0%

13-letter words containing k, p, e

  • park-and-ride — a municipal system that provides free parking for suburban commuters at an outlying terminus of a bus or rail line.
  • parker bowles — Camilla (née Shand). born 1947, became the second wife of Prince Charles in 2005; created Duchess of Cornwall and Duchess of Rothesay
  • parking brake — emergency brake.
  • parking meter — a mechanical device for registering and collecting payment for the length of time that a vehicle occupies a parking space, consisting typically of a timer, actuated by a coin that a driver deposits upon parking, set in a headpiece mounted on a pole.
  • parking place — an reserved area or a space in a street where a car may be parked
  • pass the buck — Poker. any object in the pot that reminds the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.
  • passager hawk — young hawk or falcon caught while on migration
  • path-breaking — very original; ground-breaking
  • pattern maker — someone who creates plans or diagrams used as a guide in making something
  • patternmaking — a person who makes patterns, as for clothing or metal castings.
  • pay the check — When a customer pays the check in a restaurant, they pay the amount that they owe for their meal.
  • pay-per-click — a system used to set prices for online advertisements on a search engine or other website, by which the advertiser pays a small fee to the website publisher each time a user clicks on the advertisement.
  • peace-keeping — the maintenance of international peace and security by the deployment of military forces in a particular area: the United Nations' efforts toward peacekeeping.
  • peacock chair — a wicker armchair with a high, circular back.
  • peacock plant — a plant, Calathea makoyana, native to Brazil, having leaves that are spotted on the upper surface and purple on the lower surface.
  • peak district — a region of N central England, mainly in N Derbyshire at the S end of the Pennines: consists of moors in the north and a central limestone plateau; many caves. Highest point: 727 m (2088 ft)
  • pecking order — Animal Behavior. a dominance hierarchy, seen especially in domestic poultry, that is maintained by one bird pecking another of lower status.
  • pedestal desk — a desk with a writing surface supported by a pair of sets of drawers
  • pembrokeshire — a historic county in Dyfed, in SW Wales.
  • people skills — ability to communicate
  • pepper shaker — container that dispenses pepper
  • peruvian bark — cinchona (def 2).
  • petrol tanker — a specially equipped ship or truck for transporting petrol and other fuels
  • petropavlovsk — a city in N Kazakhstan on the Ishim River. Pop: 190 000 (2005 est)
  • phone hacking — an act or instance of gaining access to a phone's voicemail, email, text messages, etc., without authorization from the phone's owner.
  • phosphokinase — an increase in the amount of creatine phosphokinase that is released into the bloodstream when a muscle becomes injured
  • phrase marker — (in generative grammar) a representation of the constituent structure of a sentence, using a tree diagram or labeled bracketing.
  • phytoplankter — a minute organism which constitutes part of phytoplankton
  • pick holes in — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
  • pick up steam — If a belief, a plan, or a project picks up steam, it starts to develop and become more important.
  • pickerel frog — a meadow frog, Rana palustris, common in eastern North America, similar to the leopard frog but with squarish dark spots on the back.
  • pickup camper — camper (def 3).
  • picnic basket — woven container for carrying food outdoors
  • piece of cake — a sweet, baked, breadlike food, made with or without shortening, and usually containing flour, sugar, baking powder or soda, eggs, and liquid flavoring.
  • piece of work — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
  • pig in a poke — something not adequately appraised or of undetermined value, as an offering or purchase.
  • piked dogfish — the spiny dogfish.
  • pine grosbeak — a large grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, of coniferous forests of northern North America and Eurasia, the male of which has rose and gray plumage.
  • pinellas park — a city in W central Florida.
  • planet-struck — affected adversely by the supposed influence of a planet.
  • playback head — the part of a tape recorder that is used to pick up the magnetic pattern on tape in order to play back material previously recorded.
  • plunket nurse — a child-care nurse appointed by the Plunket Society
  • pocket chisel — any woodworking chisel having a blade of medium length.
  • pocket gopher — any of numerous burrowing rodents of the family Geomyidae, of western and southern North America and Central America, having large, external, fur-lined cheek pouches.
  • pocket-square — a handkerchief, often colored or figured, worn in the breast pocket of a suit or blazer as a fashion accessory.
  • poker machine — a fruit machine
  • pollen basket — (of bees) a smooth area on the hind tibia of each leg fringed with long hairs and serving to transport pollen.
  • pompton lakes — a town in NE New Jersey.
  • pony trekking — the act of riding ponies cross-country, esp as a pastime
  • poplar kitten — a moth, (Furcula bifida,) which has larvae like those of the related puss moth
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?