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11-letter words containing e, n, k

  • peckishness — the state or condition of being peckish
  • peking duck — a Chinese dish consisting of roast duck with a crispy skin; the meat is served with strips of vegetables, steamed pancakes, and hoisin sauce
  • pen and ink — A pen and ink drawing is done using a pen rather than a pencil.
  • penny black — the first adhesive postage stamp, issued in Britain in 1840; an imperforate stamp bearing the profile of Queen Victoria on a dark background
  • penny stock — common stock, usually highly speculative, selling for less than a dollar a share.
  • persnickety — overparticular; fussy.
  • petrol tank — The petrol tank in a motor vehicle is the container for petrol.
  • phantomlike — an apparition or specter.
  • phoenixlike — having a resemblance to a phoenix in the sense of re-emerging and beginning again
  • picket line — a line of strikers or other demonstrators serving as pickets.
  • pigeon hawk — merlin.
  • pigeon milk — crop milk.
  • pincer-like — resembling pincers in shape or action
  • pine siskin — a small, North American finch, Carduelis pinus, of coniferous forests, having yellow markings on the wings and tail.
  • pinkishness — a pinkish quality or colouring
  • plank-sheer — a plank or timber covering the upper ends of the frames of a wooden vessel
  • platemaking — the act of making plates
  • pocketknife — a knife with one or more blades that fold into the handle, suitable for carrying in the pocket.
  • pocketphone — a mobile phone
  • poke around — to prod or push, especially with something narrow or pointed, as a finger, elbow, stick, etc.: to poke someone in the ribs.
  • poke bonnet — a bonnet with a projecting front brim
  • poke fun at — to prod or push, especially with something narrow or pointed, as a finger, elbow, stick, etc.: to poke someone in the ribs.
  • pond hockey — ice hockey played on a frozen pond
  • pond-skater — any of various heteropterous insects of the family Gerrididae, esp Gerris lacustris (common pond-skater), having a slender hairy body and long hairy legs with which they skim about on the surface of ponds
  • poyang lake — a lake in E China, in N Jiangxi province, connected by canal with the Yangtze River: the second largest lake in China. Area (at its greatest): 2780 sq km (1073 sq miles)
  • prony brake — a friction brake serving as a dynamometer for measuring torque.
  • provokement — the act or instance of provoking
  • psyche knot — a woman's hairdo in which a knot or coil of hair projects from the back of the head.
  • puckishness — the state of being puckish
  • pumpkinhead — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
  • pumpkinseed — the seed of the pumpkin.
  • punji stake — a sharp bamboo stake concealed in high grass at an angle so as to gash the feet and legs of enemy soldiers and often coated with excrement so as to cause an infected wound.
  • punk rocker — a type of rock-'n'-roll, reaching its peak in the late 1970s and characterized by loud, insistent music and abusive or violent protest lyrics, and whose performers and followers are distinguished by extremes of dress and socially defiant behavior.
  • putty knife — a tool for puttying, having a broad flexible blade.
  • pyrokinesis — the ability to set objects or people on fire through the concentration of psychic power.
  • pyrokinetic — the ability to set objects or people on fire through the concentration of psychic power.
  • quick money — money that you make easily or quickly
  • racewalking — the activity of racing by walking fast rather than running
  • rack-renter — one who pays or exacts rack-rent
  • radio knife — an electrical instrument for cutting tissue that by searing severed blood vessels seals them and prevents bleeding.
  • rainbowlike — resembling a rainbow
  • rankshifted — that has been shifted from one linguistic rank to another
  • rattlesnake — any of several New World pit vipers of the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus, having a rattle composed of a series of horny, interlocking elements at the end of the tail.
  • re-skinning — to replace or repair the exterior surface or coating of: The space shuttle had to be reskinned before returning to service.
  • reawakening — rousing; quickening: an awakening interest in ballet.
  • reckon with — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
  • rent strike — a temporary, organized refusal by tenants, as of an apartment building, to pay their rent, as in protest over inadequate services.
  • ribbed-knit — rib-knit (def 2).
  • ring-necked — having a ring of distinctive color around the neck.
  • ringstraked — ring-streaked.
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