11-letter words containing k, l, a, p
- platemaking — the act of making plates
- platykurtic — (of a frequency distribution) less concentrated about the mean than the corresponding normal distribution.
- plisetskaya — Maya (Mikhailovna) [mah-yuh myi-khahy-luh v-nuh] /ˈmɑ yə myɪˈxaɪ ləv nə/ (Show IPA), 1925–2015, Soviet ballet dancer.
- plough back — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- point-blank — aimed or fired straight at the mark especially from close range; direct.
- policymaker — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- polkadotted — a dot or round spot (printed, woven, or embroidered) repeated to form a pattern on a textile fabric.
- pollakiuria — abnormally frequent urination.
- pool a risk — If an insurer pools a risk, it takes on a share of each risk underwritten by every other member in an association of insurers or reinsurers.
- pork barrel — a government appropriation, bill, or policy that supplies funds for local improvements designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents.
- poyang lake — a lake in E China, in N Jiangxi province, connected by canal with the Yangtze River: the second largest lake in China. Area (at its greatest): 2780 sq km (1073 sq miles)
- prank flash — a short film or animation linked surreptitiously to an innocuous website, intended to shock unsuspecting and easily-offended users of the internet
- prickleback — any of several blennioid fishes of the family Stichaeidae, usually inhabiting cold waters, having spiny rays in the dorsal fin.
- prickly ash — Also called Northern prickly ash, toothache tree. a citrus shrub or small tree, Zanthoxylum americanum, having aromatic leaves and usually prickly branches.
- realpolitik — political realism or practical politics, especially policy based on power rather than on ideals.
- retail park — A retail park is a large specially built area, usually at the edge of a town or city, where there are a lot of large shops and sometimes other facilities such as cinemas and restaurants.
- ripple mark — one of the wavy lines or ridges produced, especially on sand, by the action of waves, wind, or the like.
- ripple-tank — a shallow container of water in which waves are produced by vibrating an object in the water, used to observe or demonstrate wave phenomena.
- salmon pink — salmon (defs 4, 5).
- sample book — a number of pieces of fabric, wallpaper, etc fastened together at one edge, for people to examine when trying to choose which example to buy
- skeptically — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
- sleepwalker — the act or state of walking, eating, or performing other motor acts while asleep, of which one is unaware upon awakening; somnambulism.
- snake plant — a widely grown houseplant, Sansevieria trifasciata, having stiffly erect, mottled, lance-shaped leaves.
- spacewalker — a person who manoeuvres in space while outside but attached to a spacecraft
- sparklessly — in a sparkless manner
- sparklingly — in a sparkling manner
- spinachlike — resembling or characteristic of spinach
- spirit lake — a lake in SW Washington, at the N foot of Mount St. Helens: site of devastation during 1980 eruptions of Mount St. Helens.
- stalin peak — former name of Communism Peak.
- steeplejack — a person who climbs steeples, towers, or the like, to build or repair them.
- stroke play — medal play.
- tinley park — a town in NE Illinois.
- unspeakable — not speakable; that may not be spoken.
- unspeakably — not speakable; that may not be spoken.
- vapour lock — a stoppage in a pipe carrying a liquid caused by a bubble of gas, esp such a stoppage caused by vaporization of the petrol in the pipe feeding the carburettor of an internal-combustion engine
- well-packed — filled to capacity; full: They've had a packed theater for every performance.
- wolf packs' — a group of submarines operating together in hunting down and attacking enemy convoys.
- wrest plank — the part of a piano in which the wrest pin is embedded
- zooplankter — an individual animal or animallike organism in plankton.
- zooplankton — the aggregate of animal or animallike organisms in plankton, as protozoans.