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

  • peacemaking — a person, group, or nation that tries to make peace, especially by reconciling parties who disagree, quarrel, or fight.
  • peak period — the busiest or most popular time
  • pearly king — the male London costermonger whose ceremonial clothes display the most lavish collection of pearl buttons
  • peckishness — the state or condition of being peckish
  • peking duck — a Chinese dish consisting of roast duck with a crispy skin; the meat is served with strips of vegetables, steamed pancakes, and hoisin sauce
  • pen and ink — A pen and ink drawing is done using a pen rather than a pencil.
  • perestroika — Russian. the program of economic and political reform in the Soviet Union initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986.
  • persnickety — overparticular; fussy.
  • phantomlike — an apparition or specter.
  • phoenixlike — having a resemblance to a phoenix in the sense of re-emerging and beginning again
  • picked over — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
  • pickelhaube — a spiked German helmet from the 19th and 20th centuries
  • picket boat — a vessel used to patrol a harbor.
  • picket duty — the activity of standing outside an establishment to make a protest, to dissuade or prevent employees or clients from entering, etc
  • picket line — a line of strikers or other demonstrators serving as pickets.
  • pickup tube — camera tube.
  • pieceworker — someone who does work paid for according to the quantity produced
  • pigeon hawk — merlin.
  • pigeon milk — crop milk.
  • pincer-like — resembling pincers in shape or action
  • pine siskin — a small, North American finch, Carduelis pinus, of coniferous forests, having yellow markings on the wings and tail.
  • pinkishness — a pinkish quality or colouring
  • pipe smoker — a person who smokes a tobacco pipe
  • placekicker — a player who takes place kicks
  • platemaking — the act of making plates
  • plisetskaya — Maya (Mikhailovna) [mah-yuh myi-khahy-luh v-nuh] /ˈmɑ yə myɪˈxaɪ ləv nə/ (Show IPA), 1925–2015, Soviet ballet dancer.
  • pocket-size — small enough to fit conveniently into one's pocket.
  • pocketknife — a knife with one or more blades that fold into the handle, suitable for carrying in the pocket.
  • poikilocyte — an abnormally shaped red blood cell
  • police work — the everyday duties of police officers, esp the investigation of criminal activities
  • policymaker — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
  • porkpie hat — a hat with a round flat crown and a brim that can be turned up or down
  • pot sticker — a pan-fried and steamed Chinese dumpling with a ground meat or vegetable filling.
  • preticketed — having or furnished with a ticket beforehand: preticketed passengers.
  • price break — a reduction in price, esp for bulk purchase
  • price check — A price check is an investigation of the prices charged by different retailers for the same goods to find the best value.
  • prick-eared — British. Informal. (of a man) having the hair cut short. Archaic. following or sympathetic to the Puritans or Roundheads. Archaic. priggish.
  • prick-tease — a woman who is sexually provocative but refuses to engage in sexual activity
  • prickleback — any of several blennioid fishes of the family Stichaeidae, usually inhabiting cold waters, having spiny rays in the dorsal fin.
  • primary key — (database)   A unique identifier, often an integer, that labels a certain row in a table of a relational database. When this value occurs in other tables as a reference to a particular row in the first table it is called a "foreign key". Some RDBMSes can generate a new unique identifier each time a new row is inserted, others merely allow a column to be constrained to contain unique values. A table may have multiple candidate keys, from which the primary key is chosen. The primary key should be an arbitrary value, such as an autoincrementing integer. This avoids dependence on uniqueness, permanence and format of existing columns with real-world meaning (e.g. a person's name) or other external identifier (e.g. social security number). There should be enough possible primary key values to cater for the current and expected number of rows, bearing in mind that a wider column will generally be slower to process.
  • 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
  • puckishness — the state of being puckish
  • pumpkinhead — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
  • pumpkinseed — the seed of the pumpkin.
  • 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.
  • pyrokinesis — the ability to set objects or people on fire through the concentration of psychic power.
  • 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.
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