Words starting with ken
3 letter words starting with ken
- ken — a male given name, form of Kendall or Kenneth.
- ken thompson — (person) The principal inventor of the Unix operating system and author of the B language, the predecessor of C. In the early days Ken used to hand-cut Unix distribution tapes, often with a note that read "Love, ken". Old-timers still use his first name (sometimes uncapitalised, because it's a login name and mail address) in third-person reference; it is widely understood (on Usenet in particular) that without a last name "Ken" refers only to Ken Thompson. Similarly, Dennis without last name means Dennis Ritchie (and he is often known as dmr). Ken was first hired to work on the Multics project, which was a huge production with many people working on it. Multics was supposed to support hundreds of on-line logins but could barely handle three. In 1969, when Bell Labs withdrew from the project, Ken got fed up with Multics and went off to write his own operating system. People said "well, if zillions of people wrote Multics, then an OS written by one guy must be Unix!". There was some joking about eunichs as well. Ken's wife Bonnie and son Corey (then 18 months old) went to visit family in San Diego. Ken spent one week each on the kernel, file system, etc., and finished UNIX in one month along with developing SPACEWAR (or was it "Space Travel"?). See also back door, brute force, demigod, wumpus.
4 letter words starting with ken
- keno — a game of chance, adapted from lotto for gambling purposes.
- kent — knowledge, understanding, or cognizance; mental perception: an idea beyond one's ken.
- kent applicative operating system — (operating system) (KAOS) A functional operating system concept using dynamic process creation and inter-process communication. KAOS was described in 1989 by Dr. John Cupitt in his PhD thesis at the University of Kent. It was based on earlier work by Will R. Stoye. KAOS allowed dynamic creation of "functional processes" - functions that transform an input stream to an output stream. Process scheduling is based on evaluation on demand. Inter-process communication is by message passing based on Stoye's sorting office concept.
- kent recursive calculator — (language) (KRC) A lazy functional language developed by David Turner in 1981, based on SASL, with pattern matching and ZF expressions. See also continental drift.
5 letter words starting with ken
- kenaf — a tropical plant, Hibiscus cannabinus, of the mallow family, yielding a fiber resembling jute.
- kench — a deep bin in which animal skins and fish are salted.
- kendi — A container of Asian derivation, usually handleless, used to hold liquid with a broad opening on top for inserting liquid and usually only one spout for pouring.
- kendo — a Japanese form of fencing using bamboo staves, with the contestants wearing head guards and protective garments.
- kenny — Arthur C(harles) 1917–2008, English science-fiction writer.
6 letter words starting with ken
- kenbei — strong anti-American sentiment.
- kendal — a town in NW England, in Cumbria: a gateway town to the Lake District, with an ancient woollen industry. Pop: 28 030 (2001)
- kennan — George Frost, 1904–2005, U.S. author and diplomat.
- kenned — knowledge, understanding, or cognizance; mental perception: an idea beyond one's ken.
- kennel — an open drain or sewer; gutter.
7 letter words starting with ken
- kendall — Edward Calvin, 1886–1972, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1950.
- kendrew — John C(owdery) [koh-dree] /ˈkoʊ dri/ (Show IPA), 1917–97, English scientist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1962.
- kenitra — a port in NW Morocco, NE of Rabat.
- kenmore — a city in NW New York, near Buffalo.
- kennedy — Anthony M, born 1936, U.S. jurist, Supreme Court justice 1988–.
8 letter words starting with ken
- keneally — Thomas (Michael). born 1935, Australian writer. His novels include the Booker prizewinner Schindler's Ark (1982); other works are The Playmaker (1987), The Great Shame (1998), and The Woman and Her Hero (2007)
- kennebec — a river flowing S through W Maine to the Atlantic. 164 miles (264 km) long.
- kenneled — Simple past tense and past participle of kennel.
- kennelly — Arthur Edwin. 1861–1939, US electrical engineer: independently of Heaviside, he predicted the existence of an ionized layer in the upper atmosphere, known as the Kennelly-Heaviside layer or E region
- kennings — Plural form of kenning.
9 letter words starting with ken
10 letter words starting with ken
- kenilworth — a town in central Warwickshire, in central England, SE of Birmingham.
- kennelling — Present participle of kennel.
- kenophobia — an abnormal fear of empty spaces
- kenoticist — someone who believes in or supports the idea of kenosis
- kensington — a former borough of Greater London, England: now part of Kensington and Chelsea.
11 letter words starting with ken
- kenogenesis — Alternative form of caenogenesis.
13 letter words starting with ken
- kennebunkport — a town in SW Maine: summer resort.
- kenyapithecus — a genus of fossil hominoids of middle Miocene age found in Kenya and having large molars, small incisors, and powerful chewing muscles.
18 letter words starting with ken
- kennelly-heaviside layer — E layer.
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