town in SW Texas.
  • ketchikan — a seaport in SE Alaska: transportation and communications center.
  • keto form — the form of tautomeric compounds when they are ketones rather than enols
  • ketogenic — the production of ketone bodies in the body, as in diabetes mellitus or low-carbohydrate weight-loss diets.
  • ketolysis — the breaking down of ketones.
  • ketolytic — the breaking down of ketones.
  • ketonemia — the presence of ketone bodies in the blood.
  • ketonuria — the presence of ketone bodies in the urine.
  • ketoximes — Plural form of ketoxime.
  • kettering — Charles Franklin, 1876–1958, U.S. engineer and inventor.
  • kettleful — An amount sufficient to fill a kettle, particularly of a kettle used for cooking.
  • key drive — a very small, portable storage device that plugs into a computer and facilitates moving data between machines
  • key field — (database)   A field of a database (typically a relational database) table which together form a unique identifier for a record (a table entry). The aggregate of these fields is usually referred to simply as "the key".
  • key frame — (graphics)   A frame in an animated sequence of frames which was drawn or otherwise constructed directly by the user rather than generated automatically, e.g. by tweening.
  • key fruit — a samara.
  • key largo — one of the islands in the Florida Keys. 30 miles (48 km) long; 2 miles (3.2 km) wide.
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