klaipeda
- n a city in western Lithuania on the Baltic Sea; formerly an important trading town of the Hanseatic League
klamath
- n a river flowing southwest from Oregon through northern California to the Pacific Ocean
klamath falls
- n a town in southern Oregon near the California border
klamath river
- n a river flowing southwest from Oregon through northern California to the Pacific Ocean
klammath weed
- n yellow-flowered perennial common in fields and waste places but a weed in rangelands
klan
- n a secret society of white Southerners in the United States; was formed in the 19th century to resist the emancipation of slaves; used terrorist tactics to suppress Black people
klaproth
- n German chemist who pioneered analytical chemistry and discovered three new elements (1743-1817)
klaus fuchs
- n British physicist who was born in Germany and fled Nazi persecution; in the 1940s he passed secret information to the USSR about the development of the atom bomb in the United States (1911-1988)
klebs-loeffler bacillus
- n a species of bacterium that causes diphtheria
klebsiella
- n a genus of nonmotile rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; some cause respiratory and other infections