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11-letter words containing k, p, c

  • price check — A price check is an investigation of the prices charged by different retailers for the same goods to find the best value.
  • prick-eared — British. Informal. (of a man) having the hair cut short. Archaic. following or sympathetic to the Puritans or Roundheads. Archaic. priggish.
  • prick-tease — a woman who is sexually provocative but refuses to engage in sexual activity
  • prickleback — any of several blennioid fishes of the family Stichaeidae, usually inhabiting cold waters, having spiny rays in the dorsal fin.
  • prickly ash — Also called Northern prickly ash, toothache tree. a citrus shrub or small tree, Zanthoxylum americanum, having aromatic leaves and usually prickly branches.
  • prokaryotic — 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.
  • psyche knot — a woman's hairdo in which a knot or coil of hair projects from the back of the head.
  • puckishness — the state of being puckish
  • pugil stick — a long pole or stick with padded ends used to carry out mock combat.
  • puncak jaya — a mountain in Irian Jaya, Indonesia, on W New Guinea: highest island point in the world. 16,503 feet (5030 meters).
  • punch-drunk — (especially of a boxer) having cerebral concussion caused by repeated blows to the head and consequently exhibiting unsteadiness of gait, hand tremors, slow muscular movement, hesitant speech, and dulled mentality.
  • punk rocker — a type of rock-'n'-roll, reaching its peak in the late 1970s and characterized by loud, insistent music and abusive or violent protest lyrics, and whose performers and followers are distinguished by extremes of dress and socially defiant behavior.
  • pyrokinetic — the ability to set objects or people on fire through the concentration of psychic power.
  • recipe book — a book containing lists of ingredients and directions for making different food dishes
  • report back — If you report back to someone, you tell them about something that they asked you to find out about.
  • rock pigeon — rock dove.
  • rocket ship — a rocket-propelled aircraft or spacecraft.
  • rockhampton — a city in E Queensland, in E Australia.
  • rope socket — either of a pair of matching fittings fastened to the ends of lengths of wire rope to join them together.
  • schwarzkopf — Elisabeth, 1915–2006, German soprano, born in Poland.
  • scorekeeper — an official of a sports contest who keeps record of the score.
  • septic tank — a tank in which solid organic sewage is decomposed and purified by anaerobic bacteria.
  • sheep track — a pathway made by and used by sheep, often in rocky or mountainous terrain, and sometimes followed by hikers
  • shipwrecked — the destruction or loss of a ship, as by sinking.
  • sir patrick — Norman Bel [bel] /bɛl/ (Show IPA), 1893–1958, U.S. industrial and stage designer and architect.
  • skeptically — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
  • skip tracer — an investigator whose job is to locate missing persons, especially debtors.
  • sky compass — a device for taking a bearing by means of polarized sunlight when the sun is invisible.
  • skyscraping — of or like a skyscraper; very high: a skyscraping chimney.
  • slit pocket — a pocket on the underside of a garment, reached through a vertical opening
  • slop bucket — slop pail.
  • snapperback — the center on the offensive team.
  • sock puppet — a hand puppet made out of a sock.
  • spacewalker — a person who manoeuvres in space while outside but attached to a spacecraft
  • spatterdock — any of various water lilies of the genus Nuphar, having globular yellow flowers and growing in lakes or sluggish streams, especially N. advena, of the eastern U.S.
  • speechmaker — a person who delivers speeches.
  • speed check — a method of checking the speed at which vehicles are travelling, used by police
  • spell check — to process (a document) with a spell checker; check the spelling of.
  • spell-check — to process (a document) with a spell checker; check the spelling of.
  • spinachlike — resembling or characteristic of spinach
  • spitsticker — a wood-engraving tool with a fine prow-shaped point for cutting curved lines
  • spondulicks — money; cash.
  • sponge cake — a light, sweet cake made with a comparatively large proportion of eggs but no shortening.
  • spring lock — a lock that fastens automatically by a spring.
  • steeplejack — a person who climbs steeples, towers, or the like, to build or repair them.
  • step rocket — a multistage rocket that discards burned-out stages.
  • stickup man — a man who commits a stickup.
  • sticky tape — adhesive strip
  • stock power — a power of attorney permitting a person other than the owner of stock in a corporation to transfer the title of ownership to a third party.
  • stock split — the act or result of splitting stock
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