List of acronyms: K

(Main list of acronyms)

k – kilo-
K – kelvin – potassium – tanker

K0–9

K9 – Canine police unit

KA

ka – Georgian language
kA – kiloampere
Ka – Kamov Design Bureau
KA – knowledge acquisition – Karnataka
KAF – Kandahar Air Field
KAGB (German law) – Kapitalanlagegesetzbuch or the German Capital Investment Code
kal – Kalaallisut language
kan – Kannada language
KANUKOKA – Kalaallit Nunaanni Kommunit Kattuffiannit
KARNAC – Knowledge Aided Retrieval in Activity Context
KARR – Knight automated roving robot
kas – Kashmiri language
kat – Georgian language
KATUSA – Korean augmentation to United States Army
kau – Kanuri language
kaz – Kazakh language
KAZ – Kazakhstan

KB

KBE – Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
KBO – Kuiper Belt Object
KBVB – ''Koninklijke Belgische Voetbalbond''

KC

KD

KD – Kawasaki disease – Kraft Dinner

KE

KE
* Kenya
* kinetic energy
* knowledge engineering
KEDO – Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization
KEN – Kenya
KERA – Kentucky Education Reform Act
kerma – kinetic energy released in material / in matter / per unit mass
KERS - kinetic energy recovery system
KES
* Kenyan shilling
* Killer Elite Squad
KESR – Kent and East Sussex Railway
KET
* Kentucky Educational Television
* Key English Test

KF

kF – kilofarad
KFC – Kentucky Fried Chicken
KFOR – UN Kosovo Force
KFUPM – King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals

KG

kg – kilogram – Kongo language
KG
* Kyrgyzstan
* Knight of the Order of the Garter
KGB – Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti
KGO – Knight of the Guelphic Order of Hanover
KGS – Kyrgyz som
KGZ – Kyrgyzstan

KH

KI

ki – Gikuyu language
Ki – Kibi
KI – Kiribati
KIA – killed in action
kik – Gikuyu language, common typo for LOL
kin – Kinyarwanda language
kir – Kyrgyz language
KIR – Kiribati
KISS – keep it simple, stupid / keep it short and simple – Korean Intelligence Support System
KITECH – Korean Institute of Industrial Technology
KITT – Knight Industries Two Thousand – Knight Industries Three Thousand

KJ

kj – Kuanyama language
kJ – kilojoule

KK

kk – Kazakh language
kK – kilokelvin
KK
* Kabushiki kaisha
* Košarkarski klub, Košarkaški Klub, Кошаркашки клуб, Krepšinio Klubas ; all mean "Basketball Club", as in KK Olimpija, KK Cibona, KK Partizan, and KK Atletas
KKK – Ku Klux Klan

KL

kl – Kalaallisut language
kL – kilolitre
KL – Kuala Lumpur – Kerala
KLENOT – KLEť observatory near Earth and other unusual objects observations team and telescope
KLM – Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij
KLOC – kilo lines of code
KLS
* Kleine–Levin syndrome
* Košarkaška liga Srbije or Кошаркашка лига Србије
* Kuala Lumpur Sentral

KM

km – Khmer language – kilometre
KM – Comoros – knowledge management
KMF – Comoro franc
KMFDM – Kein Mitleid für die Mehrheit
KMR – Kwajalein Missile Range

KN

kn – Kannada language
kN – kilonewton
KN – Democratic People's Republic of Korea – Saint Kitts and Nevis
KNA – Saint Kitts and Nevis
KNVB – ''Koninklijke Nederlandse Voetbal Bond''

KO

KP

KP – Kim Possible
KPMG – Klynveld, Peat, Marwick, Goerdeler
KPNO – Kitt Peak National Observatory
KPV – Krupnokaliberniy Pulemet Vladimorova
KPVT – Krupnokaliberniy Pulemet Vladimorova Tankoviy
KPW – North Korean won
K–Pg – Cretaceous–Paleogene Boundary
K/Pg – Cretaceous/Paleogene Boundary

KQ

KQ – Kenya Airways – Kingman Reef

KR

KS

KT

kT – kilotesla
KT – Christmas Island – Knight of the Order of the Thistle – Knights Templar
K–T – Cretaceous–Tertiary Boundary
K/T – Cretaceous/Tertiary Boundary
KTS – Knight of the Tower and Sword

KU

KV

kv – Komi language
kV – kilovolt
KV - Kosovo
KV – Kavminvodyavia – Kendriya Vidhyalaya – Kliment Voroshilov – Köchel-Verzeichnis – Valley of the Kings
KVM – Keyboard, Video, Mouse switch
KVT – Killer-Victim Table

KW

kw – Cornish language
kW – kilowatt
KW – Kuwait
KWB – Kids' WB!
KWD – Kuwaiti dinar
KWT – Kuwait

KX

KX – Cayman Airways

KY

KZ

KZ – Kazakhstan
KZN – KwaZulu-Natal
KZT – Kazakh tenge