10-letter words containing k, p, e
- open-stack — having or being a system of library management in which patrons have direct access to stacks for browsing and selecting books; open-shelf.
- outsparkle — to sparkle more brilliantly than
- outspeckle — a spectacle
- pacemaking — the act of setting a pace for race competitors
- pack-horse — a horse used for carrying goods, freight, supplies, etc.
- packed out — If a place is packed out, it is very full of people.
- packsaddle — a saddle specifically designed for holding or supporting the load on a pack animal.
- packthread — a strong thread or twine for sewing or tying up packages.
- paderewski — Ignace [French ee-nyas] /French iˈnyas/ (Show IPA), or Ignacy Jan [Polish ig-nah-tsi yahn] /Polish ɪgˈnɑ tsɪ yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1860–1941, Polish pianist, composer, patriot, and statesman.
- page break — a mark in an electronic document that indicates where the printer will start a new page
- painkiller — a drug, treatment, or anything else that relieves pain, especially an analgesic.
- painstaker — a painstaking person
- paperknife — a small, often decorative, knifelike instrument with a blade of metal, ivory, wood, or the like, for slitting open envelopes, the leaves of books, folded papers, etc.
- papermaker — a person or thing that makes paper.
- parawalker — a metal structure fitted over the body to enable a disabled person to walk
- parentlike — a father or a mother.
- park bench — a long seat made of wood or metal that two or more people can sit on, placed in a public place or open space in a town
- park range — a range of the Rocky Mountains in central Colorado. Highest peak, Mt. Lincoln, 14,287 feet (4355 meters).
- park ridge — a city in NE Illinois.
- parkleaves — a species of St John's wort
- parrotlike — any of numerous hook-billed, often brilliantly colored birds of the order Psittaciformes, as the cockatoo, lory, macaw, or parakeet, having the ability to mimic speech and often kept as pets.
- pat-a-cake — a children's game in which a child claps hands alone and with another child while chanting a nursery rhyme.
- patchcocke — a clown
- patty-cake — pat-a-cake.
- pawnbroker — a person whose business is lending money at interest on personal, movable property deposited with the lender until redeemed.
- pawnticket — a ticket or receipt for a pawned item
- pay packet — Your pay packet is the envelope containing your wages, which your employer gives you at the end of every week.
- pea jacket — a short coat of thick wool, usually double-breasted and navy in color, worn by seamen, fishermen, etc.
- peacemaker — a person, group, or nation that tries to make peace, especially by reconciling parties who disagree, quarrel, or fight.
- peacockery — proud or ostentatious display
- peacocking — the male of the peafowl distinguished by its long, erectile, greenish, iridescent tail coverts that are brilliantly marked with ocellated spots and that can be spread in a fan.
- peacockish — the male of the peafowl distinguished by its long, erectile, greenish, iridescent tail coverts that are brilliantly marked with ocellated spots and that can be spread in a fan.
- peak hours — prime time, busiest period
- peakedness — pale and drawn in appearance so as to suggest illness or stress; wan and sickly.
- peckerwood — Midland and Southern U.S. woodpecker.
- peking man — the skeletal remains of Homo erectus, formerly classified as Sinanthropus pekinensis, found at Zhoukoudian, near Peking, China, in the late 1930s and early 1940s and subsequently lost during World War II.
- pendelikon — a mountain in SE Greece, near Athens: noted for its fine marble. 3640 feet (1110 meters).
- penderecki — Krzysztof [kshish-tawf] /ˈkʃɪʃ tɔf/ (Show IPA), born 1933, Polish composer.
- pennsauken — a township in W New Jersey, on the Delaware River.
- pentaquark — a subatomic particle consisting of four quarks and one antiquark
- pentelikon — Pendelikon.
- perikaryal — of or pertaining to the perikaryon of a nerve; involving or occurring within a perikaryon
- perikaryon — cell body.
- periwinkle — Also called myrtle. a trailing plant, Vinca minor, of the dogbane family, having glossy, evergreen foliage and usually blue-violet flowers.
- pernickety — persnickety.
- perovskite — a naturally occurring titanate of calcium, CaTiO 3 , found as yellow, brown, or black cubic crystals, usually in metamorphic rocks.
- phokomelia — a usually congenital deformity of the extremities in which the limbs are abnormally short.
- phone book — telephone book.
- phone-jack — to steal the mobile phone from (a person)
- pick holes — If you pick holes in an argument or theory, you find weak points in it so that it is no longer valid.