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13-letter words containing e, p, i, k

  • pickerel frog — a meadow frog, Rana palustris, common in eastern North America, similar to the leopard frog but with squarish dark spots on the back.
  • pickup camper — camper (def 3).
  • picnic basket — woven container for carrying food outdoors
  • piece of cake — a sweet, baked, breadlike food, made with or without shortening, and usually containing flour, sugar, baking powder or soda, eggs, and liquid flavoring.
  • piece of work — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
  • pig in a poke — something not adequately appraised or of undetermined value, as an offering or purchase.
  • piked dogfish — the spiny dogfish.
  • pine grosbeak — a large grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, of coniferous forests of northern North America and Eurasia, the male of which has rose and gray plumage.
  • pinellas park — a city in W central Florida.
  • pocket chisel — any woodworking chisel having a blade of medium length.
  • poker machine — a fruit machine
  • pony trekking — the act of riding ponies cross-country, esp as a pastime
  • poplar kitten — a moth, (Furcula bifida,) which has larvae like those of the related puss moth
  • porcelainlike — resembling porcelain
  • porkpie (hat) — a man's soft hat with a round, flat crown
  • powdered milk — dry milk.
  • power walking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
  • prairie skirt — a full, dirndl-style skirt with a flounce on the bottom edge that is sometimes trimmed or lined to suggest a petticoat underneath.
  • pressed brick — face brick molded under pressure to a desired finish.
  • price bracket — a notional range of prices which consumers are prepared to pay for a good
  • prick-teasing — the behaviour of a prick-tease
  • printer's ink — a type of quick-drying ink used in printing
  • pruning knife — a knife used for pruning
  • psychokinesis — the purported ability to move or deform inanimate objects, as metal spoons, through mental processes.
  • pumpkinheaded — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
  • purkinje cell — a large, densely branching neuron in the cerebellar cortex of the brain.
  • quaking aspen — any of various poplars, as Populus tremula, of Europe, and P. tremuloides (quaking aspen) or P. alba (white aspen) of America, having soft wood and alternate ovate leaves that tremble in the slightest breeze.
  • quickstepping — Present participle of quickstep.
  • realpolitiker — someone who practises or believes in realpolitik
  • recordkeeping — the maintenance of a history of one's activities, as financial dealings, by entering data in ledgers or journals, putting documents in files, etc.
  • san luis peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,014 feet (4271 meters).
  • schiller park — a town in NE Illinois.
  • script kiddie — a child or teenager who gains illegal access to computer systems, often by using hacking programs downloaded from the internet
  • semipalatinsk — a city in NE Kazakhstan, on the Irtysh River.
  • shakespearian — of, relating to, or suggestive of Shakespeare or his works.
  • shepherd king — any of the Hyksos kings.
  • sinking spell — a temporary decline, as in health or market values: Wall Street is over its sinking spell.
  • skepticalness — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
  • skip distance — the minimum distance along the earth's surface between the position of a short-wave transmitter and the region where its signal is received after one reflection from the ionosphere.
  • skipping rope — A skipping rope or skip rope is a piece of rope, usually with handles at each end. You exercise or play with it by turning it round and round and jumping over it.
  • skipping-rope — Also, jump roping. a children's game or an exercise for children and adults in which a rope is swung over and under the standing jumper, who must leap over it each time it reaches the feet.
  • sky-blue pink — a jocular name for a nonexistent, unknown, or unimportant colour
  • slippery dick — a wrasse, Halichoeres bivittatus, inhabiting tropical regions of the Atlantic Ocean.
  • slow-speaking — tending to speak slowly
  • sneak preview — a preview of a motion picture, often shown in addition to an announced film, in order to observe the reaction of the audience.
  • spaghettilike — resembling spaghetti
  • spark erosion — a method of machining using a shaped electrode which erodes the workpiece by an electric spark discharge between itself and the workpiece
  • speaking part — a part in which the character speaks scripted dialogue
  • speaking tube — a tube for conveying the voice over a somewhat limited distance, as from one part of a building or ship to another.
  • speaking type — a device on a medal or coin that has a punning reference to a person or thing.
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