8-Letter Words Starting: KAT

• large green long-horned grasshopper of North America; males produce shrill sounds by rubbing together special organs on the forewings

• A Japanese syllabary used when writing words borrowed from foreign languages other than Chinese, specific names of plants and animals and other jargon, onomatopoeia, or to emphasize a word or phrase. Also used to write the Ainu language.

• A character thereof.

• An electrode, of a cell or other electrically polarized device, through which a positive current of electricity flows outwards (and thus, electrons flow inwards). It usually, but not always, has a positive voltage.

• (by extension) The electrode at which chemical reduction of cations takes place, usually resulting in the deposition of metal onto the electrode.

• The electrode from which electrons are emitted into a vacuum tube or gas-filled tube.

• That electrode of a semiconductor device which is connected to the n-type material of a p-n junction.

• One of two species of trees in the genus Cercidiphyllum, most commonly Cercidiphyllum japonicum, one of the largest trees in Asia.