Middle School Vocabulary
114,351 words and 1,048 expressions at the middle school level.
simple past and past participle of k!ll
third-person singular simple present indicative of k!ll
Alternative form of kang (“a traditional platform used for heating in China”).
plural of k'ang
A part of the ancient Maya calendar system which corresponds to 20 tuns or 7200 days.
Fraser Island.
plural of k'in
Alternative form of Khitan.
Synonym of S'gaw.
The form of a word in a Hebrew text as it is traditionally pronounced when read aloud, when the written form (k'tiv) differs.
plural of k'ri
Abbreviation of Karnataka.
The written form of a word in a Hebrew text, when the form that is traditionally read aloud (k'rei) differs.
Censored spelling of Keling.
Of or pertaining to k-adic notation or the k-adic numbers.
A subset of k-dimensional Euclidean space which is obtained by taking the Cartesian product of k intervals (closed, open, or half-closed) which are subsets of the coordinate axes of the ambient Euclidean space.
Korean cuisine, the cuisine of Korea.
A kind of depth charge projector designed to be mounted on a ship.
A brief news item in a newspaper consisting of a one-line heading and a single paragraph, especially one of little interest added to fill space.
plural of K-hed
Synonym of langbeinite (“a potassium magnesium sulfate mineral”)
Alternative letter-case form of K-pop.
A concrete barrier used to separate lanes of traffic.
A car where the engine has been replaced by a Honda K-series internal combustion gasoline engine.
A tool shaped like the letter K, for forcible entry.
Nickname for Kaiserslautern: an independent town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Synonym of three-point turn.
The Korean Wave.
Abbreviation of Kirschner wire.
The word kaffir.
Leetspeak spelling of cooked.
plural of k00k
Alternative spelling of Kaaba.
The highest mountain on the island of Oahu, Hawaii.
Alternative spelling of Kaaba.
A kind of combat knife used by the United States military and popular with some hunters, campers, bushcrafters, and knife collectors.
Synonym of Chiayi.
The nearly cubical stone temple in Mecca, the holiest place in Islam and site of the great hajj assembly.
Alternative spelling of Kaaba.
Alternative form of kafir.
plural of kaaf
An administrative atoll of the Maldives, officially named Malé Atholhu.
The hartebeest.
plural of kaama
a Kuki-Chin language spoken in Myanmar
The form of the Afrikaans language spoken by Cape Coloured people.
plural of Kaas
A surname.
Alternative form of kebab.
Alternative form of kebab.
plural of kabab
Alternative form of kabaddi.
The title of the king of Buganda.
Alternative spelling of Kabbalah.
A town in Tanganyika province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The sound of a loud explosion; pow, blam, bang.
A spicy smoked Australian salami, made from pork and beef.
One of the Khazar rebels who joined Magyar tribes and the Rus' khaganate confederations in the 9th century CE.
Kabarda (person)
plural of Kabar
A surname.
plural of Kabat
Alternative spelling of kebaya.
A surname.
plural of Kabba
A surname from Arabic.
A surname from German.
A village commune in Ethiopia.
plural of Kabel
A surname from Arabic.
Alternative form of Cabeiri.
plural of Kabir
A gewog of Punakha District, Bhutan.
Alternative spelling of capisce.
A language spoken in Togo.
The sound of a loud explosion; pow, blam, bang.
A silk scarf worn as part of the gho.
US spelling of kebab.
plural of kabob
A group of Meitei traditional food items, made of ingredients such as corn, rice, or sesame seeds
A clay ironstone found in Sri Lanka.
The sound of an explosion, typically seen in comic strips or heard in a light-hearted conversation.
The juicy citrus fruit of Citrus sphaerocarpa, often used in Japanese food. It is grown primarily in Ōita Prefecture.
A wooden box-shaped guitar-like musical instrument, most commonly with six strings and characterized by the use of partial frets, originating in traditional Malagasy music.
A rural town in Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia.
An Arabian mixed rice dish that originates from Yemen.
Alternative form of kabsa.
The capital and largest city of Afghanistan.
Of, from or relating to the city of Kabul, capital of Afghanistan.
