13-letter words containing k, p, e
- porcelainlike — resembling porcelain
- pork-barreler — a politician, especially a senator or member of Congress who is party to or benefits from a pork barrel.
- porkpie (hat) — a man's soft hat with a round, flat crown
- powder monkey — (formerly) a boy employed on warships to carry gunpowder from the magazine to the guns.
- powdered milk — dry milk.
- power takeoff — an accessory unit or apparatus attached to an engine-powered machine and powered by the engine. Abbreviation: PTO.
- power walking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
- power workers — the people who work in the power industry
- prairie skirt — a full, dirndl-style skirt with a flounce on the bottom edge that is sometimes trimmed or lined to suggest a petticoat underneath.
- prawn cracker — a puffy savoury crisp made from rice flour and prawn flavouring, served with Chinese food
- pressed brick — face brick molded under pressure to a desired finish.
- pressure-cook — to cook in a pressure cooker.
- price bracket — a notional range of prices which consumers are prepared to pay for a good
- prick-teasing — the behaviour of a prick-tease
- printer's ink — a type of quick-drying ink used in printing
- prolonge knot — a knot consisting of three overlapping loops formed by a single rope passed alternately over and under itself at crossings.
- propeller key — feature key
- pruning knife — a knife used for pruning
- psychokinesis — the purported ability to move or deform inanimate objects, as metal spoons, through mental processes.
- pumpkinheaded — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
- purkinje cell — a large, densely branching neuron in the cerebellar cortex of the brain.
- quaking aspen — any of various poplars, as Populus tremula, of Europe, and P. tremuloides (quaking aspen) or P. alba (white aspen) of America, having soft wood and alternate ovate leaves that tremble in the slightest breeze.
- quanah parker — (Quanah Parker) 1845?–1911, Comanche leader.
- quandary peak — a mountain in central Colorado, in the Park Range, in the Rocky Mountains, NE of Leadville. 14,265 feet (4348 meters).
- quickstepping — Present participle of quickstep.
- racket sports — sports, such as tennis, squash, badminton, etc, that are played using a racket
- realpolitiker — someone who practises or believes in realpolitik
- recordkeeping — the maintenance of a history of one's activities, as financial dealings, by entering data in ledgers or journals, putting documents in files, etc.
- red-hot poker — tritoma.
- redcloud peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains, in the S Rocky Mountains. 14,034 feet (4278 meters).
- regent's park — a park in central London, laid out as Marylebone Park by John Nash; now known for the London Zoo, its open-air theatre, and Nash's curved terraces
- research park — an industrial park whose facilities are devoted to research and development.
- roll-top desk — a flexible, sliding cover for the working area of a desk, opening by rising upward and back in quadrantal grooves and rolling up beneath the top.
- ruptured duck — the symbol of an eagle with wings spread appearing in the honorable discharge emblem of the U.S. armed forces.
- saloon keeper — a person who owns or operates a saloon.
- san luis peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,014 feet (4271 meters).
- schiller park — a town in NE Illinois.
- script kiddie — a child or teenager who gains illegal access to computer systems, often by using hacking programs downloaded from the internet
- seckel (pear) — a small, sweet, juicy, reddish-brown pear
- semipalatinsk — a city in NE Kazakhstan, on the Irtysh River.
- shakespearean — of, relating to, or suggestive of Shakespeare or his works.
- shakespearian — of, relating to, or suggestive of Shakespeare or his works.
- shepherd king — any of the Hyksos kings.
- shock therapy — (not in technical use) any of various therapies, as insulin shock therapy or electroconvulsive therapy, that induce convulsions or unconsciousness, used for symptomatic relief in certain mental disorders.
- sinking spell — a temporary decline, as in health or market values: Wall Street is over its sinking spell.
- skepticalness — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
- skip distance — the minimum distance along the earth's surface between the position of a short-wave transmitter and the region where its signal is received after one reflection from the ionosphere.
- skipping rope — A skipping rope or skip rope is a piece of rope, usually with handles at each end. You exercise or play with it by turning it round and round and jumping over it.
- skipping-rope — Also, jump roping. a children's game or an exercise for children and adults in which a rope is swung over and under the standing jumper, who must leap over it each time it reaches the feet.
- sky-blue pink — a jocular name for a nonexistent, unknown, or unimportant colour