4-Letter Nouns Starting With K

1. the fact of being aware of information that is known to few people

1. the financial means whereby one lives

2. the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress

1. a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom

2. a competitor who holds a preeminent position

1. a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality

1. the act of terminating a life

2. the destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile

1. the act of caressing with the lips (or an instance thereof)

2. a cookie made of egg whites and sugar

1. the act of delivering a blow with the foot

2. the swift release of a store of affective force

1. hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella

2. joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee

1. a funeral lament sung with loud wailing

1. a game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards

1. a Scottish church

1. a fabric made by knitting

2. a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the lefthand side

1. a title given to rulers or other important people in Asian countries

2. an inn in some eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans

1. a circular rounded projection or protuberance

2. a round handle

1. a tight cluster of people or things

2. any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object

1. a Malayan dagger with a wavy blade

1. a bank check that has been fraudulently altered to increase its face value

2. a bank check drawn on insufficient funds at another bank in order to take advantage of the float

1. the part of a metal type that projects beyond its body

1. climbing vine native to China; cultivated in New Zealand for its fuzzy edible fruit with green meat

2. fuzzy brown egg-shaped fruit with slightly tart green flesh

1. a furnace for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks

1. a cosmetic preparation used by women in Egypt and Arabia to darken the edges of their eyelids

1. a projection or ridge that suggests a keel

2. the median ridge on the breastbone of birds that fly

1. bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash

1. a knee-length pleated tartan skirt worn by men as part of the traditional dress in the Highlands of northern Scotland

1. one thousand grams; the basic unit of mass adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites

1. an alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub

1. a gum obtained from various tropical plants; used as an astringent and in tanning

2. East Indian tree yielding a resin or extract often used medicinally and in e.g. tanning

1. large brown seaweeds having fluted leathery fronds

1. a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British)

2. a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight

1. informal terms for money

2. a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head

1. tree bearing large brown nuts containing e.g. caffeine; source of cola extract

1. the basic unit of money in Myanmar

1. an edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter)

1. domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age

1. the basic unit of money in Papua New Guinea

1. Japanese stringed instrument that resembles a zither; has a rectangular wooden sounding board and usually 13 silk strings that are plucked with the fingers

1. someone regarded as eccentric or crazy and standing out from a group

1. a blow that renders the opponent unconscious

1. an unstable meson produced as the result of a high-energy particle collision

1. either of two spiral-horned antelopes of the African bush

1. a paradoxical anecdote or a riddle that has no solution; used in Zen Buddhism to show the inadequacy of logical reasoning

1. small deciduous Asiatic tree bearing large red or orange edible astringent fruit

2. blackish stilt of New Zealand sometimes considered a color phase of the white-headed stilt

1. a progressive disease of the central nervous system marked by increasing lack of coordination and advancing to paralysis and death within a year of the appearance of symptoms; thought to have been transmitted by cannibalistic consumption of diseased brain tissue since the disease virtually disappeared when cannibalism was abandoned