kitembilla
- n a small shrubby spiny tree cultivated for its maroon-purple fruit with sweet purple pulp tasting like gooseberries; Sri Lanka and India
- n maroon-purple gooseberry-like fruit of India having tart-sweet purple pulp used especially for preserves
kitsch
- n excessively garish or sentimental art; usually considered in bad taste
kittee
- n a form of torture used by American Indians in which sensitive parts of the body were squeezed between two boards until the victim could bear no more
kitten
- n young domestic cat
- v have kittens
our cat kittened again this year
kitten-tails
- n a plant of the genus Besseya having fluffy spikes of flowers
kittiwake
- n small pearl-grey gull of northern regions; nests on cliffs and has a rudimentary hind toe
kittul
- n fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago
kitty
- n the combined stakes of the betters
- n the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker)
- n young domestic cat
- n informal terms referring to a domestic cat
kitty litter
- n granulated clay; placed in a container where it absorbs the waste products of a cat or dog
kitul
- n fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago
kitul tree
- n fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago
kivu
- n a lake in the mountains of central Africa between Congo and Rwanda