9-letter words containing k, a, p
- plantlike — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- plasticky — made of or resembling plastic
- platelike — a shallow, usually circular dish, often of earthenware or porcelain, from which food is eaten.
- platemark — hallmark.
- play back — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- play park — A play park is a children's playground.
- playmaker — an offensive player, as in basketball or ice hockey, who executes plays designed to put one or more teammates in a position to score.
- plekhanov — Georgi (or Georgy) Valentinovich [gyi-awr-gyee-vuh-lyin-tyee-nuh-vyich] /gyɪˈɔr gyi və lyɪnˈtyi nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1857–1918, Russian philosopher and leader of the Mensheviks.
- plow back — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- pock-mark — Usually, pockmarks. scars or pits left by a pustule in smallpox or the like.
- pokelogan — marshy or stagnant water that has branched off from a stream or lake.
- poliakoff — Stephen. born 1952, British playwright and film director; work includes the stage plays Breaking the Silence (1984) and Blinded by the Sun (1996) and the television serials The Lost Prince (2003), Friends and Crocodiles (2005), and Dancing on the Edge (2013)
- polka dot — a dot or round spot (printed, woven, or embroidered) repeated to form a pattern on a textile fabric.
- polltaker — a person or organization that conducts polls; pollster.
- polokwane — a town in NE South Africa, the capital of Limpopo province: commercial and agricultural centre. Pop: 90 398 (2001)
- pontianak — a seaport on W Kalimantan (Borneo), in central Indonesia.
- pony pack — a tray of usually one dozen growing plants that can be bought from a nursery for transplanting: a pony pack of tomato plants.
- portapack — the first portable combined videotape recorder and camera
- poundcake — a rich, sweet cake made originally with approximately a pound each of butter, sugar, and flour.
- pracharak — (in India) a person appointed to propagate a cause through personal contact, meetings, public lectures, etc
- pranksome — tending to play pranks; mischievous; prankish
- prankster — a mischievous or malicious person who plays tricks, practical jokes, etc., at the expense of another.
- predikant — a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, esp in South Africa
- premarket — of the period before a product is available
- prepacked — 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.
- pressmark — a symbol indicating the location of a book in the library.
- printback — an enlarged print from a microfilm copy.
- prisiadka — a step in Slavic folk dancing in which the dancer squats on the haunches and kicks out each foot alternately; the characteristic step of the kazachok.
- prokaryon — the nucleus of a prokaryote
- prokaryot — any organism having cells in each of which the genetic material is in a single DNA chain, not enclosed in a nucleus
- psalmbook — a book containing psalms for liturgical or devotional use.
- psamtik i — king of Egypt 663–609 b.c. (son of Necho I).
- pull back — the act of pulling back, especially a retreat or a strategic withdrawal of troops; pullout.
- pull rank — a number of persons forming a separate class in a social hierarchy or in any graded body.
- push back — force to retreat
- ragpicker — a person who picks up rags and other waste material from the streets, refuse heaps, etc., for a livelihood.
- re-uptake — the process by which the presynaptic terminal of a neuron reabsorbs and recycles the molecules of neurotransmitter it has previously secreted in conveying an impulse to another neuron.
- repackage — to package again or afresh, as in a different style, design, or size: The soap has been repackaged to be more eye-catching.
- retropack — a system of retrorockets on a spacecraft
- salt pork — pork cured with salt, especially the fat pork taken from the back, sides, and belly.
- sapsucker — any of several American woodpeckers of the genus Sphyrapicus that drill holes in maple, apple, hemlock, etc., drinking the sap and eating the insects that gather there.
- scrapbook — an album in which pictures, newspaper clippings, etc., may be pasted or mounted.
- shakspere — William ("the Bard"; "the Bard of Avon") 1564–1616, English poet and dramatist.
- sheepwalk — a tract of land on which sheep are pastured.
- skaldship — the office of an ancient Scandinavian poet
- skatepark — A skatepark is an area that is designed for people to practise skateboarding.
- skeptical — doubtful about a particular thing: My teacher thinks I can get a scholarship, but I'm skeptical.
- sketchpad — sketchbook (def 1).
- ski pants — pants worn for skiing, having the legs tapered to fit snugly at the ankles and sometimes having a strap going under the arch, often made of a stretch or waterproof fabric.
- skiagraph — a radiograph.