playful like a lively kitten
<adj.all>   freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

frisky

kittenish

small pearl-grey gull of northern regions; nests on cliffs and has a rudimentary hind toe
<noun.animal>

kittiwake

fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago
<noun.plant>

Caryota urens

jaggery palm

kittul

kitul

kitul tree

toddy palm

wine palm

informal terms referring to a domestic cat
<noun.animal>

kitty

kitty-cat

puss

pussy

pussycat

young domestic cat
<noun.animal>   freq. cnt.: 7 freq. cnt.: 7

kitten

kitty

the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker)
<noun.possession>

jackpot

kitty

pot

the combined stakes of the betters
<noun.possession>

kitty

pool

informal terms referring to a domestic cat
<noun.animal>

kitty

kitty-cat

puss

pussy

pussycat

slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line
<adj.all>

cata-cornered

catacorner

cater-cornered

catercorner

catty-corner

catty-cornered

kitty-corner

kitty-cornered

sample sentences

"set off in a catty-corner direction across the vacant lot"

slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line
<adj.all>

cata-cornered

catacorner

cater-cornered

catercorner

catty-corner

catty-cornered

kitty-corner

kitty-cornered

sample sentences

"set off in a catty-corner direction across the vacant lot"

fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago
<noun.plant>

Caryota urens

jaggery palm

kittul

kitul

kitul tree

toddy palm

wine palm

fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago
<noun.plant>

Caryota urens

jaggery palm

kittul

kitul

kitul tree

toddy palm

wine palm

nocturnal flightless bird of New Zealand having a long neck and stout legs; only surviving representative of the order Apterygiformes
<noun.animal>

apteryx

kiwi

fuzzy brown egg-shaped fruit with slightly tart green flesh
<noun.food>

Chinese gooseberry

kiwi

kiwi fruit

climbing vine native to China; cultivated in New Zealand for its fuzzy edible fruit with green meat
<noun.plant>

Actinidia chinensis

Actinidia deliciosa

Chinese gooseberry

kiwi

kiwi vine

fuzzy brown egg-shaped fruit with slightly tart green flesh
<noun.food>

Chinese gooseberry

kiwi

kiwi fruit

climbing vine native to China; cultivated in New Zealand for its fuzzy edible fruit with green meat
<noun.plant>

Actinidia chinensis

Actinidia deliciosa

Chinese gooseberry

kiwi

kiwi vine

having the approximate size of a kiwi fruit
<adj.all>

kiwi-sized

yellow-flowered perennial common in fields and waste places but a weed in rangelands
<noun.plant>

Hypericum perforatum

klammath weed

a local unit of the Ku Klux Klan
<noun.group>

klavern

a kind of loud horn formerly used on motor vehicles
<noun.artifact>

claxon

klaxon

a genus of nonmotile rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; some cause respiratory and other infections
<noun.animal>

klebsiella

an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive
<noun.motive>

kleptomania

someone with an irrational urge to steal in the absence of an economic motive
<noun.person>

kleptomaniac

a metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles)
<noun.quantity>   freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

kilometer

kilometre

klick

km

carbon arc lamp that emits an intense light used in producing films
<noun.artifact>

klieg light

a form of solitaire that begins with seven piles of cards with the top cards facing up; descending sequences of cards of alternating colors are built on these piles; as aces become available they are placed above the seven piles; the object is to build sequences in suit from ace to king as the remaining cards are dealt out one at a time
<noun.act>

klondike

a badly assembled collection of parts hastily assembled to serve some particular purpose (often used to refer to computing systems or software that has been badly put together)
<noun.group>

kludge

(Yiddish) a clumsy dolt
<noun.person>

klutz

an electron tube used to generate or amplify electromagnetic radiation in the microwave region by velocity modulation
<noun.artifact>

klystron

a metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles)
<noun.quantity>   freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

kilometer

kilometre

klick

km

the ratio of the distance traveled (in kilometers) to the time spent traveling (in hours)
<noun.time>

kilometers per hour

kilometres per hour

km/h

kph

a special way of doing something
<noun.cognition>   freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2

bent

hang

knack

sample sentences

"he had a bent for it"
"he had a special knack for getting into trouble"
"he couldn't get the hang of it"

someone who buys up old horses for slaughter
<noun.person>

knacker

someone who buys old buildings or ships and breaks them up to recover the materials in them
<noun.person>

knacker

very tired
<adj.all>

drained

knackered