12-letter words containing k, l, i, p
- marlingspike — Alternative spelling of marlinspike.
- milk parsley — a wetland plant belonging to the family Apiaceae
- milk product — Milk products are foods made from milk, for example butter, cheese, and yoghurt.
- milk pudding — a hot or cold pudding made by boiling or baking milk with a grain, esp rice
- mullein pink — rose campion.
- nickel plate — thin coating of nickel
- nickel-plate — to coat with nickel by electroplating or other process.
- optical disk — Also, optical disc. Also called laser disk. a grooveless disk on which digital data, as text, music, or pictures, is stored as tiny pits in the surface and is read or replayed by a laser beam scanning the surface.
- pack of lies — false account
- pack rolling — the hot rolling of metal sheets in two or more thicknesses to produce composite sheets.
- packing slip — A packing slip is a list of what is included in a shipment.
- pale-skinned — having pale skin
- pallet knife — a small, flat utensil for picking up and handling pastry paste.
- pancake coil — a coil (of wire, etc) wound in a flat circular shape
- parish clerk — an official designated to carry out various duties, either for a church parish or a parish council
- pekinologist — a person who studies the People's Republic of China
- pelican hook — a hooklike device for holding the link of a chain or the like, consisting of a long shackle with a hinged rod held closed with a sliding ring.
- penalty kick — a free kick awarded for an infraction committed by a defensive player in the penalty area and taken by the offensive player who has been fouled from a point 12 yards (11 meters) directly in front of the goal.
- pencil skirt — women's garment: straight skirt
- pickerelweed — any American plant of the genus Pontederia, especially P. cordata, having spikes of blue flowers, common in shallow fresh water.
- pigeon clock — a device for timing the arrivals of pigeons being raced, consisting of a magazine for holding the identification bands of the contestants in the order in which they are inserted and a recording clock to register the times of insertion.
- pigtail hook — a screw hook having an eye in the form of a spiral for holding a loop, chain link, etc., at any angle.
- pillow block — a cast-iron or steel block for supporting a journal or bearing.
- pilot jacket — a type of leather jacket associated with U.S. Army pilots in World War II
- pink-slipped — (of an employee) given notice of redundancy
- plain turkey — a bustard
- plain-spoken — candid; frank; blunt.
- plane ticket — entitlement to travel by aircraft
- play chicken — to engage in a test of courage in which, typically, two vehicles are driven directly toward one another in order to see which driver will swerve away first
- plinth block — a plinth interrupting a door or window architrave at the floor or ground level.
- poikilotherm — an organism with poikilothermic qualities
- policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- policymaking — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- poodle skirt — 1950s-style woman's circular skirt
- postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
- powerwalking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
- prickly heat — a cutaneous eruption accompanied by a prickling and itching sensation, due to an inflammation of the sweat glands.
- prickly pear — any of numerous cacti of the genus Opuntia, having flattened, usually spiny stem joints, yellow, orange, or reddish flowers, and ovoid, often edible fruit.
- public works — government-funded construction
- pumpernickel — a coarse, dark, slightly sour bread made of unbolted rye.
- rapacki plan — the denuclearization of Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and West Germany, proposed by Adam Rapacki (1909–70), the Polish foreign minister, in 1957
- risk capital — venture capital.
- risk pooling — Risk pooling is the practice of sharing all risks among a group of insurance companies.
- scafell pike — a mountain in NW England, in Cumberland: highest peak in England. 3210 feet (978 meters).
- schappe silk — a yarn or fabric of or similar to spun silk.
- skip welding — a technique of spacing welds on thin structural members in order to balance and minimize internal stresses due to heat.
- sleepwalking — an act of sleepwalking; somnambulation.
- slipped disk — herniated disk.
- slipper sock — a sock with a soft leather or vinyl sole sewn onto it, used as indoor footwear.
- smoking lamp — formerly, a lamp aboard ship for lighting pipes, now used figuratively to indicate when smoking is or is not allowed: The smoking lamp is lit.