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13-letter words containing k, l, i, p

  • palette knife — a thin blade of varying flexibility set in a handle and used for mixing colors or applying them to a canvas.
  • panleukopenia — distemper1 (def 1c).
  • parking light — The parking lights on a vehicle are the small lights at the front that help other drivers to notice the vehicle and to judge its width.
  • parking place — an reserved area or a space in a street where a car may be parked
  • pay-per-click — a system used to set prices for online advertisements on a search engine or other website, by which the advertiser pays a small fee to the website publisher each time a user clicks on the advertisement.
  • people skills — ability to communicate
  • pick holes in — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
  • pick-and-roll — an offensive maneuver in which a player interposes himself or herself between a teammate with the ball and a defender, then cuts quickly toward the basket for a pass from the same teammate.
  • pickerel frog — a meadow frog, Rana palustris, common in eastern North America, similar to the leopard frog but with squarish dark spots on the back.
  • pinellas park — a city in W central Florida.
  • pink bollworm — the larva of a gelechiid moth, Pectinophora gossypiella, that feeds on the seeds of the bolls of cotton and was introduced into cotton-growing regions of the world from Asia.
  • plant kingdom — the plants of the world collectively.
  • platykurtosis — the state of being platykurtic.
  • playing trick — a card in a hand considered as likely to take a trick, assuming that the player who holds the hand or that player's partner is the declarer.
  • plimsoll mark — load-line mark.
  • pocket chisel — any woodworking chisel having a blade of medium length.
  • policy-making — Policy-making is the making of policies.
  • poplar kitten — a moth, (Furcula bifida,) which has larvae like those of the related puss moth
  • porcelainlike — resembling porcelain
  • powdered milk — dry milk.
  • power walking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
  • prickly poppy — any tropical American poppy of the genus Argemone, especially A. mexicana (Mexican poppy) having prickly pods and leaves and yellow or white, poppylike flowers.
  • purkinje cell — a large, densely branching neuron in the cerebellar cortex of the brain.
  • realpolitiker — someone who practises or believes in realpolitik
  • san luis peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,014 feet (4271 meters).
  • schiller park — a town in NE Illinois.
  • semipalatinsk — a city in NE Kazakhstan, on the Irtysh River.
  • shaking palsy — Parkinson's disease.
  • sinking spell — a temporary decline, as in health or market values: Wall Street is over its sinking spell.
  • skepticalness — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
  • sky-blue pink — a jocular name for a nonexistent, unknown, or unimportant colour
  • slippery dick — a wrasse, Halichoeres bivittatus, inhabiting tropical regions of the Atlantic Ocean.
  • slow-speaking — tending to speak slowly
  • spaghettilike — resembling spaghetti
  • sparking plug — spark plug (def 1).
  • speed walking — power walking.
  • spelling book — an elementary textbook or manual to teach spelling
  • spelling-book — a person who spells words.
  • spindleshanks — spindlelegs.
  • sportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
  • spring a leak — to develop a leak
  • sunlight peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,059 feet (4285 meters).
  • talking point — a fact or feature that aids or supports one side, as in an argument or competition.
  • tracking poll — a type of poll repeated periodically with the same group of people to check and measure changes of opinion or knowledge.
  • triple-decker — three-decker (defs 3, 4).
  • unprovokingly — serving to provoke; causing annoyance.
  • valet parking — a service offered by a hotel, restaurant, etc., by which patrons' cars are parked by an attendant.
  • walleyed pike — walleye (def 1).
  • well-speaking — the act, utterance, or discourse of a person who speaks.
  • wildlife park — animal reserve
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