Skip to content A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z kalpe An Ancient Greek flat race for horses, generally mares, with riders. Kalpienung A locality in the Shire of Buloke, north western Victoria, Australia Kalpin A county of Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China. kalpis A kind of Ancient Greek water jug. Kalra A surname from Punjabi. kalsilite a rare mineral, a form of KAlSiO₄, found in volcanic rocks in parts of Uganda kalsomine Calcimine. Kaltenbach A surname. Kalterherberg A village in Monschau municipality, Aachen district, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, close to the border with Belgium. Kalteux A surname. kalu a dark-skinned person. kalua A traditional Hawaiian cooking method, using an underground oven called an imu. kaluaed Cooked using the Hawaiian kalua method. Kalubihan A barangay of Cebu City, Cebu, Philippines. Kaludirehaa An uninhabited island of Gaafu Alifu, Maldives. kaluga Huso dauricus, a sturgeon of the Amur river basin in northeast China and southeast Russia. Kaluli A people living in Papua New Guinea. Kalunasan A barangay of Cebu City, Cebu, Philippines. Kalundborg A town and municipality in western Zealand, Denmark. kalunti The wood of trees of species Richetia hopeifolia (syns. Shorea hopeifolia, Shorea kalunti). Kalush A city and raion of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, in western Ukraine. Kalusugan A barangay of Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines. kaluszite Synonym of syngenite. kaluta Dasykaluta rosamondae, a carnivorous nocturnal marsupial of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Kaluza A surname. Kaluzhny A surname. Kaluzny A surname. Kalvarija A city in Marijampolė, Lithuania. Kalver A surname. Kalwar A member of an Indian caste historically found in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, and other parts of north and central India, and traditionally associated with the distillation and selling of liquor. Kalyan A male given name from Sanskrit used in India. Kalyani A female given name from Sanskrit used in India. Kalyanpur A neighbourhood of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. Kalyke One of the moons of Jupiter. Kalymniot One of the inhabitants of the Greek island of Kalymnos. Kalymnos An island of the Dodecanese, Greece. Kalynets A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Калинець (Kalynecʹ). Kalynivka A rural settlement in Chasiv Yar urban hromada, Bakhmut Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. Kalynn A female given name originating as a coinage, variant of Kaylyn. Kalypso 53 Kalypso, a main belt asteroid. kalyptorhynch Any rhabdocoel flatworm of the suborder Kalyptorhynchia Kalyuzhny A transliteration of the Belarusian surname Калюжны (Kaljužny). Kalyuzhnyi A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Калюжний (Kaljužnyj). Kalyuzhnyy A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Калюжний (Kaljužnyj). kam Crooked, awry. kama A sickle-like weapon, originally used as a tool for cutting weeds. kamaboko Any of various processed seafood products made from surimi, in which whitefish is pureed, formed into loaves, and steamed until firm. kamachili A fast-growing tree found in the tropics (Pithecolobium dulce) whose bark is used in tanning. kamacite A meteoritic mineral which consists chiefly of iron and nickel kamacitic Of or relating to kamacite. Kamadeva The Hindu deity of love, son of the goddess Sri and the incarnation of Pradyumna, Krishna's son. Kamadhenu the wish-fulfilling cow of plenty who emerged from the churning of the cosmic ocean. Kamadhoo A residential island of Baa, Maldives. kamado A traditional Japanese wood- or charcoal-fired earthen vessel used as a stove or oven. kamafugite Any a series of ultrapotassic igneous rocks, between kalsilitite and leucitite kamafugitic Relating to or composed of kamafugite. Kamagayan A barangay of Cebu City, Cebu, Philippines. kamagraph The special press used to create reproductions by kamagraphy. kamagraphy A process for making copies of paintings that are painted on a pretreated canvas using a special press, which reproduces the texture of the brushstrokes as well as the colour, but destroys the original in the process. kamahi A New Zealand tree Weinmannia racemosa kamaishilite A dimorph of bicchulite; a tetragonal colorless mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon. kamaitachi A Japanese yōkai (supernatural being), taking the form of a weasel with sharp claws, and believed to ride dust devils. Kamajor A member of a group of traditional hunters of the Mende ethnic group in Sierra Leone. Kamakani A male given name. Kamakshi The Hindu goddess, a form of Parvati. Kamakura A city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. kamal A navigation device, known to the Arabs and Chinese of the ancient world, consisting of a wooden card and knotted string. kamala A small or medium-sized tree (Mallotus philippensis) in the spurge family, found in Asia and Australia. Kamalabad A village in Khezrabad district, Ashkezar, Yazd Province, Iran. kamalam Synonym of dragonfruit, pitaya, pitahaya (a fruit) Kamalamentum A wave of enthusiasm for the 2024 presidential campaign of Kamala Harris. Kamalanomenon The political and social media momentum of Kamala Harris during her 2024 United States presidential campaign. Kamalanomics The economic ideas and policies of Kamala Harris. Kamali A surname from