13-letter words containing k, e, p, c
- pocket-square — a handkerchief, often colored or figured, worn in the breast pocket of a suit or blazer as a fashion accessory.
- poker machine — a fruit machine
- porcelainlike — resembling porcelain
- prawn cracker — a puffy savoury crisp made from rice flour and prawn flavouring, served with Chinese food
- pressed brick — face brick molded under pressure to a desired finish.
- pressure-cook — to cook in a pressure cooker.
- price bracket — a notional range of prices which consumers are prepared to pay for a good
- prick-teasing — the behaviour of a prick-tease
- psychokinesis — the purported ability to move or deform inanimate objects, as metal spoons, through mental processes.
- purkinje cell — a large, densely branching neuron in the cerebellar cortex of the brain.
- quickstepping — Present participle of quickstep.
- racket sports — sports, such as tennis, squash, badminton, etc, that are played using a racket
- recordkeeping — the maintenance of a history of one's activities, as financial dealings, by entering data in ledgers or journals, putting documents in files, etc.
- redcloud peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains, in the S Rocky Mountains. 14,034 feet (4278 meters).
- research park — an industrial park whose facilities are devoted to research and development.
- ruptured duck — the symbol of an eagle with wings spread appearing in the honorable discharge emblem of the U.S. armed forces.
- schiller park — a town in NE Illinois.
- script kiddie — a child or teenager who gains illegal access to computer systems, often by using hacking programs downloaded from the internet
- seckel (pear) — a small, sweet, juicy, reddish-brown pear
- shock therapy — (not in technical use) any of various therapies, as insulin shock therapy or electroconvulsive therapy, that induce convulsions or unconsciousness, used for symptomatic relief in certain mental disorders.
- skepticalness — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
- skip distance — the minimum distance along the earth's surface between the position of a short-wave transmitter and the region where its signal is received after one reflection from the ionosphere.
- slippery dick — a wrasse, Halichoeres bivittatus, inhabiting tropical regions of the Atlantic Ocean.
- space blanket — a plastic insulating body wrapping coated on one or both sides with aluminium foil which reflects back most of the body heat lost by radiation: carried by climbers, mountaineers, etc, for use in cases of exposure or exhaustion
- spark chamber — a device for detecting elementary particles, consisting of a series of charged plates separated by a gas so that the passage of a charged particle causes sparking between adjacent plates.
- speckled wood — a common woodland brown satyrid butterfly, Pararge aegeria, marked with pale orange or yellowish-white spots
- speech making — act of addressing the public formally
- spell checker — a computer program for checking the spelling of words in an electronic document.
- spell-checker — A spell-checker is a special program on a computer which you can use to check whether something you have written contains any spelling mistakes.
- sports jacket — a jacket, often of textured wool or colorful pattern, with a collar, lapels, long sleeves, and buttons in the front, cut somewhat fuller than the jacket of a business suit, worn with slacks for informal occasions.
- spotted crake — a Eurasian rail, Porzana porzana, of swamps and marshes, having a buff speckled plumage and dark brown wings
- sprocket hole — any of a series of regular perforations along the edge of photographic film for engaging the drive sprockets in a motion-picture camera or projector.
- sticker price — the dealer's full asking price of a new automobile as shown on a sticker attached to it and accompanied by an itemized list of the cost of its basic and optional equipment and other charges.
- tarpeian rock — a rock on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, from which criminals and traitors were hurled.
- to keep track — If you keep track of a situation or a person, you make sure that you have the newest and most accurate information about them all the time.
- triple-decker — three-decker (defs 3, 4).
- truchas peaks — group of mountains in N New Mexico, NE of Santa Fe in the S Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
- turkey carpet — a wool carpet made in one piece and having a deep velvety pile and rich glowing colours
- under-packing — the act or work of a person or thing that packs.
- up shit creek — excrement; feces.
- upper chinook — a Chinookan language of the Columbia River valley from the Deschutes River to the estuary.
- vacuum-packed — packed and sealed in a container, as a can or jar, with as much air as possible evacuated before sealing, chiefly to preserve freshness.
- wicketkeepers — Plural form of wicketkeeper.
- winkle-picker — a shoe or boot with a narrow, sharply pointed toe