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lady-in-waiting
  • n  a lady appointed to attend to a queen or princess
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kyphosus sectatrix
  • n  food and game fish around Bermuda and Florida; often follow ships
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kroto
  • n  British chemist who with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1939)
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krubi
  • n  malodorous tropical plant having a spathe that resembles the corolla of a morning glory and attains a diameter of several feet
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krummhorn
  • n  a Renaissance woodwind with a double reed and a curving tube (crooked horn)
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krung thep
  • n  the capital and largest city and chief port of Thailand; a leading city in southeastern Asia; noted for Buddhist architecture
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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)
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krypton
  • n  a colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses; occurs in trace amounts in air
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krzysztof kieslowski
  • n  Polish filmmaker who made ten films based on the Ten Commandments (1941-1996)
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kudzu vine
  • n  fast-growing vine from eastern Asia having tuberous starchy roots and hairy trifoliate leaves and racemes of purple flowers followed by long hairy pods containing many seeds; grown for fodder and forage and root starch; widespread in the southern United States
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ks
  • n  a state in midwestern United States
  • n  the basic unit of thermodynamic temperature adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
  • n  a light soft silver-white metallic element of the alkali metal group; oxidizes rapidly in air and reacts violently with water; is abundant in nature in combined forms occurring in sea water and in carnallite and kainite and sylvite
  • n  the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
  • n  a unit of information equal to 1000 bytes
  • n  a unit of information equal to 1024 bytes
  • n  the 11th letter of the Roman alphabet
  • n  street names for ketamine
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