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1: a Japanese (paper or silk) wall hanging; usually narrow with a picture or writing on it and a roller at the bottom

1: small deciduous Asiatic tree bearing large red or orange edible astringent fruit [syn: {Japanese persimmon}, {Diospyros kaki}] 2: blackish stilt of New Zealand sometimes considered a color phase of...

1: the endemic form of beriberi

1: sores resulting from a tropical infection by protozoa of the genus Leishmania which are spread by sandflies [syn: {leishmaniasis}, {leishmaniosis}]

1: leishmaniasis of the viscera [syn: {visceral leishmaniasis}, {Assam fever}, {dumdum fever}]

1: the largest island in the world; between the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans; a self-governing province of Denmark [syn: {Greenland}, {Gronland}]

1: a desert in southwestern Africa - largely Botswana [syn: {Kalahari Desert}]

1: a desert in southwestern Africa - largely Botswana [syn: {Kalahari}]

1: a town in southwest Michigan

1: a cap that is wrapped around by a turban and worn by Muslim religious elders

1: Philippine timber tree having hard red fragrant wood [syn: {Philippine mahogany}, {Philippine cedar}, {Toona calantas}, {Cedrela calantas}]

1: a member of the North American Indian people of Oregon [syn: {Kalapuya}, {Calapooya}, {Calapuya}]

1: a Penutian language spoken by the Kalapuya people [syn: {Kalapuyan}]

1: a member of the North American Indian people of Oregon [syn: {Kalapooia}, {Calapooya}, {Calapuya}]

1: a Penutian language spoken by the Kalapuya people [syn: {Kalapooian}]

1: a type of submachine gun made in Russia

1: the attitudes and behavior in a social group that resolves political disputes by force of arms; "the Kalashnikov culture in Afghanistan"

1: informal terms for money [syn: {boodle}, {bread}, {cabbage}, {clams}, {dinero}, {dough}, {gelt}, {lettuce}, {lolly}, {lucre}, {loot}, {moolah}, {pelf}, {scratch}, {shekels}, {simoleons}, {sugar}, {...

1: an optical toy in a tube; it produces symmetrical patterns as bits of colored glass are reflected by mirrors

1: continually shifting or rapidly changing [syn: {kaleidoscopical}]

1: continually shifting or rapidly changing [syn: {kaleidoscopic}]

1: the presence of excess potassium in the circulating blood

1: bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash [syn: {saltwort}, {barilla}, {glasswort}, {kelpwort}, {Salsola kali}, {Salsola soda}]...

1: an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water; "a bipolar world with the hookah and Turkish coffee versus hamburgers...

1: the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state considered to be a representative of Allah on earth; "many radical Muslims believe a Khalifah will unite all Islamic lands and people and subjugate ...

1: the part of Indonesia on the southern side of the island of Borneo [syn: {Indonesian Borneo}] 2: 3rd largest island in the world; in the western Pacific north of Java; largely covered by dense jung...

1: soviet statesman and head of state of the USSR (1875-1946) [syn: {Mikhail Kalinin}, {Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin}]

1: the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state considered to be a representative of Allah on earth; "many radical Muslims believe a Khalifah will unite all Islamic lands and people and subjugate ...

1: the presence of excess potassium in the urine [syn: {kaluresis}]

1: the Mongol people living in the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia [syn: {Khalkha}, {Khalka}] 2: the language of the Khalkha people that is the official language of the Mongolian People's ...

1: the 10th and last incarnation of Vishnu

1: hypogonadism with anosmia; a congenital sexual disorder that prevents the testicles from maturing at puberty

1: any plant of the genus Kalmia

1: North American dwarf shrub resembling mountain laurel but having narrower leaves and small red flowers; poisonous to young stock [syn: {sheep laurel}, {pig laurel}, {lambkill}]

1: a North American evergreen shrub having glossy leaves and white or rose-colored flowers [syn: {mountain laurel}, {wood laurel}, {American laurel}, {calico bush}]

1: laurel of bogs of northwestern United States having small purple flowers and pale leaves that are glaucous beneath [syn: {swamp laurel}, {bog laurel}, {bog kalmia}]

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1: the chairman of the Kashag and essentially head of the Tibetan government-in-exile

1: type genus of Kalotermitidae; termites destructive of wood and living trees [syn: {genus Kalotermes}]

1: primitive termites of warm regions [syn: {family Kalotermitidae}]

1: a high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus [syn: {calpac}, {calpack}]

1: a city of central Russia south of Moscow

1: large tree of Old World tropics having foul-smelling orange-red blossoms followed by red pods enclosing oil-rich seeds sometimes used as food [syn: {Java olives}, {Sterculia foetida}]

1: the presence of excess potassium in the urine [syn: {kaliuresis}]

1: a branch of the Tai languages [syn: {Tai Yuan}]

1: a group of Kadai languages

1: a family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia [syn: {Kadai}, {Kadai language}]

1: god of love and erotic desire; opposite of Mara

1: the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in northeastern India and adjacent regions of western Burma

1: (Hinduism) an ancient Sanskrit text giving rules for sensuous and sensual pleasure and love and marriage in accordance with Hindu law

1: a Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya

1: a peninsula in eastern Siberia; between Bering Sea and Sea of Okhotsk

1: found on coasts of the northwestern Pacific [syn: {Stellar's sea eagle}, {Haliaeetus pelagicus}]

1: a long tunic worn by many people from the Indian subcontinent (usually with a salwar or churidars)

1: Hawaiian king who united the islands under his rule (1758-1819) [syn: {Kamehameha the Great}]

1: Hawaiian king who united the islands under his rule (1758-1819) [syn: {Kamehameha I}]

1: a mountain in the Himalayas in northern India (25,450 feet high)

1: one the Shinto deities (including mythological beings, spirits of distinguished men, forces of nature)

1: a member of a North American Indian people of southeastern California and northwestern Mexico 2: the Yuman language spoken by the Kamia people