| 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. |
| Kaposi's sarcoma |
a cancer of connective tissue that is marked by painless external lesions and sometimes affects internal organs, occurring in esp. serious form among people with AIDS. |
| kappa1 |
the name of the tenth letter of the Greek alphabet. |
| kappa2 |
in Japanese mythology, a monkey-sized river imp having fish scales, a turtle's shell, a bird's or monkey's face, and a depression on the top of its head that holds the liquid that endows it with superhuman strength, said to prey on travelers. |
| karakul |
one of an Asian sheep breed having dark, curly wool. [2 definitions] |
| karaoke |
a form of musical entertainment originating in Japan in which prerecorded instrumental music from popular songs is played while a person performs live vocals through a microphone. |
| karat |
a unit of measure for the purity of gold equal to one twenty-fourth part of pure gold. |
| karate |
a method of weaponless self-defense, based on strategically placed hard blows with the elbows or the edges of hands or feet. |