8-letter words containing k, p, c
- pigstick — to hunt for wild boar, usually on horseback and using a spear.
- pin tuck — a narrow ornamental fold used esp on shirt fronts and dress bodices
- pincheck — a very small check woven into fabric, much used in the manufacture of men's and women's suits.
- pinckney — Charles, 1757–1824, American Revolutionary leader and politician: senator 1798–1801.
- pinprick — any minute puncture made by a pin or the like.
- plackart — placate2 .
- playback — the act of reproducing a sound or video recording, especially in order to check a recording that is newly made.
- plowback — a reinvestment of earnings or profits in a business enterprise.
- pluck at — If you pluck at something, you take it between your fingers and pull it sharply but gently.
- pluck up — to pull off or out from the place of growth, as fruit, flowers, feathers, etc.: to pluck feathers from a chicken.
- plumcake — a cake with raisins in it
- pocketer — a person who pockets something
- pockmark — Usually, pockmarks. scars or pits left by a pustule in smallpox or the like.
- politick — to engage in politicking.
- porkchop — a chop of pork.
- pot luck — food or a meal that happens to be available without special preparation or purchase: to take potluck with a friend.
- precheck — to check in advance
- prick up — ears: react to sound
- pricking — a puncture made by a needle, thorn, or the like.
- puck hog — a player who is reluctant to pass the puck to other members of his or her team
- puckered — a wrinkle; an irregular fold.
- puckerer — a person who puckers
- puckfist — a puffball fungus
- pullback — the act of pulling back, especially a retreat or a strategic withdrawal of troops; pullout.
- pushback — a mechanism that forces an object backward.
- put back — postpone
- rat pack — a close-knit group of people with common interests who participate in various professional and recreational activities together.
- rat-pack — a close-knit group of people with common interests who participate in various professional and recreational activities together.
- schapska — a cavalry helmet with a flat, square top
- shack up — a rough cabin; shanty.
- sick pay — wages or other compensation received from an employer during an illness.
- six-pack — six bottles or cans of a beverage, as beer or a soft drink, packaged and sold especially as a unit.
- skip car — an open car for charging a blast furnace.
- skipjack — any of various fishes that leap above the surface of the water, as a tuna, Euthynnus pelamis, or the bonito.
- skullcap — a small, brimless close-fitting cap, often made of silk or velvet, worn on the crown of the head, as for religious functions.
- skyscape — a section or portion of the sky, usually extensive and often including part of the horizon, that may be seen from a single viewpoint.
- slack up — to go more slowly
- slapjack — a simple card game.
- slick up — to make sleek or smooth.
- snapback — a sudden rebound or recovery.
- snowpack — the accumulation of winter snowfall, especially in mountain or upland regions.
- sock hop — an informal dance where participants dance in their socks, popular esp. in the 1950s among high-school students
- specking — a small spot differing in color or substance from that of the surface or material upon which it appears or lies: Specks of soot on the window sill.
- speckled — dotted, flecked
- specmark — (benchmark) The average of a set of floating-point and integer SPEC benchmark results. While the old average SPECmark89 has been popular with the industry and the press, SPEC has intentionally *not* defined an average "SPECmark92" over all CPU benchmarks of the 1992 suites (CINT92 and CFP92), for the following reasons: With 6 integer (CINT92) and 14 floating-point (CFP92) benchmarks, the average would be biased too much toward floating-point. Customers' workloads are different, some integer-only, some floating-point intensive, some mixed. Current processors have developed their strengths in a more diverse way (some more emphasizing integer performance, some more floating-point performance) than in 1989. Some SPECmark results are available here. See also SPECint92, SPECfp92, SPECrate_int92, SPECrate_fp92.
- sprackle — to clamber or scramble upwards
- sprocket — Machinery. Also called chainwheel, sprocket wheel. a toothed wheel engaging with a conveyor or power chain. one tooth of such a wheel.
- stack up — a more or less orderly pile or heap: a precariously balanced stack of books; a neat stack of papers.
- stick up — a thrust with a pointed instrument; stab.
- stick-up — a thrust with a pointed instrument; stab.