11-letter words containing k, p
- pocket door — a door, usually one of a communicating pair, that slides into and out of a recess in a doorway wall.
- pocket park — a very small park or outdoor area for public leisure, especially an urban plaza or courtyard with benches and fountains.
- pocket veto — the action of the President in retaining unsigned a bill passed by Congress within the last ten days of a session and thus causing it to die
- pocket-size — small enough to fit conveniently into one's pocket.
- pocket-veto — to veto (a bill) by exercising a pocket veto.
- pocketknife — a knife with one or more blades that fold into the handle, suitable for carrying in the pocket.
- pocketphone — a mobile phone
- poikilocyte — an abnormally shaped red blood cell
- point-blank — aimed or fired straight at the mark especially from close range; direct.
- poke around — to prod or push, especially with something narrow or pointed, as a finger, elbow, stick, etc.: to poke someone in the ribs.
- poke bonnet — a bonnet with a projecting front brim
- poke fun at — to prod or push, especially with something narrow or pointed, as a finger, elbow, stick, etc.: to poke someone in the ribs.
- poker-faced — an expressionless face: He can tell a funny story with a poker face.
- police work — the everyday duties of police officers, esp the investigation of criminal activities
- policy wonk — a person who studies or makes political policies, esp one who has a strong enthusiasm for technical details
- policymaker — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- politicking — activity undertaken for political reasons or ends, as campaigning for votes before an election, making speeches, etc., or otherwise promoting oneself or one's policies.
- polkadotted — a dot or round spot (printed, woven, or embroidered) repeated to form a pattern on a textile fabric.
- pollakiuria — abnormally frequent urination.
- pond hockey — ice hockey played on a frozen pond
- pond-skater — any of various heteropterous insects of the family Gerrididae, esp Gerris lacustris (common pond-skater), having a slender hairy body and long hairy legs with which they skim about on the surface of ponds
- pooh sticks — a children's game: each player throws a stick into a stream from one side of a bridge and the winner is the person whose stick emerges first on the other side
- pool a risk — If an insurer pools a risk, it takes on a share of each risk underwritten by every other member in an association of insurers or reinsurers.
- pop-up book — book: illustrations open out
- pork barrel — a government appropriation, bill, or policy that supplies funds for local improvements designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents.
- porkchopper — a labor official put on the union payroll as a reward for past loyalty or services.
- porkpie hat — a hat with a round flat crown and a brim that can be turned up or down
- pot sticker — a pan-fried and steamed Chinese dumpling with a ground meat or vegetable filling.
- potato cake — any of various kinds of small savoury cakes made from flour and mashed potatoes, often fried or baked
- power brake — an automotive brake set by pressure from some power source, as a compressed-air reservoir, in proportion to a smaller amount of pressure on the brake pedal.
- powerbroker — a person who wields great political, governmental, or financial power.
- poyang lake — a lake in E China, in N Jiangxi province, connected by canal with the Yangtze River: the second largest lake in China. Area (at its greatest): 2780 sq km (1073 sq miles)
- prajadhipok — 1893–1941, king of Siam 1925–35.
- prank flash — a short film or animation linked surreptitiously to an innocuous website, intended to shock unsuspecting and easily-offended users of the internet
- prayer book — a book containing formal prayers to be used in public or private religious devotions.
- prepackaged — to package (foodstuffs or manufactured goods) before retail distribution or sale.
- press brake — brake1 (def 6).
- preticketed — having or furnished with a ticket beforehand: preticketed passengers.
- pretzel key — feature key
- price break — a reduction in price, esp for bulk purchase
- price check — A price check is an investigation of the prices charged by different retailers for the same goods to find the best value.
- prick-eared — British. Informal. (of a man) having the hair cut short. Archaic. following or sympathetic to the Puritans or Roundheads. Archaic. priggish.
- prick-tease — a woman who is sexually provocative but refuses to engage in sexual activity
- prickleback — any of several blennioid fishes of the family Stichaeidae, usually inhabiting cold waters, having spiny rays in the dorsal fin.
- prickly ash — Also called Northern prickly ash, toothache tree. a citrus shrub or small tree, Zanthoxylum americanum, having aromatic leaves and usually prickly branches.
- primary key — (database) A unique identifier, often an integer, that labels a certain row in a table of a relational database. When this value occurs in other tables as a reference to a particular row in the first table it is called a "foreign key". Some RDBMSes can generate a new unique identifier each time a new row is inserted, others merely allow a column to be constrained to contain unique values. A table may have multiple candidate keys, from which the primary key is chosen. The primary key should be an arbitrary value, such as an autoincrementing integer. This avoids dependence on uniqueness, permanence and format of existing columns with real-world meaning (e.g. a person's name) or other external identifier (e.g. social security number). There should be enough possible primary key values to cater for the current and expected number of rows, bearing in mind that a wider column will generally be slower to process.
- printmaking — the art or technique of making prints, especially as practiced in engraving, etching, drypoint, woodcut or serigraphy.
- private key — (cryptography) A piece of data used in private-key cryptography and public-key cryptography. In the former the private key is known by both sender and recipient whereas in the latter it is known only to the sender.
- privet hawk — a hawk moth, Sphinx ligustri, with a mauve-and-brown striped body: frequents privets
- prokaryotes — 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.