(Internet) A message sent to a blog on social networking platform Tumblr, which can be publicly posted and replied to by the recipient.
(UK dialectal and Scotland) An eft; newt.
(UK dialectal) A lizard.
An act or instance of asking.
An asking price.
Something asked or asked for.
verb
(figuratively) To take (a person's situation) as an example.
(transitive or ditransitive) To request (information, or an answer to a question).
To interrogate or enquire of (a person).
To invite.
To publish in church for marriage; said of both the banns and the persons.
To put forward (a question) to be answered.
To request or petition; usually with for.
To request permission to do something.
To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity.
atk
auk
auk
noun
Any of several species of Arctic sea birds of the family Alcidae.
awk
awk
adj
(US slang, of a situation) Awkward; uncomfortable.
(obsolete) Odd; out of order; perverse.
(obsolete) Wrong, or not commonly used; clumsy; sinister.
(obsolete, UK, dialect) Clumsy in performance or manners; not dexterous; awkward.
adv
(obsolete) Perversely; in the wrong way.
name
(computing) A Unix scripting language or the command line interface itself.
bak
bak
adv
(text messaging) Abbreviation of back.
bik
bkg
bks
bks
noun
plural of bk
bkt
blk
bok
bok
adj
(South Africa, slang) keen or willing.
intj
The clucking sound of a chicken.
ckw
clk
csk
dak
dak
noun
(South Asia) A dak bungalow.
(South Asia) A post system by means of transport relays of horses stationed at intervals along a route or network, carrying mail and passengers.
verb
(Australia, informal) To suddenly pull down someone's pants as a prank; to pants.
ddk
dkg
dkg
noun
decagram; Abbreviation of dekagram.; Alternative form of dag; A unit of mass of 10 grammes.
dkl
dkm
dks
dmk
eak
eck
eek
eek
adv
(obsolete) also
intj
Expressing (sometimes mock) fear or surprise.
Representing a scream or shriek (especially in comic strips and books).
Representing the shrill vocal sound of a mouse, rat, or monkey.
noun
(Polari) A face.
verb
To produce a high-pitched squeal, as in fear or trepidation.
egk
eke
eke
adv
(archaic) Also; in addition to.
noun
(beekeeping) A spacer put between or over or under hive parts to make more space.
(beekeeping, archaic) A small stand on which a beehive is placed.
(obsolete except Britain, dialectal) An addition.
verb
(transitive) Chiefly in the form eke out: to add to, to augment; to increase; to lengthen.
ekg
ekg
Noun
electrocardiogram
elk
elk
noun
(British India) Sambar (Cervus unicolor).
(Canada, US) common wapiti (Cervus canadensis), the second largest member of the deer family, once thought to be a subspecies of red deer.
(chiefly Europe, Commonwealth) Any moose (Alces alces), the largest member of the deer family.
(obsolete) Alternative form of elke (the common swan (Cygnus cygnus, syn. Cygnus ferus))
Any of the subspecies of the moose (Alces alces alces, alternatively named Eurasian elk to avoid confusion with the wapiti), that occurs only in Europe and Asia.
erk
erk
intj
(Australia, colloquial) An expression of revulsion or disgust; yuck.
(colloquial) An expression of trepidation; eek.
noun
(Britain, slang) A member of the groundcrew in the RAF.
esk
fmk
fsk
gks
gok
hak
hkj
htk
huk
ick
ick
adj
(informal) icky; distasteful or unpleasant.
intj
An exclamation of disgust
Lizzie grabbed a frog out of the lake and put it in her hair! Ick!
noun
(informal, as "the ick") A feeling of revulsion.
(informal, uncountable) Something distasteful or physically unpleasant to touch.
(slang) Anything moaned about; a gripe.
Alternative form of ich (“fish disease”)
ike
ilk
ilk
adj
(Scotland and Northern England) Very; same.
ink
ink
noun
(countable) A particular type, color or container of this fluid.
(slang) Cheap red wine.
(slang, uncountable) Publicity.
(slang, uncountable) Tattoo work.
A pigment (or dye)-based fluid used for writing, printing etc.
The black or dark-colored fluid ejected by squid, octopus etc, as a protective strategy.
verb
(intransitive, of a squid or octopus) to eject ink (sense 3)
(transitive) To apply a tattoo to (someone).
(transitive) To apply ink to; to cover or smear with ink.
