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13-letter words containing k, e, p, a

  • kaufmann peak — former name of Lenin Peak.
  • keep on about — If you say that someone keeps on about something, you mean that they keep talking about it in a boring way.
  • keep track of — monitor, maintain record of
  • kenyapithecus — a genus of fossil hominoids of middle Miocene age found in Kenya and having large molars, small incisors, and powerful chewing muscles.
  • kepler's laws — 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)
  • kernel parlog — (language)   A modeless intermediate language for Parlog compilation.
  • kerosene lamp — light fuelled by paraffin
  • khapra beetle — a tiny cosmopolitan beetle, Trogoderma granarium, that is a pest of stored grain and other dried organic matter.
  • kidney-shaped — having the general shape of a long oval indented at one side; reniform: a kidney-shaped swimming pool.
  • kinematograph — cinematograph.
  • kinesipathist — someone who uses kinesipathy to treat diseases
  • kinesitherapy — a movement-based therapy
  • kiss of peace — (in certain Christian churches) a ceremonial greeting or embrace given as a token of Christian love and unity.
  • kitchen paper — also kitchen roll
  • kleptomaniacs — Plural form of kleptomaniac.
  • kraft process — a process for making wood pulp by digesting wood chips in an alkaline liquor consisting chiefly of caustic soda together with sodium sulfate.
  • la plata peak — a mountain in central Colorado, in the Sawatch Range. 14,361 feet (4377 meters).
  • lake superior — Lake, a lake in the N central United States and S Canada: the northernmost of the Great Lakes; the largest body of fresh water in the world. 350 miles (564 km) long; 31,820 sq. mi. (82,415 sq. km); greatest depth, 1290 feet (393 meters); 602 feet (183 meters) above sea level.
  • lake winnipeg — a lake in S Canada, in Manitoba: drains through the Nelson River into Hudson Bay. Area: 23 553 sq km (9094 sq miles)
  • lake-superior — Lake, a lake in the N central United States and S Canada: the northernmost of the Great Lakes; the largest body of fresh water in the world. 350 miles (564 km) long; 31,820 sq. mi. (82,415 sq. km); greatest depth, 1290 feet (393 meters); 602 feet (183 meters) above sea level.
  • leopard shark — a small, inshore shark, Triakis semifasciata, having distinctive black markings across the back, inhabiting Pacific coastal waters from Oregon through California.
  • leukapheresis — a medical procedure that separates certain leukocytes from the blood, used to collect leukocytes for donation or to remove excessive leukocytes from a patient's blood
  • linkage group — a group of genes in a chromosome that tends to be inherited as a unit.
  • locking plate — a narrow wheel geared to a striking train or other mechanism and having a notched rim engaging with another mechanism permitting it to rotate through a specific arc.
  • make a splash — If you make a splash, you become noticed or become popular because of something that you have done.
  • make position — the situation in which a short vowel may be regarded as long, that is, when it occurs before two or more consonants
  • make sport of — to mock or ridicule; poke fun at
  • make-up class — a course of teaching in the application of make-up
  • marlinespikes — Plural form of marlinespike.
  • masking piece — a flat, curtain, or other piece of scenery for concealing a part of a stage from the audience.
  • memorial park — cemetery.
  • metenkephalin — either of two pentapeptides that bind to morphine receptors in the central nervous system and have opioid properties of relatively short duration; one pentapeptide (Met enkephalin) has the amino acid sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Met and the other (Leu enkephalin) has the sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Leu.
  • milk saucepan — a type of small saucepan often used for heating milk
  • monterey park — a city in SW California, E of Los Angeles.
  • neck and crop — completely; entirely
  • necktie party — a lynching or other execution by hanging.
  • nickel-plated — covered with a thin layer of nickel, deposited usually by electrolysis
  • oak-apple day — (in Britain) May 29, the anniversary of the Restoration (1660), formerly commemorated by the wearing of oak apples or oak leaves, recalling the Boscobel oak in which Charles II hid after the battle of Worcester
  • overland park — a town in E Kansas, near Kansas City.
  • package store — a store selling sealed bottles or other containers of alcoholic beverages that may only be consumed off the premises.
  • packet driver — (networking)   IBM PC local area network software that divides data into packets which it routes to the network. It also handles incoming data, reassembling the packets so that application programs can read the data as a continuous stream. Packet drivers provide a simple, common programming interface that allows multiple applications to share a network interface at the data link layer. Packet drivers demultiplex incoming packets among the applications by using the network media's standard packet type or service access point field(s). The packet driver provides calls to initiate access to a specific packet type, to end access to it, to send a packet, to get statistics on the network interface and to get information about the interface. Protocol implementations that use the packet driver can coexist and can make use of one another's services, whereas multiple applications which do not use the driver do not coexist on one machine properly. Through use of the packet driver, a user could run TCP/IP, XNS and a proprietary protocol implementation such as DECnet, Banyan's, LifeNet's, Novell's or 3Com's without the difficulties associated with pre-empting the network interface. Applications which use the packet driver can also run on new network hardware of the same class without being modified; only a new packet driver need be supplied. There are several levels of packet driver. The first is the basic packet driver, which provides minimal functionality but should be simple to implement and which uses very few host resources. The basic driver provides operations to broadcast and receive packets. The second driver is the extended packet driver, which is a superset of the basic driver. The extended driver supports less commonly used functions of the network interface such as multicast, and also gathers statistics on use of the interface and makes these available to the application. The third level, the high-performance functions, support performance improvements and tuning.
  • packet switch — packet switching
  • packing crate — A packing crate is a large wooden box in which things are put so that they can be stored or taken somewhere.
  • packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
  • pairs skaters — two skaters, a man and a woman, or a boy and a girl, who skate together, esp in competitions
  • palette knife — a thin blade of varying flexibility set in a handle and used for mixing colors or applying them to a canvas.
  • panleukopenia — distemper1 (def 1c).
  • paradise duck — a large duck, Casarca variegata, of New Zealand, having a brightly coloured plumage
  • parallel-park — to park directly behind another vehicle
  • parcel tanker — a tanker designed to carry an assortment of liquids, as chemicals, or different grades of a liquid, as petroleum, at one time.
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