Words Starting With K
334 words accepted in official NYT Spelling Bee puzzles since 2018 starting with K, with meanings, pronunciation, etymology and puzzle appearances for each. Browse all letters.
K Words
- kaasNoun
Alternative form of kas.
- kababNoun
Alternative form of kebab.
- kabakaNoun
The title of the king of Buganda.
- kabalaProper noun
Alternative spelling of Kabbalah.
- kabarNoun
One of the Khazar rebels who joined Magyar tribes and the Rus' khaganate confederations in the 9th century CE.
- kabayaNoun
Alternative spelling of kebaya.
- kabbalaProper noun
Alternative spelling of Kabbalah.
- kabbalahNoun
Alternative spelling of Kabbalah.
- kabloonaNoun
A non-Inuit person in Canada or Greenland, especially a European or someone of European descent.
- kabobNoun · Verb
US spelling of kebab.
- kaboomNoun · Interjection
The sound of an explosion, typically seen in comic strips or heard in a light-hearted conversation.
- kadiNoun
Alternative spelling of qadi, Islamic judge, particularly (historical) in Ottoman contexts where they initially oversaw local administration as well as Islamic law.
- kaiakNoun · Verb
Obsolete spelling of kayak.
- kaifNoun
Alternative spelling of kif.
- kailNoun
Alternative form of kale.
- kainNoun
poultry, etc., required by the lease to be paid in kind by a tenant to the landlord.
- kakaNoun
Any of four taxa of birds in the genus Nestor in the parrot family confined to New Zealand and adjacent islands.
- kakapoNoun
A large flightless parrot, Strigops habroptilus, with greenish plumage, that is nocturnal and native to New Zealand.
- kakasNoun
plural of kaka
- kakiNoun · Adjective
A persimmon, specifically a Japanese persimmon (Diospyros kaki).
- kakivakNoun
A kind of fishing spear used by Inuits, with two recurved points, sometimes made from reindeer antlers.
- kalamNoun
Speculative theology.
- kaleNoun
An edible plant, similar to cabbage, with curled leaves that do not form a dense head (Brassica oleracea var. acephala)
- kalianAdjective · Noun
Containing potassium.
- kalifNoun
Alternative spelling of caliph.
- kalpaNoun
A period of 4.32 billion years (1000 chatur-yugas or cycles of the four yugas).
- kalpakNoun
Alternative spelling of calpack.
- kamaainaNoun
Alternative spelling of kamaʻaina.
- kamalaNoun
A small or medium-sized tree (Mallotus philippensis) in the spurge family, found in Asia and Australia.
- kameNoun
A round hill or short ridge of sand or gravel deposited by a melting glacier.
- kamiNoun
An animistic god or spirit in the Shinto religion of Japan.
- kamikNoun
A mukluk.
- kanaNoun · Verb
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…
- kanakaNoun
A person of Hawaiian descent.
- kanbanNoun
A card containing a set of manufacturing specifications and requirements, used to regulate the supply of components.
- kaneNoun
A Polynesian or Maori man.
- kanteleNoun
A plucked string instrument (a zither) of the Baltic psaltery family, traditionally with five strings but now more widely varying, originating in the folk music of Finland, where…
- kaonNoun
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
- kapaNoun
Alternative form of tapa (“Polynesian cloth”).
- kaphNoun
The eleventh letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
- kapokNoun
A silky fibre obtained from seed pods of the silk-cotton tree (Ceiba pentandra) used for insulation and stuffing for mattresses, pillows, etc.
- kappaNoun
The tenth letter of the Greek alphabet.
- karakulNoun
A sheep of a Central Asian breed.
- karatNoun
Alternative spelling of carat.
- karmaNoun
The sum total of a person's actions, which determine the person's next incarnation in samsara, the cycle of death and rebirth.
- karmicAdjective
Of or pertaining to karma.
- karnNoun
A pile of rocks.
- karooNoun
Any vast prairie bordering a desert.
- karriNoun
The tree Eucalyptus diversicolor, native to south-western Western Australia.
- karrooNoun
Alternative form of karoo.
- kartNoun · Verb
A go-cart.
- kataNoun · Adverb
Any of a sequence of positions and movements used in many martial arts.
- katabaticAdjective · Noun
Downslope on a mountainside.
- katakanaNoun
A Japanese syllabary used when writing words borrowed from foreign languages other than Chinese, specific names of plants and animals and other jargon, onomatopoeia, or to…
- katanaNoun
A type of Japanese longsword, having a single edge and slight curvature, historically used by samurai and ninja.
- katcinaNoun
Alternative form of kachina.
- kavaNoun
Any member of the species Piper methysticum, a plant from the South Pacific.
- kavakavaNoun
Synonym of kava (“the plant”).
- kayakNoun · Verb
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.
- kayakingNoun · Verb
A water sport involving racing, or doing tricks in, a kayak.
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