Elementary Vocabulary
36,007 words and 29 expressions at the elementary level.
The eleventh letter of the English alphabet, called kay and written in the Latin script.
Censored spelling of kill.
Initialism of keyboard and mouse.
The book The C Programming Language, which described the first edition of the C language.
A day, in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar.
Alternative form of kere.
plural of k
Censored spelling of kill.
Korean; used to form nouns relating to the (popular) culture of South Korea.
A class of kayak for two seated people.
kindergarten to fourth year or grade 10 of junior high school.
Kindergarten through 12th grade (US) / grade 12 (Canada and the Philippines).
A class of kayak for two seated people.
A class of canoe for four seated people.
Alternative spelling of K9.
plural of K-9
Abbreviation of Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary.
Alternative form of KT (“Cretaceous–Tertiary”).
Abbreviation of King.
Alternative form of KC.
株式会社 (kabushiki kaisha, kabushiki gaisha), a type of business organization defined in Japanese law and roughly equivalent to a stock company.
Abbreviation of kill-to-death ratio.
plural of K/D
Alternative form of KT (“Cretaceous–Tertiary”).
Leetspeak spelling of kook.
Leetspeak spelling of cool.
Initialism of kinder one.
A mountain on the border between Pakistan and Taxkorgan, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang, China, the world’s second highest mountain, located in the Ladakh Karakorams.
Abbreviation of Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... (a 2001 Hindi film).
Abbreviation of Kubernetes.
A trained police dog.
plural of K9
A spiritual part of the soul in Egyptian mythology, which survived after death.
Alternative form of kaak.
Alternative form of ker-.
The letter ك in the Arabic script.
Any of a variety of Middle Eastern biscuits and baked goods, usually sweet.
Alternative form of kas.
Alternative form of cab: a former Hebrew unit of volume.
plural of kab
Alternative form of cack (“shit; rubbish”).
The sheep ked, Melophagus ovinus
Alternative spelling of qadi, Islamic judge, particularly (historical) in Ottoman contexts where they initially oversaw local administration as well as Islamic law.
Alternative form of Kadu (“ethnic group of Myanmar”)
An ethnic group of Myanmar, mostly residing in the country's northwestern hills.
A man's straw hat
Synonym of khene.
A type of proa native to Palau
The twenty-second letter of the Arabic alphabet. ك (k)
A classical form of Sufi poem.
A village in Shurab district, Fars Province, Iran.
plural of kaf
Acronym of Keep America Great, slogan used in support of Donald Trump.
A city in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan.
A chantry chapel enclosed with latticework or screenwork.
A resort island of Kaafu, Maldives.
An open and suspended Japanese style of sedan chair.
A New Caledonian endemic bird species, Rhynochetos jubatus, the only surviving member of the family Rhynochetidae.
Initialism of kill all Huns.
Synonym of proboscis monkey.
A group of wards in Moshi District, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania.
A surname.
Yeast which tends to form on fermented foods, such as sauerkraut.
A surname from German.
A surname from German.
swamp harrier (Circus approximans)
A male given name from the Germanic languages, of modern usage.
Alternative spelling of caid (“kind of governor”).
Obsolete form of key.
Alternative spelling of kif.
Alternative form of kainga (“Maori village”).
Alternative form of kale.
Mitragyna parvifolia, a tree of the madder family, found in India.
poultry, etc., required by the lease to be paid in kind by a tenant to the landlord.
A diminutive of the female given name Kaitlyn.
A spirit of storm and wind;
an ugly anthropomorphic spirit
Alternative spelling of kaj.
cashew nut
A subdivision of currency, equal to one tenth of a Cambodian riel.
Any of four taxa of birds in the genus Nestor in the parrot family confined to New Zealand and adjacent islands.
A persimmon, specifically a Japanese persimmon (Diospyros kaki).
plural of kak
Abbreviation of kalends: the first day of a Roman month, used in dates within the previous month in the Roman calendar.
A surname from Sanskrit.
An instrument consisting of a tube containing mirrors and loose, colourful beads or other objects; when the tube is looked into and rotated, a succession of symmetrical designs can be seen.
The prickly glasswort (Kali turgidum, syn. of Salsola kali).
A surname.
A surname.
A surname.
taro (Colocasia esculenta)
a dark-skinned person.
Crooked, awry.
A sickle-like weapon, originally used as a tool for cutting weeds.
A round hill or short ridge of sand or gravel deposited by a melting glacier.
