10-letter words containing k, n, p
- menlo park — a city in W California, near San Francisco.
- milk punch — a beverage containing milk and alcoholic liquor with sugar, flavoring, etc.
- musk plant — a perennial North American plant (Mimulus moschatus) of the figwort family, with yellow tubular flowers and, sometimes, a musky odor
- neckpieces — Plural form of neckpiece.
- nickeltype — an electrotype with a deposit of nickel.
- nitpickers — Plural form of nitpicker.
- nitpicking — to be excessively concerned with or critical of inconsequential details.
- nonspeaker — a person who does not or cannot speak
- norrkoping — a seaport in SE Sweden.
- open stock — merchandise, especially china, silverware, and glassware, sold in sets with additional individual pieces available from stock for future purchases, as for replacement.
- open-stack — having or being a system of library management in which patrons have direct access to stacks for browsing and selecting books; open-shelf.
- pacemaking — the act of setting a pace for race competitors
- pack it in — a group of things wrapped or tied together for easy handling or carrying; a bundle, especially one to be carried on the back of an animal or a person: a mule pack; a hiker's pack.
- pack train — a train, or procession, of pack animals
- painkiller — a drug, treatment, or anything else that relieves pain, especially an analgesic.
- painstaker — a painstaking person
- paperknife — a small, often decorative, knifelike instrument with a blade of metal, ivory, wood, or the like, for slitting open envelopes, the leaves of books, folded papers, etc.
- parakiting — parasailing.
- paraskiing — the sport of jumping off high mountains wearing skis and a light parachute composed of inflatable fabric tubes that form a semirigid wing
- parentlike — a father or a mother.
- park bench — a long seat made of wood or metal that two or more people can sit on, placed in a public place or open space in a town
- park range — a range of the Rocky Mountains in central Colorado. Highest peak, Mt. Lincoln, 14,287 feet (4355 meters).
- pawnbroker — a person whose business is lending money at interest on personal, movable property deposited with the lender until redeemed.
- pawnticket — a ticket or receipt for a pawned item
- peacocking — the male of the peafowl distinguished by its long, erectile, greenish, iridescent tail coverts that are brilliantly marked with ocellated spots and that can be spread in a fan.
- peakedness — pale and drawn in appearance so as to suggest illness or stress; wan and sickly.
- peking man — the skeletal remains of Homo erectus, formerly classified as Sinanthropus pekinensis, found at Zhoukoudian, near Peking, China, in the late 1930s and early 1940s and subsequently lost during World War II.
- pendelikon — a mountain in SE Greece, near Athens: noted for its fine marble. 3640 feet (1110 meters).
- penderecki — Krzysztof [kshish-tawf] /ˈkʃɪʃ tɔf/ (Show IPA), born 1933, Polish composer.
- pennsauken — a township in W New Jersey, on the Delaware River.
- pentaquark — a subatomic particle consisting of four quarks and one antiquark
- pentelikon — Pendelikon.
- perikaryon — cell body.
- periwinkle — Also called myrtle. a trailing plant, Vinca minor, of the dogbane family, having glossy, evergreen foliage and usually blue-violet flowers.
- pernickety — persnickety.
- phone book — telephone book.
- phone-jack — to steal the mobile phone from (a person)
- physicking — a medicine that purges; cathartic; laxative.
- pick up on — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
- pickaninny — a term used to refer to a black child.
- pickedness — sharpness or the state of being pointed
- picnickers — an excursion or outing in which the participants carry food with them and share a meal in the open air.
- picnicking — an excursion or outing in which the participants carry food with them and share a meal in the open air.
- piggy bank — a small bank, having the shape of a pig, provided with a slot at the top to receive small coins.
- 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.
- pilliwinks — an old instrument of torture similar to the thumbscrew.
- pine snake — any of several subspecies of bullsnake of the eastern and southeastern U.S., chiefly in pine woods: now threatened.
- 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 noise — a random signal within the audible frequency range whose amplitude decreases as frequency increases, maintaining constant audio power per frequency increment.
- pink pound — the money spent by homosexual people considered collectively