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10-letter words containing k, p

  • scalp lock — a long lock or tuft of hair left on the shorn scalp by some North American Indian men.
  • schafskopf — sheepshead (def 4).
  • schipperke — one of a Belgian breed of small dogs having erect ears and a thick, black coat, originally used as a watchdog on boats in the Netherlands and Belgium.
  • scoop neck — a round, usually low, neckline on a dress, blouse, etc.
  • seakeeping — the ability of a vessel to endure rough conditions at sea and navigate safely during long storms.
  • shankpiece — a piece of metal or fiber for giving form to the shank of a shoe.
  • sheep tick — a wingless, bloodsucking, dipterous insect, Melophagus ovinus, that is parasitic on sheep.
  • sheepshank — a kind of knot, hitch, or bend made on a rope to shorten it temporarily.
  • sheeptrack — a small natural terrace on a hillside
  • shell pink — delicate whitish to yellow pink.
  • shockproof — Also, shock-proof. (of timepieces, machinery, etc.) protected against damage resulting from anticipated shocks.
  • shopkeeper — a retail merchant or tradesman; a person who owns or operates a small store or shop.
  • shopwalker — a floorwalker.
  • shrimplike — any of several small, long-tailed, chiefly marine crustaceans of the decapod suborder Natania, certain species of which are used as food.
  • shrinkpack — flexible plastic used for shrink-wrapping goods
  • sick puppy — mentally ill or depraved person
  • silk paper — paper that contains silk fibers and is sometimes used for printing postage stamps and revenue stamps.
  • skate park — area for skateboarding
  • skepticism — skeptical attitude or temper; doubt.
  • sketch map — a rough map of the principal features of a locale, as one drawn from memory.
  • skeuomorph — an ornament or design on an object copied from a form of the object when made from another material or by other techniques, as an imitation metal rivet mark found on handles of prehistoric pottery.
  • ski troops — a body of soldiers trained to fight on skis.
  • skimpingly — in a manner marked by skimpiness
  • skin patch — an adhesive patch stuck to the skin to slowly and steadily release medicine into the bloodstream
  • skinny-dip — to swim in the nude.
  • skippering — the master or captain of a vessel, especially of a small trading or fishing vessel.
  • skippingly — in the manner of a skip
  • skyscraper — a relatively tall building of many stories, especially one for office or commercial use.
  • skytrooper — a paratrooper.
  • smoke shop — a shop selling tobacco products.
  • smokeproof — that cannot be penetrated by smoke: a fireproof and smokeproof compartment.
  • soapflakes — small particles of solid soap or detergent used for washing clothes
  • space junk — objects such as artificial satellites, material discarded from space stations, etc that remain in space after use
  • space mark — a proofreader's symbol used to indicate the need to insert space, as between two typed or printed words that have been run together. Symbol: #.
  • space walk — When an astronaut goes on a space walk, he or she leaves the spacecraft and works outside it while floating in space.
  • spankingly — in a spanking manner
  • spark coil — a coil of many turns of insulated wire on an iron core, used for producing sparks.
  • spark plug — a device designed to fit in each cylinder of a gasoline-powered internal-combustion engine and to produce the electric spark for igniting the mixture of gasoline and air.
  • sparkishly — in a sparkish manner
  • sparkliest — tending to sparkle; animated; lively: a row of sparkly cheerleaders.
  • sparks fly — If sparks fly between people, they discuss something in an excited or angry way.
  • spatchcock — a fowl that has been dressed and split open for grilling.
  • speak-easy — a place where alcoholic drinks are sold illegally, esp. such a place in the U.S. during Prohibition
  • speakerine — a female television or radio announcer
  • speakingly — in an eloquent manner
  • specmark89 — (benchmark)   An old SPECmark benchmark result derived from a set of floating-point and integer benchmarks. It is the geometric mean of ten SPEC ratios of the outdated 1989 SPEC benchmark suite. The use of SPECmark89 is strongly discouraged, having been superseded by CINT92 and CFP92.
  • speedfreak — an addict or habitual user of amphetamines, methamphetamines, or similar stimulating drugs.
  • speedwalks — power walking.
  • spellcheck — If you spellcheck something you have written on a computer, you use a special program to check whether you have made any spelling mistakes.
  • spelunking — to explore caves, especially as a hobby.
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