An animistic god or spirit in the Shinto religion of Japan.
Any of various places in Japan, most notably Kamo, Niigata.
homosexual
plural of KAM
Archaic form of khan.
Abbreviation of Kansas: a state of the United States.
The hiragana and katakana syllabaries. These are made up of characters that represent individual syllables, which are used to write Japanese words and particles. Kana are derived from kanji.
A surname from Irish.
A traditional long platform of brick, clay or concrete, used for heating in colder parts of China and suitable for sleeping on at night.
A member of the Macropodidae family of large marsupials with strong hind legs for hopping, native to Australia.
An uninhabited island of Thaa, Maldives.
Initialism of Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (a Hindi movie).
A surname.
A state of Nigeria in the North West geopolitical zone. Capital and largest city: Kano City.
A surname.
plural of kan
A surname from German.
Acronym of Kenya African National Union.
A community in Lesotho.
any of four unstable subatomic particles, mesons, they are a combination of a strange quark or antiquark and either an up or down quark or antiquark
Initialism of knowledge, attitude(s), and practice(s): a type of representative survey, originated in the 1950s, that examines the level of knowledge, beliefs, and behaviours of a population in the context of a specific topic.
Alternative form of tapa (“Polynesian cloth”).
Pronunciation spelling of keep.
The eleventh letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
A prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp who was given food and privileges in return for supervising other prisoners doing forced labor.
A headcovering worn by many women of certain Anabaptist Christian traditions (especially Mennonites and Amish) for religious reasons.
simple past and past participle of kape
Taboo, especially in Hawaiian contexts.
Deliberate misspelling of car.
A bangle worn by Sikhs, one of the five Ks, to remind them to do God's work.
An Okinawan martial art involving primarily punching and kicking, but additionally, advanced throws, arm bars, grappling and all means of fighting.
Morley Richard Kare (1922–1990), Canadian biologist and physiologist; father of Susan Kare and Jordin T. Kare
A surname.
A female given name from Swedish, of recent usage, equivalent to English Carrie or Cary.
A surname from German.
A male given name from the Germanic languages, equivalent to English Charles.
A male given name from Hindi कर्म (karm, “fate”).
A pile of rocks.
An ethnic group from Ethiopia.
A surname.
A surname.
plural of kar
A go-cart.
An Arawakan language spoken in South America.
A surname.
A kind of large cupboard or wardrobe of Dutch origin, popular in the Netherlands and America in the 17th and 18th centuries.
A male given name.
A male given name of modern usage.
Alternative form of cazh.
A surname.
A type of traditional cupboard produced by Dutch settlers in New York and New Jersey in the 18th and 19th centuries
A surname from Telugu.
An ancient Egyptian unit of weight, one fiftieth of an avoirdupois pound.
Any of a sequence of positions and movements used in many martial arts.
A diminutive of the female given name Katherine and related names, also used as a formal given name.
A diminutive of the female given names Katherine, Kathleen, or related names.
A rare modern spelling variant of Katie, diminutive of the female given name Katherine.
A particular group of Native American people in the United States.
plural of kat
A diminutive of the female given name Katherine, variant of Katie.
A surname; variant form Kats.
A city in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan.
A surname.
A surname from German.
A surname from Kashmiri.
A surname.
A surname.
A surname from German.
A member of a particular Native American tribe in Oklahoma and parts of Kansas.
Alternative form of kava.
A literary and prose language based on Old Javanese with a large number of Sanskrit loanwords, and used on the islands of Java, Bali, and Lombok; or the script used in writing this language.
An inn in Turkey.
plural of Kaw
Dated form of cay.
Torreya nucifera, the Japanese nutmeg tree.
A type of small boat, covered over by a surface deck, powered by the occupant or occupants using a double-bladed paddle in a sitting position, from a hole in the surface deck.
A surname from Middle English, spelling variant of Kay.
A knockout.
plural of kay
Stupid; foolish.
Abbreviation of Kazakhstan.
A subdistrict, particularly (historical) a third-level administrative division of the Ottoman Empire.
A civil judge in Arabic, Persian or Turkish countries.
A city in Saitama Prefecture, Japan.
To play the kazoo.
Alternative form of kaak.
Initialism of Kuiper Belt.
Abbreviation of kilobyte per second.
Initialism of knowledge-based authentication.
Abbreviation of kilobar.
Abbreviation of Korean barbecue (Korean BBQ).
Initialism of Kaun Banega Crorepati.
