kingsnake
- n any of numerous nonvenomous North American constrictors; feed on other snakes and small mammals
kingston
- n a town on the Hudson River in New York
- n a town in southeast Ontario on Lake Ontario near the head of the Saint Lawrence River
- n capital and largest city of Jamaica
kingstown
- n the capital of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; on Saint Vincent
kingwood
- n handsome violet-streaked wood of the kingwood tree; used especially in cabinetwork
- n Brazilian tree yielding a handsome cabinet wood
kinin
- n any of a class of plant hormones that promote cell division and delay the senescence of leaves
kink
- n a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British)
- n a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight
- n a person with unusual sexual tastes
- n an eccentric idea
- n a difficulty or flaw in a plan or operation
there are still a few kinks to iron out - v curl tightly
- v form a curl, curve, or kink
kinkajou
- n arboreal fruit-eating mammal of tropical America with a long prehensile tail
- n a kind of lemur