12-letter words containing k, o, p
- make poo poo — excrement; feces.
- make whoopee — make whoopee, to engage in uproarious merrymaking.
- melrose park — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- meroplankton — a floating mass of eggs and larvae of organisms that are nektonic or benthic in their adult stage; temporary plankton.
- mesoplankton — plankton that live at middle depths.
- milk product — Milk products are foods made from milk, for example butter, cheese, and yoghurt.
- moo shu pork — a Chinese dish made of shredded pork and vegetables and beaten eggs, sautéed and usually served in a crêpe with hoisin sauce
- mossycup oak — bur oak
- nanoplankton — nannoplankton.
- nordkyn cape — Cape, a cape in N Norway, E of North Cape: northernmost point of the European mainland.
- nosey parker — a persistently nosy, prying person; busybody.
- oak-panelled — having panels that are made of oak
- oakland park — a town in S Florida.
- open desktop — (operating system, product) A Motif-based graphical interface from the Santa Cruz Operation (SCO), built over their Unix environment, part of the ACE initiative. Also known as "Open DeathTrap".
- optical disk — Also, optical disc. Also called laser disk. a grooveless disk on which digital data, as text, music, or pictures, is stored as tiny pits in the surface and is read or replayed by a laser beam scanning the surface.
- orange pekoe — a black tea composed of the smallest top leaves and grown in India and Ceylon.
- pack of lies — false account
- pack rolling — the hot rolling of metal sheets in two or more thicknesses to produce composite sheets.
- package tour — a planned tour in which one fee is charged for all expenses: offering package tours of the chateau country.
- packed tower — A packed tower is a tall distillation vessel which uses packing.
- packet radio — (communications, radio) The use of packet switched communications protocols in large networks (i.e not wireless LANs or Bluetooth) having wireless links to terminals at least. Packet radio is split into amateur packet radio (AX25) and General Packet Radio Service (GRPS).
- packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
- pakeha māori — (in the 19th century) a European who adopted the Māori way of life
- pancake coil — a coil (of wire, etc) wound in a flat circular shape
- pancake roll — A pancake roll is an item of Chinese food consisting of a small roll of thin crisp pastry filled with vegetables and sometimes meat.
- parkinsonian — (sometimes initial capital letter) of, related to, or resembling Parkinson's disease.
- parkinsonism — Parkinson's disease.
- passage work — writing that is often extraneous to the thematic material of a work and is typically of a virtuosic or decorative character: passagework consisting of scales, arpeggios, trills, and double octaves.
- passion week — the week preceding Easter; Holy Week.
- patch pocket — a pocket formed by sewing a piece of shaped material to the outside of a garment.
- pattern book — collection of textile motifs or designs
- peacock blue — a lustrous greenish blue, as of certain peacock feathers.
- peacock worm — feather-duster worm.
- pekinologist — a person who studies the People's Republic of China
- pelican hook — a hooklike device for holding the link of a chain or the like, consisting of a long shackle with a hinged rod held closed with a sliding ring.
- penny stocks — Penny stocks are high-risk stock that sells for a very low price outside of the main stock exchange.
- pension book — In Britain, a pension book is a small book which is given to pensioners by the government. Each week, one page can be exchanged for money at a Post Office.
- persian knot — a hand-tied knot, used in rug weaving, in which the ends of yarn looped around a warp thread appear at each of the interstices between adjacent threads and produce a compact and relatively even pile effect.
- petrozavodsk — a city in NW Russia, capital of the Karelian Autonomous Republic, on Lake Onega: developed around ironworks established by Peter the Great in 1703; university (1940). Pop: 265 000 (2005 est)
- phone phreak — a person who uses computers or other electronic devices to place long-distance telephone calls without paying toll charges.
- photokinesis — movement occurring upon exposure to light.
- picture book — a book consisting mainly or entirely of pictures, especially one for children who have not yet learned to read.
- pigeon clock — a device for timing the arrivals of pigeons being raced, consisting of a magazine for holding the identification bands of the contestants in the order in which they are inserted and a recording clock to register the times of insertion.
- pigtail hook — a screw hook having an eye in the form of a spiral for holding a loop, chain link, etc., at any angle.
- pillow block — a cast-iron or steel block for supporting a journal or bearing.
- pilot jacket — a type of leather jacket associated with U.S. Army pilots in World War II
- pinking iron — a tool for perforating, or for notching or scalloping the edge of fabric, leather, etc.
- pioneer work — pioneer work does something that has not been done before, for example by developing or using new methods or techniques
- piston skirt — The piston skirt is the cylindrical walls of a piston.
- plain-spoken — candid; frank; blunt.