kishon
A measure used in the Isle of Man, similar to a peck.

kishons
plural of kishon

kitsune
A Japanese fox spirit, often but not exclusively female, said to have powers such as shape-shifting, and whose power is symbolized by increase in number of tails.

kitsunes
plural of kitsune

klafter
A unit of length formerly widely used in Central Europe, derived from the span of a man's outstretched arms, typically defined as six local feet (equivalent to a fathom) or about 1.8 meters.

klafters
plural of klafter

kleisins
plural of kleisin

klom
A kilometre.

kloms
plural of klom

kneedness
The state or quality of having a particular type of or number of knees.

kneeroom
The amount of space available for a person's knees, for example in a vehicle.

knifeful
The amount that can be carried on a knife.

knotfuls
plural of knotful

knottage
Density of knots, especially in carpets and rugs.
Speed, usually of a ship or aircraft, or of the wind, measured in knots.

knottages
plural of knottage

kobo
A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Nigerian naira.
A coin with the value of one kobo; (by extension) a very small amount of money.

kobos
plural of kobo

koilocyte
A squamous epithelial cell that has undergone a number of structural changes as a result of infection of the cell by human papillomavirus.

koilocytes
plural of koilocyte

koku
A unit of measure in feudal Japan, the amount of rice needed to feed one person for a year.

kokus
plural of koku

korzec
An old Polish dry measure, a bushel: in the early 19th century, it was 128 litres in Warsaw and 501.116 litres in Kraków.

korzecs
plural of korzec

koss
Alternative spelling of coss.

kosses
plural of koss

kouza
An old unit of liquid measure in Cyprus, equivalent to 9 quarts.

kouzas
plural of kouza.

krouchka
An old Russian liquid measure, one tenth of a vedro.

krouchkas
plural of krouchka

kroushka
Alternative form of krouchka (“Russian liquid measure”).

kroushkas
plural of kroushka

krushka
Alternative form of krouchka (“Russian liquid measure”).

krushkas
plural of krushka

krypton
The chemical element (symbol Kr) with an atomic number of 36. It is a colourless, odourless noble gas that only reacts with fluorine. It is one of the rarest gases in the Earth's atmosphere.
An atom of this element.

kryptons
plural of krypton

kue
The name of the Latin script letter Q/q. Alternative form of cue.

kues
plural of kue

kulmet
A unit of dry measure once used in Riga.

kulmets
plural of kulmet.

kuromido
A Japanese alloy of copper with a small amount of arsenic.

kurtoses
plural of kurtosis

kurtosis
A measure of "heaviness of the tails" of a probability distribution, defined as the fourth cumulant divided by the square of the variance of the probability distribution.
Excess kurtosis: the difference between a given distribution's kurtosis and the kurtosis of a normal distribution.

kurtosises
plural of kurtosis

ladleful
A sufficient quantity to fill a ladle.

ladlefuls
plural of ladleful

ladlesful
plural of ladleful

lagometer
A display of the amount of latency (lag) experienced in an online game.
A device that measures any other sort of lag.

lagrangians
plural of lagrangian

lakeful
The amount that a lake can hold.

lambar
a feeder for young mammals, particularly goats, consisting of a bucket ringed by a number of artificial nipples, each of which is connected to a tube inside the bucket that conveys milk from the bucket to feeding animals

lambars
plural of lambar

lampboard
A board housing a number of lamps that may be lit by an electrical circuit.

lampboards
plural of lampboard

landings
plural of landing

landline
A fixed telephone communications cable; originally, one run over land, as opposed to a submarine cable.
A telephone connected by such a fixed wire that allows multiple phones to operate simultaneously on the same phone number, specifically not wireless/mobile.
That which is connected by such a fixed wire (telephone, internet etc.).

landlines
plural of landline

lane
A road, street, or similar thoroughfare.
A narrow passageway between fences, walls, hedges or trees.
A narrow road, as in the country.
A lengthwise division of roadway intended for a single line of vehicles.
A similar division of a racetrack to keep runners apart.
A similar division of a swimming pool using lines of coloured floats to keep swimmers apart.
Any of a number of parallel tracks or passages.
A course designated for ships or aircraft.
An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled.
An empty space in the tableau, formed by the removal of an entire row of cards.
Any of the parallel slots in which values can be stored in a SIMD architecture.
In MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) games, a particular path on the map that may be traversed by enemy characters.
The home stretch.

laneful
A quantity that fills a lane.

lanefuls
plural of laneful

lanes
plural of lane
bowling alley
One side of a divided highway that carries traffic in a single direction.

lanesful
plural of laneful

langley
A unit of heat transmission in the CGS system of units. It is equivalent to 41,840 J/m² in SI units. Symbol: Ly.

langleys
plural of langley

lappmark
Any of a number of territories in the northern part of the old Kingdom of Sweden inhabited by the Sami people, loosely governed by the crown or by birkarls.

lappmarks
plural of lappmark

laserwire
A thin laser beam, that functions as a wire, used to measure the extent of a particle beam

laserwires
plural of laserwire

lashins
Archaic form of lashings (“lots; a great amount”).

lashlite
A common forfeiture among the Danes, amounting to twelve ores.

latitude
The angular distance north or south from a planet's equator, measured along the meridian of that particular point.
An imaginary line (in the form of a circumference) around a planet running parallel to the planet's equator.
The relative freedom from restrictions; scope to do something.
The angular distance of a heavenly body from the ecliptic.
The extent to which a light-sensitive material can be over- or underexposed and still achieve an acceptable result.
Extent or scope; e.g. breadth, width or amplitude.

latitudes
plural of latitude

laughingthrush
Any of a number of species of tropical birds in the family Leiothrichidae, found mainly in Asia.

laughingthrushes
plural of laughingthrush

lavacicle
A geological formation consisting of a quantity of lava that dripped from the roof of a cave as it cooled and hardened, leaving a rounded protrusion.

lavacicles
plural of lavacicle

lawrencium
A transuranic chemical element (symbol Lr, formerly Lw) with atomic number 103.

laytime
In commercial shipping, the amount of time specified in a charter party for a vessel's loading and unloading.

laytimes
plural of laytime

lbm
Abbreviation of pound-mass (“unit of mass”).

leaffuls
plural of leafful

leakage
An act of leaking, or something that leaks.
The amount lost due to a leak.
An undesirable flow of electric current through insulation.
Loss of retail stock, especially due to theft.
The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
The loss of revenue generated by tourism to the economies of other countries.

leakages
plural of leakage

leakance
A measure of leakage, typically as a result if imperfect insulation

leakances
plural of leakance

leavesful
plural of leafful

lebenty
An unspecified large number (of).

leeway
The drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction.
A varying degree or amount of freedom or flexibility.
An adverse discrepancy or variation in a cumulative process, usually in the phrase make up leeway.

leeways
plural of leeway

leggedness
The state or quality of having a particular type of or number of legs.

leggeds
plural of legged