kyphosus sectatrix
- n food and game fish around Bermuda and Florida; often follow ships
krypton
- n a colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses; occurs in trace amounts in air
krzysztof kieslowski
- n Polish filmmaker who made ten films based on the Ten Commandments (1941-1996)
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
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
kt
- n the unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy; 18-karat gold is 75% gold; 24-karat gold is pure gold
ku-chiku
- n large bamboo having thick-walled culms; native of China and perhaps Japan; widely grown elsewhere
ku klux 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
kuala lumpur
- n the largest city and former capital of Malaysia until 2005
kuan yin
- n (Buddhism) a female Bodhisattva; often called goddess of mercy and considered an aspect of the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara; identified with Japanese Kwannon
kuangchou
- n a city on the Zhu Jiang delta in southern China; the capital of Guangdong province and a major deep-water port