(transitive) To sign (a contract or similar document).
irk
irk
verb
(transitive) to irritate; annoy; bother
jak
jak
noun
Alternative form of jack (“the tree Mangifera caesia”)
jfk
kab
kab
noun
(historical units of measure) Alternative form of cab: a former Hebrew unit of volume.
kae
kaf
kaf
noun
Alternative spelling of kaph
The twenty-second letter of the Arabic alphabet. ك (k)
kai
kai
noun
(New Zealand, informal) food
kal
kam
kam
adj
(obsolete) Crooked, awry.
kan
kan
noun
A Japanese unit of weight, approximately 3.75 kg or 8.267 lb.
Archaic form of khan.
kao
kas
kas
noun
plural of ka
kat
kat
noun
Alternative spelling of khat
An ancient Egyptian unit of weight, one fiftieth of an avoirdupois pound.
kaw
kaw
verb
Alternative form of caw
kay
kay
intj
(colloquial) Abbreviation of okay.
noun
(colloquial) A kilometer.
(colloquial) A thousand of some unit (from kilo-).
Dated form of cay.
The name of the Latin-script letter K.
kaz
kbe
kbe
Proper noun
Knight Commander of the
Noun
Knowledge-Based Engineering
Knowledge Based Economy
kbp
kbp
noun
(genetics) Abbreviation of kilobase pair.
kbs
kbs
noun
plural of kb
kcb
kci
kcl
kdd
kdt
kea
kea
noun
Nestor notabilis, a parrot of New Zealand.
keb
keb
noun
(Northern England, dialect) A still-born lamb.
verb
(Northern England, dialect) Of a ewe, to abort a lamb.
ked
ked
noun
Any of the family Hippoboscidae of obligate parasites, especially the sheep ked, Melophagus ovinus.
kee
kee
noun
Alternative form of kye (“cow”)
kef
kef
noun
Alternative spelling of kif
keg
keg
noun
A round, traditionally wooden container of lesser capacity than a barrel, often used to store beer.
verb
(transitive) To store in a keg.
kei
kel
ken
ken
noun
(Jewish) Youth or children's group.
(nautical) Range of sight.
(slang, UK, obsolete, thieves' cant) A house, especially a den of thieves.
A Japanese unit of length equal to six shakus
Knowledge, perception, or sight.
The tsurugi
verb
(obsolete) To give birth, conceive, beget, be born; to develop (as a fetus); to nourish, sustain (as life).
(obsolete, chiefly Scotland) To discover by sight; to catch sight of; to descry.
(transitive, chiefly Scotland) To know, perceive or understand.
keo
kep
ker
ket
ket
noun
(Northern England) Carrion; any filth.
(Northumbria) Sweetmeats.
(Scotland) matted wool
(Wearside) A sweet, treat or candy.
(colloquial) ketamine
(physics) A column vector, in Hilbert space, especially as representing the state of a quantum mechanical system; the complex conjugate of a bra (a row vector); a ket vector. Symbolised by |...〉.
kev
kew
kew
noun
The name of the Latin-script letter Q. Alternative form of cue.
kex
kex
noun
(obsolete or dialectal) The dried stem of certain large herbaceous plants.
(obsolete, botany) A plant having such a stem; a weed, a kecksy.
(rare) A dry husk or covering.
key
key
adj
Important, salient.
Indispensable, supremely important.
noun
(Internet) A password restricting access to an IRC channel.
(advertising) A modification of an advertisement so as to target a particular group or demographic.
(architecture) A piece of wood used as a wedge.
(architecture) The last board of a floor when laid down.
(basketball) The free-throw lane together with the circle surrounding the free-throw line, the free-throw lane having formerly been narrower, giving the area the shape of a skeleton key hole.
(biology) A series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the user to correctly identify a taxon.
(botany) An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, such as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara.
(cartomancy) The thirty-third card of the Lenormand deck.
(computer graphics, television) A color to be masked or made transparent.
(computing) A value that uniquely identifies an entry in a container.
(computing) One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly corresponding to text characters.
(cryptography) A piece of information (e.g., a password or passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.
(databases) In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).
(figurative) The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.
(historical) A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.
(masonry) A keystone.
(music) A scale or group of pitches constituting the basis of a musical composition.
(print and film) The black ink layer, especially in relation to the three color layers of cyan, magenta, and yellow. See also CMYK.
(rail transport) A wooden support for a rail on the bullhead rail system.