A traditional Albanian cold dessert of rice fried in butter, mutton broth, and raisins, seasoned with salt, sugar, cinnamon, and ground cloves.
A form of schistosomiasis caused by infection with Schistosoma japonicum.
A Papuan language of the Bird's Head Peninsula of West Papua.
A traditional Japanese military helmet, especially worn by samurai.
A city, the capital of the Central Province of Zambia.
A member of a Berber ethnic group inhabiting Algeria, speaking the Kabyle language.
A box zither with an open bottom, played by plucking, originating in traditional Sundanese music, especially tembang sunda and pantun sunda.
To disturb; to bother or trouble (someone).
An undergarment worn by baptized Sikhs, one of the five Ks.
Alternative form of Q'eqchi' (“a Mayan language”).
A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Casey.
A surname from Czech.
A male given name transferred from the surname.
Alternative form of kutcha.
Alternative spelling of kacau (“to disturb; to bother (someone)”).
A surname from German.
Any of a number of non-Burman ethnolinguistic groups in Kachin State, Burma, including the Jingpho people.
an expression of excitement or happiness, similar to hooray
A surname.
A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Casey.
simple past and past participle of kack
Alternative form of keckle.
third-person singular simple present indicative of kack
A surname from Polish.
Alternative form of Gaddafi.
Alternative form of karahi (“cooking vessel”).
Synonym of karahi (“cooking vessel”).
Alternative form of kataifi.
plural of kadai
Chickpeas.
A tropical evergreen tree, Neolamarckia cadamba (syn. Anthocephalus indicus, Nauclea cadamba), native to South and Southeast Asia.
Alternative form of kadam (“tropical tree”).
plural of kadam
cadence rampa
A city and district of Andhra Pradesh, India.
A surname from Hungarian.
plural of Kadar
The tree Sterculia urens.
A surname.
plural of Kadel
A male given name originating as a coinage, variant of Caden.
plural of Kaden
A surname from Arabic.
plural of Kader
plural of kade
An ancient city of the Levant, located on or near the headwaters or ford of the Orontes river.
A member of the Constitutional Democratic Party of the Russian Empire.
plural of Kadet
Alternative form of karahi (“cooking vessel”).
A curry made from chickpea flour and yoghurt which is served with pakoras.
plural of kadhi
plural of kady
A centrist political party in Israel.
A woman of a sultan's harem
A surname.
plural of kadin
A surname from Arabic.
plural of Kadir
plural of kadi
A surname from Czech.
An older variant of the Zoroastrian calendar that does not intercalate and is therefore no longer synchronized with the seasons.
Alternative spelling of Cadmus.
A child soldier. Usually refers to the eastern Congolese rebel armies that used numerous child soldiers.
A minor city, the county seat of Jackson County, South Dakota, United States.
A surname.
A surname from Arabic.
A transliteration of the Serbo-Croatian surname Kadrić.
plural of Kadri
A state of Nigeria in the North West geopolitical zone. Capital and largest city: Kaduna City.
plural of Kady
A Japanese female given name from Japanese.
A male given name.
A surname.
A surname.
A female given name originating as a coinage.
plural of kaen
plural of kaep
A surname from German.
Either of two trees of the genus Commiphora, which yield a gum resin and a red aromatic wood.
A form of Islamic adoption in which the child is not regarded as a true child of the adoptive parents.
plural of kafal
A tavern-restaurant-shop in various Balkan states
An employment sponsor in the kafala system.
An uninhabited island of Gaafu Dhaalu, Maldives.
A surname.
plural of Kafer
Former name of Feodosia, a city in Crimea.
Alternative form of kaffir.
Alternative letter-case form of kaffir.
Alternative form of coffle.
Alternative form of Kaffir.
Alternative form of cafila.
A disbeliever, a denier: someone who rejects or disbelieves in Allah or the tenets of Islam; or more broadly any non-Muslim.
plural of kafir
plural of kafi
Alternative form of qafiz (“unit of measurement for volume”).
A surname from German.
Alternative form of Kafkian.
Alternative spelling of kofta.
A long tunic worn in the Eastern Mediterranean.
plural of kafta
A town in Lusaka Province, Zambia.
A female given name from Japanese.
Alternative spelling of khagan.
plural of kagan
A prefecture of Japan. Its capital is Takamatsu.
A surname from German.
plural of Kagel
An administrative region of Tanzania.
plural of kage
A surname.
A genre of Korean vocal music for mixed female and male voices. Accompaniments and interludes are played by a small ensemble of traditional Korean musical instruments
An arrangement of laths composed of interlaced triangles such that each point where two laths cross has four neighboring points. Although called a lattice, it is more closely related to the trihexagonal tiling than to a mathematical lattice.
Alternative spelling of cagoule.
plural of kago
Alternative form of cagoule.
Acronym of kids are getting older younger (“children are exposed to adult ideas, consumer products, etc. at an increasingly early age”).
A mammal, the colugo.
A kind of Shinto theatrical dance in Japan.
plural of kagu
One of four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
Alternative form of Kagyu.
The local governing body of a former European Jewish community, administering religious, legal and communal affairs.
plural of kahal
A surname.
A surname from Aramaic.
plural of Kahan
A member of a community of palanquin-bearers originating from the Gangetic region.
plural of Kahar
The proboscis monkey.
plural of kahau
A male given name.
a Haymanot religious role, analogous to a rabbi in other Jewish communities
plural of kahen
Synonym of kahikatea.
A feather standard mounted on a pole, as traditionally used in Hawaii on ceremonial occasions.
A kind of Armenian baked good, flavored with mahleb.
A surname.
A surname from German.
plural of Kahle
A male given name.
A surname.
plural of Kahl
Alternative form of Kahlúa.
A brand of heavy, sweet, coffee flavored liqueur made in Mexico; a variety or serving of this drink.
plural of kahm
A city, the county seat of Clark County, Missouri, United States.
plural of Kahr
A priest or priestess of the traditional Hawaiian religion.
Obsolete spelling of kayak.
plural of kaiak
A form of Japanese palindrome.
Alternative form of Kaitag.
A traditional Japanese ghost story or horror story.
A male given name originating as a coinage, variant of Caden or Kayden.
plural of kaid
plural of kaie
A district of Changsha, Hunan, China.
A fictional giant monster, particularly of the kind found in Japanese science fiction films and other media, like Godzilla, King Kong or Gamera.
plural of kaiju
Alternative form of kainga.
Nigerian gin
plural of kaika
Alternative spelling of caique.
plural of kaiki
plural of kaik
A female given name.
Brassica oleracea var. alboglabra, a long, blue-green vegetable with thick, glossy stems and leaves typically eaten in Chinese and particularly Cantonese cooking.
A female given name.
A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Kaylee.
plural of kail
A county of Tongliao, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.
Relating to, or characteristic of kail
A female given name.
A town in Sierra Leone.
Alternative spelling of kaymak.
The holder of an aristocratic title or position granted by various rajahs to powerful Nair families in Kerala, India.
A perennial plant of species Desmodium incanum.
A district of Bihar, India.
A city in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan.
A former province of China mentioned in The Travels of Marco Polo, believed to be Xichang.
A surname.
Synonym of Hoeryong: the Japanese-derived name
plural of Kaine
A Maori village.
Alternative form of khaini.
Of or pertaining to kainic acid or its derivatives.
Salts of potassium used in the manufacture of fertilizers.
plural of kain
A surname from Punjabi.
A region of Finland.
A surname from German.
A Laotian snack made from freshwater green algae.
Alternative form of caique.
plural of kairos
A time when conditions are right for the accomplishment of a crucial action; the opportune and decisive moment.
A variant of the game billiards played chiefly in Finland and Russia.
Alternative form of Kaiser.
A Chinese script style that is the most common style used in modern text.
A style of music popular in the Caribbean, a precursor to calypso music.
A male given name.
plural of kaiso
A kind of Chinese black tea.
Initialism of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.
A member of an ethnic group of the Dargwa (though sometimes considered a separate people), living mainly in the Kaytagsky district of Dagestan.
Alternative form of Kaitag.
Synonym of sushi train.
Synonym of Kayastha.
A script historically used in parts of North India to write legal and administrative records.
plural of Kaith
An Australian Aboriginal language.
