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9-letter words containing k, a, p

  • chapbooks — Plural form of chapbook.
  • chapstick — a cylinder of a substance for preventing or soothing chapped lips
  • cheapjack — a peddler, especially of inferior articles.
  • chempaduk — an evergreen moraceous tree, Artocarpus champeden (or A. integer), of Malaysia, similar to the jackfruit
  • chick-pea — Also called garbanzo. a widely cultivated plant, Cicer arietinum, of the legume family, bearing pods containing pealike seeds.
  • chickpeas — Plural form of chickpea.
  • chinkapin — chinquapin
  • chipmaker — a manufacturer of electronic chips.
  • chokedamp — blackdamp
  • chop mark — a notch or other mark made in a coin to indicate verification of its authenticity, especially by a banker or merchant in the Far East during the 18th or 19th centuries.
  • chopsteak — chopped steak.
  • clapstick — A kind of drumstick used by striking one against another, to maintain rhythm in Aboriginal voice chants.
  • clickwrap — an agreement made by a computer user through clicking on a particular button onscreen
  • cockahoop — Alternative form of cock-a-hoop.
  • cockapoos — Plural form of cockapoo.
  • cold pack — a method of lowering the body temperature by wrapping a person in a sheet soaked in cold water
  • cold-pack — to place a cold pack on: to cold-pack a feverish patient.
  • copacking — The manufacture and packaging of a product under contract to a client (and having the client's name/brand on the packaging).
  • copytaker — (esp in a newspaper office) a person employed to type reports as journalists dictate them over the telephone
  • crackpots — Plural form of crackpot.
  • crampbark — a large deciduous shrub, Viburnum opulus, of the Caprifoliaceae family, native to Europe and eastern parts of North America
  • crankpins — Plural form of crankpin.
  • crapelike — resembling crape
  • cup shake — wind shake.
  • deer park — a town on central Long Island, in SE New York.
  • disk pack — a cylinder containing several magnetic disks that can be installed in or removed from a disk drive as a unit: used for data storage and retrieval.
  • drop back — a lowering, as of prices or standards, especially to a previous level: Auto manufacturers requested a dropback in emissions standards.
  • drop tank — an external aircraft tank, usually containing fuel, that can be detached and dropped in flight
  • ekphrasis — (rhetoric) A clear, intense, self-contained argument or pictorial description of an object, especially of an artwork.
  • face pack — A face pack is a thick substance which you spread on your face, allow to dry for a short time, and then remove, in order to clean your skin thoroughly.
  • fash pack — people who are influential in the fashion industry
  • film pack — a number of sheets of film arranged one over the other and connected so that they can be exposed successively.
  • flak ship — a ship heavily armed with anti-aircraft weapons, used to protect other vessels from air attack
  • flapjacks — Plural form of flapjack; pancakes.
  • flaptrack — (in an aircraft wing) a track along which the wing flap runs when it is being deployed
  • flat pack — Flat pack furniture is furniture such as shelves and cupboards which you buy as a number of separate pieces and assemble yourself.
  • flat-pick — to play (an instrument) by plucking its strings with a flat pick.
  • flatpacks — Plural form of flatpack.
  • forepeaks — Plural form of forepeak.
  • forespeak — to predict; foretell.
  • framepack — a backpack attached to a supporting frame of usually lightweight metal.
  • game park — a game preserve, especially in Africa.
  • gangplank — a flat plank or small, movable, bridgelike structure for use by persons boarding or leaving a ship at a pier.
  • gas poker — a long tubular gas burner used to kindle a fire
  • geekspeak — Technical jargon regarded as characteristic of that used by computer enthusiasts.
  • gorakhpur — a city in SE Uttar Pradesh, in N India.
  • grapelike — Resembling a grape or some aspect of grapes.
  • hacked up — (jargon, programming)   Sufficiently patched, kluged, and tweaked that the surgical scars are beginning to crowd out normal tissue (compare critical mass). Not all programs that are hacked become "hacked up"; if modifications are done with some eye to coherence and continued maintainability, the software may emerge better for the experience. Contrast hack up.
  • half-peck — a unit of dry measure equal to 4 quarts (4.4 liters).
  • half-pike — spontoon.
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