14-letter words containing k, e, p, i, t
- panic-stricken — overcome with, characterized by, or resulting from fear, panic, or the like: panic-stricken parents looking for their child; a panic-stricken phone call.
- parking ticket — written notice of a parking violation
- peacock's tail — a handsome brown seaweed, Padina pavonia (though coloured yellow-olive, red, and green) whose fan-shaped fronds have concentric bands of iridescent hairs
- peel-and-stick — ready to be applied after peeling off the backing to expose an adhesive surface: peel-and-stick labels.
- penalty killer — a player used when the player's team is short-handed as a result of a penalty, especially a player skilled at defense and employed regularly in such situations.
- permanent link — (web) A URL that always points to the same piece of web content. Web pages that appear for a limited time at their main URL, such as web logs or news sites, often display an alternative, permanent link. Readers can quote, bookmark, or link to this URL in order to refer to a particular item, rather than the page displaying the latest item. For example, the URL http://news.bbc.co.uk/ points to the latest news from the BBC whereas http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/2614839.stm is a permanent link to a particular news story.
- phi beta kappa — a national honor society, founded in 1776, whose members are chosen, for lifetime membership, usually from among college undergraduates of high academic distinction.
- picking ticket — A picking ticket is a list used for gathering items to be shipped from a store or warehouse.
- pie in the sky — pie1 (def 8).
- pink elephants — a facetious name applied to hallucinations caused by drunkenness
- pocket edition — pocketbook (def 3).
- poikilothermal — cold-blooded (def 1 .) (opposed to homoiothermal).
- poikilothermia — Medicine/Medical. the inability to regulate core body temperature (as by sweating to cool off or by putting on clothes to warm up), found especially in some spinal cord injury patients and in patients under general anesthesia.
- poikilothermic — cold-blooded (def 1 .) (opposed to homoiothermal).
- potluck dinner — a meal consisting of whatever food happens to be available without special preparation
- practical joke — a playful trick, often involving some physical agent or means, in which the victim is placed in an embarrassing or disadvantageous position.
- printer's mark — a stamp or device, usually found on the copyright page, that identifies a book as the work of a particular printer.
- profit-seeking — attempting to make a profit or financial gains
- pyjama cricket — one-day cricket, in which the players wear colourful clothing rather than the traditional whites used in longer forms of the game
- quick-tempered — easily angered.
- reception desk — the front desk in a hotel where guests can books rooms or ask questions
- rock partridge — the Greek partridge; Alectoris graeca
- skull practice — a meeting for the purpose of discussion, exchange of ideas, solving problems, etc.
- speaking terms — if you are on speaking terms with someone, you are quite friendly with them and often talk to them
- spy-in-the-sky — of or relating to a surveillance camera mounted on an aircraft or orbiting satellite
- sticking place — Also called sticking point. the place or point at which something stops and holds firm.
- straight poker — one of the original forms of poker in which players are dealt five cards face down, upon which they bet and then have the showdown without drawing any cards.
- striking price — in an option contract, the specified price at which a stock, commodity, etc. may be bought or sold; the price at which an investor can exercise profitably a put or call
- take a picture — capture sb or sth on camera
- take exception — to make objections (to); demur (at)
- think positive — be optimistic
- ticket scalper — an unauthorized ticket speculator who buys tickets to a performance or sports event and resells them at inflated prices.
- turkish empire — Ottoman Empire
- whitetip shark — Also called reef whitetip shark. a smooth dogfish, Triaenodon obseus, having white-tipped dorsal and caudal fins and occurring inshore among the reefs in the Pacific and Indian oceans and the Red Sea.