9-letter words containing k, o, p
- drop tank — an external aircraft tank, usually containing fuel, that can be detached and dropped in flight
- drop-kick — to score (a field goal or point after touchdown) by a drop kick.
- dropkicks — Plural form of dropkick.
- duck pond — a pond for ducks
- duck soup — something that is easy to do or accomplish: Fixing the car will be duck soup for anyone with the right tools.
- dummkopfs — Plural form of dummkopf.
- flipbooks — Plural form of flipbook.
- for keeps — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- forepeaks — Plural form of forepeak.
- forespeak — to predict; foretell.
- fort peck — a dam on the Missouri River in NE Montana.
- fort polk — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in W central Louisiana, SW of Alexandria.
- gas poker — a long tubular gas burner used to kindle a fire
- goldspink — a goldfinch
- gorakhpur — a city in SE Uttar Pradesh, in N India.
- gowdspink — the goldfinch
- groupwork — (education, therapy) Work done in groups.
- hammerkop — A bird from southern Africa, Scopus umbretta, of the Scopidae family and related to the herons.
- hockshops — (US, rare) Plural form of hockshop.
- hoop back — a chair back having the uprights and crest rail in a continuous arched form.
- hopkinson — Francis, 1737–91, American statesman and satirist.
- housekeep — to keep or maintain a house.
- housekept — to keep or maintain a house.
- in pocket — a shaped piece of fabric attached inside or outside a garment and forming a pouch used especially for carrying small articles.
- jack post — a post for supporting a floor beam, having two telescoping sections, adjustable to any height.
- jack rope — a rope for bending the foot of a sail to a boom.
- jockstrap — an elasticized belt, a men's undergarment, with a pouch for supporting and protecting the genitals, worn especially while participating in athletics.
- jonkoping — a city in S Sweden.
- junk shop — a shop selling miscellaneous secondhand goods
- kakotopia — Alternative form of cacotopia.
- kapok oil — a yellowish-green oil expressed from the seeds of the kapok tree, used especially in foods and in the manufacture of soap.
- karpathos — an island off the SE coast of Greece, part of the Dodecanese Islands, in the Aegean Sea. 110 sq. mi. (280 sq. km).
- karyotype — the chromosomes of a cell, usually displayed as a systematized arrangement of chromosome pairs in descending order of size.
- keep cool — avoid getting hot
- keep down — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- keep from — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- kiloflops — (unit) 1000 FLOPS. See prefix.
- kinescope — a cathode-ray tube with a fluorescent screen on which an image is reproduced by a directed beam of electrons.
- king post — a structural member running vertically between the apex and base of a triangular roof truss.
- kingsport — a city in NE Tennessee.
- kleopatra — Cleopatra (def 2).
- klopstock — Friedrich Gottlieb [free-drikh gawt-leep] /ˈfri drɪx ˈgɔt lip/ (Show IPA), 1724–1803, German poet.
- knee drop — a wrestling attack in which a wrestler lifts his or her opponent and drops him or her onto his or her bent knee
- kniphofia — Any of several plants, of the genus Kniphofia, having bright, upright flowers.
- koniscope — a device for detecting and measuring dust in the air
- kropotkin — Prince Pëter Alekseevich [pyawtr uh-lyi-ksyey-yi-vyich] /ˈpyɔtr ʌ lyɪˈksyeɪ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1842–1921, Russian geographer, author, and anarchist.
- kugelhopf — a sweetened bread, flavored with raisins and almonds, baked in a ring-shaped mold, and usually dusted with powdered sugar before serving.
- kymograph — an instrument for measuring and graphically recording variations in fluid pressure, as those of the human pulse.
- leakproof — designed to prevent leaking: a leakproof bottle.
- linkoping — a city in S Sweden.