List of acronyms and initialisms (Starting with "K")

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(Starting with "K")

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This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends.

For the purposes of this list:

acronym = an abbreviation pronounced as a series of constituent letters, e.g., SARS = severe acute respiratory syndrome
initialism = an abbreviation pronounced wholly or partly using the names of its constituent letters, e.g., CD = compact disc
pseudo-blend = an abbreviation whose extra or omitted letters means that it cannot stand as a true acronym, initialism, or portmanteau (a word formed by combining two or more words).

(a) = acronym in the example: SARS - (a) Severe acute respiratory syndrome

(i) = initialism in the example: CD - (i) Compact disc

(p) = pseudo-blend in the example: UNIFEM - (p) United Nations Development Fund for Women

(s) = symbol (none of the above, representing and pronounced as something else; for example: MHz - Megahertz)

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K

k - (s) Kilo
K - (s) Kelvin - Potassium (Latin Kalium) - Tanker (aircraft designation code)

K0-9

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
KAF - (i/a) Kandahar Air Field
kal - (s) Kalaallisut language (ISO 639-2 code)
kan - (s) Kannada language (ISO 639-2 code)
KARNAC - (a) Knowledge Aided Retrieval in Activity Context
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)

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
KES - (s) Kenyan shilling (ISO 4217 currency code)
KESR - (i) Kent and East Sussex Railway.
KET - (i) Kentucky Educational Television Refers to The network and the production facilities - (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)
KGB - (i) Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Russian "Committee for State Security") (1954-1991)
KGO - Knight of the Guelplic 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)
KHM - (s) Cambodia (ISO 3166 trigram)
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
KIDS - (a) Knowledge-based Integrated Design System
kik - (s) Gikuyu language (ISO 639-2 code)
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
KIT - Keep In Touch

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 Union 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
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

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 Netherlands 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
KPNO - (i) Kitt Peak National Observatory
KPV - (i) Krupnokaliberniy Pulemet Vladimorova (Russian КПВТ Крупнокалиберный Пулемет Владимирова, "Large-Calibre Machinegun Vladimirov")[1]
KPVT - (i) Krupnokaliberniy Pulemet Vladimorova Tankoviy (Russian КПВТ Крупнокалиберный Пулемет Владимирова Танковый, "Large-Calibre Machinegun Vladimirov Tank")[2]
KPW - (s) North Korean won (ISO 4217 currency code)

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

KT

kT - (s) Kilotesla
KT - (s) Christmas Island (FIPS 10-4 territory code) - (i) Knight of the Order of the Thistle - Knights Templar
K/T - (i) Cretaceous/Tertiary Boundary
KTS - (i) Knight of the Tower and Sword (of Portugal)

KU

ku - (s) Kurdish language (ISO 639-1 code)
KU - (s) Kuwait (FIPS 10-4 country code)
kua - (s) Kuanyama language (ISO 639-2 code)
KUL - (i) Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Flemish, Catholic University of Leuven)
kur - (s) Kurdish language (ISO 639-2 code)
KUW - (s) Kuwait (UNDP country code)

KV

kv - (s) Komi language (ISO 639-1 code)
kV - (s) Kilovolt
KV - (s) Kavminvodyavia (IATA airline designator) - (i) Kendriya Vidhyalaya (Indian school) - Kliment Voroshilov (tanks) - Köchel-Verzeichnis (Mozart catalogue) - Valley of the Kings (originally "Kings' Valley")
KVM - (i) Keyboard, Video, Mouse switch
KVT - (i) Killer-Victim Table (military simulations)