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

  • 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
  • pension book — In Britain, a pension book is a small book which is given to pensioners by the government. Each week, one page can be exchanged for money at a Post Office.
  • peppershrike — either of two large vireos of the genus Cyclarhis, ranging from Mexico to Chile, and having heavy shrikelike bills.
  • pereira bark — the bark of any of several South American trees belonging to the genus Geissospermum, of the dogbane family, especially that of G. vellosii, used in Brazil to allay fever.
  • persian knot — a hand-tied knot, used in rug weaving, in which the ends of yarn looped around a warp thread appear at each of the interstices between adjacent threads and produce a compact and relatively even pile effect.
  • petach tikva — a city in W Israel, NE of Tel Aviv.
  • photokinesis — movement occurring upon exposure to light.
  • phrasemaking — the making up or coining of memorable phrases or slogans
  • 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
  • pink-slipped — (of an employee) given notice of redundancy
  • pioneer work — pioneer work does something that has not been done before, for example by developing or using new methods or techniques
  • 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
  • plain turkey — a bustard
  • plain-spoken — candid; frank; blunt.
  • 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 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.
  • poikilotherm — an organism with poikilothermic qualities
  • policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
  • poodle skirt — 1950s-style woman's circular skirt
  • postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
  • poughkeepsie — a city in SE New York, on the Hudson.
  • power kiting — an activity in which a person, sitting in a small buggy or wearing skis, etc, is propelled by the wind power generated by a large kite to which he or she is attached by ropes
  • powerwalking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
  • prankishness — the quality or condition of being prankish
  • premarketing — before the development of a market
  • prepackaging — to package (foodstuffs or manufactured goods) before retail distribution or sale.
  • 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.
  • private joke — a joke that is understood only by a certain social group
  • puck-carrier — the player who has the puck and moves it along.
  • pumpernickel — a coarse, dark, slightly sour bread made of unbolted rye.
  • pumpkin head — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
  • pyramid peak — a mountain in W central Colorado, in the Elk Range, in the S Rocky Mountains. 14,018 feet (4276 meters).
  • quickstepped — Simple past tense and past participle of quickstep.
  • radar picket — a ship, vehicle, or aircraft stationed at a distance from a protected force to increase radar detection range.
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