<B>kamikaze, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a Japanese suicide pilot in World War II, trained to dive an airplane loaded with explosives into a selected target, usually a naval vessel. <DD><B> 2. </B>the plane itself. <BR> <I>Ex. Kamikazes plunged out of the sky, their suicidal pilots aiming ... at the destroyers (Time).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a person or thing that acts like a kamikaze. <BR> <I>Ex. to run for election as a political kamikaze.</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of or being a kamikaze. <BR> <I>Ex. a kamikaze pilot.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Informal.) extremely reckless. <BR> <I>Ex. a kamikaze cabdriver, kamikaze radicals.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="kamila">
<B>kamila, </B>noun. <B>=kamala.</B></DL>
<A NAME="kampong">
<B>kampong, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a Malay village, usually consisting of wooden huts on stilts. </DL>
<A NAME="kampuchean">
<B>Kampuchean, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with Kampuchea, the official name of Cambodia. </DL>
<A NAME="kamseen">
<B>kamseen, </B>noun. <B>=khamsin.</B></DL>
<A NAME="kamsin">
<B>kamsin, </B>noun. <B>=khamsin.</B></DL>
<A NAME="kan">
<B>kan, </B>noun. <B>=khan</B> (1) (def. 2).</DL>
<A NAME="kan">
<B>Kan.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Kansas. </DL>
<A NAME="kana">
<B>kana, </B>noun, pl. <B>-na</B> or <B>-nas.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a Japanese system of writing consisting of tables of syllables made up of 46 or (formerly) 48 modified Chinese characters. The two types of kana are the common rounded form called hiragana and the square-shaped katakana. </DL>
<A NAME="kanaka">
<B>Kanaka, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a native of Hawaii. <DD><B> 2. </B>a native of the South Sea Islands. <DD><B> 3. </B>a plantation worker on many Pacific islands; coolie. </DL>
<A NAME="kanamajiri">
<B>kanamajiri, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the standard Japanese system of writing, which is a combination of kana and kanji. </DL>
<A NAME="kanamycin">
<B>kanamycin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an antibiotic effective against a broad range of bacteria. </DL>
<A NAME="kanarese">
<B>Kanarese, </B>adjective, noun, pl. <B>-rese.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with Kanara, a district of southern India, or its Dravidian inhabitants. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a Dravidian of Kanara. <DD><B> 2. </B>the Dravidian language of the Kanarese, closely related to Telugu; Kannada. Also, <B>Canarese.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="kandyan">
<B>Kandyan, </B>noun, pl. <B>-an</B> or <B>-ans,</B> adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a member of a Singhalese people of the mountains of Sri Lanka. <DD><B> 2. </B>a native of Kandy, a city in central Sri Lanka. <DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with the Kandyans. </DL>
<A NAME="kane">
<B>kane, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> Hawaiian. a man. </DL>
<A NAME="kang">
<B>kang, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a structure of brick or other material, with a place for a fire beneath, used in China to sleep on. </DL>
<A NAME="kangaroo">
<B>kangaroo</B> (1), noun, pl. <B>-roos</B> or (collectively) <B>-roo.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an animal of Australia, New Guinea, and nearby islands. Kangaroos are mammals with small forelegs and very strong hind legs which give them great leaping power and a heavy tail that gives both balance and support. The female kangaroo has a pouch in front in which she carries her young. The smaller kangaroos are often called wallabies. adj. <B>kangaroolike.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="kangaroo">
<B>kangaroo</B> (2), adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with a kangaroo court; unauthorized or irregular; mock. <BR> <I>Ex. kangaroo procedures, kangaroo justice.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="kangarooapple">
<B>kangaroo apple,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a leafy shrub 4 to 8 feet high, native to New Zealand, southeastern Australia, and Tasmania, that belongs to the nightshade family. <DD><B> 2. </B>its edible, yellowish egg-shaped berry. </DL>
<A NAME="kangaroobear">
<B>kangaroo bear,</B> <B>=koala.</B></DL>
<A NAME="kangaroocourt">
<B>kangaroo court,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an unauthorized or unofficial court, usually self-appointed, such as a mock court by prisoners in a jail or a frontier court. <DD><B> 2. </B>an official court that acts in complete disregard of legal rights or procedures. <BR> <I>Ex. ... shot down over North Korea in 1952 and condemned to prison by a Red kangaroo court (Newsweek).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="kangaroodog">
<B>kangaroo dog,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a breed of dog similar to the greyhound, used in Australia for hunting the kangaroo. </DL>
<A NAME="kangaroograss">
<B>kangaroo grass,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a tall grass used as fodder, found in Australasia and Africa. </DL>
<A NAME="kangaroomouse">
<B>kangaroo mouse,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a group of small, jumping, mouselike rodents of the western deserts of the United States, similar to the kangaroo rat but smaller. </DL>
<A NAME="kangaroopaw">
<B>kangaroopaw, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an Australian flower of the amaryllis family, having a bright-green, split perianth that resembles the foot of a kangaroo. </DL>
<A NAME="kangaroorat">
<B>kangaroo rat,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>any one of a genus of small jumping, burrowing rodents of arid and semiarid regions of North America. Kangaroo rats have cheek pouches and long hind legs and tails. <DD><B> 2. </B>any one of various similar, although not closely related, small rodents of the desert regions of Australia. </DL>