A small motorized ferry or sampan that serves mostly remote islands.
plural of kaito
A female given name.
A Japanese business practice of continuous improvement in performance and productivity.
A philosophy of game design distinguished by very high difficulty levels and hidden traps that can only be solved by repeated deaths and trial and error, especially associated with romhacks of Super Mario games.
plural of kaizo
A city in Gifu Prefecture, Japan.
Kohl.
A town in Hulu Langat district, Selangor, Malaysia.
Alternative form of Qajar.
A Hindustani classical music genre of folk songs and dance.
plural of Kajar
Alternative form of kajawah.
Alternative form of kajawah.
Obsolete form of qadi.
plural of kajee
Alternative form of Kayeli.
Alternative spelling of kacau (“to disturb; to bother (someone)”).
Alternative spelling of caique.
Blue marlin (Makaira nigricans)
plural of kajik
Kagutsuchi, the Japanese god of fire.
A female sexual submissive who follows Goreanism.
Alternative form of kajari.
plural of kaji
Alternative spelling of kaymak.
A local government area in Oyo state, Nigeria.
plural of kaju
Alternative form of Gaagudju.
The bush lily, Astelia fragrans.
Echyridella menziesii, the New Zealand freshwater mussel.
A reed (Chionochloa conspicua), native to New Zealand.
An uninhabited island of Croatia, adjacent to Kaprije.
Clipping of KakaoTalk (South Korean instant messenger)
A narrow river or coastal boat used in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Brunei for fishing, or sometimes in piracy and raids.
A large flightless parrot, Strigops habroptilus, with greenish plumage, that is nocturnal and native to New Zealand.
plural of kakap
Muntjac (Muntiacus muntjak)
plural of Kakar
plural of kaka
cucumber
plural of kakdi
A surname
An English soldier in the Boer war.
plural of kakie
plural of kaki
The yellow bittern (Ixobrychus sinensis).
beriberi
Alternative form of caco-.
A surname from Polish.
A surname from Greek.
A ball of mashed plantain and corn dough which is then fried.
A city in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan.
A surname.
A type of number puzzle, similar to a crossword but with numbers. Each "clue" is the sum of the digits to be placed in its group of squares, and no digit can be repeated within a group.
A Nilotic ethnic group of northwestern Uganda, southwestern South Sudan, and the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Alternative form of Kakyen.
A tyrannical monstrous gigantic colossal cannibalistic mythical bird that was killed by Meitei princes, Yoimongba and Taothingmang, with the help of mother goddess Leimarel.
Traditional East Slavic bread shaped like a padlock or various kinds of wheels. Other Slavic nations have similar but not identical types of pastry, e.g. Czech or Slovak koláč/koláč, Polish kołacz, Bulgarian колач (kolač), Serbo-Croatian колач/kolač, etc.
An embroidered appliqué tapestry made of silk, flannel, felt, wool and lace, indigenous to Myanmar (Burma).
A surname from Czech.
plural of Kalal
Speculative theology.
A surname from Hawaiian.
A Dardic language spoken in northern Pakistan; it is written using the Arabic script.
A township and unincorporated community therein, in Eaton County, Michigan, United States.
The sea otter.
Alternative form of kalong.
A unisex given name from Hawaiian.
plural of kalan
An Austronesian language of Kalao Island, South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
A locality in the Bega Valley council area, south-eastern New South Wales, Australia.
A surname.
Alternative form of kalasha.
Alternative form of kalasha.
A historic town in Pakistan.
A surname from Polish.
A Korean barbecued rib dish, usually made from beef
A surname
A male given name from Hebrew, a less common modern spelling variant of Caleb.
A male given name.
A violent surf that occurs on the coast of the Guinea region of West Africa.
The second month of Meitei traditional lunar calendar.
A surname.
plural of Kaler
plural of kale
A surname.
A surname.
plural of Kaley
A surname from German.
A rural locality in Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia.
Synonym of Zhangjiakou.
Obsolete form of kalgi (“Indian silk”).
A black heron feather that is worn on a turban as a symbol of nobility.
plural of kalgi
A surname from German.
A surname from Punjabi.
Containing potassium.
plural of Kalia
A municipality that serves as the capital of Aklan, Philippines.
