12-letter words containing k, e, p, c
- pancake coil — a coil (of wire, etc) wound in a flat circular shape
- 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.
- 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.
- patch pocket — a pocket formed by sewing a piece of shaped material to the outside of a garment.
- payback time — Payback time is when someone has to take the consequences of what they have done in the past. You can use this expression to talk about good or bad consequences.
- peacekeeping — the maintenance of international peace and security by the deployment of military forces in a particular area: the United Nations' efforts toward peacekeeping.
- peacock blue — a lustrous greenish blue, as of certain peacock feathers.
- peacock worm — feather-duster worm.
- peak traffic — traffic at the time it is most busy
- pecksniffery — hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
- pecksniffian — hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
- pelican hook — a hooklike device for holding the link of a chain or the like, consisting of a long shackle with a hinged rod held closed with a sliding ring.
- penalty kick — a free kick awarded for an infraction committed by a defensive player in the penalty area and taken by the offensive player who has been fouled from a point 12 yards (11 meters) directly in front of the goal.
- pencil skirt — women's garment: straight skirt
- penny stocks — Penny stocks are high-risk stock that sells for a very low price outside of the main stock exchange.
- petach tikva — a city in W Israel, NE of Tel Aviv.
- picker-upper — something that restores one's depleted energy or depressed spirits; pick-me-up.
- pickerelweed — any American plant of the genus Pontederia, especially P. cordata, having spikes of blue flowers, common in shallow fresh water.
- pickeringite — a mineral, magnesia alum, occurring usually in the form of white fibrous masses.
- picket fence — a fence consisting of pickets or pales nailed to horizontal stringers between upright posts.
- picture book — a book consisting mainly or entirely of pictures, especially one for children who have not yet learned to read.
- picture desk — the department at a magazine or newspaper publisher, that deals with photographs for the paper or magazine
- pigeon clock — a device for timing the arrivals of pigeons being raced, consisting of a magazine for holding the identification bands of the contestants in the order in which they are inserted and a recording clock to register the times of insertion.
- pilot jacket — a type of leather jacket associated with U.S. Army pilots in World War II
- pipe jacking — a method of laying underground pipelines by assembling the pipes at the foot of an access shaft and pushing them through the ground
- 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
- plane ticket — entitlement to travel by aircraft
- play chicken — to engage in a test of courage in which, typically, two vehicles are driven directly toward one another in order to see which driver will swerve away first
- pocket drive — a small portable memory device that can be plugged into the USB port of many different types of computer
- pocket knife — A pocket knife is a small knife with several blades which fold into the handle so that you can carry it around with you safely.
- pocket money — money for small, current expenses.
- pocket mouse — any of numerous burrowing rodents, especially of the genus Perognathus, chiefly inhabiting arid regions of the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico, having fur-lined cheek pouches and a long tail.
- pocket piece — (in a window frame) a removable part of a pulley stile permitting access to sash weights.
- pocket-sized — If you describe something as pocket-sized, you approve of it because it is small enough to fit in your pocket.
- policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- pork butcher — a butcher who specializes in pork
- pork-chopper — a labor official put on the union payroll as a reward for past loyalty or services.
- postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
- pre-packaged — Pre-packaged foods have been prepared in advance and put in plastic or cardboard containers to be sold.
- prepackaging — to package (foodstuffs or manufactured goods) before retail distribution or sale.
- pressed duck — a cooked duck sprinkled with red wine and then pressed in a device (duck press) so that the juices can be collected and served as a sauce over the breast meat and legs.
- price ticket — a ticket or label on an article for sale showing its price
- prickly heat — a cutaneous eruption accompanied by a prickling and itching sensation, due to an inflammation of the sweat glands.
- prickly pear — any of numerous cacti of the genus Opuntia, having flattened, usually spiny stem joints, yellow, orange, or reddish flowers, and ovoid, often edible fruit.
- puck-carrier — the player who has the puck and moves it along.
- puffa jacket — a warm quilted and padded jacket
- pumpernickel — a coarse, dark, slightly sour bread made of unbolted rye.
- quickstepped — Simple past tense and past participle of quickstep.
- racket press — a device consisting of a frame closed by a spring mechanism, for keeping taut the strings of a tennis racket, squash racket, etc