5 letter words starting with kno

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  • KNOBS
  • KNOCK
  • KNOLL
  • KNOOP
  • KNOPS
  • KNOSP
  • KNOTS
  • KNOUD
  • KNOUT
  • KNOWD
  • KNOWE
  • KNOWN
  • KNOWS

Sometimes the solution is an uncommon word, then It’s time to learn something new. Here’s the definition of a few of these words:

Definition of knock

knock (noun)

  1. Sudden fatigue as a result of glycogen depletion from not having taken in enough nutrition.

knock (noun)

  1. An abrupt rapping sound, as from an impact of a hard object against wood.
  2. A sharp impact.
  3. Criticism.
  4. Preignition, a type of abnormal combustion occurring in spark ignition engines caused by self-ignition; also, the characteristic knocking sound associated with it.
  5. A batsman's innings.

knock (verb)

  1. To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door.
  2. To criticize verbally; to denigrate; to undervalue.
  3. To kick a ball towards another player; to pass.
  4. To impress forcibly or strongly; to astonish; to move to admiration or applause.
  5. To bump or impact.
  6. To rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood.

Definition of knoll

knoll (noun)

  1. A small mound or rounded hill.

knoll (noun)

  1. A knell.

knoll (verb)

  1. To ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell.
  2. To sound, like a bell; to knell.

knoll (verb)

  1. To arrange related objects in parallel or at 90 degree angles.


Definition of knots

knots (noun)

  1. A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without passing one or both ends of the material through its loops.
  2. (of hair, etc) A tangled clump.
  3. A maze-like pattern.
  4. A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above).
  5. A difficult situation.
  6. The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.
  7. Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
  8. A protuberant joint in a plant.
  9. Any knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.
  10. The swelling of the bulbus glandis in members of the dog family, Canidae
  11. The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.
  12. A node.
  13. A kind of epaulet; a shoulder knot.
  14. A group of people or things.
  15. A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
  16. A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour. (From the practice of counting the number of knots in the log-line (as it is paid out) in a standard time. Traditionally spaced at one every 1/120 of a mile.)
  17. A nautical mile
  18. The bulbus glandis
  19. In omegaverse fiction, a bulbus glandis-like structure on the penis of a male alpha, which ties him to an omega during intercourse.

knots (verb)

  1. To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots.
  2. To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc.
  3. To unite closely; to knit together.
  4. To entangle or perplex; to puzzle.
  5. To form knots.
  6. To knit knots for a fringe.

knots (noun)

  1. One of a variety of shore birds; the red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or Tringa canutus).

Definition of knout

knout (noun)

  1. A leather scourge (multi-tail whip), in the severe version known as 'great knout' with metal weights on each tongue, notoriously used in imperial Russia.

knout (verb)

  1. To flog or beat with a knout.