(Main list of acronyms)

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  • 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
  • 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

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")[https://web.archive.org/web/20080227010804/http://www.milparade.com/Soderzhaniye.pdf]
  • KPVT – (i) Krupnokaliberniy Pulemet Vladimorova Tankoviy (Russian КПВТ Крупнокалиберный Пулемет Владимирова Танковый, "Large-Calibre Machinegun Vladimirov Tank")[https://web.archive.org/web/20080227010804/http://www.milparade.com/Soderzhaniye.pdf]
  • 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)