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kaffir |
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an offensive and insulting term for any Black African |
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kaffir |
Noun
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important for human and animal food |
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kafir |
Noun
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an insulting term for any Black African |
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kerb crawler |
Noun
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someone who drives slowly along the curb seeking sex from prostitutes or other women |
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keyboardist |
Noun
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a musician who plays a keyboard instrument |
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kibbutznik |
Noun
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a member of a kibbutz |
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kibitzer |
Noun
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from Yiddish, a meddler who offers unwanted advice to others |
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kicker |
Noun
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a player who kicks a football |
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kiddy |
Noun
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a young child |
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kidnapper |
Noun
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someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim, usually for ransom |
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kidnaper |
Noun
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someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim, usually for ransom |
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kingmaker |
Noun
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an important person who can bring leaders to power through the exercise of political influence |
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kinsperson |
Noun
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a person having kinship with another or others |
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kinsman |
Noun
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a male relative |
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kinswoman |
Noun
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a female relative |
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kindergartner |
Noun
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a child who attends a preschool or kindergarten |
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kindergartener |
Noun
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a child who attends a preschool or kindergarten |
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killjoy |
Noun
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someone who spoils the pleasure of others |
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knock-on effect |
Noun
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a secondary or incidental effect |
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khamsin |
Noun
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an oppressively hot southerly wind from the Sahara that blows across Egypt in the spring |
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katabatic wind |
Noun
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a wind caused by the downward motion of cold air |
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kinetic energy |
Noun
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the mechanical energy that a body has by virtue of its motion |
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kaffir bread |
Noun
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a South African cycad plant |
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knobcone pine |
Noun
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a medium-sized three-needled pine of the Pacific coast of the United States having a prominent knob on each scale of the cone |
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kawaka |
Noun
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a New Zealand timber tree resembling the cypress |
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kauri pine |
Noun
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any of various trees of the genus Agathis |
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kauri |
Noun
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white close-grained wood of a tree of the genus Agathis especially Agathis australis |
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kauri |
Noun
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tall timber tree of New Zealand having white straight-grained wood |
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kauri |
Noun
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resin of the kauri trees of New Zealand |
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kaury |
Noun
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a tall timber tree of New Zealand having white straight-grained wood |
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keteleeria |
Noun
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an Asiatic conifer resembling firs |
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kahikatea |
Noun
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a New Zealand evergreen valued for its light easily worked wood |
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kingcup |
Noun
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any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus |
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kingcup |
Noun
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swamp plant of Europe and North America having bright yellow flowers resembling buttercups |
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katsura tree |
Noun
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a rapidly growing deciduous tree of low mountainsides of China and Japan |
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kudu lily |
Noun
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a South African shrub having a swollen succulent stem and bearing showy pink and white flowers after the leaves fall |
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krubi |
Noun
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malodorous tropical plant having a spathe that resembles the corolla of a morning glory and attains a diameter of several feet |
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kurchi |
Noun
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a tropical Asian tree with hard white wood and bark formerly used as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhea |
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kurchee |
Noun
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a tropical Asian tree with hard white wood and bark formerly used as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhea |
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knawel |
Noun
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widely distributed low-growing Eurasian herb having narrow leaves and inconspicuous green flowers |
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knawe |
Noun
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a widely distributed low-growing Eurasian herb having narrow leaves and inconspicuous green flowers |
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kali |
Noun
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a bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves |
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kelpwort |
Noun
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a bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves |
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kidney wort |
Noun
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a widely spreading evergreen shrub of southwestern United States with flower heads in a leafy panicle |
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kingfisher daisy |
Noun
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a softly hairy South African herb having flowers with bright blue rays |
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knapweed |
Noun
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any of various plants of the genus Centaurea having purple thistlelike flowers |
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king devil |
Noun
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European hawkweed introduced into northeastern United States |
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kok-saghyz |
Noun
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perennial dandelion native to Kazakhstan cultivated for its fleshy roots that have high rubber content |
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kok-sagyz |
Noun
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a perennial dandelion native to Kazakhstan cultivated for its fleshy roots that have high rubber content |
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key fruit |
Noun
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a winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple |