11-letter words containing k, p
- spot market — a market in which commodities, as grain, gold, or crude oil, are dealt in for cash and immediate delivery (distinguished from futures market).
- spot strike — a labor strike by a local branch of a union.
- spray skirt — a piece of waterproof material that fits around the paddler and opening of a kayak to keep water out of the craft.
- spring lock — a lock that fastens automatically by a spring.
- sprinklered — having or protected by a sprinkler system.
- stalin peak — former name of Communism Peak.
- steeplejack — a person who climbs steeples, towers, or the like, to build or repair them.
- step reebok — a set of aerobic exercises designed to improve the cardiovascular system, which consists of stepping on and off a special box of adjustable height
- step rocket — a multistage rocket that discards burned-out stages.
- stepanakert — a city in and the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, within Azerbaijan.
- stickup man — a man who commits a stickup.
- sticky tape — adhesive strip
- stock power — a power of attorney permitting a person other than the owner of stock in a corporation to transfer the title of ownership to a third party.
- stock split — the act or result of splitting stock
- stockkeeper — a person responsible for inventorying and monitoring stock levels
- stockpiling — the activity of acquiring and storing a large quantity of something
- stoke poges — a village in S Buckinghamshire, in S England, W of London: the churchyard here is believed to be the setting of Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.
- storekeeper — a person who owns a store.
- strike slip — the component of slip on a fault parallel with the linear extension or strike of the fault.
- strip poker — a game of poker in which the losers in a hand remove an article of clothing.
- strip steak — cut of beef: sirloin
- stroke play — medal play.
- stumpsucker — windsucker; cribber.
- suckerpunch — to strike (someone) with an unexpected blow.
- sucking-pig — a pig that is not yet weaned
- sukarnapura — Jayapura
- super-slick — very well-executed or presented
- supermarket — a large retail market that sells food and other household goods and that is usually operated on a self-service basis.
- superstrike — an exceptionally large strike
- supertanker — a tanker with a deadweight capacity of over 75,000 tons.
- sweep check — a maneuver for depriving an opponent of the puck by seizing it in the crook of one's stick and pulling it away with a movement in a long arc, the stick being held level or nearly level with the ice. Compare check1 (def 37).
- sweepstakes — a sweepstakes.
- take a peek — look briefly, furtively
- takoma park — a city in central Maryland.
- technospeak — any abstruse technical jargon
- teppan-yaki — a Japanese dish of meat and vegetables stir-fried on, and eaten from, a hot steel plate that forms the centre of a table
- think piece — an article analyzing and giving the background of a news event, often with the author's opinions and forecast for the future.
- think-piece — an article analyzing and giving the background of a news event, often with the author's opinions and forecast for the future.
- ticker tape — the ribbon of paper on which a ticker prints quotations or news.
- tickle pink — to please greatly
- time-keeper — a person or thing that keeps time.
- timekeeping — a person or thing that keeps time.
- tinley park — a town in NE Illinois.
- to speak of — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
- top-ranking — A top-ranking person is someone who has a very high rank or status in a particular organization or field of activity.
- track spike — a chisel-pointed spike used to secure the rails of a railroad track to wooden ties.
- underkeeper — an assistant custodian or keeper
- unspeakable — not speakable; that may not be spoken.
- unspeakably — not speakable; that may not be spoken.
- unsprinkled — not sprinkled, esp not baptized