10-letter words containing k, a, s, p, e
- paderewski — Ignace [French ee-nyas] /French iˈnyas/ (Show IPA), or Ignacy Jan [Polish ig-nah-tsi yahn] /Polish ɪgˈnɑ tsɪ yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1860–1941, Polish pianist, composer, patriot, and statesman.
- painstaker — a painstaking person
- parkleaves — a species of St John's wort
- peacockish — the male of the peafowl distinguished by its long, erectile, greenish, iridescent tail coverts that are brilliantly marked with ocellated spots and that can be spread in a fan.
- peak hours — prime time, busiest period
- peakedness — pale and drawn in appearance so as to suggest illness or stress; wan and sickly.
- pennsauken — a township in W New Jersey, on the Delaware River.
- pikes peak — a mountain in central Colorado: a peak of the Rocky Mountains. 14,108 feet (4300 meters).
- pine snake — any of several subspecies of bullsnake of the eastern and southeastern U.S., chiefly in pine woods: now threatened.
- pipe snake — any of several nonvenomous, burrowing snakes of the genus Cylindrophis, of southeastern Asia and the Malay Archipelago, having an evenly cylindrical body.
- postmarked — an official mark stamped on letters and other mail, serving as a cancellation of the postage stamp and indicating the place, date, and sometimes time of sending or receipt.
- press pack — a dismissive term for a group of journalists, viewed as hounding a person
- press-back — a wooden chair back having a design pressed, rather than carved, into its crossrails.
- rump steak — Rump or rump steak is meat cut from the rear end of a cow.
- seakeeping — the ability of a vessel to endure rough conditions at sea and navigate safely during long storms.
- shankpiece — a piece of metal or fiber for giving form to the shank of a shoe.
- sheepshank — a kind of knot, hitch, or bend made on a rope to shorten it temporarily.
- sheeptrack — a small natural terrace on a hillside
- shopwalker — a floorwalker.
- silk paper — paper that contains silk fibers and is sometimes used for printing postage stamps and revenue stamps.
- skate park — area for skateboarding
- sketch map — a rough map of the principal features of a locale, as one drawn from memory.
- skyscraper — a relatively tall building of many stories, especially one for office or commercial use.
- soapflakes — small particles of solid soap or detergent used for washing clothes
- space junk — objects such as artificial satellites, material discarded from space stations, etc that remain in space after use
- space mark — a proofreader's symbol used to indicate the need to insert space, as between two typed or printed words that have been run together. Symbol: #.
- space walk — When an astronaut goes on a space walk, he or she leaves the spacecraft and works outside it while floating in space.
- sparkliest — tending to sparkle; animated; lively: a row of sparkly cheerleaders.
- speak-easy — a place where alcoholic drinks are sold illegally, esp. such a place in the U.S. during Prohibition
- speakerine — a female television or radio announcer
- speakingly — in an eloquent manner
- specmark89 — (benchmark) An old SPECmark benchmark result derived from a set of floating-point and integer benchmarks. It is the geometric mean of ten SPEC ratios of the outdated 1989 SPEC benchmark suite. The use of SPECmark89 is strongly discouraged, having been superseded by CINT92 and CFP92.
- speedfreak — an addict or habitual user of amphetamines, methamphetamines, or similar stimulating drugs.
- speedwalks — power walking.
- sperm bank — a repository for storing sperm and keeping it viable under scientifically controlled conditions prior to its use in artificial insemination.
- spokeshave — a cutting tool having a blade set between two handles, originally for shaping spokes, but now in general use for dressing curved edges of wood and forming round bars and shapes.
- spongecake — sweet cake of eggs and flour
- steam-punk — a subgenre of science fiction and fantasy featuring advanced machines and other technology based on steam power of the 19th century and taking place in a recognizable historical period or a fantasy world.
- strike pay — strike benefit.
- superflack — an extremely competent, successful press agent
- supplejack — a strong, pliant cane or walking stick.
- sweepstake — a sweepstakes.
- take shape — the quality of a distinct object or body in having an external surface or outline of specific form or figure.
- take steps — a movement made by lifting the foot and setting it down again in a new position, accompanied by a shifting of the weight of the body in the direction of the new position, as in walking, running, or dancing.
- taperstick — a candlestick designed to hold tapers.
- text-speak — a form of written language as used in text messages and other digital communications, characterized by many abbreviations and typically not following standard grammar, spelling, punctuation, and style.
- tipsy cake — a kind of trifle made from a sponge cake soaked with white wine or sherry and decorated with almonds and crystallized fruit
- twin peaks — a mountain in central Idaho: highest peak in the Salmon River Mountains. 10,340 feet (3154 meters).
- wackyparse — (Internet, slang) In Kibology, the practice of misreading text to humorous effect (perhaps deliberately), especially in line with traditional absurdist humor.
- whip snake — any of several long, slender New World snakes of the genus Masticophis, the tail of which resembles a whip.