Finnish–English dictionary

kaarittaa

To enclose, as if with ribs, and protect; to shut in.

kääritty

Encased in a wrapping.

kaariväli

(nautical) A space between the timbers of a ship's frame. [from 15th c.]

Kaarle

A en given name.

Kaarle Suuri

One of the kings of the Franks from 768 to 814, crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 800 until his death in 814.

Kaarlo

A en given name.

käärme

A hog-nosed snake, of genus Heterodon of harmless colubrid snakes found in North America

käärmeihminen

An acrobat who is capable of twisting their body into unusual positions.

kaarna

(countable, uncountable) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree.

kaarne

(countable) Any of several, generally large and lustrous black species of birds in the genus Corvus, especially the common raven (Corvus corax).

käärö

A miniature round loaf of bread, often accompanying a meal.

kaarre

A gentle bend, such as in a road.

kaarrella

(falconry) To rise in the air spirally.

kaarroke

(clothing) The part of an item of clothing which fits around the shoulders or the hips from which the rest of the garment hangs, and which is often distinguished by having a double thickness of material, or decorative flourishes. [from 19th c.]

kaarros

(aviation) A horizontal turn.

kaartaa

(intransitive) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.

kaarteleva

Of a long and winding route.

kaartelevasti

In a circuitous manner; following a circuitous route.

kaartelu

The act of evading any clear course of action or speech, of being deliberately ambiguous; equivocation; fickleness.

kaartotaistelu

(aviation, military) A twisting turning battle between two or more military aircraft, especially between fighters.

kaartua

(transitive, figurative) To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline.

kääryle

Any of a family of stuffed vegetable dishes. The filling generally consists of rice, minced meat or grains, together with onion, herbs and spices.

kaasu

(obsolete, : , chemistry) Any specific gas.

kaasumainen

Relating to, or existing as gas (matter in an intermediate state between liquid and plasma).

kaasuonkalo

(geology) A vent for the escape of steam or other gas.

kaasupallo

A bag or bladder to hold a reservoir of gas, as in a hot-air balloon.

kaasupitoinen

Of a liquid containing bubbles: gassy.

kaasupoljin

(vehicle) A pedal causing the vehicle to accelerate when it is pressed.

kaasupoltin

An element on a kitchen stove that generates localized heat for cooking.

kaasusumu

(astronomy) A cloud in outer space consisting of gas or dust (e.g. a cloud formed after a star explodes).

kaasutiivis

Impermeable to air or other gases.

kaasutin

(US, Canada) A device in an internal combustion engine where fuel is vaporized and mixed with air prior to ignition. [from 1890s]

kaasuttaa

(transitive) To attack or kill with poison gas.

kaasuunnuttaa

To convert into gas, or an aeriform fluid, as by the application of heat, or by chemical processes.

kaasuvipu

(US, dialectal, coal, _, mining) A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine.

kaataa

To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.

kaataa astiasta toiseen

(transitive) To pour from one vessel into another.

kaataa kerralla kurkkuunsa

(Australia, New Zealand, slang) To drink the entire contents of a drinking vessel without pausing.

kaataa puita

(transitive) To cut down (trees).

kaataa täyteen

To fill (a container) to the brim (noun sense 1.1), top, or upper edge.

kaataa ympäri

(ambitransitive) To turn over, capsize or upset.

kaato

A ball used in the sports of Quidditch and Muggle Quidditch.

kaatokolo

The notch cut in a tree to direct its fall when being felled.

kaatonokka

A tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged.

kaatopaikka

A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.

kaatopaikkajäte

(uncountable) Such material that is disposed.

kaatosade

A great flood or rain.

kaatua

(transitive, nautical) To cause (a ship) to overturn.

kaatuminen

An overturning of a boat etc.

kaatunut

Killed, especially in battle.

kaava

A plan or method for dealing with a problem or for achieving a result.

kaavailla

To conceive or see something within one's mind; to imagine or envision.

kaavain

A thin sheet, either perforated or using some other technique, with which a pattern may be produced upon a surface; a utensil that contains a perforated sheet.

kaavake

A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.

kaavalevy

A thin sheet, either perforated or using some other technique, with which a pattern may be produced upon a surface; a utensil that contains a perforated sheet.

