10-letter words containing k, p
- portakabin — A Portakabin is a small building that can be moved by truck and that can be used for a short period of time, for example as a temporary office.
- postattack — to set upon in a forceful, violent, hostile, or aggressive way, with or without a weapon; begin fighting with: He attacked him with his bare hands.
- postmarked — an official mark stamped on letters and other mail, serving as a cancellation of the postage stamp and indicating the place, date, and sometimes time of sending or receipt.
- poststrike — of or relating to the period after a (workers) strike
- potsticker — a pan-fried and steamed Chinese dumpling with a ground meat or vegetable filling.
- pound cake — a rich, sweet cake made originally with approximately a pound each of butter, sugar, and flour.
- powder keg — a small, metal, barrellike container for gunpowder or blasting powder.
- powderlike — resembling powder (usually in consistency or texture); powdery
- power pack — a device for converting the voltage from a power line or battery to the various voltages required by the components of an electronic circuit.
- prankingly — showily, in an ostentatious or pranking manner
- prankishly — in a prankish manner, mischievously
- pre-cooked — Pre-cooked food has been prepared and cooked in advance so that it only needs to be heated quickly before you eat it.
- pre-packed — Pre-packed goods are packed or wrapped before they are sent to the shop where they are sold.
- prebreaker — A prebreaker is a machine for breaking up large feed before a size reduction process.
- prepackage — to package (foodstuffs or manufactured goods) before retail distribution or sale.
- prepacking — a package assembled by a manufacturer, distributor, or retailer and containing a specific number of items or a specific assortment of sizes, colors, flavors, etc., of a product.
- press pack — a dismissive term for a group of journalists, viewed as hounding a person
- press-back — a wooden chair back having a design pressed, rather than carved, into its crossrails.
- prick song — written music.
- prick-post — (in a framed structure) a secondary post, as a queen post.
- pricklings — tingly sensations of discomfort or euphoria
- printmaker — a person who makes prints, especially an artist working in one of the graphic mediums.
- printworks — (used with a singular or plural verb) a factory that prints textiles or other materials.
- prokaryote — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
- promptbook — a copy of the script of a play, containing cues and notes, used by the prompter, stage manager, etc.
- proskomide — prothesis (def 2a).
- provokable — able to be provoked
- pumpkineer — pumpkin
- puppetlike — resembling a puppet
- puschkinia — a small spring-flowering bulb, Puschkinia scilloides, of Asia Minor and the Caucasus, having white or pale blue flowers striped with dark blue
- pyatigorsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, in Caucasia.
- quakeproof — designed or built to withstand the destructive forces of an earthquake.
- quicksteps — Plural form of quickstep.
- quikscript — Simulation language derived from SIMSCRIPT, based on 20-GATE.
- rajpramukh — (in India) the title given to a governor or raja of a state between 1948 and 1956
- red packet — a sum of money folded inside red paper and given at the Chinese New Year to unmarried younger relatives
- repackager — a person who or a company that repackages
- repair kit — a set of items, instructions, etc designed to assist with the repair of a specific thing
- rock maple — the sugar maple, Acer saccharum.
- rock opera — an album that tells a story through the songs it contains
- rock pipit — a small passerine bird; Anthus petrosis
- rock plant — a plant found among rocks or in rock gardens.
- rock spray — a low, evergreen, Himalayan shrub, Cotoneaster microphyllus, of the rose family, having shiny leaves with grayish, hairy undersides, white flowers, and scarlet berries.
- rock tripe — any lichen of the genus Umbilicaria.
- rockhopper — a small penguin, Eudyptes crestatus, of Antarctica, the Falkland Islands, and New Zealand, with a yellow crest on each side of its head
- rope maker — a craftsman who makes ropes
- ropemaking — the act, skill, or process of fabricating rope.
- ropewalker — a ropedancer.
- rosa parks — Gordon (Alexander Buchanan) 1912–2006, U.S. photojournalist and film director.
- rump steak — Rump or rump steak is meat cut from the rear end of a cow.