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kaftan n. An ankle length open bodiced gown with long, wide sleeves. Usually made from a very lightweight fabric such as muslin or cotton. North African in origin.
kakistocracy n. Government under the control of a nation's worst or least-qualified citizens.
Karakum n. The Karakum Desert, also spelled Kara-Kum and Gara Gum, is a large sandy desert in Central Asia, primarily located in Turkmenistan. It is known for its vastness and arid conditions, and its name, translated from Turkic languages, means "black sand". The desert covers roughly 70% of Turkmenistan's territory.
karst n. An area of limestone formations characterized by sinks, ravines and underground streams.
Kashan n. A city in the province of Isfahan, Iran.
kasutera cake n. A sponge cake made of sugar, flour, eggs, and starch syrup. It is a speciality of Nagasaki Japan, but the cake is originally from Spain. The name is believed to derive from a region called Castilla.
kaymak n. Kaymak, kajmak, kaimak or qeymağ, also geymar, gaimar, is a creamy dairy product, similar to clotted cream, made in the Balkans, Turkey, the Middle East, Central Asia, Iran, Afghanistan, and India. It is made from the milk of water buffalos in the East or of cows in the West.
kellet n. A weight that is attached along the anchor rode, to decrease the angle of pull to the anchor lying on the bottom, increasing the likelihood that the anchor will dig into the bottom.
kemenate n. Een Kemenate (lat. cemenata/caminus, Gronings: kemenoade) is een van een open haard en stenen schoorsteen voorziene kamer.
kenosis n. Kenosis (from the Greek kenóō, meaning “to empty”) is a theological term that refers to the self-emptying of Jesus' own will in order to fully submit to the will of God the Father. The concept is based primarily on Philippians 2:7, which says that Christ "emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in human likeness."
kerf n. The gap left when material is removed by a saw. The width of the kerf is equal to the set of the saw.
kerygma n. Preaching the gospel of Christ in the manner of the early church, as opposed to dogma, which develops later.
kexy adj. The exact opposite of sexy.
khaki n. A dull, yellowish-brown colour, the colour of dust; sometimes confusingly used as an abbreviation of khaki green; a strong cloth of wool or cotton, often used for military uniforms, used as a school uniform color; being dust-coloured.
knacker n. A person in the trade of rendering animals that are unfit for human consumption, such as horses that can no longer work.
knez n. Kniaz', knyaz or knez is a Slavic title found in most Slavic languages, denoting a royal nobility rank. It is usually translated into English as either Prince or less commonly as Duke. In the Vatican, some Croatian knyazes were referred to as "Dux Croatorum."
knickerbockers n. Knickerbockers were a men's or boys' baggy knee trousers particularly popular in the early twentieth century.
knout n. (in imperial Russia) A whip used to inflict punishment, often causing death.
kolkhoze n. A kolkhoz (Russian: колхо́з​, Russian pronunciation: [kɐlˈxos]), plural kolkhozy, was a form of collective farming in the Soviet Union that existed along with state farms (sovkhoz, plural sovkhozy). The word is a contraction of коллекти́вное хозя́йство, or "collective farm", while sovkhoz is a contraction of советское хозяйство (literally, "Soviet farm"). Kolkhozy and sovkhozy were the two components of the so-called socialized farm sector that began to emerge in Soviet agriculture after the October Revolution of 1917 as an antithesis to individual or family farming.
Korybantes n. The Korybantes (Ancient Greek: Κορύβαντες) were the crested dancers who worshipped the Phrygian goddess Cybele with drumming and dancing. They are also called the Kurbantes in Phrygia, and Corybants in an older English transcription.
koshary n. Kushari, also koshary, kosheri or koshari, (Egyptian Arabic: ??????, [?ko??i]) is an Egyptian dish of rice, lentils, chickpeas and macaroni topped with tomato sauce and fried onion. Also optionally, with garlic juice.
kurtosis n. In probability theory and statistics, kurtosis (from the Greek word κυρτός, kyrtos or kurtos, meaning bulging) is any measure of the "peakedness" of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable. In a similar way to the concept of skewness, kurtosis is a descriptor of the shape of a probability distribution and, just as for skewness, there are different ways of quantifying it for a theoretical distribution and corresponding ways of estimating it from a sample from a population. There are various interpretations of kurtosis, and of how particular measures should be interpreted; these are primarily peakedness (width of peak), tail weight, and lack of shoulders (distribution primarily peak and tails, not in between).