List of acronyms: K

• K9 – (p) Canine police unit == KA ==

• ka – (s) Georgian language (ISO 639-1 code) • kA – (s) kiloampere • Ka – (s) Kamov Design Bureau • KA – (i) knowledge acquisition – (s) Karnataka (Indian state code) • KAF – (i/a) Kandahar Air Field • KAGB (German law) – (i) Kapitalanlagegesetzbuch or the German Capital Investment Code • kal – (s) Kalaallisut language (ISO 639-2 code) • kan – (s) Kannada language (ISO 639-2 code) • KANUKOKA – (a) Kalaallit Nunaanni Kommunit Kattuffiannit (Kalaallisut, "Greenlandic Communities Association") • KARNAC – (a) Knowledge Aided Retrieval in Activity Context • KARR – (a) Knight automated roving robot (Knight Rider character) • kas – (s) Kashmiri language (ISO 639-2 code) • kat – (s) Georgian language (ISO 639-2 code) • KATUSA – (a) Korean augmentation to United States Army • kau – (s) Kanuri language (ISO 639-2 code) • kaz – (s) Kazakh language (ISO 639-2 code) • KAZ – (s) Kazakhstan (ISO 3166 trigram) == KB ==

• KBE – (i) Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire • KBO – (i) Kuiper Belt Object • KBVB – (i) Koninklijke Belgische Voetbalbond (Dutch for Royal Belgian Football Association) == KC ==

• kC – (s) kilocoulomb • KCK • (i) Kansas City, Kansas • Koma Civakên Kurdistan (Kurdish, "Union of Communities in Kurdistan") • KCL – (i) King's College London • KCMO – (p) Kansas City, Missouri (pronounced "K-C-Moe") • KCN - (s) potassium cyanide • KCS – (s) Kansas City Southern Railway (AAR reporting mark) == KD ==

• KD – (i) Kawasaki disease – Kraft Dinner == KE ==

• KE • (s) Kenya (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram) • (i) kinetic energy • knowledge engineering • KEDO – (a) Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization • KEN – (s) Kenya (ISO 3166 trigram) • KERA – (a) Kentucky Education Reform Act (of 1990) • kerma – (p) kinetic energy released in material / in matter / per unit mass • KERS - (a) kinetic energy recovery system (pronounced Kah-Z) • KES • (s) Kenyan shilling (ISO 4217 currency code) • (i) Killer Elite Squad (Japanese professional wrestling stable) • KESR – (i) Kent and East Sussex Railway • KET • (i) Kentucky Educational Television • (a) Key English Test == KF ==

• kF – (s) kilofarad • KFC – (i) Kentucky Fried Chicken • KFOR – (p) UN Kosovo Force • KFUPM – King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals == KG ==

• kg – (s) kilogram – Kongo language (ISO 639-1 code) • KG • (s) Kyrgyzstan (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram) • (s) Knight of the Order of the Garter • KGB – (i) Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Russian "Committee for State Security") (1954–1991) • KGO – Knight of the Guelphic Order of Hanover • KGS – (s) Kyrgyz som (ISO 4217 currency code) • KGZ – (s) Kyrgyzstan (ISO 3166 trigram) == KH ==

• kH – (s) kilohenry • KH – (s) Cambodia (ISO 3166 digram) • khm – (s) Khmer language (ISO 639-2 code) • KHL – (i) Kontinental Hockey League • KHM – (s) Cambodia (ISO 3166 trigram) • KHP — (s) Honorary Physician to the King (UK) • KHR – (s) Cambodian riel (ISO 4217 currency code) • KHz – (s) kilohertz == KI ==

• ki – (s) Gikuyu language (ISO 639-1 code) • Ki – (s) Kibi • KI – (s) Kiribati (ISO 3166 digram) • KIA – (i) killed in action • kik – (s) Gikuyu language (ISO 639-2 code), common typo for LOL • kin – (s) Kinyarwanda language (ISO 639-2 code) • kir – (s) Kyrgyz language (ISO 639-2 code) • KIR – (s) Kiribati (ISO 3166 trigram) • KISS – (a) keep it simple, stupid / keep it short and simple – Korean Intelligence Support System • KITECH – (p) Korean Institute of Industrial Technology • KITT – (a) Knight Industries Two Thousand – Knight Industries Three Thousand == KJ ==

