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10-letter words containing k, l

  • pack trail — a path or route suitable for pack animals
  • packsaddle — a saddle specifically designed for holding or supporting the load on a pack animal.
  • painkiller — a drug, treatment, or anything else that relieves pain, especially an analgesic.
  • parawalker — a metal structure fitted over the body to enable a disabled person to walk
  • parentlike — a father or a mother.
  • parkleaves — a species of St John's wort
  • 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.
  • pendelikon — a mountain in SE Greece, near Athens: noted for its fine marble. 3640 feet (1110 meters).
  • pentelikon — Pendelikon.
  • perikaryal — of or pertaining to the perikaryon of a nerve; involving or occurring within a perikaryon
  • periwinkle — Also called myrtle. a trailing plant, Vinca minor, of the dogbane family, having glossy, evergreen foliage and usually blue-violet flowers.
  • phokomelia — a usually congenital deformity of the extremities in which the limbs are abnormally short.
  • pick holes — If you pick holes in an argument or theory, you find weak points in it so that it is no longer valid.
  • pickleworm — the larva of a pyralid moth, Diaphania nitidalis, that bores into the stem and fruit of squash, cucumber, and other cucurbitaceous plants.
  • pikeblenny — any of several tropical American clinid fishes of the genus Chaenopsis, as C. ocellata (bluethroat pikeblenny) the male of which is noted for its aggressive behavior in defending its territory.
  • pikesville — a town in central Maryland, near Baltimore.
  • pilgarlick — a bald person; a person looked upon with humorous contempt or mock pity
  • pilliwinks — an old instrument of torture similar to the thumbscrew.
  • pink floyd — British rock group, formed in 1966: originally comprised Syd Barrett (1946–2006), Roger Waters (born 1944), Rick Wright (1945–2008), and Nick Mason (born 1945); Barrett was replaced by Dave Gilmour (born 1944) in 1968 and Waters left in 1986. Recordings include The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967), Dark Side of the Moon (1973), Wish You Were Here (1975), and The Wall (1979)
  • pink slime — beef trimmings that have been ground and liquefied, used as a binder in minced beef and other meat products
  • pitch lake — a deposit of natural asphalt in SW Trinidad, West Indies. 114 acres (47 hectares).
  • pizza-like — similar to or resembling pizza
  • place kick — a kick in which the ball is placed in position before it is kicked
  • place-kick — to make (a field goal or point after touchdown) by a place kick.
  • plain knit — the simplest knitted construction, consisting of vertical ribs visible on the front of the fabric and horizontal rows of stitches visible on the back, used in the production of hosiery and jersey fabrics.
  • planetlike — resembling a planet or planets
  • plankalkül — (language, history)   (Or "Plankalkuel" if you don't have umlauts). The first programming language, designed by Konrad Zuse, ca. 1945. Zuse wrote "Rechenplan allgemeiner Struktur" in 1944 which developed into Plankalkül. Plankalkül included arrays and records and used a style of assignment in which the new value appears on the right. Zuse wrote Plankalkül for his Z3 computer (finished before 1945) and implemented it on there as well. Much of his work may have been either lost or confiscated in the aftermath of World War II.
  • planktonic — the aggregate of passively floating, drifting, or somewhat motile organisms occurring in a body of water, primarily comprising microscopic algae and protozoa.
  • 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.
  • play hooky — play truant, be absent from school
  • playbroker — play agent.
  • playmaking — the initiating of offensive plays in sports
  • pluckiness — having or showing pluck or courage; brave: The drowning swimmer was rescued by a plucky schoolboy.
  • plunk down — to pluck (a stringed instrument or its strings); twang: to plunk a guitar.
  • pocketable — small enough to be carried in one's pocket; pocket-size.
  • poikilitic — (of igneous rocks) having small crystals of one mineral scattered irregularly in larger crystals of another mineral.
  • pokerishly — in a pokerish manner
  • polka dots — Polka dots are very small spots printed on a piece of cloth.
  • polo stick — a stick used to strike the ball in the game of polo
  • poltoratsk — a city in and the capital of Turkmenistan, in the S central part, near the Iranian border.
  • pork belly — a side of fresh pork.
  • powderlike — resembling powder (usually in consistency or texture); powdery
  • prankingly — showily, in an ostentatious or pranking manner
  • prankishly — in a prankish manner, mischievously
  • pricklings — tingly sensations of discomfort or euphoria
  • provokable — able to be provoked
  • puppetlike — resembling a puppet
  • quackishly — In a quackish manner.
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