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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
break good luck
happy chance | an unexpected piece of good luck, he finally got his big break |
blessed event
happy event | the live birth of a child |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 (-) |
Gillette
King Camp Gilette | United States inventor and manufacturer who developed the safety razor (-) |
Goodman
Benny Goodman
Benjamin David Goodman
King of Swing | United States clarinetist who in formed a big band (including black as well as white musicians) and introduced a kind of jazz known as swing (-) |
Harold I
King Harold I
Harold Harefoot
Harefoot | illegitimate son of Canute who seized the throne of England in(died in ) |
Harold II
King Harold II | King of England who succeeded Edward the Confessor inand was the last of the Anglo-Saxon monarchs, he was killed fighting the invasion by William the Conqueror (-) |
Hussein
Husain
Husayn
ibn Talal Hussein
King Hussein | king of Jordan credited with creating stability at home and seeking peace with Israel (-) |
James James I
King James
King James I | the first Stuart to be king of England and Ireland fromto and king of Scotland from to , he was the son of Mary Queen of Scots and he succeeded Elizabeth I, he alienated the British Parliament by claiming the divine right of kings (-) |
John King John
John Lackland | youngest son of Henry II, King of England from to , succeeded to the throne on the death of his brother Richard I, lost his French possessions, in John was compelled by the barons to sign the Magna Carta (-) |
King Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King Jr. | United States charismatic civil rights leader and Baptist minister who campaigned against the segregation of Blacks (-) |
King B. B. King
Riley B King | United States guitar player and singer of the blues (born in ) |
King Billie Jean King
Billie Jean Moffitt King | United States woman tennis player (born in ) |
Louis XIV
Sun King
Louis the Great | king of France from to , his long reign was marked by the expansion of French influence in Europe and by the magnificence of his court and the Palace of Versailles (-) |
Merton
Robert Merton
Robert King Merton | United States sociologist (-) |
Oliver
Joseph Oliver
King Oliver | United States jazz musician who influenced the style of Louis Armstrong (-) |
Sousa
John Philip Sousa
March King | a United States bandmaster and composer of military marches (-) |