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10-letter words containing k, p

  • dropkicker — One who dropkicks.
  • dsp56k-gcc — Motorola's port of gcc version 1.37.1 to the Motorola DSP56000.
  • duck press — a cooked duck sprinkled with red wine and then pressed in a device (duck press) so that the juices can be collected and served as a sauce over the breast meat and legs.
  • dukkeripen — fortune-telling
  • dump truck — a usually open-topped truck having a body that can be tilted to discharge its contents, as sand or gravel, through an open tailgate.
  • dup killer — /d[y]oop kill'r/ Software that is supposed to detect and delete duplicates of a message that may have reached the FidoNet system via different routes. See also dup loop.
  • ekphrastic — Pertaining to ekphrasis; clear, lucid.
  • enkephalin — Either of two compounds that occur naturally in the brain. They are peptides related to the endorphins, with similar physiological effects.
  • escape key — a key on a computer keyboard used to leave a computer-program sequence before its end, in order to commence another sequence
  • fanny pack — a small zippered pouch suspended from a belt around the waist.
  • fingerpick — a plectrum.worn on the finger.
  • firekeeper — One who tends a ceremonial fire.
  • flick-pass — a movement in which the ball is passed quickly to another player by flicking it out of the hand; often performed with only one hand
  • flyspeck 3 — (humour)   A standard name for any font that is so tiny as to be unreadable, by analogy with names like "Helvetica 10" for 10-point Helvetica. Legal boilerplate is usually printed in Flyspeck 3.
  • flyspecked — Covered with flyspecks.
  • gamekeeper — a person employed, as on an estate or game preserve, to prevent poaching and provide a natural environment conducive to the propagation of game, as by thinning brush, scattering food after a snowstorm, and the like.
  • gangplanks — Plural form of gangplank.
  • gatekeeper — a person in charge of a gate, usually to identify, count, supervise, etc., the traffic or flow through it.
  • giant kelp — any of various very large kelps of the genera Laminaria, Macrocystis, and Nereocystis.
  • goalkeeper — (in ice hockey, field hockey, lacrosse, soccer, etc.) a player whose chief duty is to prevent the ball or puck from crossing or entering the goal.
  • grass pink — a pink, Dianthus plumarius, of Europe and Asia, having fragrant, fringed pink, purplish, or white flowers.
  • grays peak — a mountain in N central Colorado; highest point in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. 14,270 feet (4352 meters).
  • greenspeak — the jargon used by those who campaign for the conservation of the world's natural resources and the improvement of the environment
  • group work — a method, used by professional social workers, of aiding a group or members of a group toward individual adjustment and increased participation in community activity by exploiting the mechanisms of group life.
  • groupthink — the practice of approaching problems or issues as matters that are best dealt with by consensus of a group rather than by individuals acting independently; conformity.
  • hammerkops — Plural form of hammerkop.
  • hand-spike — a bar used as a lever.
  • handpicked — Picked by hand; picked or selected with care.
  • handspikes — Plural form of handspike.
  • handy-pack — a pack of a product that is useful or convenient in some way, because, for example, it is easy to transport, or because it contains a variety of flavours, colours, etc
  • hanky-pank — unethical behavior; deceit: When the bank teller bought an expensive car and house, they suspected there might be some hanky-panky going on.
  • happy talk — a style of news presentation characterized by cheerful commentary and informal conversation among anchors during newscasts
  • hazel park — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
  • hektograph — to copy with the hectograph.
  • hen-pecked — browbeaten, bullied, or intimidated by one's wife, girlfriend, etc.: a henpecked husband who never dared to contradict his wife.
  • henpeckery — the state of being harassed or tormented through henpecking
  • henpecking — Present participle of henpeck.
  • hip pocket — back pocket of trousers
  • hokeypokey — (US) A group dance performed in a circle, in which people move various of their body parts in and out of the middle, and shake them about.
  • hoop skirt — a woman's skirt made to stand out and drape in a stiff bell-like shape from the waist by an undergarment framework of flexible hoops connected by tapes.
  • hoop snake — any of several harmless snakes, as the mud snake and rainbow snake, fabled to take its tail in its mouth and roll along like a hoop.
  • hoop-skirt — a skirt that has hoops made of bone or metal, etc fastened inside it to make it stiff and full
  • hop-picker — a person employed or a machine used to pick hops
  • hopsacking — bagging made chiefly of hemp and jute.
  • humpbacked — having a hump on the back.
  • hyperlinks — Plural form of hyperlink.
  • innkeepers — Plural form of innkeeper.
  • jack plane — a plane for rough surfacing.
  • jackanapes — an impertinent, presumptuous person, especially a young man; whippersnapper.
  • jam-packed — to fill or pack as tightly or fully as possible: We jam-packed the basket with all kinds of fruit.
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