| kaftan |
variant of caftan. |
| Kailash |
a large mountain in the Himalayas that is considered sacred in a number of religions, including Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism. In Hinduism, Kailash is believed to be the home of Shiva. |
| kaiser |
an emperor of Germany from 1871 to 1918. |
| kaiser roll |
a large baked roll with a hard crust, used for sandwiches. |
| Kalahari |
a desert of southern Africa occupying a large area of Botswana as well as parts of Namibia and South Africa (prec. by "the"). |
| Kalahari Desert |
an arid and sandy region of southern Africa occupying a large area of Botswana as well as parts of Namibia and South Africa. |
| kale |
a variety of the cabbage plant having loose wrinkled and curled leaves, or the leaves of this plant used as a vegetable. |
| kaleidoscope |
a rotating tube in which changing symmetrical forms are created by the reflection, in mirrors set at angles to each other, of small bits of colored class moving in a chamber at one end of the tube. [2 definitions] |
| 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. |