11-letter words containing k, p
- bumper jack — a jack for lifting a motor vehicle by the bumper.
- cake makeup — face makeup in the form of a cake, usually applied with a damp sponge.
- capped hock — any swelling, inflammatory or otherwise, on the point of the hock of horses.
- carpet tack — a flat-headed tack used especially to tack down carpets.
- carpetmaker — One who manufactures carpets.
- castle peak — highest peak in the Elk Mountain range, in W central Colorado. 14,265 feet (4352 meters).
- chalkstripe — clothing with a pattern of thin white stripes on a dark background
- cheap skate — a person who is stingy and miserly.
- cheapskates — Plural form of cheapskate.
- check up on — to examine the record, character, etc. of; investigate
- checkerspot — any of several butterflies of the genus Melitaea, having black wings with yellowish-brown, checkerlike markings.
- checkpoints — Plural form of checkpoint.
- cheek pouch — a membranous pouch inside the mouth of many rodents and some other mammals: used for holding food
- cheek strap — (of a bridle) one of two straps passing over the cheeks of the horse and connecting the crown piece with the bit or noseband.
- cheekpieces — Plural form of cheekpiece.
- cherry-pick — If someone cherry-picks people or things, they choose the best ones from a group of them, often in a way that other people consider unfair.
- chicken pox — a disease, commonly of children, caused by the varicella zoster virus and characterized by mild headache and fever, malaise, and eruption of blisters on the skin and mucous membranes.
- chip basket — a wire basket for holding potato chips, etc, while frying in deep fat
- choke point — a place of greatest congestion and often hazard; bottleneck.
- chokepoints — Plural form of chokepoint.
- chop stroke — (in tennis, cricket, etc.) a stroke made with a sharp downward movement of the racket, bat, etc., imparting a backspin to the ball.
- clasp knife — a large knife with one or more blades or other devices folding into the handle
- clock speed — clock rate
- cock-a-hoop — If you are cock-a-hoop, you are extremely pleased about something that you have done.
- computernik — a person who is very interested in, and knowledgeable about, computers
- copying ink — a special ink used for writing when copies by impression are to be taken
- cork-tipped — (of a cigarette) having a filter of cork or some material resembling cork
- corn picker — a machine for picking the ears of corn from standing stalks and removing the husks.
- corn-picker — a machine for removing ears of maize from the standing stalks, often also equipped to separate the corn from the husk and shell
- cost keeper — a cost accountant.
- cow-spanker — a dairy farmer
- cuckoo spit — a white frothy mass on the stems and leaves of many plants, produced by froghopper larvae (cuckoo spit insects), which feed on the plant juices
- cuckoo wasp — any of several small, metallic-green or -blue wasps of the family Chrysididae that deposit their eggs in nests of other wasps.
- cuckoo-spit — Also called frog spit. a frothy secretion found on plants, exuded by the young of certain insects, as the froghoppers, and serving as a protective covering.
- cuckoopints — Plural form of cuckoopint.
- cupronickel — any ductile corrosion-resistant copper alloy containing up to 40 per cent nickel: used in coins, condenser tubes, turbine blades, etc
- cypherpunks — Plural form of cypherpunk.
- das kapital — a work (1867) by Karl Marx, dealing with economic, social, and political relations within society and containing the tenets on which modern communism is based.
- data packet — packet
- deep pocket — extensive financial resources; great wealth
- desk copier — a photocopier compact enough to fit on a desk, table, or similar surface.
- dill pickle — a cucumber pickle flavored with dill.
- diskography — discography.
- doctorspeak — the language of physicians and other health professionals; specialized or technical jargon used by healthcare workers.
- donkeypunch — Alternative form of donkey punch.
- doorkeepers — Plural form of doorkeeper.
- double-park — If someone double-parks their car or their car double-parks, they park in a road by the side of another parked car.
- doublespeak — evasive, ambiguous language that is intended to deceive or confuse.
- downpatrick — a market town in Northern Ireland: reputedly the burial place of Saint Patrick. Pop: 10 316 (2001)
- drop cookie — a cookie made by dropping batter from a spoon onto a cookie sheet for baking.