Abbreviation of thousand barrels per day.
Initialism of Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Initialism of Kuiper belt object.
plural of KBO
Abbreviation of kilobase pair.
Initialism of kilobits per second.
Initialism of Korean Broadcasting System.
Kansas City
kilocycles per second
Initialism of Kenya Civil Aviation Authority.
Abbreviation of kilocalorie.
Initialism of knots calibrated airspeed.
Initialism of Knight Commander, part of the Order of the Bath.
Abbreviation of Kirkudbright.
Initialism of Korean Central Broadcasting Committee.
Initialism of kaolin-cephalin clotting time
Initialism of Korea Coast Guard.
Initialism of Korean Central Intelligence Agency.
Initialism of Knight Commander of the Indian Empire.
Abbreviation of Kansas City, Kansas, USA.
Abbreviation of Kansas City, Kansas, USA. From KC+KS.
Initialism of King's College London.
Abbreviation of Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
Abbreviation of Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
Potassium cyanide.
Initialism of Korean Central News Agency, the state news agency of North Korea.
Initialism of Kowloon-Canton Railway.
Initialism of Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation.
Initialism of keratoconjunctivitis sicca.
Initialism of Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education.
Initialism of kaolin clotting time.
plural of KCT
Initialism of Korean Central Television, the state public broadcaster of North Korea.
Abbreviation of Kills Deaths Assists, a ratio used by MOBA players to evaluate their in-game performance. Used in a similar manner to the kill-death ratio.
Initialism of Kindle Direct Publishing.
Initialism of knowledge discovery in databases.
A computer desktop environment that runs on Unix and Linux.
Initialism of key derivation function.
plural of KDF
Abbreviation of kingdom.
Alternative form of kDNA.
Initialism of kill-to-death ratio.
plural of KDR
plural of KD
Initialism of Kocher-Debre-Semelaigne syndrome.
Initialism of kinetic energy.
Nestor notabilis, a parrot of New Zealand.
To cackle or laugh.
A surname.
A surname.
A surname.
plural of kea
Misspelling of keet.
A surname from Middle English, spelling variant of Kay.
Alternative form of Geb.
third-person singular simple present indicative of keb
A Ghana–Togo Mountain language spoken by the Akebu people of southern Togo and southeastern Ghana.
Misspelling of khubz.
To heave or retch as if to vomit.
Any of the family Hippoboscidae of obligate parasites, especially the sheep ked, Melophagus ovinus.
plural of ked
Alternative form of kye (“cow”).
Pronunciation spelling of kid.
Alternative spelling of kif.
To peek; peep.
A male given name from English.
A surname.
A guineafowl.
Alternative spelling of kif.
High spirits, ebullience, chiefly in Greece or among Greek people.
A surname.
plural of keg
A surname.
A surname.
A surname.
A surname.
A class of lightweight vehicles with small engines.
A small settlement north-east of Alford, Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ6119).
A surname.
Alternative form of kier.
Initialism of key exchange key.
A surname.
Alternative spelling of kecks.
A female given name, clipping of Kelly.
A hamlet in Shap parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY5514).
A Bantu ethnic group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
To beat.
The caul.
A surname.
A diminutive of the female given name Kelsey.
Obsolete spelling of Celt.
A surname.
Obsolete form of comb.
A town and municipality of Lapland, Finland, near the border with Sweden.
A coarse or bristly hair, whisker; (in the plural) knotty hairs that will not felt.
plural of Kem
Alternative form of Khmu.
To give birth, conceive, beget, be born; to develop (as a fetus); to nourish, sustain (as life).
Abbreviation of Kentucky: a state of the United States.
Alternative form of quena (“traditional flute of the Andes”).
Obsolete form of keen.
Synonym of chao keng (“to malinger, to shirk military duties by reporting sick”).
A village and civil parish in Teignbridge district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX9285).
plural of ken
A maritime county in southeast England bordered by East Sussex, Surrey, Greater London, the North Sea and the English Channel.
A surname.
One of the Cyclades situated in front of Sunium
A traditional Fair Isle fisherman's cap.
Archaic spelling of keep.
plural of kep
simple past and past participle of keep
A chief of the Luo people.
Used to form various onomatopoeias imitating the effect or sound of a heavy object falling.
Acronym of Kentucky Education Reform Act (1990).
Alternative spelling of curb.
A piece of cloth used to cover the head; a bandana.