kaavamainen

In accordance with established forms.

kaavamaisuus

A particular sequence of events, facts etc. which can be understood, used to predict the future, or seen to have a mathematical, geometric, statistical etc. relationship. [from 19th c.]

kaavapiirros

A drawing showing technical details of a building, machine, etc., with unwanted details omitted, and often using symbols rather than detailed drawing to represent doors, valves, etc.

kaavata

(intransitive) To cause to be involved in; to cause to form strong attachments to.

kaavin

(medicine, dentistry) A hand-held surgical instrument, often with a scoop or hook at its tip, used for cleaning or debriding biological tissue.

kaavio

A diagram in a scientific concept.

kaaviokuva

(mathematics) A set of points constituting a graphical representation of a real function; (formally) a set of tuples (x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_m, y)\in\R^{m+1}, where y=f(x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_m) for a given function f: \R^m\rightarrow\R. See also w:Graph of a function on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

kaavoittaa

(transitive) To define the property use classification of (an area).

kaavoittuma

A conventional, formulaic, and often oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of (a person or a group of people).

kabaree

Live entertainment held in a restaurant or nightclub; the genre of music associated with this form of entertainment, especially in early 20th century Europe.

kabbala

(Judaism) A body of mystical Jewish teachings based on an esoteric reading of the Hebrew scriptures.

kabinetti

(British) A small, comfortable back room in a pub.

kabuki

(often, capitalized) A form of Japanese theatre in which elaborately costumed male performers use stylized movements, dances, and songs in order to enact tragedies and comedies.

Kabul

The capital and largest city of Afghanistan.

kade

Feeling or exhibiting envy; jealously desiring the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging.

kadehdittava

Arousing or likely to arouse envy.

kadehtia

To grudge about or over; be envious or covetous.

kädellinen

(chiefly, in combination) Having an arm or arms, often of a specified number or type.

käden ulottuvilla

Nearby, within reach.

kädenjälki

(archaic) Actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence, manner of performance.

kädensija

(obsolete) That which is grasped; a handle; a grip.

kadenssi

(music) A progression of at least two chords which conclude a piece of music, section or musical phrases within it. Sometimes referred to analogously as musical punctuation.

kädet

(chiefly, in the plural) Management, domain, control.

kädetön

Having no arms.

kadetti

A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.

kadoksissa

In an unknown location; unable to be found.

kadonnut

Of customs, ideas, laws and legal rights, offices, organizations, etc.: no longer existing or in use; defunct, discontinued, obsolete; specifically, of a title of nobility: no longer having any person qualified to hold it.

kadota

To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.

kadotettu

Ruined or destroyed, either physically or morally; past help or hope.

kadottaa

(transitive, often, euphemistic) To make vanish; especially, to abduct or murder for political reasons.

kadotus

(religion) Condemnation to everlasting punishment in the future state, or the punishment itself.

kadunkulma

An intersection of two streets; any of the four outer points off the street at that intersection.

kaduttaa

(theology, intransitive) To be sorry for sin as morally evil, and to seek forgiveness; to cease to practice sin and to love.

kaduttava

Causing, feeling, or expressing regret or sorrow, especially in a wry or humorous way.

käenkaali

(gardening) Any of various ornamental flowering plants of the genus Oxalis

käenkukka

Some flowering plants of the genus Lychnis.

kafeteria

(chiefly, US, Canada) A restaurant in which customers select their food at a counter then carry it on a tray to a table to eat.

kafferi

(countable, South Africa, Rhodesia, Namibia, ethnic slur, offensive, derogatory) A black person. [from 17th c.]

kafiiri

(Islam, countable, offensive, religious slur, political) A disbeliever, a denier: someone who rejects or disbelieves in Allah or the tenets of Islam; or more broadly any non-Muslim.

kafkamainen

Marked by a senseless, disorienting, often menacing complexity.

kaftaani

A long tunic worn in the Eastern Mediterranean.

kahakka

A tumultuous assault or quarrel.

kahakoida

(intransitive) To fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters.

kähärä

(dated) Of hair: curling, especially in tight, stiff curls or ringlets; also (obsolete) , of a person: having hair curled in this manner.

