2-Letter Words Starting with K

Katchina

Purging of emotional tensions; -- usually spelled catharsis.catharsis.

Kayaking

Red-and-white headdresses for many Saudis

Kennel

Kenosis

Kephalin

Inflammation of the cornea

Corneal inflammation

Skin condition marked by horny growth

Wart for example, horny growth over one's skin

Pl. keratoses (-s z) Excessive growth of horny tissue of the skin.

Square head scarfs

Knotted scarves

Head covered with king and queen's neckwear

Kernel

Kerosine

""The formation of ketone bodies, as occurs in diabetes.""

Keynote

KHEDIVE a Turkish viceroy

Kibbitz

""KIBBITZ to give unwelcome advice, also KIBITZ""

Kibbitz

Jewish communal agricultural settlements

Israeli settlements

Fifths for bridge (wordplay)

Fifths at bridge

They know everything

Kibitz

Kibosh

Examples of graft in industry.

Bribes of a sort

Payments for favours

Kickball

""A buoyant board used to keep the upper body of a swimmer afloat while allowing free movement of the legs, used chiefly to improve kicking technique or develop leg strength and endurance.""

Fighter getting a leg up (wordplay)

1989 Van Damme film

One who fights with fists and feet

Kickshaw

Hog support (wordplay)

It holds a motorcycle up

Biker's prop

KIDDING kid

Kiddush

Kidnapee

Kidnaper

An act of kidnaping

Youngster drifted off! That's novel!

Taken for ransom

Held for ransom

""-naps , -napping , -napped US -naps , -naping , -naped (tr) to carry off and hold (a person), usually for ransom [ kid 1 + obsolete nap to steal; see nab ]""

Sleeping goat (wordplay)

Ransom-note writer

Child sent to head as criminal

Brats' cousins

Polish sausages

Mineral in last bit of rock that is found at location containing erbium

A liquid measure of 18 gallons

Like drink? Somehow this should keep you going

Sounds as if one murdered 'er relations with a cask

Killdeer

""Any one of several small American cyprinodont fishes of the genus Fundulus and allied genera. They live equally well in fresh and brackish water, or even in the sea. They are usually striped or barred with black. Called also minnow, and brook fish. See Minnow. Fundulus and allied genera. They live equally well in fresh and brackish water, or even in the sea. They are usually striped or barred with black. Called also minnow, and brook fish. See Minnow.""

KILLING a sudden notable success

Kilobase

Kilobaud

Kilobyte

One thousand periods per second

1,000 hertz, old style

Measure of frequency

English word

Units of weight

Metric units of weight

Metric weights

Frequency of 1,000 cycles per second

What AM radio frequencies are given in

1,000 cycles per second

1,000 watt-seconds

""Abbr. kl A metric unit of volume equal to 1,000 liters (1,056 liquid quarts).""

About five-eighths of a mile

One of about five in a league

Click, so to speak

Kilomole

Units of electric power transmission

Electric units

Units of electrical power

Power of base article in sanctified island

Most good-hearted

Most warm-hearted

Most considerate

Kindling

Pertaining to motions of bodies

Relating to motion

Treating of the motion of bodies in space.

Cathode-ray television tube.

Film version of a TV show.

Early TV medium

Gray flycatchers

Kingbolt

Machiavelli's subject, like corruption, includes its leader

Old art of ruling with Billie Jean's service in court

Kinghood

Most regal, perhaps

Checker stacker (wordplay)

Wielder of political influence

Warwick's nickname

Kingpost

Some monarchies

Kingside

Kingwood

Raccoon relatives

Aspect of Cabaret's cabaret scenes

Aspect of the cabaret scenes in 'Cabaret'

Family repeatedly getting letter revealing abnormality

Perhaps 10 winks stirred old chap

Niece or aunt

Grandmother, for example

Sisters and aunts, for example

Sisters and aunts, e.g

Kipperer

Kipper

Kirigami

Fairs having dishes of sloppy food after an aperitif

Kitten

Playful but not catty yet (wordplay)

Tike hints about being playful

Equipment then is modified, so lively

Small pearl-grey gull

Pool said to revive seabird

Feline heard to rouse bird

An Auckland apple? Not exactly!

