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

  • picking ticket — A picking ticket is a list used for gathering items to be shipped from a store or warehouse.
  • pickled onions — onions which have been preserved in vinegar or brine
  • pie in the sky — pie1 (def 8).
  • pink champagne — a sparkling white wine, especially of the Champagne district of France, colored slightly by the grape skins during fermentation or the addition of a small amount of red wine just before the second fermentation.
  • pink elephants — a facetious name applied to hallucinations caused by drunkenness
  • pinking shears — shears that have notched blades, for cutting and simultaneously pinking fabric or for finishing garments with a notched, nonfraying edge.
  • pipeline break — (architecture)   (Or "pipeline stall") The delay caused on a processor using pipelines when a transfer of control is taken. Normally when a control-transfer instruction (a branch, conditional branch, call or trap) is taken, any following instructions which have been loaded into the processor's pipeline must be discarded or "flushed" and new instructions loaded from the branch destination. This introduces a delay before the processor can resume execution. "Delayed control-transfer" is a technique used to reduce this effect.
  • plain speaking — expressing oneself directly
  • 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).
  • poison hemlock — hemlock (defs 1, 3).
  • 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
  • purkinje fiber — any of the specialized cardiac muscle fibers forming a network in the ventricular walls that conduct electric impulses responsible for the contractions of the ventricles.
  • pyjama cricket — one-day cricket, in which the players wear colourful clothing rather than the traditional whites used in longer forms of the game
  • pyramidal peak — a sharp peak formed where the ridges separating three or more cirques intersect; horn
  • quick response — fast reaction time
  • quick-tempered — easily angered.
  • reception desk — the front desk in a hotel where guests can books rooms or ask questions
  • record-keeping — the maintenance of a history of one's activities, as financial dealings, by entering data in ledgers or journals, putting documents in files, etc.
  • rip van winkle — (in a story by Washington Irving) a ne'er-do-well who sleeps 20 years and upon waking is startled to find how much the world has changed.
  • roanoke rapids — a city in NE North Carolina.
  • rock partridge — the Greek partridge; Alectoris graeca
  • sakha republic — an administrative division in E Russia, in NE Siberia on the Arctic Ocean: the coldest inhabited region of the world; it has rich mineral resources. Capital: Yakutsk. Pop: 948 100 (2002). Area: 3 103 200 sq km (1 197 760 sq miles)
  • shipping clerk — a clerk who attends to the packing, unpacking, receiving, sending out, and recording of shipments.
  • shrink-wrapped — A shrink-wrapped product is sold in a tight covering of thin plastic.
  • skull practice — a meeting for the purpose of discussion, exchange of ideas, solving problems, etc.
  • space sickness — a complex of symptoms including nausea, lethargy, headache, and sweating, occurring among astronauts under conditions of weightlessness.
  • sparkling wine — a wine that is naturally carbonated by a second fermentation.
  • speaking clock — a telephone service that gives a precise verbal statement of the correct time
  • speaking terms — if you are on speaking terms with someone, you are quite friendly with them and often talk to them
  • speaking voice — a person's normal voice in which they speak
  • spike lavender — a lavender, Lavandula latifolia, having spikes of pale-purple flowers, and yielding an oil used in painting.
  • spring chicken — a young chicken, especially a broiler or fryer.
  • 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
  • swamp milkweed — a coarse milkweed, Asclepias incarnata, growing in swampy places from eastern North America to Colorado, having ball-like clusters of rose-purple flowers.
  • 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
  • walking papers — notice of dismissal
  • 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.
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