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13-letter words containing k, o, p

  • powder monkey — (formerly) a boy employed on warships to carry gunpowder from the magazine to the guns.
  • powdered milk — dry milk.
  • power takeoff — an accessory unit or apparatus attached to an engine-powered machine and powered by the engine. Abbreviation: PTO.
  • power walking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
  • power workers — the people who work in the power industry
  • pressure-cook — to cook in a pressure cooker.
  • prickly poppy — any tropical American poppy of the genus Argemone, especially A. mexicana (Mexican poppy) having prickly pods and leaves and yellow or white, poppylike flowers.
  • profit taking — the selling of securities that have risen in price above costs; selling in order to realize a profit.
  • profit-making — A profit-making business or organization makes a profit.
  • profit-taking — Profit-taking is the selling of stocks and shares at a profit after their value has risen or just before their value falls.
  • prolonge knot — a knot consisting of three overlapping loops formed by a single rope passed alternately over and under itself at crossings.
  • propeller key — feature key
  • psychokinesis — the purported ability to move or deform inanimate objects, as metal spoons, through mental processes.
  • racket sports — sports, such as tennis, squash, badminton, etc, that are played using a racket
  • realpolitiker — someone who practises or believes in realpolitik
  • recordkeeping — the maintenance of a history of one's activities, as financial dealings, by entering data in ledgers or journals, putting documents in files, etc.
  • red-hot poker — tritoma.
  • redcloud peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains, in the S Rocky Mountains. 14,034 feet (4278 meters).
  • rock painting — a painting done on rock, usually by early people
  • roll-top desk — a flexible, sliding cover for the working area of a desk, opening by rising upward and back in quadrantal grooves and rolling up beneath the top.
  • saloon keeper — a person who owns or operates a saloon.
  • shanks's pony — one's own legs as a means of transportation
  • shock therapy — (not in technical use) any of various therapies, as insulin shock therapy or electroconvulsive therapy, that induce convulsions or unconsciousness, used for symptomatic relief in certain mental disorders.
  • shocking pink — a vivid or intensely bright pink.
  • skipping rope — A skipping rope or skip rope is a piece of rope, usually with handles at each end. You exercise or play with it by turning it round and round and jumping over it.
  • skipping-rope — Also, jump roping. a children's game or an exercise for children and adults in which a rope is swung over and under the standing jumper, who must leap over it each time it reaches the feet.
  • slow-speaking — tending to speak slowly
  • smooth-spoken — speaking or spoken easily and softly.
  • soupfin shark — a requiem shark, Galeorhinus zyopterus, inhabiting the Pacific Ocean, valued for its fins, which are used by the Chinese in the preparation of a soup, and for its liver, which is rich in vitamin A.
  • spark erosion — a method of machining using a shaped electrode which erodes the workpiece by an electric spark discharge between itself and the workpiece
  • speak volumes — a collection of written or printed sheets bound together and constituting a book.
  • speckled wood — a common woodland brown satyrid butterfly, Pararge aegeria, marked with pale orange or yellowish-white spots
  • spelling book — an elementary textbook or manual to teach spelling
  • spelling-book — a person who spells words.
  • spider monkey — any of several tropical American monkeys of the genus Ateles, having a slender body, long, slender limbs, and a long, prehensile tail: some are endangered.
  • spokesmanship — the office or skilful use of the office of spokesman
  • sports jacket — a jacket, often of textured wool or colorful pattern, with a collar, lapels, long sleeves, and buttons in the front, cut somewhat fuller than the jacket of a business suit, worn with slacks for informal occasions.
  • sportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
  • spotted crake — a Eurasian rail, Porzana porzana, of swamps and marshes, having a buff speckled plumage and dark brown wings
  • spotted skunk — either of two small, nocturnal skunks of the genus Spilogale, distinguished by a white forehead patch and a luxuriant coat of broken stripes and spots, including S. putorius of temperate North America and S. pygmaea of Mexico.
  • sprocket hole — any of a series of regular perforations along the edge of photographic film for engaging the drive sprockets in a motion-picture camera or projector.
  • stock company — Finance. a company or corporation whose capital is divided into shares represented by stock.
  • stock options — an option giving the holder, usually an officer or employee, the right to buy stock of the issuing corporation at a specific price within a stated period.
  • stork parking — spaces reserved in a parking lot for cars driven by pregnant women or new mothers.
  • streptokinase — an enzyme used to dissolve blood clots.
  • suffolk punch — a breed of draught horse with a chestnut coat and short legs
  • take a powder — British Dialect. to rush.
  • take-home pay — the amount of salary remaining after deductions, as of taxes, have been made.
  • talking point — a fact or feature that aids or supports one side, as in an argument or competition.
  • tarpeian rock — a rock on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, from which criminals and traitors were hurled.
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