11-letter words containing k, p, e
- nyckelharpa — an old-time Swedish stringed musical instrument, similar to the hurdy-gurdy but sounded with a bow instead of a wheel.
- office park — a complex of office buildings located on land planted with lawns, trees, bushes, etc.
- open market — an unrestricted competitive market in which any buyer and seller is free to participate.
- open ticket — a return ticket which does not specify a date for travel
- open-necked — If you are wearing an open-necked shirt or blouse, you are wearing a shirt or blouse which has no buttons at the top or on which the top button is not done up.
- opera cloak — a large cloak worn over evening clothes
- optokinetic — relating to a reflex whereby the eye follows a moving object
- outspokenly — In an outspoken manner.
- overpackage — to package excessively
- oyster pink — a delicate pinkish-white colour, sometimes with a greyish tinge
- packet boat — a boat that travels a regular route, as along a coast or on a river, carrying passengers, freight, and mail
- packet soup — soup supplied in dried form in a packet
- pancake day — Christian calendar: Shrove Tuesday
- pancake ice — newly formed ice in flat pieces too small and thin to obstruct navigation.
- panel truck — a small truck having a fully enclosed body, used mainly to deliver light or small objects.
- paper knife — 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.
- papermaking — the art or action of making paper
- park avenue — a wide street in New York City traditionally associated with luxurious residential and professional buildings, fashionable living, and high society.
- park forest — a city in NE Illinois.
- park-keeper — A park-keeper is a person whose job is to look after a park.
- park-miller — A pseudorandom number generation algorithm which was discredited by Marsaglia and Steve Sullivanin in the July 1993 CACM.
- parkersburg — a city in NW West Virginia, on the Ohio River.
- partial key — (database) A key which identifies a subset of a set of information items (e.g. database "records"), and which could narrow the subset to one item if other partial key(s) were combined with it.
- passagework — writing that is often extraneous to the thematic material of a work and is typically of a virtuosic or decorative character: passagework consisting of scales, arpeggios, trills, and double octaves.
- pathbreaker — a person who blazes a trail or path; pathfinder.
- pawn ticket — a receipt given for goods left with a pawnbroker.
- peace talks — negotiations aimed at ending conflict
- peacekeeper — a person who maintains or restores peace and amity; mediator: Mother was the peacekeeper in our family.
- peacemaking — a person, group, or nation that tries to make peace, especially by reconciling parties who disagree, quarrel, or fight.
- peachy keen — peachy (def 2).
- peachy-keen — peachy (def 2).
- peacock ore — bornite.
- peak demand — business: strong sales
- peak period — the busiest or most popular time
- peak season — busiest annual period
- pearly king — the male London costermonger whose ceremonial clothes display the most lavish collection of pearl buttons
- peckishness — the state or condition of being peckish
- peking duck — a Chinese dish consisting of roast duck with a crispy skin; the meat is served with strips of vegetables, steamed pancakes, and hoisin sauce
- pen and ink — A pen and ink drawing is done using a pen rather than a pencil.
- penny black — the first adhesive postage stamp, issued in Britain in 1840; an imperforate stamp bearing the profile of Queen Victoria on a dark background
- penny stock — common stock, usually highly speculative, selling for less than a dollar a share.
- perestroika — Russian. the program of economic and political reform in the Soviet Union initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986.
- persnickety — overparticular; fussy.
- pervouralsk — a city in the central RSFSR, in the Ural Mountains in Asia.
- petrol tank — The petrol tank in a motor vehicle is the container for petrol.
- phantomlike — an apparition or specter.
- phoenixlike — having a resemblance to a phoenix in the sense of re-emerging and beginning again
- phrase book — a small book containing everyday phrases and sentences and their equivalents in a foreign language, written especially for travelers.
- phrasemaker — a person who is skilled in coining well-turned phrases; phraseologist.
- picked over — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.