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10-letter words containing k, p

  • pigsticker — to hunt for wild boar, usually on horseback and using a spear.
  • pik pobedy — Russian name of Pobeda Peak.
  • pikeblenny — any of several tropical American clinid fishes of the genus Chaenopsis, as C. ocellata (bluethroat pikeblenny) the male of which is noted for its aggressive behavior in defending its territory.
  • pikes peak — a mountain in central Colorado: a peak of the Rocky Mountains. 14,108 feet (4300 meters).
  • pikesville — a town in central Maryland, near Baltimore.
  • pilgarlick — a bald person; a person looked upon with humorous contempt or mock pity
  • pilliwinks — an old instrument of torture similar to the thumbscrew.
  • pine snake — any of several subspecies of bullsnake of the eastern and southeastern U.S., chiefly in pine woods: now threatened.
  • pink floyd — British rock group, formed in 1966: originally comprised Syd Barrett (1946–2006), Roger Waters (born 1944), Rick Wright (1945–2008), and Nick Mason (born 1945); Barrett was replaced by Dave Gilmour (born 1944) in 1968 and Waters left in 1986. Recordings include The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967), Dark Side of the Moon (1973), Wish You Were Here (1975), and The Wall (1979)
  • pink noise — a random signal within the audible frequency range whose amplitude decreases as frequency increases, maintaining constant audio power per frequency increment.
  • pink pound — the money spent by homosexual people considered collectively
  • pink slime — beef trimmings that have been ground and liquefied, used as a binder in minced beef and other meat products
  • pink stern — a sharp stern having a narrow, overhanging, raking transom.
  • pipe snake — any of several nonvenomous, burrowing snakes of the genus Cylindrophis, of southeastern Asia and the Malay Archipelago, having an evenly cylindrical body.
  • pit worker — a person who works down a mine, esp a coal miner
  • pitch lake — a deposit of natural asphalt in SW Trinidad, West Indies. 114 acres (47 hectares).
  • pitch-dark — dark or black as pitch: a pitch-dark night.
  • pitchforks — a large, long-handled fork for manually lifting and pitching hay, stalks of grain, etc.
  • piwakawaka — a New Zealand fantail, Rhipidura Fuliginosa
  • pizza-like — similar to or resembling pizza
  • place kick — a kick in which the ball is placed in position before it is kicked
  • place-kick — to make (a field goal or point after touchdown) by a place kick.
  • plain knit — the simplest knitted construction, consisting of vertical ribs visible on the front of the fabric and horizontal rows of stitches visible on the back, used in the production of hosiery and jersey fabrics.
  • planetlike — resembling a planet or planets
  • plankalkül — (language, history)   (Or "Plankalkuel" if you don't have umlauts). The first programming language, designed by Konrad Zuse, ca. 1945. Zuse wrote "Rechenplan allgemeiner Struktur" in 1944 which developed into Plankalkül. Plankalkül included arrays and records and used a style of assignment in which the new value appears on the right. Zuse wrote Plankalkül for his Z3 computer (finished before 1945) and implemented it on there as well. Much of his work may have been either lost or confiscated in the aftermath of World War II.
  • planktonic — the aggregate of passively floating, drifting, or somewhat motile organisms occurring in a body of water, primarily comprising microscopic algae and protozoa.
  • plate mark — hallmark.
  • plate rack — a rack where you put plates after you have washed them or to store them
  • platemaker — a machine that makes plates used for reproducing illustrations or printed matter, especially halftone or etched illustrations.
  • play hooky — play truant, be absent from school
  • playbroker — play agent.
  • playmaking — the initiating of offensive plays in sports
  • pluckiness — having or showing pluck or courage; brave: The drowning swimmer was rescued by a plucky schoolboy.
  • plunk down — to pluck (a stringed instrument or its strings); twang: to plunk a guitar.
  • pocket rat — kangaroo rat (sense 1)
  • pocketable — small enough to be carried in one's pocket; pocket-size.
  • pocketbook — a woman's purse or handbag.
  • pockmarked — Usually, pockmarks. scars or pits left by a pustule in smallpox or the like.
  • pogo stick — a long stick having a pair of handles at the top and, near the bottom, a pair of footrests attached to a powerful spring, so that by standing on the footrests while grasping the handles, one can propel oneself along in a series of leaps.
  • pohutukawa — a myrtaceous New Zealand tree, Metrosideros excelsa, with red flowers and hard red wood
  • poikilitic — (of igneous rocks) having small crystals of one mineral scattered irregularly in larger crystals of another mineral.
  • poison oak — either of two shrubs, Rhus toxicodendron, of the eastern U.S., or R. diversiloba, of the Pacific coast of North America, resembling poison ivy and causing severe dermatitis when touched by persons sensitive to them.
  • poke check — an attempt to deprive an opponent of the puck by pushing it away with one's stick. Compare check1 (def 37).
  • poker dice — (used with a plural verb) dice that, instead of being marked with spots, carry on their faces a picture or symbol representing the six highest playing cards: ace, king, queen, jack, ten, nine.
  • poker face — an expressionless face: He can tell a funny story with a poker face.
  • pokerishly — in a pokerish manner
  • polka dots — Polka dots are very small spots printed on a piece of cloth.
  • polo stick — a stick used to strike the ball in the game of polo
  • poltoratsk — a city in and the capital of Turkmenistan, in the S central part, near the Iranian border.
  • pork belly — a side of fresh pork.
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