| kalends |
variant of calends. |
| Kali |
a Hindu goddess of life and death. |
| Kalmuck |
a member of a Buddhist Mongol tribe of northwestern China and the lower Volga River region. [2 definitions] |
| kalsomine |
see "calcimine." |
| Kamasutra |
an ancient Hindu manual of sexual love. |
| kami |
in the Shinto religion of Japan, a divine being or force. |
| kamikaze |
in the Japanese armed forces during World War II, a pilot whose mission was to crash his airplane against the target as a suicide bomb. |
| Kampala |
the capital of Uganda. |
| kampong |
a small Malay village or community. |
| Kampuchea |
the official name of Cambodia during a period of Vietnamese rule in the 197s and 1980s. |
| kana |
either of two Japanese syllabic scripts, katakana and hiragana, consisting of seventy-one characters each. (Cf. kanji.) [2 definitions] |
| Kanchenjunga |
the world's third highest mountain, located in the Himalayas on the border between India and Nepal. |
| kangaroo |
any of a group of large plant-eating marsupials of Australia and Tanzania, having powerful hind legs for jumping and a long, heavy tail used for balance. |
| kangaroo court |
an unauthorized court, such as one set up by prison inmates or strikers, that often disregards or parodies normal legal procedures. |
| kangaroo rat |
any of various long-tailed and long-legged jumping rodents of desert regions in Mexico and the western United States, or a similar one of Australia. |
| kanji |
the part of the Japanese writing system that uses characters derived from Chinese ideographs. (Cf. kana.) [2 definitions] |
| Kansas |
a Midwestern U.S. state between Missouri and Colorado. (abbr.: KS) |
| kaolin |
a very fine white clay used to make porcelain and finishes for paper and textiles. |
| kaon |
in physics, a meson that is positive, negative, or neutral and that is the product of a high-energy collision; K meson. |
| kaph |
the name of the eleventh letter of the Hebrew alphabet. |
| kapok |
the silky, fibrous down in the seeds of various tropical trees, used for insulation and padding. |