| Kwanzaa |
an African-American festival, celebrating family, community, and culture, held from December 26 to January 1. |
| kwashiorkor |
a chiefly African disease of babies and small children that is caused by malnutrition and whose symptoms include potbelly, edema, anemia, and discoloration of hair or skin. |
| kwh |
abbreviation of "kilowatt-hour," or "kilowatt-hours," a unit of electrical energy equal to one kilowatt operating for one hour. |
| KY |
abbreviation of "Kentucky," an east central U.S. state, south of Indiana and Ohio. |
| kyat |
the chief monetary unit of Myanmar, equaling one hundred pyas. |
| Kyiv |
the capital of Ukraine. |
| kymograph |
an instrument that measures and records variations, modulations, oscillations, and the like, such as those of blood pressure or the angular positions of an aircraft in flight. |
| Kyoto |
a city in southern Honshu, Japan, at one time the capital of Japan. |
| Kyrgyz |
of or pertaining to Kyrgyzstan or its people, culture, language, or the like. [3 definitions] |
| Kyrgyzstan |
a Central Asian country bordered by China and Kazakhstan; formerly a republic of the Soviet Union. |
| Kyrie eleison |
Lord, have mercy (Greek); a supplication or invocation that is part of many liturgies in the Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches. [2 definitions] |
| L2 |
abbreviation of "large," of greater size, amount, scope, or proportion than the average; not small. |
| L1 |
in Roman numeral notation, 50. |
| L. |
abbreviation of "Lake," a large, standing body of fresh or salt water that is surrounded on all sides by land (used in a proper name). |
| l1 |
abbreviation of "liter," or "liters," the basic unit of capacity of the metric system, equal to one cubic decimeter or 1.056 liquid quarts or 0.908 dry quart. |
| l2 |
the twelfth letter of the English alphabet. [2 definitions] |
| l.1 |
abbreviation of "length," extent of linear distance. |
| l.2 |
abbreviation of "left." |
| La |
symbol of the chemical element lanthanum. |
| LA |
abbreviation of "Louisiana," a southern U.S. state between Mississippi and Texas. |
| L.A. |
abbreviation of "Los Angeles," a seaport in southern California. |