Persian. kamaloka According to the theosophy of Helena Blavatsky: a semi-material plane of existence, subjective and invisible to humans, inhabited by disembodied personalities created from human and animal passions and desires. kamaloside A particular steroid glycoside. Kaman A surname. Kamana A female given name from Sanskrit used in India. kamancheh A long-necked stringed instrument (a spike fiddle) with a bowl-shaped body, traditionally featuring three silk strings but now more often four metal ones, played with a bow, common among the peoples of the Caucasus, Anatolia and the Near East. Kamandugan A barangay of Santa Cruz, Marinduque, Philippines. kamani A tree of the species Calophyllum inophyllum. kamansi The breadnut. kamao An extinct bird of Hawaii, Myadestes myadestinus. Kamar A member of a people of Central India. Kamara A surname. Kamarah A locality in the Bland council area and the Narrandera council area, central New South Wales, Australia. Kamarck A surname. Kamareddy A district of Telangana, India. kamarezite A basic form of copper sulphate Kamari A male or female given name. Kamarina An ancient city in Sicily, founded by Syracuse in 599 BC. kamarinskaya A traditional Russian folk dance. kamarizaite A triclinic mineral containing astatine, hydrogen, oxygen, and iron. Kamarooka A locality in the City of Greater Bendigo and the Shire of Loddon, central Victoria, Australia Kamaru a language spoken in Indonesia Kamarupa An early state on the Indian subcontinent, centred in Assam, prevailing from 350 CE to 1140 CE. Kamarupan Of or relating to a certain grouping of Tibeto-Burman languages. kamas A member of a people who live in the northwest of Siberia. Kamasin A member of an extinct Samoyedic tribe that lived in Siberia. Kamassian An extinct Samoyedic language that was spoken by Kamasins in Siberia. Kamat A surname from Marathi. Kamata A neighborhood of Ōta, Tokyo prefecture, Japan. Kamatapur The capital of the kingdom of Kamata. Kamath A surname. kamatz A Hebrew nikud vowel sign, shaped like a small uppercase T, which is written beneath a letter to indicate an /a/ sound (or, in Ashkenazi pronunciation, an /o/ sound). Kamau A surname. kamayan The traditional Filipino method of eating with the bare hands, often as a communal feast where food is served on banana leaves and eaten without utensils. Kamba a Bantu people of Kenya. kambala An annual buffalo race held in Karnataka, India. kambaldaite An extremely rare hexagonal hydrated sodium nickel carbonate mineral, light green or blue, that forms drusy to mammillated encrustations on the matrix. Kambera A Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in the eastern part of the island Sumba, Indonesia. Kambhampaty A transliteration of the Telugu surname కంభంపాటి (kambhampāṭi). Kamboj A community of people living in northwestern India and Pakistan. Kamboja A member of an Iranian people from this region. kamboji A medicinal plant, especially Breynia retusa (synonym Breynia patens), native to Kamboja. Kambojika The name of a monarch of a region of ancient India. Kambreigh A female given name, variant of Cambree. kambroo A South African plant of the dogbane family, Fockea edulis, with edible roots. Kambuja An inhabitant of this kingdom; a member of the people that inhabited this kingdom. Kambujiya The name of several monarchs of Achaemenid line of ancient Persia. Kamchadal A member of the ethnic group who are the original inhabitants of the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia. Kamchatka A long peninsula forming part of Kamchatka Krai in the Far East of Russia, lying between the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Okhotsk. Kamchatkan Of or pertaining to Kamchatka. kamchatkite An orthorhombic-pyramidal greenish brown mineral with the chemical formula KCu₃(SO₄)₂OCl. Kamchukchee Chukotko-Kamchatkan language family Kamchukotic Chukotko-Kamchatkan language family Kamdar A surname. Kamden A male given name transferred from the surname. Kamdyn A male given name transferred from the surname. kame A round hill or short ridge of sand or gravel deposited by a melting glacier. kamebacetal A particular ent-kaurane diterpenoid. kamebakaurin A particular diterpenoid, derived from kaurane, that has physiological action kamebanin An antitumor ent-kaurenoid isolated from Isodon kameba. kameela Red dusty hairs of the capsules of a tropical Asian tree (Mallotus philippensis), used for dyeing silk and in the treatment of tapeworm. kameeldoorn camelthorn kameelthorn camelthorn kamees A long, loose shirt or blouse worn in some South Asian and Islamic countries. Kamehameha A male given name from Hawaiian, of historical usage, borne by several kings of Hawaii, most notably Kamehameha I. kamelaukion A stiff brimless ornamental cap worn in Orthodox Christian and Eastern Catholic traditions. Kamen A surname. Kamenev A surname Kamenevism The philosophy and politics espoused by Lev Kamenev. kamenitza A closed depression that develops on rock surfaces in karst regions formed by dissolution weathering. Kamentz A surname. kamerad To surrender, as a German in World War II. Kamerman A surname. Kameron A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage, variant of Cameron. Kameruka A locality in the Bega Valley council area, south-eastern New South Wales, Australia. Kamerun An African colony of the German Empire from 1884 to 1916 in the region of the modern Republic of Cameroon. Kamerunian Of or relating to Kamerun.