kähäräinen

(dated) Of hair: curling, especially in tight, stiff curls or ringlets; also (obsolete) , of a person: having hair curled in this manner.

kahareisin

With one’s legs on either side of.

kahdeksan

A numerical value equal to 8; the number occurring after seven and before nine.

kahdeksankertainen

Eight times as much; multiplied by eight.

kahdeksankertaisesti

By a factor of eight.

kahdeksankulmio

(geometry, also, attributively) A polygon with eight sides and eight angles.

kahdeksankymmentä

The cardinal number occurring after seventy-nine and before eighty-one, represented in Roman numerals as LXXX and in Arabic numerals as 80.

kahdeksankymmentäluku

The decade of the 1880s, 1980s, etc.

kahdeksannes

One of eight equal parts of a whole.

kahdeksanosainen

Containing eight parts.

kahdeksanottelu

(athletics) A sporting event consisting of eight different sports or contests.

kahdeksantoista

The cardinal number occurring after seventeen and before nineteen, represented in Roman numerals as XVIII and in Arabic numerals as 18.

kahdeksas

The ordinal form of the number eight.

kahdeksasosa

One of eight equal parts of a whole.

kahdeksasosadollari

(historical, US, and, Canada) A unit of currency worth one eighth of a dollar, originally of a Spanish dollar but later also US or Canadian; also, a coin with this value, in particular the silver Spanish real.

kahdeksasosanuotti

(music) an eighth note, drawn as a crotchet (quarter note) with a tail.

kahdeksastoista

The ordinal form of the number eighteen.

kahdeksastoistaosa

One of eighteen equal parts of a whole.

kahdeksikko

A numerical value equal to 8; the number occurring after seven and before nine.

kahdelle

Designed for two (people, cars, etc.).

kahden dollarin seteli

(US, informal) A two-dollar bill.

kahden hengen huone

A room, especially in a hotel, that is designed for two people and has two single beds (sometimes called a twin room) or one double bed.

kahden komplementti

(computing, mathematics) The diminished radix complement of a number; the nines' complement of a decimal number; the ones' complement of a binary number.

kahden vaiheilla

(idiomatic) Undecided or unsure; equivocating; conflicted in one's opinions.

kahden viikon välein

once in a fortnight; once every two weeks

kahdenarvoinen

(chemistry) An element, atom, or radical having a valence of or combining power of two.

kahdennus

(biology) The process of producing replicas of DNA or RNA molecules.

kahdentaa

(transitive) To make a copy of.

kahdentuminen

(mathematics) The change in the qualitative or topological structure of a given family as described by bifurcation theory.

kahdenvälinen

(of an agreement) Binding on both of the two parties involved.

kahdeskymmenes

The ordinal form of the number twenty.

kahdeskymmenesosa

One of twenty equal parts of a whole.

kahdesosa

(preceded by “a” or a number) The fraction obtained by dividing 1 by 2.

kahdesta lehtisolmusta koostuva alipuu

(graph theory) A subtree consisting of a node with exactly two leaves.

kahdesti

Two times.

kahdestoista

The ordinal form of the number twelve, describing a person or thing in position number 12 of a sequence.

kahdestoistaosa

One of twelve equal parts of a whole.

käheä

Sounding harsh and throaty.

kaheli

(archaic) A crazy or crack-brained person.

käherrin

A tool used to make hair wavy.

kähertää

(transitive) To curl; to make frizzy.

kähertäjä

A person who specializes in treating hair to make it wavy.

kähertyä

(intransitive) Of hair, to form into a mass of tight curls.

kähinä

A harsh and throaty spoken sound

kahinoida

(intransitive, originally, US) To quarrel or argue pettily briefly.

kahista

(intransitive) To rustle, as stiff cloth when moved.

kahjo

(archaic) A crazy or crack-brained person.

kahlaamo

A location where a stream is shallow and the bottom has good footing, making it possible to cross from one side to the other with no bridge, by walking, riding, or driving through the water; a crossing.

kahlailla

(intransitive, British) To walk or dabble playfully in shallow water, especially at the seaside.

kahlailu

(British) A meandering walk or dabble through shallow water, especially at the seaside.

kahlata

To cross a stream by walking through it.