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12-letter words containing i, c, e, k

  • 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
  • pecksniffery — hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
  • 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.
  • pencil skirt — women's garment: straight skirt
  • petach tikva — a city in W Israel, NE of Tel Aviv.
  • picker-upper — something that restores one's depleted energy or depressed spirits; pick-me-up.
  • pickerelweed — any American plant of the genus Pontederia, especially P. cordata, having spikes of blue flowers, common in shallow fresh water.
  • pickeringite — a mineral, magnesia alum, occurring usually in the form of white fibrous masses.
  • picket fence — a fence consisting of pickets or pales nailed to horizontal stringers between upright posts.
  • picture book — a book consisting mainly or entirely of pictures, especially one for children who have not yet learned to read.
  • picture desk — the department at a magazine or newspaper publisher, that deals with photographs for the paper or magazine
  • pigeon clock — a device for timing the arrivals of pigeons being raced, consisting of a magazine for holding the identification bands of the contestants in the order in which they are inserted and a recording clock to register the times of insertion.
  • 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
  • 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
  • pocket drive — a small portable memory device that can be plugged into the USB port of many different types of computer
  • pocket knife — A pocket knife is a small knife with several blades which fold into the handle so that you can carry it around with you safely.
  • pocket piece — (in a window frame) a removable part of a pulley stile permitting access to sash weights.
  • pocket-sized — If you describe something as pocket-sized, you approve of it because it is small enough to fit in your pocket.
  • policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
  • postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
  • prepackaging — to package (foodstuffs or manufactured goods) before retail distribution or sale.
  • price ticket — a ticket or label on an article for sale showing its price
  • 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.
  • puck-carrier — the player who has the puck and moves it along.
  • pumpernickel — a coarse, dark, slightly sour bread made of unbolted rye.
  • quackishness — The state or condition of being quackish.
  • quick assets — assets readily convertible into cash; liquid current assets
  • quick-freeze — to freeze (cooked or uncooked food) rapidly, permitting it to be stored almost indefinitely at freezing temperatures.
  • quick-witted — having a nimble, alert mind.
  • quicksilvery — resembling quicksilver
  • quickstepped — Simple past tense and past participle of quickstep.
  • racing skate — a tubular ice skate having a long blade extending beyond the heel and toe.
  • racketeering — a person engaged in a racket.
  • 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.
  • receipt book — book containing receipt slips
  • rickenbacker — Edward Vernon ("Eddie") 1890–1973, U.S. aviator and aviation executive.
  • ring knocker — a commissioned officer in the U.S. armed forces who is a graduate of a military academy.
  • rock climber — sb who scales mountains
  • rock glacier — a mass of rock resembling a valley glacier that moves or is moved down a slope by its own weight or by the action of frost and interstitial ice.
  • rock jasmine — any of several alpine plants belonging to the genus Androsace, of the primrose family, having tufted leaves often in basal rosettes, and umbels of pink, red, purple, or white flowers.
  • rubik's cube — a puzzle consisting of a cube with colored faces made of 26 smaller colored blocks attached to a spindle in the center, the object being to rotate the blocks until each face of the cube is a single color.
  • safecracking — the act of breaking into a safe
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