(slang) Clipping of kilogram (especially of a recreational drug)
A crucial step or requirement.
A guide explaining the symbols or terminology of a map or chart; a legend.
A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test.
Alternative form of quay.
An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain their relative orientation.
An object designed to open and close a lock.
In instruments with a keyboard such as an organ or piano, one of the levers, or especially the exposed front end of it, which are depressed to cause a particular sound or note to be produced.
In musical instruments, one of the valve levers used to select notes, such as a lever opening a hole on a woodwind.
In musical notation, a sign at the head of a staff indicating the musical key.
In musical theory and notation, the tonality centering in a given tone, or the several tones taken collectively, of a given scale, major or minor.
In musical theory, the total melodic and harmonic relations, which exist between the tones of an ideal scale, major or minor; tonality.
One of a string of small islands.
That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.
The degree of roughness, or retention ability of a surface to have applied a liquid such as paint, or glue.
The lowest note of a scale; keynote.
verb
(advertising, transitive) To modify (an advertisement) so as to target a particular group or demographic.
(colloquial) To vandalize (a car, etc.) by scratching with an implement such as a key.
(computing) (more usually to key in) To enter (information) by typing on a keyboard or keypad.
(intransitive, biology, chiefly taxonomy) To be identified as a certain taxon when using a key.
(radio) To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio).
(telegraphy and radio telegraphy) To depress (a telegraph key).
To attune to; to set at; to pitch.
To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.
To fit (a lock) with a key.
To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them.
To link (as one might do with a key or legend).
To mark or indicate with a symbol indicating membership in a class.
To prepare for plastering by adding the key (that part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place).
kft
kgb
kgb
Proper noun
the former Soviet State Security Committee.
Noun
Known good board.
kgf
kgr
kha
kha
noun
The name of the Cyrillic script letter Х / х.
khi
khi
noun
Alternative spelling of chi (uppercase Χ, lowercase χ), the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
kho
kho
Noun
A Dardic ethnic group of about 230,000 people, located primarily in Pakistan, with a small population in Afghanistan. They speak the Dardic Khowar language and their main religion is Islam.
khu
khu
noun
In ancient Egyptian mythology, a part of the soul or spirit which left the body after death.
khz
kia
kid
kid
noun
(colloquial) An inexperienced person or one in a junior position.
(dated) A deception; an act of kidding somebody.
(in the vocative) Used as a form of address for a child, teenager or young adult.
(informal) A child (usually), teenager, or young adult; a juvenile.
(informal) A person whose childhood took place in a particular time period or area.
(informal) One's son or daughter, regardless of age.
(nautical) A small wooden mess tub in which sailors received their food.
(uncountable) The meat of a young goat.
A fagot; a bundle of heath and furze.
A young antelope.
A young goat.
Kidskin.
Of a female goat, the state of being pregnant: in kid.
verb
(intransitive) Of a goat, to give birth.
(intransitive, colloquial) To joke.
(transitive, colloquial) To dupe or deceive (someone).
(transitive, colloquial) To make a fool of (someone).
(transitive, colloquial) To make a joke with (someone).
kie
kie
noun
(UK, dialect, obsolete) Alternative spelling of kye plural of cow
kif
kif
noun
A kind of cannabis smoked in Morocco and Algeria, for narcotic or intoxicating effect.
The state of relaxed stupor induced by cannabis.
The trichome of marijuana, a green powdery substance that falls from dry marijuana high in THC and other cannabinoid compounds.
kil
kim
kin
kin
adj
Related by blood or marriage, akin. Generally used in "kin to".
noun
(collectively) Persons of the same race or family; kindred.
(fandom slang) A fictional character who one deeply relates to.
(fandom slang, in the form (character name) kin) Someone who relates deeply to a certain fictional character.
Alternative form of k'in
Alternative form of qin (“Chinese string instrument”)
One or more relatives, such as siblings or cousins, taken collectively.
Race; family; breed; kind.
Relationship; same-bloodedness or affinity; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.
verb
(transitive, fandom slang) To identify with; as in empathize or emotionally relate to a fictional character.
Pronunciation spelling of can.
kip
kip
noun
(Australia, games, two-up) A piece of flat wood used to throw the coins in a game of two-up.
(Scotland) A sharp-pointed hill; a projecting point, as on a hill.
