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Knighting
- verb - raise (someone) to knighthood; "The Beatles were knighted"
Knuckling
- verb - press or rub with the knuckles
- shoot a marble while keeping one's knuckles on the ground
Kowtowing
- verb - bend the knees and bow in a servile manner
- sycophantic behaviour
- try to gain favor by cringing or flattering; "He is always kowtowing to his boss"
Kurakkans
- noun - East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient
Kurrajong
- noun - widely distributed tree of eastern Australia yielding a tough durable fiber and soft light attractively grained wood; foliage is an important emergency food for cattle
Kvetching
- verb - express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness; "My mother complains all day"; "She has a lot to kick about"
Kwangtung
- noun - a province in southern China
Labelling
- verb - assign a label to; designate with a label; "These students were labelled `learning disabled'"
- attach a tag or label to; "label these bottles"
- distinguish (an element or atom) by using a radioactive isotope or an isotope of unusual mass for tracing through chemical reactions
- distinguish (as a compound or molecule) by introducing a labeled atom
- pronounce judgment on; "They labeled him unfit to work here"
Labouring
- verb -
- doing arduous or unpleasant work; "drudging peasants"; "the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton"; "toiling coal miners in the black deeps"
- strive and make an effort to reach a goal; "She tugged for years to make a decent living"; "We have to push a little to make the deadline!"; "She is driving away at her doctoral thesis"
- work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"