<A NAME="kangarootrial">
<B>kangaroo trial,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a trial by a kangaroo court. </DL>
<A NAME="kanji">
<B>kanji, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ji</B> or <B>-jis.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the Japanese system of writing using modified Chinese characters. <DD><B> 2. </B>any of these characters. </DL>
<A NAME="kannada">
<B>Kannada, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a Dravidian language spoken in southern India; Kanarese. </DL>
<A NAME="kans">
<B>Kans.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Kansas. </DL>
<A NAME="kansa">
<B>Kansa, </B>noun, pl. <B>-sa</B> or <B>-sas.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a member of a tribe of Indians of the Siouan linguistic stock, that formerly lived in the vicinity of the Kansas and Missouri rivers. </DL>
<A NAME="kansai">
<B>Kansai, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a Japanese dialect spoken in western Honshu, most of Shikoku, and central Kyushu. </DL>
<A NAME="kansan">
<B>Kansan, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of or having to do with the state of Kansas or its inhabitants. <DD><B> 2. </B>of or having to do with the second period of glaciation in North America, beginning about 470,000 years ago, and lasting for 156,000 years. <DD><I>noun </I> a person born or living in Kansas. </DL>
<A NAME="kantar">
<B>kantar, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a Moslem unit of weight corresponding to the hundred-weight but varying in different localities. Also, <B>cantar.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="kantian">
<B>Kantian, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) or his system of philosophy. <DD><I>noun </I> a follower of Kant. </DL>
<A NAME="kantianism">
<B>Kantianism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the philosophical doctrines of Immanuel Kant or those developed by his followers. </DL>
<A NAME="kantism">
<B>Kantism, </B>noun. <B>=Kantianism.</B></DL>
<A NAME="kanu">
<B>KANU</B> (no periods) or <B>K.A.N.U.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Kenya African National Union (the leading political party in Kenya). </DL>
<A NAME="kanzu">
<B>kanzu, </B>noun, pl. <B>-zu</B> or <B>zus.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a long robe, usually white, worn in East Africa chiefly by men. </DL>
<A NAME="kaoliang">
<B>kaoliang, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> one of a variety of grain sorghums, introduced into the United States from Asia. </DL>
<A NAME="kaolin">
<B>kaolin</B> or <B>kaoline, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a fine white clay used in making porcelain; china clay; porcelain clay. Kaolin is produced by the decomposition of feldspar. It is used chiefly as a filler in paper and, when mixed with ground feldspar and quartz, is used in making ceramics. </DL>
<A NAME="kaolinite">
<B>kaolinite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a crystalline, hydrous silicate of aluminum occurring in kaolin. </DL>
<A NAME="kaon">
<B>kaon, </B>noun. <B>=K-meson.</B></DL>
<A NAME="kaonic">
<B>kaonic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> containing or producing kaons; K-mesic. </DL>
<A NAME="kaparran">
<B>kaparran, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (in South Africa) a wooden sandal consisting of a small piece of wood with two slips joined underneath, and a wooden knob on the upper side. Also, <B>kapparing.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="kapelle">
<B>Kapelle, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (German.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a choir or orchestra such as was formerly maintained at German courts. <DD><B> 2. </B>any musical group, such as an orchestra or band. </DL>
<A NAME="kapellmeister">
<B>Kapellmeister, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ter.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the director of an orchestra, choir, or combination of both. Also, <B>capellmeister.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="kaph">
<B>kaph, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the eleventh letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Also, <B>khaph.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="kapje">
<B>kapje, </B>noun. <B>=kappie.</B></DL>
<A NAME="kaplantype">
<B>Kaplan-type, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having blades like a propeller, so that the slant of the blades can be varied according to the load. <BR> <I>Ex. a Kaplan-type reaction turbine.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="kapo">
<B>Kapo</B> or <B>kapo, </B>noun, pl. <B>-pos.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp who was put in charge of other prisoners. <BR> <I>Ex. The prisoners ... depended entirely on the whim of the guards and Kapos (Atlantic).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="kapok">
<B>kapok, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the silky fibers around the seeds of a tropical tree, used for stuffing pillows, mattresses, and life preservers, and for insulation; silk cotton; ceiba. </DL>
<A NAME="kapoktree">
<B>kapok tree,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the tropical tree from whose seeds kapok is taken; silk-cotton tree; ceiba. The kapok tree belongs to the bombax family. </DL>
<A NAME="kaposissarcoma">
<B>Kaposi's sarcoma,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a form of sarcoma characterized by multiple bluish red or brown nodules and plaques, commonly associated with AIDS. </DL>
<A NAME="kappa">
<B>kappa, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the tenth letter of the Greek alphabet, corresponding to English <I>k</I> but often represented by <I>c</I> in spelling words of Greek origin. </DL>
<A NAME="kappaparticle">
<B>kappa particle,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a particle containing DNA found in certain strains of paramecia that secretes a toxic substance which kills individuals of sensitive strains. </DL>
