12-letter words containing a, k, i, p
- parkinsonism — Parkinson's disease.
- passion week — the week preceding Easter; Holy Week.
- pathbreaking — pertaining to blazing a trail or path.
- payback time — Payback time is when someone has to take the consequences of what they have done in the past. You can use this expression to talk about good or bad consequences.
- peacekeeping — the maintenance of international peace and security by the deployment of military forces in a particular area: the United Nations' efforts toward peacekeeping.
- peak traffic — traffic at the time it is most busy
- pecksniffian — hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
- pelican hook — a hooklike device for holding the link of a chain or the like, consisting of a long shackle with a hinged rod held closed with a sliding ring.
- penalty kick — a free kick awarded for an infraction committed by a defensive player in the penalty area and taken by the offensive player who has been fouled from a point 12 yards (11 meters) directly in front of the goal.
- pereira bark — the bark of any of several South American trees belonging to the genus Geissospermum, of the dogbane family, especially that of G. vellosii, used in Brazil to allay fever.
- persian knot — a hand-tied knot, used in rug weaving, in which the ends of yarn looped around a warp thread appear at each of the interstices between adjacent threads and produce a compact and relatively even pile effect.
- petach tikva — a city in W Israel, NE of Tel Aviv.
- phrasemaking — the making up or coining of memorable phrases or slogans
- pick and mix — a selection of sweets from which the customer can choose, paid for by weight
- piggybacking — on the back or shoulders: The little girl rode piggyback on her father.
- pigtail hook — a screw hook having an eye in the form of a spiral for holding a loop, chain link, etc., at any angle.
- pilot jacket — a type of leather jacket associated with U.S. Army pilots in World War II
- pipe jacking — a method of laying underground pipelines by assembling the pipes at the foot of an access shaft and pushing them through the ground
- pkware, inc. — (company, compression) The company, founded by Phil Katz in 1986, which produces the PKZIP and PKUNZIP compression tools and libraries for many platforms. Address: 201 E. Pittsburgh Ave., Suite 400, Milwaukee, WI 53204 USA
- plain turkey — a bustard
- plain-spoken — candid; frank; blunt.
- plane ticket — entitlement to travel by aircraft
- play chicken — to engage in a test of courage in which, typically, two vehicles are driven directly toward one another in order to see which driver will swerve away first
- policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- policymaking — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
- powerwalking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
- prankishness — the quality or condition of being prankish
- premarketing — before the development of a market
- prepackaging — to package (foodstuffs or manufactured goods) before retail distribution or sale.
- prickly heat — a cutaneous eruption accompanied by a prickling and itching sensation, due to an inflammation of the sweat glands.
- prickly pear — any of numerous cacti of the genus Opuntia, having flattened, usually spiny stem joints, yellow, orange, or reddish flowers, and ovoid, often edible fruit.
- private joke — a joke that is understood only by a certain social group
- puck-carrier — the player who has the puck and moves it along.
- pumpkin head — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
- pyramid peak — a mountain in W central Colorado, in the Elk Range, in the S Rocky Mountains. 14,018 feet (4276 meters).
- radar picket — a ship, vehicle, or aircraft stationed at a distance from a protected force to increase radar detection range.
- raking piece — a sloping piece of scenery, as on a television or stage set, especially such a piece used for masking the side of a ramp.
- rapacki plan — the denuclearization of Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and West Germany, proposed by Adam Rapacki (1909–70), the Polish foreign minister, in 1957
- reaping hook — a curved cutting tool with a sharp edge, used in the cutting or harvesting of crops
- risk capital — venture capital.
- safe-keeping — the act of keeping safe or the state of being kept safe; protection; care; custody.
- scafell pike — a mountain in NW England, in Cumberland: highest peak in England. 3210 feet (978 meters).
- schappe silk — a yarn or fabric of or similar to spun silk.
- science park — A science park is an area, usually linked to a university, where there are a lot of private companies, especially ones concerned with high technology.
- scrapbooking — hobby: collaging
- send packing — to dismiss peremptorily
- shopbreaking — the act of breaking into a shop
- sitka spruce — a spruce, Picea sitchensis, of western North America, having long, silvery-white needles, grown as an ornamental.
- skiing pants — warm, waterproof, protective trousers worn while skiing