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11-letter words containing k, e, p, i, t

  • prick-tease — a woman who is sexually provocative but refuses to engage in sexual activity
  • private key — (cryptography)   A piece of data used in private-key cryptography and public-key cryptography. In the former the private key is known by both sender and recipient whereas in the latter it is known only to the sender.
  • privet hawk — a hawk moth, Sphinx ligustri, with a mauve-and-brown striped body: frequents privets
  • punji stake — a sharp bamboo stake concealed in high grass at an angle so as to gash the feet and legs of enemy soldiers and often coated with excrement so as to cause an infected wound.
  • putty knife — a tool for puttying, having a broad flexible blade.
  • pyrokinetic — the ability to set objects or people on fire through the concentration of psychic power.
  • realpolitik — political realism or practical politics, especially policy based on power rather than on ideals.
  • retail park — A retail park is a large specially built area, usually at the edge of a town or city, where there are a lot of large shops and sometimes other facilities such as cinemas and restaurants.
  • ripple-tank — a shallow container of water in which waves are produced by vibrating an object in the water, used to observe or demonstrate wave phenomena.
  • rocket ship — a rocket-propelled aircraft or spacecraft.
  • septic tank — a tank in which solid organic sewage is decomposed and purified by anaerobic bacteria.
  • serpentlike — resembling a serpent
  • skeptically — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
  • skip tracer — an investigator whose job is to locate missing persons, especially debtors.
  • slit pocket — a pocket on the underside of a garment, reached through a vertical opening
  • smoke point — heat at which oil gives off smoke
  • spike heath — a Eurasian evergreen shrub, Bruckenthalia spiculifolia, of the heath family, having narrow leaves and bell-shaped, pink flowers, growing in gritty soil.
  • spirit lake — a lake in SW Washington, at the N foot of Mount St. Helens: site of devastation during 1980 eruptions of Mount St. Helens.
  • spirketting — deck planking near the bulwarks
  • spitsticker — a wood-engraving tool with a fine prow-shaped point for cutting curved lines
  • spot strike — a labor strike by a local branch of a union.
  • stalin peak — former name of Communism Peak.
  • sticky tape — adhesive strip
  • strike slip — the component of slip on a fault parallel with the linear extension or strike of the fault.
  • strip poker — a game of poker in which the losers in a hand remove an article of clothing.
  • strip steak — cut of beef: sirloin
  • superstrike — an exceptionally large strike
  • teppan-yaki — a Japanese dish of meat and vegetables stir-fried on, and eaten from, a hot steel plate that forms the centre of a table
  • think piece — an article analyzing and giving the background of a news event, often with the author's opinions and forecast for the future.
  • think-piece — an article analyzing and giving the background of a news event, often with the author's opinions and forecast for the future.
  • ticker tape — the ribbon of paper on which a ticker prints quotations or news.
  • tickle pink — to please greatly
  • time-keeper — a person or thing that keeps time.
  • timekeeping — a person or thing that keeps time.
  • tinley park — a town in NE Illinois.
  • track spike — a chisel-pointed spike used to secure the rails of a railroad track to wooden ties.
  • weltpolitik — the policy of participation in world affairs
  • westpolitik — a policy of a Communist country of adopting trade and diplomatic relations with non-Communist nations.
  • winter park — a city in E Florida.
  • work permit — a document giving permission to work in a particular country
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