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KD

KD is the abbreviation of khaki drill.

KD is the initialism of known depredator.

KD is the initialism of compatibility decomposition.

KD is the initialism of Kraft Dinner.

KD is the initialism of knockdown.

KD is the initialism of kidney disease.

Meaning of khaki drill

Noun

khaki drill (countable and uncountable, plural khaki drills)

  1. A form of British military uniform made of cotton drill, often used in tropical service.

Meaning of knockdown

Noun

knockdown (countable and uncountable, plural knockdowns)

  1. An act of knocking down or the condition of being knocked down.
  2. An overwhelming blow.
  3. (obsolete, slang, uncountable) Very strong ale or beer.
  4. A genetically modified organism that carries one or more genes in its chromosomes that have been made less active or had their expression reduced.
  5. The use of a reagent such as an oligonucleotide with sequence complementary to an active gene or its mRNA transcript, to interfere with the expression of said gene.
  6. The condition of a sailboat being pushed abruptly to horizontal, with the mast parallel to the water surface.

See all 14 meanings of knockdown

Forms of KD

pluralKDs

Words formed from KD

Questions about KD

What is KD the abbreviation of?
KD is the abbreviation of khaki drill.

Words near KD in the dictionary

  1. KCSE
  2. KCSIE
  3. KCT
  4. KCTs
  5. KCTV
  6. KD
  7. KDA
  8. kdalton
  9. kdaltons
  10. KDB
  11. KDD

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Adapted from Wiktionary: KD (page history and authors); khaki drill (page history and authors); knockdown (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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