dictionary

1: destroyed or killed; "we are gone geese" [syn: {done for(p)}, {kaput(p)}, {gone(a)}]

1: part of the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia and east of the Barents Sea; icebound most of the year

1: an oblong metal ring with a spring clip; used in mountaineering to attach a rope to a piton or to connect two ropes [syn: {carabiner}, {snap ring}]

1: the largest city in Pakistan; located in southeastern Pakistan; an industrial center and seaport on the Arabian Sea; former capital of Pakistan

1: a member of a Turkic people living near Lake Aral in central Asia 2: the Turkic language spoken by the Karakalpak people

1: a mountain range in northern Kashmir; an extension of the Hindu Kush; contains the 2nd highest peak [syn: {Karakoram Range}, {Karakorum Range}, {Mustagh}, {Mustagh Range}]

1: a mountain range in northern Kashmir; an extension of the Hindu Kush; contains the 2nd highest peak [syn: {Karakoram}, {Karakorum Range}, {Mustagh}, {Mustagh Range}]

1: a mountain range in northern Kashmir; an extension of the Hindu Kush; contains the 2nd highest peak [syn: {Karakoram}, {Karakoram Range}, {Mustagh}, {Mustagh Range}]

1: hardy coarse-haired sheep of central Asia; lambs are valued for their soft curly black fur [syn: {broadtail}, {caracul}]

1: singing popular songs accompanied by a recording of an orchestra (usually in bars or nightclubs)

1: the unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy; 18-karat gold is 75% gold; 24-karat gold is pure gold [syn: {carat}]

1: a traditional Japanese system of unarmed combat; sharp blows and kicks are given to pressure-sensitive points on the body of the opponent

1: exudate of an Asian tree; used for finishing textiles and to thicken foodstuffs and cosmetics [syn: {sterculia gum}]

1: a city of central Iraq south of Baghdad; a holy city for Shiite Muslims because it is the site of the tomb of Mohammed's grandson who was killed there in 680 [syn: {Kerbala}, {Kerbela}]

1: Czech writer who introduced the word `robot' into the English language (1890-1938) [syn: {Capek}]

1: a region in Finland and Russia between the Gulf of Finland and the White Sea

1: a member of the Finnish people living in Karelia in northwestern European Russia [syn: {Carelian}] 2: a Finnic language spoken by the people of Karelia [syn: {Carelian}]

1: the isthmus between the Gulf of Finland and Lake Ladoga that connects Finland and Russia

1: the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Thailand and Burmese borderlands [syn: {Karenic}]

1: Danish writer who lived in Kenya for 19 years and is remembered for her writings about Africa (1885-1962) [syn: {Dinesen}, {Isak Dinesen}, {Blixen}, {Baroness Karen Blixen}]

1: the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Thailand and Burmese borderlands [syn: {Karen}]

1: Austrian who became the Nazi official who administered the concentration camps where millions of Jews were murdered during World War II (1906-1962) [syn: {Eichmann}, {Adolf Eichmann}]

1: Danish philologist (1846-1896) [syn: {Verner}]

1: Swiss physicist who studied superconductivity (born in 1927) [syn: {Muller}]

1: United States psychiatrist and son of Charles Menninger (1893-1990) [syn: {Menninger}, {Karl Menninger}]

1: German publisher of a series of travel guidebooks (1801-1859) [syn: {Baedeker}]

1: Swiss Protestant theologian (1886-1968) [syn: {Barth}]

1: Austrian virtuoso pianist and composer of many works for the piano; studied with Beethoven and was a teacher of Liszt (1791-1857) [syn: {Czerny}]

1: German mathematician who developed the theory of numbers and who applied mathematics to electricity and magnetism and astronomy and geodesy (1777-1855) [syn: {Gauss}, {Karl Gauss}]

1: German raconteur who told preposterous stories about his adventures as a soldier and hunter; his name is now associated with any telling of exaggerated stories or winning lies (1720-1797) [syn: {Mu...

1: German mathematician who developed the theory of numbers and who applied mathematics to electricity and magnetism and astronomy and geodesy (1777-1855) [syn: {Gauss}, {Karl Friedrich Gauss}]

1: Danish novelist (1857-1919) [syn: {Gjellerup}]

1: Swedish economist (1898-1987) [syn: {Myrdal}, {Gunnar Myrdal}]

1: German mathematician (1804-1851) [syn: {Jacobi}]

1: German psychiatrist (1883-1969) [syn: {Jaspers}, {Karl Theodor Jaspers}]

1: United States pathologist (born in Austria) who discovered human blood groups (1868-1943) [syn: {Landsteiner}]

1: Swedish botanist who proposed the modern system of biological nomenclature (1707-1778) [syn: {Linnaeus}, {Carolus Linnaeus}, {Carl von Linne}]

1: founder of modern communism; wrote the Communist Manifesto with Engels in 1848; wrote Das Kapital in 1867 (1818-1883) [syn: {Marx}]

1: United States psychiatrist and son of Charles Menninger (1893-1990) [syn: {Menninger}, {Karl Augustus Menninger}]

1: German field marshal in World War II who directed the conquest of Poland and led the Ardennes counteroffensive (1875-1953) [syn: {Rundstedt}, {von Rundstedt}]

1: Swedish chemist (born in Germany) who discovered oxygen before Priestley did (1742-1786) [syn: {Scheele}, {Karl Wilhelm Scheele}]

1: German psychiatrist (1883-1969) [syn: {Jaspers}, {Karl Jaspers}]

1: Prussian general and military theorist who proposed a doctrine of total war and war as an extension of diplomacy (1780-1831) [syn: {Clausewitz}]

1: Austrian zoologist noted for his studies of honeybees (1886-1982) [syn: {Frisch}]

1: German chemist honored for his research on polymers (1898-1973) [syn: {Ziegler}]

1: German neurologist best known for his studies of aphasia (1848-1905) [syn: {Wernicke}]

1: Swedish chemist (born in Germany) who discovered oxygen before Priestley did (1742-1786) [syn: {Scheele}, {Karl Scheele}]

1: engineer who was a brother of Ernst Werner von Siemens and who moved to England (1823-1883) [syn: {Siemens}, {Sir Charles William Siemens}]

1: a city in east central Germany; formerly called Karl-Marx-Stadt until 1990; noted for textile manufacturing [syn: {Chemnitz}]

1: Swedish poet whose works incorporate Swedish customs and folklore (1864-1931) [syn: {Erik Axel Karlfeldt}]

1: United States film actor (born in England) noted for his performances in horror films (1887-1969) [syn: {Boris Karloff}, {William Henry Pratt}]

1: (Hinduism and Buddhism) the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation

1: state in southern India; formerly Mysore [syn: {Mysore}]

1: a member of a North American Indian people of the Klamath river valley in northern California 2: the Quoratean language of the Karok people

1: the first Pope born in Poland (born in 1920) [syn: {John Paul II}]

1: Russian chess master who was world champion from 1975 until 1985 when he was defeated by Gary Kasparov (born in 1951) [syn: {Anatoli Karpov}, {Anatoli Yevgenevich Karpov}]

1: Russian dancer who danced with Nijinsky (1885-1978) [syn: {Tamara Karsavina}]

1: the eighth month of the Hindu calendar [syn: {Karttika}]

1: Hindu god of bravery [syn: {Karttikeya}]

1: the eighth month of the Hindu calendar [syn: {Kartik}]