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11-letter words containing k, e, t, o, p

  • phantomlike — an apparition or specter.
  • picket boat — a vessel used to patrol a harbor.
  • plasterwork — finish or ornamental work done in plaster.
  • plate block — a block of four or more stamps containing the number or numbers of the printing plate or plates in the margin of the sheet.
  • pocket book — a book small enough to be carried in one's pocket
  • pocket door — a door, usually one of a communicating pair, that slides into and out of a recess in a doorway wall.
  • pocket park — a very small park or outdoor area for public leisure, especially an urban plaza or courtyard with benches and fountains.
  • pocket veto — the action of the President in retaining unsigned a bill passed by Congress within the last ten days of a session and thus causing it to die
  • pocket-size — small enough to fit conveniently into one's pocket.
  • pocket-veto — to veto (a bill) by exercising a pocket veto.
  • pocketknife — a knife with one or more blades that fold into the handle, suitable for carrying in the pocket.
  • pocketphone — a mobile phone
  • poikilocyte — an abnormally shaped red blood cell
  • poke bonnet — a bonnet with a projecting front brim
  • poke fun at — to prod or push, especially with something narrow or pointed, as a finger, elbow, stick, etc.: to poke someone in the ribs.
  • polkadotted — a dot or round spot (printed, woven, or embroidered) repeated to form a pattern on a textile fabric.
  • pond-skater — any of various heteropterous insects of the family Gerrididae, esp Gerris lacustris (common pond-skater), having a slender hairy body and long hairy legs with which they skim about on the surface of ponds
  • 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.
  • potato cake — any of various kinds of small savoury cakes made from flour and mashed potatoes, often fried or baked
  • prokaryotes — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
  • provokement — the act or instance of provoking
  • psyche knot — a woman's hairdo in which a knot or coil of hair projects from the back of the head.
  • 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.
  • report back — If you report back to someone, you tell them about something that they asked you to find out about.
  • rocket ship — a rocket-propelled aircraft or spacecraft.
  • rope socket — either of a pair of matching fittings fastened to the ends of lengths of wire rope to join them together.
  • slit pocket — a pocket on the underside of a garment, reached through a vertical opening
  • slop bucket — slop pail.
  • smoke point — heat at which oil gives off smoke
  • so to speak — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
  • sock puppet — a hand puppet made out of a sock.
  • soft-spoken — (of persons) speaking with a soft or gentle voice; mild.
  • spatterdock — any of various water lilies of the genus Nuphar, having globular yellow flowers and growing in lakes or sluggish streams, especially N. advena, of the eastern U.S.
  • spatterwork — a method of decorating whereby ink or another fluid is spattered over a medium
  • sports desk — the editorial section of a newspaper, television or radio programme, etc that deals with sports news
  • spot market — a market in which commodities, as grain, gold, or crude oil, are dealt in for cash and immediate delivery (distinguished from futures market).
  • spot strike — a labor strike by a local branch of a union.
  • step reebok — a set of aerobic exercises designed to improve the cardiovascular system, which consists of stepping on and off a special box of adjustable height
  • step rocket — a multistage rocket that discards burned-out stages.
  • stock power — a power of attorney permitting a person other than the owner of stock in a corporation to transfer the title of ownership to a third party.
  • stockkeeper — a person responsible for inventorying and monitoring stock levels
  • stoke poges — a village in S Buckinghamshire, in S England, W of London: the churchyard here is believed to be the setting of Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.
  • storekeeper — a person who owns a store.
  • strip poker — a game of poker in which the losers in a hand remove an article of clothing.
  • stroke play — medal play.
  • technospeak — any abstruse technical jargon
  • to speak of — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
  • vest pocket — the pocket of a waistcoat
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