10-letter words containing a, k, i
- peacocking — the male of the peafowl distinguished by its long, erectile, greenish, iridescent tail coverts that are brilliantly marked with ocellated spots and that can be spread in a fan.
- peacockish — the male of the peafowl distinguished by its long, erectile, greenish, iridescent tail coverts that are brilliantly marked with ocellated spots and that can be spread in a fan.
- peking man — the skeletal remains of Homo erectus, formerly classified as Sinanthropus pekinensis, found at Zhoukoudian, near Peking, China, in the late 1930s and early 1940s and subsequently lost during World War II.
- perikaryal — of or pertaining to the perikaryon of a nerve; involving or occurring within a perikaryon
- perikaryon — cell body.
- phokomelia — a usually congenital deformity of the extremities in which the limbs are abnormally short.
- piatigorsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, in Caucasia.
- pick apart — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
- pick basic — Data/BASIC
- pickaninny — a term used to refer to a black child.
- picketboat — a boat which keeps guard
- pickup arm — tone arm.
- piggy bank — a small bank, having the shape of a pig, provided with a slot at the top to receive small coins.
- pikes peak — a mountain in central Colorado: a peak of the Rocky Mountains. 14,108 feet (4300 meters).
- pilgarlick — a bald person; a person looked upon with humorous contempt or mock pity
- pine snake — any of several subspecies of bullsnake of the eastern and southeastern U.S., chiefly in pine woods: now threatened.
- pipe snake — any of several nonvenomous, burrowing snakes of the genus Cylindrophis, of southeastern Asia and the Malay Archipelago, having an evenly cylindrical body.
- pitch lake — a deposit of natural asphalt in SW Trinidad, West Indies. 114 acres (47 hectares).
- pitch-dark — dark or black as pitch: a pitch-dark night.
- piwakawaka — a New Zealand fantail, Rhipidura Fuliginosa
- pizza-like — similar to or resembling pizza
- place kick — a kick in which the ball is placed in position before it is kicked
- place-kick — to make (a field goal or point after touchdown) by a place kick.
- plain knit — the simplest knitted construction, consisting of vertical ribs visible on the front of the fabric and horizontal rows of stitches visible on the back, used in the production of hosiery and jersey fabrics.
- planetlike — resembling a planet or planets
- planktonic — the aggregate of passively floating, drifting, or somewhat motile organisms occurring in a body of water, primarily comprising microscopic algae and protozoa.
- playmaking — the initiating of offensive plays in sports
- poison oak — either of two shrubs, Rhus toxicodendron, of the eastern U.S., or R. diversiloba, of the Pacific coast of North America, resembling poison ivy and causing severe dermatitis when touched by persons sensitive to them.
- portakabin — A Portakabin is a small building that can be moved by truck and that can be used for a short period of time, for example as a temporary office.
- prankingly — showily, in an ostentatious or pranking manner
- prankishly — in a prankish manner, mischievously
- prepacking — a package assembled by a manufacturer, distributor, or retailer and containing a specific number of items or a specific assortment of sizes, colors, flavors, etc., of a product.
- printmaker — a person who makes prints, especially an artist working in one of the graphic mediums.
- puschkinia — a small spring-flowering bulb, Puschkinia scilloides, of Asia Minor and the Caucasus, having white or pale blue flowers striped with dark blue
- pyatigorsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, in Caucasia.
- quackishly — In a quackish manner.
- quarkonium — a meson composed of a quark and an antiquark of the same flavor.
- quick clay — a water-saturated clay that changes rapidly to a fluid state when jarred or crushed, as by an earthquake or pile driver
- quick draw — a game or competition in which the winner is the quickest person to draw a handgun from a holster and sometimes to fire it and hit a target.
- quickhatch — a wolverine.
- quickwater — the part of a river or other stream having a strong current.
- quillbacks — Plural form of quillback.
- rabbitlike — Similar to a rabbit.
- radio link — radio communication setup
- rain check — a ticket for future use given to spectators at an outdoor event, as a baseball game or concert, that has been postponed or interrupted by rain.
- ranch mink — a semiaquatic mink, Mustela vision, raised commercially for its fur.
- ransacking — to search thoroughly or vigorously through (a house, receptacle, etc.): They ransacked the house for the missing letter.
- raskolniki — a member of any of several sects founded by dissenters from the Russian Orthodox Church who opposed the liturgical reforms of Nikon in the 17th century.
- ratemaking — the process or practice of establishing rates of payment, especially for public transportation or utilities.
- red kowhai — parrot's-bill.