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10-letter words containing k, o, p

  • pitchforks — a large, long-handled fork for manually lifting and pitching hay, stalks of grain, etc.
  • planktonic — the aggregate of passively floating, drifting, or somewhat motile organisms occurring in a body of water, primarily comprising microscopic algae and protozoa.
  • play hooky — play truant, be absent from school
  • playbroker — play agent.
  • plunk down — to pluck (a stringed instrument or its strings); twang: to plunk a guitar.
  • pocket rat — kangaroo rat (sense 1)
  • pocketable — small enough to be carried in one's pocket; pocket-size.
  • pocketbook — a woman's purse or handbag.
  • pockmarked — Usually, pockmarks. scars or pits left by a pustule in smallpox or the like.
  • pogo stick — a long stick having a pair of handles at the top and, near the bottom, a pair of footrests attached to a powerful spring, so that by standing on the footrests while grasping the handles, one can propel oneself along in a series of leaps.
  • pohutukawa — a myrtaceous New Zealand tree, Metrosideros excelsa, with red flowers and hard red wood
  • poikilitic — (of igneous rocks) having small crystals of one mineral scattered irregularly in larger crystals of another mineral.
  • poison oak — either of two shrubs, Rhus toxicodendron, of the eastern U.S., or R. diversiloba, of the Pacific coast of North America, resembling poison ivy and causing severe dermatitis when touched by persons sensitive to them.
  • poke check — an attempt to deprive an opponent of the puck by pushing it away with one's stick. Compare check1 (def 37).
  • poker dice — (used with a plural verb) dice that, instead of being marked with spots, carry on their faces a picture or symbol representing the six highest playing cards: ace, king, queen, jack, ten, nine.
  • poker face — an expressionless face: He can tell a funny story with a poker face.
  • 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.
  • portakabin — A Portakabin is a small building that can be moved by truck and that can be used for a short period of time, for example as a temporary office.
  • postattack — to set upon in a forceful, violent, hostile, or aggressive way, with or without a weapon; begin fighting with: He attacked him with his bare hands.
  • postmarked — an official mark stamped on letters and other mail, serving as a cancellation of the postage stamp and indicating the place, date, and sometimes time of sending or receipt.
  • poststrike — of or relating to the period after a (workers) strike
  • potsticker — a pan-fried and steamed Chinese dumpling with a ground meat or vegetable filling.
  • pound cake — a rich, sweet cake made originally with approximately a pound each of butter, sugar, and flour.
  • powder keg — a small, metal, barrellike container for gunpowder or blasting powder.
  • powderlike — resembling powder (usually in consistency or texture); powdery
  • power pack — a device for converting the voltage from a power line or battery to the various voltages required by the components of an electronic circuit.
  • pre-cooked — Pre-cooked food has been prepared and cooked in advance so that it only needs to be heated quickly before you eat it.
  • prick song — written music.
  • prick-post — (in a framed structure) a secondary post, as a queen post.
  • printworks — (used with a singular or plural verb) a factory that prints textiles or other materials.
  • prokaryote — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
  • promptbook — a copy of the script of a play, containing cues and notes, used by the prompter, stage manager, etc.
  • proskomide — prothesis (def 2a).
  • provokable — able to be provoked
  • pyatigorsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, in Caucasia.
  • quakeproof — designed or built to withstand the destructive forces of an earthquake.
  • rock maple — the sugar maple, Acer saccharum.
  • rock opera — an album that tells a story through the songs it contains
  • rock pipit — a small passerine bird; Anthus petrosis
  • rock plant — a plant found among rocks or in rock gardens.
  • rock spray — a low, evergreen, Himalayan shrub, Cotoneaster microphyllus, of the rose family, having shiny leaves with grayish, hairy undersides, white flowers, and scarlet berries.
  • rock tripe — any lichen of the genus Umbilicaria.
  • rockhopper — a small penguin, Eudyptes crestatus, of Antarctica, the Falkland Islands, and New Zealand, with a yellow crest on each side of its head
  • rope maker — a craftsman who makes ropes
  • ropemaking — the act, skill, or process of fabricating rope.
  • ropewalker — a ropedancer.
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