12-letter words containing k, e, p, u
- pumpernickel — a coarse, dark, slightly sour bread made of unbolted rye.
- pumpkin head — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
- put-and-take — any of various games of chance played with a teetotum or other special type of top, in which each player puts in an equal stake before starting to spin the top.
- quickstepped — Simple past tense and past participle of quickstep.
- red larkspur — a plant, Delphinium nudicaule, of the buttercup family, native to the western coast of the U.S., having orange-red or sometimes yellow flowers.
- rough-spoken — coarse or vulgar in speech.
- sitka spruce — a spruce, Picea sitchensis, of western North America, having long, silvery-white needles, grown as an ornamental.
- skeuomorphic — an ornament or design on an object copied from a form of the object when made from another material or by other techniques, as an imitation metal rivet mark found on handles of prehistoric pottery.
- smoke jumper — an employee of the forest service parachuted to strategic spots in fighting forest fires
- soup kitchen — a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to the needy.
- splatterpunk — a form of fiction featuring extremely graphic violence.
- stumpknocker — spotted sunfish.
- sucker punch — to strike (someone) with an unexpected blow.
- sucker-punch — to strike (someone) with an unexpected blow.
- suckers' gap — a temporary improvement, occurring between two periods of inclement weather, which deceives people into acting in expectation of continued fine weather
- superkingdom — in some systems of biological classification, either of the two major subdivisions, prokaryote or eukaryote, into which all living organisms can be placed
- take up arms — Usually, arms. weapons, especially firearms.
- take up with — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
- take-up reel — (on a projector) the reel onto which the film is wound after it has been projected.
- tipper truck — a truck or lorry the rear platform of which can be raised at the front end to enable the load to be discharged by gravity
- truck camper — a type of camper designed to be mounted on a pickup truck.
- under-keeper — a person who guards or watches, as at a prison or gate.
- unprovokedly — in an unprovoked manner
- up the creek — U.S., Canada, and Australia. a stream smaller than a river.
- wake-up call — an act or instance of waking up.
- walk-up rate — The walk-up rate at a hotel is the price charged to a customer who arrives without a reservation.
- zebulon pike — James Albert, 1913–69, U.S. Protestant Episcopal clergyman, lawyer, and author.