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Khyber Pass
- noun - a mountain pass of great strategic and commercial value in the Hindu Kush on the border between northern Pakistan and western Afghanistan; a route by which invaders entered India
Killer Cell
- noun - T cell with CD8 receptor that recognizes antigens on the surface of a virus-infected cell and binds to the infected cell and kill it
Kimberlites
- noun - a rare type of peridotite that sometimes contains diamonds; found in South Africa and Siberia
Knotgrasses
- noun - low-growing weedy grass with spikelets along the leaf stems
Kuiper Belt
- noun - a disk-shaped region of minor planets outside the orbit of Neptune
Kulturkampf
- - Lit., culture war; -- a name, originating with Virchow (1821 - 1902), given to a struggle between the Roman Catholic Church and the German government, chiefly over the latter's efforts to control educational and ecclesiastical appointments in the interest of the political policy of centralization. The struggle began with the passage by the Prussian Diet in May, 1873, of the so-called May laws, or Falk laws, aiming at the regulation of the clergy. Opposition eventually compelled the government to change its policy, and from 1880 to 1887 laws virtually nullifying the May laws were enacted.
Kymographic
- - Of or pertaining to a kymograph; as, a kymographic tracing.
Labour Camp
- noun - a penal institution for political prisoners who are used as forced labor
Ladder-Back
- noun - a chair with a ladder-back
- the backrest of a chair that consists of two uprights with connecting slats