11-letter words containing k, p
- peak season — busiest annual period
- pearly king — the male London costermonger whose ceremonial clothes display the most lavish collection of pearl buttons
- peckishness — the state or condition of being peckish
- peking duck — a Chinese dish consisting of roast duck with a crispy skin; the meat is served with strips of vegetables, steamed pancakes, and hoisin sauce
- pen and ink — A pen and ink drawing is done using a pen rather than a pencil.
- penny black — the first adhesive postage stamp, issued in Britain in 1840; an imperforate stamp bearing the profile of Queen Victoria on a dark background
- penny stock — common stock, usually highly speculative, selling for less than a dollar a share.
- perestroika — Russian. the program of economic and political reform in the Soviet Union initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986.
- persnickety — overparticular; fussy.
- pervouralsk — a city in the central RSFSR, in the Ural Mountains in Asia.
- petrol tank — The petrol tank in a motor vehicle is the container for petrol.
- phantomlike — an apparition or specter.
- phitsanulok — a city in central Thailand.
- phoenixlike — having a resemblance to a phoenix in the sense of re-emerging and beginning again
- phrase book — a small book containing everyday phrases and sentences and their equivalents in a foreign language, written especially for travelers.
- phrasemaker — a person who is skilled in coining well-turned phrases; phraseologist.
- piatigorsky — Gregor [greg-er] /ˈgrɛg ər/ (Show IPA), 1903–76, U.S. cellist, born in Russia.
- picked over — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
- pickelhaube — a spiked German helmet from the 19th and 20th centuries
- picket boat — a vessel used to patrol a harbor.
- picket duty — the activity of standing outside an establishment to make a protest, to dissuade or prevent employees or clients from entering, etc
- picket line — a line of strikers or other demonstrators serving as pickets.
- pickup tube — camera tube.
- pickwickian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Mr. Pickwick, central character of The Pickwick Papers.
- pieceworker — someone who does work paid for according to the quantity produced
- pigeon hawk — merlin.
- pigeon milk — crop milk.
- pigsticking — to hunt for wild boar, usually on horseback and using a spear.
- pilgarlicky — bald or growing bald
- pillow talk — private conversation, endearments, or confidences exchanged in bed or in intimate circumstances between spouses or lovers.
- pincer-like — resembling pincers in shape or action
- pine siskin — a small, North American finch, Carduelis pinus, of coniferous forests, having yellow markings on the wings and tail.
- pink collar — of or relating to a type of employment traditionally held by women, especially relatively low-paying work: secretaries, phone operators, and other pink-collar workers.
- pink family — the plant family Caryophyllaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having opposite leaves, usually swollen-jointed stems, flowers with petals notched at the tips, and fruit generally in the form of a many-seeded capsule, and including baby's-breath, carnation, chickweed, pink, and sweet william.
- pink salmon — a small Pacific salmon, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, distinguished by its small scales and long anal fin and by the bright red spawning coloration of males, occurring from California to Alaska and in waters of Japan: fished commercially and for sport.
- pink-collar — of or relating to a type of employment traditionally held by women, especially relatively low-paying work: secretaries, phone operators, and other pink-collar workers.
- pinkishness — a pinkish quality or colouring
- pipe smoker — a person who smokes a tobacco pipe
- pitch-black — extremely black or dark as pitch: a pitch-black night.
- placekicker — a player who takes place kicks
- plank floor — a floor made from sawed, straight-grained timber.
- plank-sheer — a plank or timber covering the upper ends of the frames of a wooden vessel
- plasterwork — finish or ornamental work done in plaster.
- plate block — a block of four or more stamps containing the number or numbers of the printing plate or plates in the margin of the sheet.
- platemaking — the act of making plates
- platykurtic — (of a frequency distribution) less concentrated about the mean than the corresponding normal distribution.
- plisetskaya — Maya (Mikhailovna) [mah-yuh myi-khahy-luh v-nuh] /ˈmɑ yə myɪˈxaɪ ləv nə/ (Show IPA), 1925–2015, Soviet ballet dancer.
- plough back — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- pobeda peak — a mountain in central Asia, on the boundary between Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan) and China: highest peak of the Tien Shan range. 24,406 feet (7439 meters).
- pocket book — a book small enough to be carried in one's pocket