10-letter words containing k, o, p
- leukopenia — a decrease in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
- leukopenic — a decrease in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
- lockkeeper — The person assigned to look after a canal or river lock, operating it and organizing its maintenance.
- longs peak — a peak in N Colorado, in the Rocky Mountain National Park. 14,255 feet (4345 meters).
- look sharp — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
- look up to — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
- lopatnikov — Nicolai Lvovich [nik-uh-lahy luh-voh-vich;; Russian nyi-kuh-lahy lvaw-vyich] /ˈnɪk əˌlaɪ ləˈvoʊ vɪtʃ;; Russian nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ ˈlvɔ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1903–76, U.S. composer, born in Russia.
- loves park — a town in N Illinois.
- lymphokine — any lymphocyte product, as interferon, that is not an antibody but may participate in the immune response through its effect on the function of other cells, as destroying antigen-coated cells or stimulating macrophages.
- make up to — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- mckeesport — a city in SW Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh.
- menlo park — a city in W California, near San Francisco.
- nonspeaker — a person who does not or cannot speak
- norrkoping — a seaport in SE Sweden.
- oikophobia — Ecophobia; fear of a home environment.
- 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.
- optic disk — blind spot (sense 1)
- ostpolitik — the German policy toward the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, especially the expansionist views of Hitler in the 1930s and the normalization program of the West German government in the 1960s and 1970s.
- outsparkle — to sparkle more brilliantly than
- outspeckle — a spectacle
- pack-horse — a horse used for carrying goods, freight, supplies, etc.
- packed out — If a place is packed out, it is very full of people.
- 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.
- pastrycook — a person who makes pastry or pastries
- patchcocke — a clown
- pawnbroker — a person whose business is lending money at interest on personal, movable property deposited with the lender until redeemed.
- peacockery — proud or ostentatious display
- 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.
- peacockish — 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.
- peak hours — prime time, busiest period
- peckerwood — Midland and Southern U.S. woodpecker.
- pendelikon — a mountain in SE Greece, near Athens: noted for its fine marble. 3640 feet (1110 meters).
- pentelikon — Pendelikon.
- perikaryon — cell body.
- perovskite — a naturally occurring titanate of calcium, CaTiO 3 , found as yellow, brown, or black cubic crystals, usually in metamorphic rocks.
- phokomelia — a usually congenital deformity of the extremities in which the limbs are abnormally short.
- phone book — telephone book.
- phone-jack — to steal the mobile phone from (a person)
- piatigorsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, in Caucasia.
- pick holes — If you pick holes in an argument or theory, you find weak points in it so that it is no longer valid.
- pick up on — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
- picketboat — a boat which keeps guard
- pickleworm — the larva of a pyralid moth, Diaphania nitidalis, that bores into the stem and fruit of squash, cucumber, and other cucurbitaceous plants.
- pickpocket — a person who steals money, wallets, etc., from the pockets of people, as in crowded public places.
- pik pobedy — Russian name of Pobeda Peak.
- 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
- pit worker — a person who works down a mine, esp a coal miner