An alkalide with potassium as the anion.
A female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage, variant of Kaylee.
Alternative form of kaylied (“drunk”).
Alternative spelling of caliph.
A surname.
plural of kalif
Synonym of kalij pheasant.
Synonym of Kali (“Hindu goddess”).
A surname.
plural of Kalil
the formal content of the shahada (declaration of faith): لَا إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا ٱللَّٰهُ مُحَمَّدٌ رَسُولُ ٱللَّٰهِ (lā ʔilāha ʔillā llāhu muḥammadun rasūlu llāhi) "There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah."
A surname.
Alternative form of Kari'na.
plural of Kalin
Alternative spelling of caliph.
A Filipino sword akin to the kris.
A surname.
A city and county of Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland.
potassium.
The name of a poisonous Naga living in the river Yamuna, who was killed by Krishna.
A town in Panchkula district, Haryana, India.
A locality in the Rural City of Horsham, western Victoria, Australia.
The tenth avatar of Vishnu.
plural of Kalk
A surname from Telugu.
A meeting of yeshiva students for discussion and studying.
A surname.
Alternative form of Kallar (“member of certain Indian caste”).
A member of one of the three related castes of southern India (along with the Maravar and Agamudayar) that constitute the Mukkulathor confederacy.
plural of Kalla
A female given name.
A female given name.
plural of Kall
A surname.
A small city and municipality in Kalmar County, Sweden.
Any plant in the taxonomic genus Kalmia.
A surname.
Of, from or relating to the Republic of Kalmykia, Russia.
A municipality of Croatia.
A town, the capital of Kalomo district, Zambia.
Ideal perfect beauty in the physical and moral sense, especially as perceived by Greek philosophers.
A fruit bat, especially the black-eared flying fox (Pteropus melanotus).
A type of beef stew.
A period of 4.32 billion years (1000 chatur-yugas or cycles of the four yugas).
Alternative spelling of calpack.
plural of kalpa
An Ancient Greek flat race for horses, generally mares, with riders.
A county of Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
A kind of Ancient Greek water jug.
A surname from Punjabi.
plural of Kalra
A traditional Hawaiian cooking method, using an underground oven called an imu.
An oblast of Russia.
Alternative form of kalooki.
A people living in Papua New Guinea.
plural of Kalu
A city and raion of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, in western Ukraine.
Dasykaluta rosamondae, a carnivorous nocturnal marsupial of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
A surname.
A surname.
A member of an Indian caste historically found in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, and other parts of north and central India, and traditionally associated with the distillation and selling of liquor.
A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
One of the moons of Jupiter.
A female given name originating as a coinage, variant of Kaylyn.
A traditional Japanese wood- or charcoal-fired earthen vessel used as a stove or oven.
A New Zealand tree Weinmannia racemosa
A male given name.
A small or medium-sized tree (Mallotus philippensis) in the spurge family, found in Asia and Australia.
A surname from Persian.
plural of kamal
A surname.
A tree of the species Calophyllum inophyllum.
plural of Kaman
An extinct bird of Hawaii, Myadestes myadestinus.
A member of a people of Central India.
A surname.
A male or female given name.
A member of a people who live in the northwest of Siberia.
A surname from Marathi.
A neighborhood of Ōta, Tokyo prefecture, Japan.
A surname.
plural of Kamat
A Hebrew nikud vowel sign, shaped like a small uppercase T, which is written beneath a letter to indicate an /a/ sound (or, in Ashkenazi pronunciation, an /o/ sound).
A surname.
plural of Kamau
a Bantu people of Kenya.
Alternative spelling of Cambay.
Alternative spelling of Kamboh (member of a particular group of people in north India and Pakistan).
Alternative form of Kamboj (“a community of north India and Pakistan”).
A community of people living in northwestern India and Pakistan.
plural of Kambo
Alternative spelling of Kamboj.
A surname.
A male given name transferred from the surname.
A male given name transferred from the surname.
A long, loose shirt or blouse worn in some South Asian and Islamic countries.
Alternative spelling of kamees.
Alternative form of kamala (“dyestuff”).
A surname.
plural of Kamen