A reading that in the traditional Jewish mode of reading the Hebrew Bible is substituted for one actually standing in the consonantal text, with the consonants of the word or phrase to be read being usually given in the margin and the vowel points being inserted in the text (if the text is vocalized).
The act of cutting or carving something; a stroke or slice.
Alternative form of kere.
A surname from German.
A corn; grain; kernel.
To enclose within a kernel
A type of wooden drinking vessel produced by the Incas.
A surname.
plural of ker
Alternative form of kesh.
A robe worn by Buddhist monks and nuns.
The practice of allowing one's hair to grow naturally, one of the five Ks.
Obsolete spelling of cast.
A column vector, in Hilbert space, especially as representing the state of a quantum mechanical system; the complex conjugate transpose of a bra (a row vector); a ket vector. Symbolised by |...〉.
A small salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) of North America.
A traditional Maori woven basket.
The carbonyl group of a ketone.
plural of ket
To contain demonstrators in a confined area.
The descending lunar node. In Hindu mythology, Ketu is generally referred to as a "shadow" planet, believed to have a tremendous impact on human lives and also the whole creation.
Initialism of kiloelectronvolt.
plural of Kev
A diminutive of the male given name Kevin.
The name of the Latin script letter Q/q.
A federally recognized Pueblo people living in New Mexico; more commonly known as the Santo Domingo.
plural of KEW
The dried stem of certain large herbaceous plants.
A loadable extension to the kernel of the macOS operating system.
The hole in a lock where the key is inserted and turns.
plural of key
A diminutive of the female given name Kerry.
An air particulate filtration standard originating in the Republic of Korea, South Korea, which requires filtration of 94% of air particulates.
Initialism of Kuwaiti Foundation for the Advancement of Science.
KFC Corporation, an American fast food restaurant chain that specializes in fried chicken.
Initialism of Kenya Film Classification Board.
plural of KFC
Initialism of Kaiser Family Foundation.
Abbreviation of Kosovo Force.
Initialism of key factors for success.
Kraft Foods
Abbreviation of Knight of The Most Noble Order of the Garter.
Initialism of King's Gambit Accepted
Abbreviation of kilogallon.
The Committee for State Security of the Soviet Union (the Soviet security service).
plural of KGB
Initialism of Knights of the Golden Circle.
Initialism of King's Gambit Declined
The station code of Kathgodam railway station in India.
Abbreviation of kingsman (in the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment).
Initialism of kilogram(s) per second.
Abbreviation of Kings.
Acronym of King George V.
Initialism of Kingdom Hall.
The name of the Cyrillic script letter Х / х.
Alternative form of khud.
The eleventh letter of the Hebrew and Aramaic alphabets, kaph, especially when pronounced as a fricative (rather than as a plosive).
One of the three traditional regions of Tibet, covering a land area largely divided between eastern parts of the Tibet Autonomous Region, western parts of Sichuan, and smaller parts of Qinghai and Yunnan.
A gewog of Pemagatshel District, Bhutan.
The inhabitants of the medieval Khas Kingdom.
A shrub, Catha edulis, whose leaves are used as a mild stimulant when chewed or brewed as tea; also a drug produced from this plant.
A surname of Chinese origin.
a Hakka person
A Pashtun subtribe.
Letopolis
Alternative spelling of khene.
A Hindu Brahmin surname from Kashmiri or Marathi.
Alternative form of heth (“Semitic letter”).
Korean hip-hop.
Alternative spelling of chi (uppercase Χ, lowercase χ), the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
Someone unimportant or irrelevant, especially if they fell off; a nobody.
A surname from Russian.
A surname from Khmer.
A surname from Burmese.
Alternative form of kheer (“Asian sweet rice pudding”).
plural of khi
Clipping of khitmatgar.
Initialism of Kontinental Hockey League.
A member of an ethnic group of Southeast Asia mainly living in northern Laos.
Initialism of Kal Ho Naa Ho (a Hindi movie).
A Chinese surname from Hokkien, commonly found in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, most notably borne by
A South Asian dairy product made of either dried whole milk or milk thickened by heating.
A certain group of African languages.
Alternative form of Khoekhoe.
A Thai form of dance with music and narration.
A surname from Chinese.
A swampy depression in Middle Eastern countries.
A form of land tenure usually based around hereditary zamindars with proprietary rights.
The capital of West Azerbaijan Province, in northwestern Iran.
In ancient Egyptian mythology, a part of the soul or spirit which left the body after death.
A steep cleft in a hillside; a ravine.
