Persian Gulf War
Gulf War | a war fought between Iraq and a coalition led by the United States that freed Kuwait from Iraqi invaders, - |
king vulture
Sarcorhamphus papa | large black-and-white vulture of South America and Central America, have colorful wattles and wartlike protuberances on head and neck |
king snake
kingsnake | any of numerous nonvenomous North American constrictors, feed on other snakes and small mammals |
hamadryad
king cobra
Ophiophagus hannah
Naja hannah | large cobra of southeastern Asia and the East Indies, the largest venomous snake, sometimes placed in genus Naja |
horseshoe crab
king crab Limulus polyphemus
Xiphosurus polyphemus | large marine arthropod of the Atlantic coast of North America having a domed carapace that is shaped like a horseshoe and a stiff pointed tail, a living fossil related to the wood louse |
king crab Alaska crab
Alaskan king crab
Alaska king crab
Paralithodes camtschatica | large edible crab of northern Pacific waters especially along the coasts of Alaska and Japan |
European spider crab
king crab Maja squinado | a large spider crab of Europe |
king penguin
Aptenodytes patagonica | large penguin on islands bordering the Antarctic Circle |
| King Charles spaniel | a toy English spaniel with a black-and-tan coat, named after Charles II who popularized it |
| Persian cat | a long-haired breed of cat |
lion
king of beasts
Panthera leo | large gregarious predatory feline of Africa and India having a tawny coat with a shaggy mane in the male |
| Persian lamb | a karakul lamb |
chinook
chinook salmon
king salmon
quinnat salmon
Oncorhynchus tshawytscha | large Pacific salmon valued as food, adults die after spawning |
oarfish
king of the herring
ribbonfish Regalecus glesne | thin deep-water tropical fishtofeet long having a red dorsal fin |
king whiting
Menticirrhus americanus | whiting of the southeastern coast of North America |
king mackerel
cavalla
cero Scomberomorus cavalla | large mackerel with long pointed snout, important food and game fish of the eastern Atlantic coast southward to Brazil |
| king | (chess) the weakest but the most important piece |
| king | one of the four playing cards in a deck bearing the picture of a king |
| king | a checker that has been moved to the opponent's first row where it is promoted to a piece that is free to move either forward or backward |
| king post | post connecting the crossbeam to the apex of a triangular truss |
Round Table
King Arthur's Round Table | (legend) the circular table for King Arthur and his knights |
divine right
divine right of kings | the doctrine that kings derive their right to rule directly from God and are not accountable to their subjects, rebellion is the worst of political crimes, the doctrine of the divine right of kings was enunciated by the Stuarts in Britain in the th century |
I Kings
Kings | the first of two Old Testament books telling the histories of the kings of Judah and Israel |
II Kings
Kings | the second of two Old Testament books telling the histories of the kings of Judah and Israel |
Authorized Version
King James Version
King James Bible | an English translation of the Bible published in |
King's English
Queen's English | English as spoken by educated persons in southern England |
Persian
Farsi | the language of Persia (Iran) in any of its ancient forms |
Dari
Dari Persian | an Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan |
| Persian melon | the fruit of a variety of winter melon vine, a large green melon with orange flesh |
Alaska king crab
Alaskan king crab
king crab
Alaska crab | meat of large cold-water crab, mainly leg meat |
chinook salmon
chinook
king salmon | pink or white flesh of large Pacific salmon |
| Kings Canyon National Park | a national park in California that has giant sequoia trees and alpine lakes and glaciers |
| Persia Persian Empire | an empire in southern Asia created by Cyrus the Great in the th century BC and destroyed by Alexander the Great in the th century BC |
Persian Gulf
Arabian Gulf | a shallow arm of the Arabian Sea between Iran and the Arabian peninsula, the Persian Gulf oil fields are among the most productive in the world |
| Persian deity | a deity worshiped by the ancient Persians |
Oedipus
King Oedipus
Oedipus Rex | (Greek mythology) a tragic king of Thebes who unknowingly killed his father Laius and married his mother Jocasta, the subject of the drama `Oedipus Rex' by Sophocles |
| Lear King Lear | the hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters |
Irani
Iranian
Persian a | a native or inhabitant of Iran, the majority of Irani are Persian Shiite Muslims |
baron big businessman
business leader
king magnate
mogul power top executive
tycoon | a very wealthy or powerful businessman, an oil baron |
king
male monarch
Rex | a male sovereign, ruler of a kingdom |
King of England
King of Great Britain | the sovereign ruler of England |
| King of France | the sovereign ruler of France |
| King of the Germans | the sovereign ruler of the Germans |
| king queen world-beater | a competitor who holds a preeminent position |
| King's Counsel | Counsel to the Crown when the British monarch is a king |
| sea king | a Viking pirate chief |
Artaxerxes I
Artaxerxes | king of Persia who sanctioned the practice of Judaism in Jerusalem (?- BC) |
Artaxerxes II
Artaxerxes | king of Persia who subdued numerous revolutions and made peace with Sparta (?- BC) |
Arthur
King Arthur | a legendary king of the Britons (possibly based on a historical figure in the th century but the story has been retold too many times to be sure), said to have led the Knights of the Round Table at Camelot |
Ferdinand
King Ferdinand
Ferdinand of Aragon
Ferdinand V
Ferdinand the Catholic | the king of Castile and Aragon who ruled jointly with his wife Isabella, his marriage to Isabella I in marked the beginning of the modern state of Spain and their capture of Granada from the Moors in united Spain as one country, they instituted the Spanish Inquisition in and supported the expedition of Christopher Columbus in (-) |