(gymnastics) A basic skill or maneuver in artistic gymnastics on the uneven bars, parallel bars, high bar and still rings used, for example, as a way of mounting the bar in a front support position, or achieving a handstand from a hanging position. In its basic form, the legs are swung forward and upward by bending the hips, then suddenly down again, which gives the upward impulse to the body.
(informal, chiefly UK and Australia) Sleep, snooze, nap, forty winks, doze.
(informal, chiefly UK) A place to sleep; a rooming house; a bed.
(informal, chiefly UK) A very untidy house or room.
(informal, chiefly UK, dated) A brothel.
(obsolete) A unit of count for skins, 30 for lamb and 50 for goat.
(rare, nonstandard) A unit of mass equal to 1000 avoirdupois pounds.
A bundle or set of such hides.
A unit of force equal to 1000 pounds-force (lbf) (4.44822 kilonewtons or 4448.22 newtons); occasionally called the kilopound.
A unit of weight, used, for example, to calculate shipping charges, equal to half a US ton, or 1000 pounds.
The leather made from such hide; kip leather.
The unit of currency in Laos, divided into 100 att, symbol ₭, abbreviation LAK.
The untanned hide of a young or small beast, such as a calf, lamb, or young goat.
verb
(gymnastics, intransitive) To perform the kip maneuver.
(informal, chiefly UK) To sleep; often with the connotation of a temporary or charitable situation, or one borne out of necessity.
(intransitive, dialectal, Northern England) To conduct oneself; act
(intransitive, obsolete) To hold or keep (together)
(transitive, dialectal, Scotland, Northern England) To snatch; take up hastily; filch
kir
kir
noun
A cocktail made with a measure of crème de cassis topped up with white wine.
kit
kit
noun
(UK, informal) Clothing.
(UK, sports) The standard set of clothing, accessories and equipment worn by players.
(computing, informal) A full software distribution, as opposed to a patch or upgrade.
(dated) The whole set; kit and caboodle.
(music) A drum kit.
(video games) The set of skills and abilities chosen for a playable character.
A circular wooden vessel, made of hooped staves.
A collection of items forming the equipment of a soldier, carried in a knapsack.
A collection of parts sold for the buyer to assemble.
A kind of basket made especially from straw of rushes, especially for holding fish; by extension, the contents of such a basket or similar container, used as a measure of weight.
A kit fox.
A kitten (young cat).
A school of pigeons, especially domesticated, trained pigeons.
A young beaver.
A young ferret.
A young rabbit.
A young skunk.
A young weasel
Any collection of items needed for a specific purpose, especially for use by a workman, or personal effects packed for travelling.
Synonym of kit violin
verb
(transitive) To assemble or collect something into kits or sets or to give somebody a kit. See also kit out and other derived phrases.
kkk
kkt
kln
kln
Proper noun
of (in Hong Kong)
kmc
kmc
noun
Abbreviation of kilomegacycle.
knp
knt
koa
koa
noun
A large tree of species Acacia koa (family Fabaceae) which is endemic to and common on the islands of Hawaii; or the wood of this tree.
kob
kob
noun
An African antelope closely related to the lechwe and the waterbuck, Kobus kob.
Any of several large game fish of the family Sciaenidae, especially the kabeljou (dusky kob or great kob or perhaps the smaller squaretail kob.
koe
koh
koi
koi
noun
Ornamental domesticated varieties of the common carp (Cyprinus carpio), of Japan and eastern Asia with red-gold or white coloring.
kol
kon
koo
kop
kop
noun
(South Africa) A hill or mountain.
Rare spelling of cop (“dome, in armor”).
kor
kos
kou
koy
kpc
kpc
noun
Abbreviation of kiloparsec.
kph
kph
noun
Initialism of keystroke(s) per hour.
Initialism of kilometre(s) per hour.
kpo
kqc
kra
kra
noun
A long-tailed macaque of India and Sumatra, reddish-olive in colour with black spots and tail.
The letter Κʻ or ĸ, formerly used to write the Kalaallisut language of Greenland, replaced in 1973 by the letter q.
krp
krs
kru
ksc
ksf
ksh
ksi
ksi
noun
(materials science) Abbreviation of kilopound per square inch.
ksr
ksu
ktb
kts
kts
noun
plural of kt: knots
ktu
kua
kue
kui
kum
kun
kun
noun
In the Japanese language, the pronunciation, or reading, of a kanji character as a native Japanese word that means what the character represents, contrasted with on.