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11-letter words containing k, o, p

  • penny stock — common stock, usually highly speculative, selling for less than a dollar a share.
  • perestroika — Russian. the program of economic and political reform in the Soviet Union initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986.
  • pervouralsk — a city in the central RSFSR, in the Ural Mountains in Asia.
  • petrol tank — The petrol tank in a motor vehicle is the container for petrol.
  • phantomlike — an apparition or specter.
  • phitsanulok — a city in central Thailand.
  • phoenixlike — having a resemblance to a phoenix in the sense of re-emerging and beginning again
  • phrase book — a small book containing everyday phrases and sentences and their equivalents in a foreign language, written especially for travelers.
  • piatigorsky — Gregor [greg-er] /ˈgrɛg ər/ (Show IPA), 1903–76, U.S. cellist, born in Russia.
  • picked over — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
  • picket boat — a vessel used to patrol a harbor.
  • pieceworker — someone who does work paid for according to the quantity produced
  • pigeon hawk — merlin.
  • pigeon milk — crop milk.
  • pillow talk — private conversation, endearments, or confidences exchanged in bed or in intimate circumstances between spouses or lovers.
  • pink collar — of or relating to a type of employment traditionally held by women, especially relatively low-paying work: secretaries, phone operators, and other pink-collar workers.
  • pink salmon — a small Pacific salmon, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, distinguished by its small scales and long anal fin and by the bright red spawning coloration of males, occurring from California to Alaska and in waters of Japan: fished commercially and for sport.
  • pink-collar — of or relating to a type of employment traditionally held by women, especially relatively low-paying work: secretaries, phone operators, and other pink-collar workers.
  • pipe smoker — a person who smokes a tobacco pipe
  • plank floor — a floor made from sawed, straight-grained timber.
  • plasterwork — finish or ornamental work done in plaster.
  • plate block — a block of four or more stamps containing the number or numbers of the printing plate or plates in the margin of the sheet.
  • plough back — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
  • pobeda peak — a mountain in central Asia, on the boundary between Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan) and China: highest peak of the Tien Shan range. 24,406 feet (7439 meters).
  • pocket book — a book small enough to be carried in one's pocket
  • pocket door — a door, usually one of a communicating pair, that slides into and out of a recess in a doorway wall.
  • pocket park — a very small park or outdoor area for public leisure, especially an urban plaza or courtyard with benches and fountains.
  • pocket veto — the action of the President in retaining unsigned a bill passed by Congress within the last ten days of a session and thus causing it to die
  • pocket-size — small enough to fit conveniently into one's pocket.
  • pocket-veto — to veto (a bill) by exercising a pocket veto.
  • pocketknife — a knife with one or more blades that fold into the handle, suitable for carrying in the pocket.
  • pocketphone — a mobile phone
  • poikilocyte — an abnormally shaped red blood cell
  • point-blank — aimed or fired straight at the mark especially from close range; direct.
  • poke around — to prod or push, especially with something narrow or pointed, as a finger, elbow, stick, etc.: to poke someone in the ribs.
  • poke bonnet — a bonnet with a projecting front brim
  • poke fun at — to prod or push, especially with something narrow or pointed, as a finger, elbow, stick, etc.: to poke someone in the ribs.
  • poker-faced — an expressionless face: He can tell a funny story with a poker face.
  • police work — the everyday duties of police officers, esp the investigation of criminal activities
  • policy wonk — a person who studies or makes political policies, esp one who has a strong enthusiasm for technical details
  • policymaker — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
  • politicking — activity undertaken for political reasons or ends, as campaigning for votes before an election, making speeches, etc., or otherwise promoting oneself or one's policies.
  • polkadotted — a dot or round spot (printed, woven, or embroidered) repeated to form a pattern on a textile fabric.
  • pollakiuria — abnormally frequent urination.
  • pond hockey — ice hockey played on a frozen pond
  • pond-skater — any of various heteropterous insects of the family Gerrididae, esp Gerris lacustris (common pond-skater), having a slender hairy body and long hairy legs with which they skim about on the surface of ponds
  • pooh sticks — a children's game: each player throws a stick into a stream from one side of a bridge and the winner is the person whose stick emerges first on the other side
  • pool a risk — If an insurer pools a risk, it takes on a share of each risk underwritten by every other member in an association of insurers or reinsurers.
  • pop-up book — book: illustrations open out
  • pork barrel — a government appropriation, bill, or policy that supplies funds for local improvements designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents.
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