A commune of Cambodia, a subdivision of a srok.
Alternative form of Khundongbam surname of Meitei origin
The Asiatic wild ass.
plural of khu
A surname.
plural of KHV
A dialect continuum of the Khoe branch of the Khoe-Kwadi family of Namibia, Angola, Botswana, South Africa, and parts of Zambia.
A term indicating intrinsic energy; usually associated with martial art – karate, judo, aikido, etc. – practitioners who consider ki important to performing at the highest level.
Abbreviation of Kings.
A person who is killed in action.
A locality in the Bega Valley council area, south-eastern New South Wales, Australia.
The short yell or shout uttered when performing an attacking move in martial arts.
A male given name from Irish, anglicized spelling of Cian.
Tongs, clip; any claw-like tool used to grab objects or hold something in place.
Obsolete form of coir (“coconut husk fibre”).
plural of KIA
Abbreviation of Kibit.
A chilblain (often ulcerated), especially on the heel of the foot (also afflictive to some animals); a cold sore or blister.
Alternative form of kybo (“toilet”).
Initialism of knowledge-intensive business services.
Affected with kibes.
Capable or deserving of being kicked.
A sport similar to baseball, where a ball similar to a soccer ball, is pitched at a kicker, and is kicked rather than hit.
Alternative spelling of kick-off.
A surname.
One who kids, or teases light-heartedly.
To kid; to hoax or tease.
To seize or detain a person unlawfully and move or conceal them; sometimes for ransom.
A person who kidnaps someone.
present participle and gerund of kidnap
plural of kid
Eye dialect spelling of kids; plural of kid.
Alternative spelling of kye, plural of cow
Alternative spelling of kif.
The capital city of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
A surname.
A bleaching vat.
A surname.
A surname.
The capital city of Ukraine and the administrative centre of Kyiv Oblast.
A kind of cannabis smoked in Morocco and Algeria, for narcotic or intoxicating effect.
Great; excellent.
A record of an abstract strategy game, especially Go or shogi.
A full-body costume of a cartoon character.
Synonym of Rukiga (“A Great lakes Bantu language spoken in Rwanda and Uganda.”).
A seasonal word; a word required in haiku to indicate the season.
plural of kig
A full-body costume of a cartoon character.
a Bantu language of Tanzania
Alternative form of Kiho-tumu.
A former province of Japan, in the part of Honshu that is today Wakayama Prefecture.
A surname.
A pet form of several female given names beginning with K.
A female given name from Japanese.
plural of Kik
A surname.
Synonym of phurba (“Tibetan dagger”).
Obsolete form of killed.
An ulcer; sore.
Mount Kilimanjaro
Synonym of charlock (Phamphospermum arvense, syn. Sinapis arvensis, etc.)
The act of killing.
One who or that which kills.
US spelling of kilometre.
Dated form of kelp.
plural of Kil
To gather up (skirts) around the body.
Alternative form of gim (“edible seaweed”).
A surname.
A diminutive of the female given name Kimberley, variant of Kimmy.
A surname.
plural of Kim
Race; family; breed; kind.
A child who attends a kindergarten.
Having an innately kind disposition or character.
The state of being kind.
To crown king, to make (a person) king.
A realm having a king or queen as its actual or nominal sovereign.
An ethnic Vietnamese.
A botanical gum produced by various trees and other plants, particularly bloodwood species of eucalypts (Angophora, Corymbia, Eucalyptus), Butea, and Pterocarpus, used in tanning and dyeing and as an astringent in medicine.
plural of kin
Alternative form of Kiho-tumu.
Kyiv.
Kyiv
Kyiv.
Obsolete form of Kyiv.
Alternative spelling of kippah.
An osier basket used for catching fish.
A surname.
plural of kip
Alternative form of quipu.
A cocktail made with a measure of crème de cassis topped up with white wine.
A female given name from Persian or Irish.
Obsolete form of kerb.
A church.
A surname.
plural of kir
plural of ki
A surname from Norwegian.
A basket used in Ireland, mainly for carrying turf.
An African language of the Bantu family spoken in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Capable of being kissed.
simple past and past participle of kiss.
To assemble or collect something into kits.
A special ward of Tokyo prefecture, Japan that is surrounded by (clockwise from north) Saitama Prefecture, Adachi, Arakawa, Bunkyō, Toshima, and Itabashi special wards.
A large cylindrical holdall.
Instruments and utensils found in a kitchen, particularly those associated with the preparation and serving of food.