kekule formula

a closed chain of 6 carbon atoms with hydrogen atoms attached ;

keller

United States lecturer and writer who was blind and deaf from the age of 19 months; Anne Sullivan taught her to read and write and speak; Helen Keller graduated from college and went on to champion the cause of blind and deaf people (1880-1968) ;

kellogg

United States food manufacturer who (with his brother) developed a breakfast cereal of crisp flakes of rolled and toasted wheat and corn; he established a company to manufacture the cereal (1860-1951) ;

kelly

United States dancer who performed in many musical films (1912-1996) ; United States film actress who retired when she married into the royal family of Monaco (1928-1982) ; United States circus clown (1898-1979) ;

keloid

raised pinkish scar tissue at the site of an injury; results from excessive tissue repair ;

kelp

large brown seaweeds having fluted leathery fronds ;

kelp greenling

common food and sport fish of western coast of North America ;

kelpie

an Australian sheepdog with pointed ears ; (Scottish folklore) water spirit in the form of a horse that likes to drown its riders ;

kelpwort

bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash ;

kelpy

(Scottish folklore) water spirit in the form of a horse that likes to drown its riders ;

kelt

a member of a European people who once occupied Britain and Spain and Gaul prior to Roman times ;

kelter

in working order; "out of kilter"; "in good kilter" ;

kelvin

British physicist who invented the Kelvin scale of temperature and pioneered undersea telegraphy (1824-1907) ; the basic unit of thermodynamic temperature adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites ;

kelvin scale

a temperature scale that defines absolute zero as 0 degrees; water freezes at 273.16 degrees and boils at 373.16 degrees ;

kemadrin

drug (trade name Kemadrin) used to reduce tremors in Parkinsonism ;

kemal ataturk

Turkish statesman who abolished the caliphate and founded Turkey as a modern secular state (1881-1938) ;

kemal pasha

Turkish statesman who abolished the caliphate and founded Turkey as a modern secular state (1881-1938) ;

ken

the range of vision; "out of sight of land" ; range of what one can know or understand; "beyond my ken" ;

ken elton kesey

United States writer whose best-known novel was based on his experiences as an attendant in a mental hospital (1935-2001) ;

ken kesey

United States writer whose best-known novel was based on his experiences as an attendant in a mental hospital (1935-2001) ;

ken russell

English film director (born in 1927) ;

kenaf

valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation ; fiber from an East Indian plant Hibiscus cannabinus ;

kenai fjords national park

a national park in Alaska having mountains and whale watching and ancient Indian copper mines ;

kenalog

a synthetic corticosteroid (trade names Aristocort or Aristopak or Kenalog) used as an anti-inflammatory agent ;

kendal

a green dye, often used to color cloth, which is obtained from the woad plant ;

kendal green

a green dye, often used to color cloth, which is obtained from the woad plant ;

kendall

United States biochemist who discovered cortisone (1886-1972) ;

kendall's tau

a nonparametric measure of the agreement between two rankings ;

kendall partial rank correlation

a nonparametric measure of partial correlation ;

kendall rank correlation

a nonparametric measure of the agreement between two rankings ;

kendall test

any of several nonparametric measures of correlation (used when the assumptions of standard correlational analysis are not met) ;

kendrew

English biologist noted for studies of the molecular structure of blood components (born in 1917) ;

kennedia

genus of Australian woody vines having showy red or purplish flowers ;

kennedia coccinea

prostrate or twining woody vine with small leathery leaves and umbels of red flowers; Australia and Tasmania ;

kennedia prostrata

hairy trailing or prostrate western Australian vine with bright scarlet-pink flowers ;

kennedy

a large airport on Long Island east of New York City ; 35th President of the United States; established the Peace Corps; assassinated in Dallas (1917-1963) ;

kennedy international airport

a large airport on Long Island east of New York City ;

kennedy interrnational

a large airport on Long Island east of New York City ;

kennedya

genus of Australian woody vines having showy red or purplish flowers ;

kennel

outbuilding that serves as a shelter for a dog ;