king quail
A bird of the species Synoicus chinensis.

king rail
The bird Rallus elegans, the largest North American rail.

king vulture
A widespread species of New World vulture, Sarcoramphus papa.

kingbirds
plural of kingbird

kingfisher
Any of various birds of the suborder Alcedines (or the family Alcedinidae sensu lato), having a large head, short tail and brilliant colouration; they feed mostly on fish.
Any of various birds of the suborder Alcedines (or the family Alcedinidae sensu lato), having a large head, short tail and brilliant colouration; they feed mostly on fish.

kingfishers
plural of kingfisher

kinglets
plural of kinglet

kioea
Any of the species †Chaetoptila angustipluma of extinct Hawaiian birds.

kioeas
plural of kioea

kirombo
Synonym of cuckoo-roller (“Leptosomus discolor”).

kirombos
plural of kirombo

kiskadees
plural of kiskadee

kite
A bird of prey of the family Accipitridae.
A bird of prey of the family Accipitridae.
A bird of prey of the family Accipitridae.
A bird of prey of the family Accipitridae.
A rapacious person.
A lightweight toy or other device, traditionally flat and shaped like a triangle with a segment of a circle attached to its base or like a quadrilateral (see sense 9), carried on the wind and tethered and controlled from the ground by one or more lines.
A tethered object which deflects its position in a medium by obtaining lift and drag in reaction with its relative motion in the medium.
A planetary configuration wherein one planet of a grand trine is in opposition to an additional fourth planet.
A blank cheque; a fraudulent cheque, such as one issued even though there are insufficient funds to honour it, or one that has been altered without authorization.
An accommodation bill (“a bill of exchange endorsed by a reputable third party acting as a guarantor, as a favour and without compensation”).
A rider who is good at climbs but less good at descents.
A polygon resembling the shape of a traditional toy kite (sense 3): a quadrilateral having two pairs of edges of equal length, the edges of each pair touching each other at one end.
An aeroplane or aircraft.
In a square-rigged ship: originally a sail positioned above a topsail; later a lightweight sail set above the topgallants, such as a studding sail or a jib topsail.
A spinnaker (“supplementary sail to a mainsail”).
The brill (Scophthalmus rhombus), a type of flatfish.
A (usually concealed) letter or oral message, especially one passed illegally into, within, or out of a prison.

kites
plural of kite

kittiewake
Alternative form of kittiwake.

kittiewakes
plural of kittiewake

kittiwake
Either of two small gulls in the genus Rissa of the family Laridae that nest in colonies on sea cliffs and spend the winter on the open ocean.
the black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla), no other kittiwake being found in Europe.

kittiwakes
plural of kittiwake

kittywake
Alternative form of kittiwake.

kittywakes
plural of kittywake

kiwi
A flightless bird of the order Apterygiformes native to New Zealand.
Alternative letter-case form of Kiwi (“person from New Zealand”).
A New Zealand dollar.
A kiwi fruit.
A green-yellow colour, like that of kiwi fruit flesh (also called kiwi green).
A member of the air force who does not fly.
A testicle.

kiwiberries
plural of kiwiberry

kiwiberry
Alternative form of kiwi berry.

kiwis
plural of kiwi

knot
A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without passing one or both ends of the material through its loops.
A tangled clump of hair or similar.
A maze-like pattern.
A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above).
A difficult situation.
The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.
Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
A tightened and contracted part of a muscle that feels like a hard lump under the skin.
A protuberant joint in a plant.
Any knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.
The swelling of the bulbus glandis in members of the dog family, Canidae.
The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.
A node (point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions)
A kind of epaulet; a shoulder knot.
A group of people or things.
A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour.
A unit of indicated airspeed, calibrated airspeed, or equivalent airspeed, which varies in its relation to the unit of speed so as to compensate for the effects of different ambient atmospheric conditions on aircraft performance.
A nautical mile.
The bulbus glandis.

knots
plural of knot

koae
Synonym of tropicbird.

koel
A cuckoo of the genus Eudynamys, native to Asia, Australia and the Pacific.

koels
plural of koel

kokako
A wattlebird of the genus Callaeas endemic to New Zealand.

kokakos
plural of kokako

kooka
kookaburra

kookaburra
Any of several species of kingfishers in the genus Dacelo.

kookaburras
plural of kookaburra

kookas
plural of kooka

kori bustard
A species of bustard, Ardeotis kori, which is the largest flying bird native to Africa.

kyte
Obsolete form of kite (“bird of prey”).
Alternative spelling of kite (“the stomach; the belly”).

kytes
plural of kyte

laemmergeyer
Archaic form of lammergeyer.

laemmergeyers
plural of laemmergeyer

lagopodes
plural of lagopus

lagopus
The ptarmigan.

lammergeier
A long-winged vulture, Gypaetus barbatus, found in southern Europe, Africa and India.

lammergeiers
plural of lammergeier

lammergeyer
Alternative form of lammergeier.

lammergeyers
plural of lammergeyer

lanceolated warbler
Locustella lanceolata, an Old World warbler.

landfowl
Any of the heavy-bodied ground-feeding birds in the order Galliformes, which includes chickens, turkeys, peafowl, pheasants, grouse, quail, and other related species.

landfowls
plural of landfowl

laniisoma
A bird in the Tityridae family of the genus Laniisoma.

laniisomas
plural of laniisoma

lanner
The lanner falcon, Falco biarmicus.

lanner falcon
Falco biarmicus, a large bird of prey found in Africa, southeast Europe, and southwest Asia.

lanners
plural of lanner

lappet-faced vulture
A species of vulture in the family Accipitridae living across Africa and in the Arabian Peninsula Torgos tracheliotus.

lapwing
Any of several medium-sized wading birds belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae, within family Charadriidae.
Any of several medium-sized wading birds belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae, within family Charadriidae.
A silly man.

lapwings
plural of lapwing

large egret
Synonym of great egret.

large-billed scrubwren
Sericornis magnirostra, a species of scrubwren.

large-tailed antshrike
a passerine bird of the antbird family, Mackenziaena leachii, syn. Thamnophilus leachii

lark
Any of various small, singing passerine birds of the family Alaudidae.
Any of various similar-appearing birds, but usually ground-living, such as the meadowlark and titlark.
One who wakes early; one who is up with the larks.
A jolly or peppy person.

lark bunting
Calamospiza melanocorys, a medium-sized American sparrow native to central and western North America.

lark buntings
plural of lark bunting

lark sparrow
Chondestes grammacus, a New World sparrow.

lark sparrows
plural of lark sparrow

larkheel
Alternative form of lark's-heel (“monks cress”).

larkheels
plural of larkheel

larks
plural of lark

laughing dove
A small pigeon (Spilopelia senegalensis) native to the tropics in Africa south of the Sahara; the Middle East; and southern Asia east to India.

laughing falcon
A South American hawk (Herpetotheres cachinnans), so called from its notes, which resemble a shrill laughing.

laughing gull
A common European gull (Xema ridibundus).
An American gull (Leucophaeus atricilla); in summer the head is nearly black, the back slate color, and the five outer primaries black.