8-letter words starting with ka
- kamikaze — (during World War II) a member of a special corps in the Japanese air force charged with the suicidal mission of crashing an aircraft laden with explosives into an enemy target, especially a warship.
- kamloops — a city in S British Columbia, in SW Canada.
- kammerer — Paul. 1880–1926, Austrian zoologist: noted for his controversial experiments, esp with the midwife toad, apparently demonstrating the inheritance of acquired characteristics. Accused of fraud, he committed suicide
- kamokamo — a New Zealand marrow of the family Cucurbitaceae
- kampongs — Plural form of kampong.
- kamyshin — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Volgograd, on the Volga River.
- kanarese — of or relating to Kanara, a part of the Maharashtra province in W India.
- kanazawa — a seaport on W Honshu, in central Japan.
- kandahar — a city in S Afghanistan.
- kangaroo — any herbivorous marsupial of the family Macropodidae, of Australia and adjacent islands, having a small head, short forelimbs, powerful hind legs used for leaping, and a long, thick tail: several species are threatened or endangered.
- kangeroo — Archaic form of kangaroo.
- kangwane — (formerly) a Bantu homeland in South Africa; abolished in 1994. Capital: Schoemansdal
- kankakee — a city in NE Illinois.
- kantikoy — a ceremonial dance of some Native American tribes, often involving sacrifices
- kaoliang — a variety of grain sorghum.
- kapparah — a ritual performed by some Orthodox Jews before Yom Kippur that consists of swinging a fowl around the head and reciting prayers that symbolically transfer the person's sins to the fowl.
- kara kum — a desert S of the Aral Sea, largely in Turkmenistan. About 110,000 sq. mi. (284,900 sq. km).
- kara sea — an arm of the Arctic Ocean between Novaya Zemlya and the N Russian Federation.
- karachai — a member of a people living mainly in the Karachai-Cherkess Republic, closely related to the Balkar.
- karadzic — Radovan [rah-duh-vahn] /ˈrɑ dəˌvɑn/ (Show IPA), born 1945, Bosnian Serb political leader, indicted as a war criminal 1995.
- karafuto — Japanese name of Sakhalin.
- karaklis — former name of Kirovakan.
- karakuls — Plural form of karakul.
- karateka — an expert in karate.
- karearea — a New Zealand falcon, Falco novaeseelandiae
- karelian — of or relating to Karelia, its people, or their language.
- karlsbad — German name of Karlovy Vary.
- karlstad — a city in S Sweden.
- karoline — a female given name.
- karosses — Plural form of kaross.
- karrusel — a revolving escapement for minimizing positional error.
- karstify — to become or cause to become karstic
- karyotin — chromatin
- kasavubu — Joseph, 1917?–69, African political leader: first president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (now Zaire) 1960–65.
- kashmiri — a native or inhabitant of Kashmir.
- kashruth — the body of dietary laws prescribed for Jews: an observer of kashruth.
- kasparov — Gary or Garry, born 1963, Armenian chess player.
- katahdin — Mount, the highest peak in Maine, in the central part. 5273 feet (1607 meters).
- katakana — the more angular, less commonly used of the two Japanese syllabaries.
- katalase — catalase.
- katalyst — catalyst.
- katalyze — catalyze.
- kathisma — one of the 20 divisions of the Psalter in the Greek rite.
- kathleen — a female given name, form of Katherine.
- katmandu — a city in and the capital of Nepal, in the central part.
- katowice — a city in S Poland.
- katsuras — Plural form of katsura.
- kattegat — a strait between Jutland and Sweden. 40–70 miles (64–113 km) wide.
- katydids — Plural form of katydid.
- katyusha — Alternative case form of Katyusha.