List of acronyms: K

(Main list of acronyms)


 * 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 – (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
 * KIDS – (a) Knowledge-based Integrated Design System
 * 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
 * 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 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")
 * 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

 * 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
 * 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)
 * (i/p) University of Kansas
 * 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, IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)

KV

 * kv – (s) Komi language (ISO 639-1 code)
 * kV – (s) Kilovolt
 * KV - (s) Kosovo
 * 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)

KW

 * kw – (s) Cornish language (ISO 639-1 code)
 * kW – (s) Kilowatt
 * KW – (s) Kuwait (ISO 3166 digram)
 * KWB – Kids' WB!
 * KWD – (s) Kuwaiti dinar (ISO 4217 currency code)
 * KWT – (s) Kuwait (ISO 3166 trigram)

KX

 * KX – (s) Cayman Airways (IATA airline designator)

KY

 * ky – (s) Kyrgyz language (ISO 639-1 code)
 * KY
 * (s) Cayman Islands (ISO 3166 digram)
 * Kentucky (postal symbol)
 * KYD – (s) Cayman Islands dollar (ISO 4217 currency code)
 * KYTC – (p) Kentucky Transportation Cabinet

KZ

 * KZ – (s) Kazakhstan (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
 * KZN – (i) KwaZulu-Natal
 * KZT – (s) Kazakh tenge (ISO 4217 currency code)