Possible trifle ingredient

Green salad ingredient

Klezmer

More clumsy than anyone

Dishonest doings.

In a knavish manner; dishonestly; fraudulently.

Adjective meaning resembling

It's dark with the monarch around for one in 6 across in the making

Special thing, being welcomed by monarch bestowing honour

Mittens and sweaters

Knobby

Knobbly

Most difficult bird to draw on street

Most complex

Most convoluted

Knotting

Knowing

On purpose

Like monarch, accepting present with awareness

Knubby

Knuckly

Knuckle

Knurly

Kolbassi

KOOKIE eccentric

Kosher

Koumiss

Toadyism

Kryolite

Kryolith

""Hinduism Energy that lies dormant at the base of the spine until it is activated, as by the practice of yoga, and channeled upward through the chakras in the process of spiritual perfection.""

Kvetchy

Kvetch

Kyanise

Kyanize

Kybosh

Kaiserdom

Kaiserism

English word

Kanamycin

Kaolinite

KAOLINITE

Karabiner

Skilled choppers

Adjective (-ic)

KARYOTYPE

Kazatski

Keelhale

Almost stop royal mistress entertained by monarch being cooped up like a pet

KERATIN a fibrous protein

KERATIN a fibrous protein

What has the Queen on head? Tick 'Wearing a scarf'

Kerchief

Kernel

KERYGMA the early preaching of the Christian gospel

Kibbitzer

Kibbitz

One on an Israeli cooperative

Kiddie pool accessories

Some ring combatants

Sport that employs fists and feet

Part 4 (and conclusion) of quote

Full-contact sport

Kickstand

Kidnappee

Flint workers hold fish to ransom

Certain lawbreakers.

Ransom demanders

Baby goat caught off-guard (wordplay)

Baby goat at rest (wordplay)

Young goat off guard (wordplay)

Unconsolidated form of diatomite

Kieserite

Half-barrel quantities

Kilocycle

Kilojoule

Kiloliter

Light year's nine trillion

Sixty-four of these equal about 40 miles

Conversion figure

English word

Adjective (-al)

""A rock formation in South Africa containing peridotite, in which diamonds are formed.""

KINDLESS without kindness

What a nice sort of a shipping line!

Benevolent and helpful nature

Friendly and considerate manner

Kindness

""The science which treats of motions considered in themselves, or apart from their causes; the comparison and relation of motions.""

KINESCOPE

Kinescope

KINETIC pertaining to motion

See basal body .

Kingcraft

Royal angler (wordplay)

Alan and Carrie's bird (wordplay)

Bird of Carole and Carrie (wordplay)

Kingfish

The state or quality of being kingly.

Kingmaker

Birds? Cat gets roused, we hear

Eartha and Orlando trail small birds

Chinese gooseberries, more familiarly

Chinese gooseberries

English word

Slang A clumsy person.

Knackery

Tip of a blade

Honour for gallant gangster (wordplay)

A result of being dubbed (wordplay)

A moral oxymoron

Knobbly

South African wooden weapon

Change from krone needed to join Hellish Biker Club

The quality or state of being knotty or full of knots.

Knowing

Knuckly

KOHLRABI a variety of cabbage

Kolinsky

A member of a kolkhoz.

Kundalini

Kurbash

Kurtosis

Kvetchy

Kallikrein

Karyogamy

Karyology

KARYOTYPE

Putting tar under vessel

Man on board hoarding number of long fish caught? Cruel punishment for him

KERATINIZE

Keratinize

Inflammation of the cornea.

Kerplunk

""The formation of ketone bodies, as occurs in diabetes.""

A steroid containing a ketone group.

Typing (and the theme of this puzzle)

Person of letters (wordplay)

Keypunch

KEYSTROKE

Kibbutznik

Kickboxing