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12-letter words containing k, e, p, a, r

  • kepler's law — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)
  • keratoplasty — plastic surgery performed upon the cornea, especially a corneal transplantation.
  • keraunograph — an instrument for recording thunderstorms by detecting the radio waves generated
  • kinetography — a camera for taking pictures for a kinetoscope.
  • kleptocratic — a government or state in which those in power exploit national resources and steal; rule by a thief or thieves.
  • knee-slapper — a joke evoking boisterous hilarity.
  • lamp bracket — a bracket for holding a lamp
  • locker plant — an establishment for storing food under refrigeration, containing lockers for renting to individual users.
  • loudspeakers — Plural form of loudspeaker, especially a pair for a left and right channel.
  • make-up girl — a woman or girl who applies cosmetics to a person, such as to a model or actor
  • makeup water — Makeup water is water which is added to compensate for losses, especially losses caused by evaporation.
  • market price — the price at which a commodity, security, or service is selling in the open market.
  • marketplaces — Plural form of marketplace.
  • marlinespike — a pointed iron implement used in separating the strands of rope in splicing, marling, etc.
  • marlingspike — Alternative spelling of marlinspike.
  • melrose park — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • meroplankton — a floating mass of eggs and larvae of organisms that are nektonic or benthic in their adult stage; temporary plankton.
  • milk parsley — a wetland plant belonging to the family Apiaceae
  • muckspreader — a machine for spreading manure over farmland
  • nordkyn cape — Cape, a cape in N Norway, E of North Cape: northernmost point of the European mainland.
  • nosey parker — a persistently nosy, prying person; busybody.
  • orange pekoe — a black tea composed of the smallest top leaves and grown in India and Ceylon.
  • package tour — a planned tour in which one fee is charged for all expenses: offering package tours of the chateau country.
  • packed tower — A packed tower is a tall distillation vessel which uses packing.
  • packet radio — (communications, radio)   The use of packet switched communications protocols in large networks (i.e not wireless LANs or Bluetooth) having wireless links to terminals at least. Packet radio is split into amateur packet radio (AX25) and General Packet Radio Service (GRPS).
  • pakeha māori — (in the 19th century) a European who adopted the Māori way of life
  • pallet truck — a powered truck with a mast, sometimes telescopic, on which slides a carriage which can be raised and lowered hydraulically. The carriage has extended forks which can be passed under a palletized load for stacking or moving to a new position
  • pancake roll — A pancake roll is an item of Chinese food consisting of a small roll of thin crisp pastry filled with vegetables and sometimes meat.
  • paper napkin — a napkin or serviette made from tissue paper
  • paring knife — a short-bladed kitchen knife for paring fruits and vegetables.
  • parish clerk — an official designated to carry out various duties, either for a church parish or a parish council
  • parity check — a method for detecting errors in data communications or within a computer system by counting the number of ones or zeros per byte or per word, including a special check bit (parity bit) to see if the value is even or odd.
  • parking fine — penalty fee for an offence
  • passage work — writing that is often extraneous to the thematic material of a work and is typically of a virtuosic or decorative character: passagework consisting of scales, arpeggios, trills, and double octaves.
  • pathbreaking — pertaining to blazing a trail or path.
  • pattern book — collection of textile motifs or designs
  • patternmaker — a person who makes patterns, as for clothing or metal castings.
  • peacock worm — feather-duster worm.
  • peak traffic — traffic at the time it is most busy
  • pepper steak — strips of beefsteak sautéed with strips of green pepper and onion, and often flavored with soy sauce.
  • peppershaker — a container with a perforated top for sprinkling ground pepper.
  • pereira bark — the bark of any of several South American trees belonging to the genus Geissospermum, of the dogbane family, especially that of G. vellosii, used in Brazil to allay fever.
  • persian knot — a hand-tied knot, used in rug weaving, in which the ends of yarn looped around a warp thread appear at each of the interstices between adjacent threads and produce a compact and relatively even pile effect.
  • petrozavodsk — a city in NW Russia, capital of the Karelian Autonomous Republic, on Lake Onega: developed around ironworks established by Peter the Great in 1703; university (1940). Pop: 265 000 (2005 est)
  • phone phreak — a person who uses computers or other electronic devices to place long-distance telephone calls without paying toll charges.
  • phrase-maker — a person who is skilled in coining well-turned phrases; phraseologist.
  • phrasemaking — the making up or coining of memorable phrases or slogans
  • 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
  • plain turkey — a bustard
  • policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
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