kyphosus sectatrix
- n food and game fish around Bermuda and Florida; often follow ships
krona
- n the basic unit of money in Sweden
- n the basic unit of money in Iceland
krone
- n the basic unit of money in Norway
- n the basic unit of money in Denmark
kronecker delta
- n a function of two variables i and j that equals 1 when i=j and equals 0 otherwise
kroto
- n British chemist who with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1939)
krubi
- n malodorous tropical plant having a spathe that resembles the corolla of a morning glory and attains a diameter of several feet
krummhorn
- n a Renaissance woodwind with a double reed and a curving tube (crooked horn)
krung thep
- n the capital and largest city and chief port of Thailand; a leading city in southeastern Asia; noted for Buddhist architecture
krupp
- n German arms manufacturer and son of Friedrich Krupp; his firm provided ordnance for German armies from the 1840s through World War II (1812-1887)
- n German industrialist who manufactured steel in Essen (1787-1826)