• kj – (s) Kuanyama language (ISO 639-1 code) • kJ – (s) kilojoule == KK ==

• kk – (s) Kazakh language (ISO 639-1 code) • kK – (s) kilokelvin • KK • (i) Kabushiki kaisha (Japanese for "stock company", found in the legal names of countless Japanese corporations) • Košarkarski klub (Slovenian), Košarkaški Klub (Croatian and Serbian in Latin script), Кошаркашки клуб (Serbian Cyrillic), Krepšinio Klubas (Lithuanian); all mean "Basketball Club", as in KK Olimpija, KK Cibona, KK Partizan, and KK Atletas • KKK – (i) Ku Klux Klan == KL ==

• kl – (s) Kalaallisut language (ISO 639-1 code) • kL – (s) kilolitre • KL – (i) Kuala Lumpur – (s) Kerala (Indian state code) • KLENOT – (p) KLEť observatory near Earth and other unusual objects observations team and telescope • KLM – (i) Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij (Dutch "Royal Dutch Airlines") • KLOC – (a) kilo lines of code • KLS • (i) Kleine–Levin syndrome • Košarkaška liga Srbije (Latin) or Кошаркашка лига Србије (Cyrillic) (Serbian, "Basketball League of Serbia") • Kuala Lumpur Sentral == KM ==

• km – (s) Khmer language (ISO 639-1 code) – kilometre • KM – (s) Comoros – (i) knowledge management • KMF – (s) Comoro franc (ISO 4217 currency code) • KMFDM – (i) Kein Mitleid für die Mehrheit (German "No pity for the majority" music band) • KMR – (i) Kwajalein Missile Range == KN ==

• kn – (s) Kannada language (ISO 639-1 code) • kN – (s) kilonewton • KN – (s) Democratic People's Republic of Korea (FIPS 10-4 country code) – Saint Kitts and Nevis (ISO 3166 digram) • KNA – (s) Saint Kitts and Nevis (ISO 3166 trigram) • KNVB – (i) Koninklijke Nederlandse Voetbal Bond (Dutch for Royal Dutch Football Association) == KO ==

• ko – (s) Korean language (ISO 639-1 code) • KO – (i) Knocked Out • kom – (s) Komi language (ISO 639-2 code) • kon – (s) Kongo language (ISO 639-2 code) • kor – (s) Korean language (ISO 639-2 code) • KOR – (s) Republic of Korea (ISO 3166 trigram) == KP ==

• KP – (i) Kim Possible • KPMG – (i) Klynveld, Peat, Marwick, Goerdeler • KPNO – (i) Kitt Peak National Observatory • KPV – (i) Krupnokaliberniy Pulemet Vladimorova (Russian КПВТ Крупнокалиберный Пулемет Владимирова, "Large-Calibre Machinegun Vladimirov")* KPVT – (i) Krupnokaliberniy Pulemet Vladimorova Tankoviy (Russian КПВТ Крупнокалиберный Пулемет Владимирова Танковый, "Large-Calibre Machinegun Vladimirov Tank")[https://web.archive.org/web/20080227010804/http://www.milparade.com/Soderzhaniye.pdf • KPW – (s) North Korean won (ISO 4217 currency code) • K–Pg – (i) Cretaceous–Paleogene Boundary • K/Pg – (i) Cretaceous/Paleogene Boundary == KQ ==

• KQ – (s) Kenya Airways (IATA airline designator) – Kingman Reef (FIPS 10-4 territory code) == KR ==

• kr – (s) Kanuri language (ISO 639-1 code) • Kr – (s) Krypton • KR – (s) Kiribati (FIPS 10-4 country code) – Republic of Korea (ISO 3166 digram) • KRW – (s) South Korean won (ISO 4217 currency code) == KS ==

• ks • (s) Kashmiri language (ISO 639-1 code) • kilosecond • kS – (s) kilosiemens • KS • (s) Kansas (postal symbol) • Republic of Korea (FIPS 10-4 country code) • KSC – (i) Kennedy Space Center • KSI – (i) Killed or Seriously Injured • KSM • (i) Korean Service Medal • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed • KSU • (i) Kansas State University • Kennesaw State University == KT ==