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10-letter words containing k, e, t

  • parrotlike — any of numerous hook-billed, often brilliantly colored birds of the order Psittaciformes, as the cockatoo, lory, macaw, or parakeet, having the ability to mimic speech and often kept as pets.
  • pat-a-cake — a children's game in which a child claps hands alone and with another child while chanting a nursery rhyme.
  • patchcocke — a clown
  • patty-cake — pat-a-cake.
  • pawnticket — a ticket or receipt for a pawned item
  • pay packet — Your pay packet is the envelope containing your wages, which your employer gives you at the end of every week.
  • pea jacket — a short coat of thick wool, usually double-breasted and navy in color, worn by seamen, fishermen, etc.
  • pentaquark — a subatomic particle consisting of four quarks and one antiquark
  • pentelikon — Pendelikon.
  • pernickety — persnickety.
  • perovskite — a naturally occurring titanate of calcium, CaTiO 3 , found as yellow, brown, or black cubic crystals, usually in metamorphic rocks.
  • picketboat — a boat which keeps guard
  • pickpocket — a person who steals money, wallets, etc., from the pockets of people, as in crowded public places.
  • pigsticker — to hunt for wild boar, usually on horseback and using a spear.
  • pink stern — a sharp stern having a narrow, overhanging, raking transom.
  • pit worker — a person who works down a mine, esp a coal miner
  • pitch lake — a deposit of natural asphalt in SW Trinidad, West Indies. 114 acres (47 hectares).
  • planetlike — resembling a planet or planets
  • plate mark — hallmark.
  • plate rack — a rack where you put plates after you have washed them or to store them
  • platemaker — a machine that makes plates used for reproducing illustrations or printed matter, especially halftone or etched illustrations.
  • pocket rat — kangaroo rat (sense 1)
  • pocketable — small enough to be carried in one's pocket; pocket-size.
  • pocketbook — a woman's purse or handbag.
  • postmarked — an official mark stamped on letters and other mail, serving as a cancellation of the postage stamp and indicating the place, date, and sometimes time of sending or receipt.
  • poststrike — of or relating to the period after a (workers) strike
  • potsticker — a pan-fried and steamed Chinese dumpling with a ground meat or vegetable filling.
  • printmaker — a person who makes prints, especially an artist working in one of the graphic mediums.
  • prokaryote — 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.
  • puppetlike — resembling a puppet
  • quick time — Military. a rate of marching in which 120 paces, each of 30 inches (76.2 cm), are taken in a minute.
  • quicksteps — Plural form of quickstep.
  • quickwater — the part of a river or other stream having a strong current.
  • rabbitlike — Similar to a rabbit.
  • race-track — a plot of ground, usually oval, laid out for horse racing.
  • racetracks — Plural form of racetrack.
  • racked out — a framework of bars, wires, or pegs on which articles are arranged or deposited: a clothes rack; a luggage rack.
  • ratemaking — the process or practice of establishing rates of payment, especially for public transportation or utilities.
  • ratskeller — the cellar of a town hall, esp one used as a beer hall or restaurant
  • red jacket — (Sagoyewatha) c1756–1830, Seneca leader.
  • red packet — a sum of money folded inside red paper and given at the Chinese New Year to unmarried younger relatives
  • reknitting — the method of repairing holes or runs in knitted garments
  • reknotting — the craft of repairing knots, esp in a carpet or jewellery
  • repair kit — a set of items, instructions, etc designed to assist with the repair of a specific thing
  • rethinking — the act of reconsidering.
  • retracking — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
  • return key — the key on a keyboard which moves the cursor to the next line
  • rickettsia — any member of the genus Rickettsia, comprising rod-shaped to coccoid microorganisms that resemble bacteria but can be as small as a large virus and reproduce only inside a living cell, parasitic in fleas, ticks, lice, and mites and transmitted by bite to vertebrate hosts, including humans, causing such severe diseases as typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
  • riebeckite — an amphibolic mineral, silicate of sodium and iron, occurring usually in feldspathoid rocks.
  • rigil kent — the star Alpha Centauri
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