12-letter words containing k, p
- makeup water — Makeup water is water which is added to compensate for losses, especially losses caused by evaporation.
- margin plank — a plank forming a border for wooden decking.
- market price — the price at which a commodity, security, or service is selling in the open market.
- marketplaces — Plural form of marketplace.
- marksmanship — a person who is skilled in shooting at a mark; a person who shoots well.
- marlinespike — a pointed iron implement used in separating the strands of rope in splicing, marling, etc.
- marlingspike — Alternative spelling of marlinspike.
- masking tape — an easily removed adhesive tape used temporarily for defining margins, protecting surfaces, etc., as when painting, and sometimes also for binding, sealing, or mending.
- meat packing — the business or industry of slaughtering cattle and other meat animals and processing the carcasses for sale, sometimes including the packaging of processed meat products.
- melrose park — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- meroplankton — a floating mass of eggs and larvae of organisms that are nektonic or benthic in their adult stage; temporary plankton.
- mesoplankton — plankton that live at middle depths.
- milk parsley — a wetland plant belonging to the family Apiaceae
- milk product — Milk products are foods made from milk, for example butter, cheese, and yoghurt.
- milk pudding — a hot or cold pudding made by boiling or baking milk with a grain, esp rice
- moo shu pork — a Chinese dish made of shredded pork and vegetables and beaten eggs, sautéed and usually served in a crêpe with hoisin sauce
- mossycup oak — bur oak
- muckspreader — a machine for spreading manure over farmland
- mullein pink — rose campion.
- nanoplankton — nannoplankton.
- nickel plate — thin coating of nickel
- nickel-plate — to coat with nickel by electroplating or other process.
- nip and tuck — to squeeze or compress tightly between two surfaces or points; pinch; bite.
- nordkyn cape — Cape, a cape in N Norway, E of North Cape: northernmost point of the European mainland.
- nosey parker — a persistently nosy, prying person; busybody.
- oak-panelled — having panels that are made of oak
- oakland park — a town in S Florida.
- open desktop — (operating system, product) A Motif-based graphical interface from the Santa Cruz Operation (SCO), built over their Unix environment, part of the ACE initiative. Also known as "Open DeathTrap".
- optical disk — Also, optical disc. Also called laser disk. a grooveless disk on which digital data, as text, music, or pictures, is stored as tiny pits in the surface and is read or replayed by a laser beam scanning the surface.
- orange pekoe — a black tea composed of the smallest top leaves and grown in India and Ceylon.
- pack a punch — be powerful
- pack of lies — false account
- pack rolling — the hot rolling of metal sheets in two or more thicknesses to produce composite sheets.
- package deal — Also called package plan. an agreement in which the buyer pays a stipulated price for a group of related products or services: a package deal from a book club.
- package tour — a planned tour in which one fee is charged for all expenses: offering package tours of the chateau country.
- packed lunch — A packed lunch is food, for example sandwiches, which you take to work, to school, or on a trip and eat as your lunch.
- packed tower — A packed tower is a tall distillation vessel which uses packing.
- packet radio — (communications, radio) The use of packet switched communications protocols in large networks (i.e not wireless LANs or Bluetooth) having wireless links to terminals at least. Packet radio is split into amateur packet radio (AX25) and General Packet Radio Service (GRPS).
- packing case — a box in which goods are packed for transport or storage.
- packing slip — A packing slip is a list of what is included in a shipment.
- packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
- pair skating — a form of competitive skating in which a man and a woman skate together in performing a choreographed series of jumps, lifts, and other acrobatic moves to a selection of music.
- pakeha māori — (in the 19th century) a European who adopted the Māori way of life
- paki-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked physical assaults upon Pakistani immigrants or people of Pakistani descent
- pale-skinned — having pale skin
- pallet knife — a small, flat utensil for picking up and handling pastry paste.
- pallet truck — a powered truck with a mast, sometimes telescopic, on which slides a carriage which can be raised and lowered hydraulically. The carriage has extended forks which can be passed under a palletized load for stacking or moving to a new position
- pancake coil — a coil (of wire, etc) wound in a flat circular shape
- pancake roll — A pancake roll is an item of Chinese food consisting of a small roll of thin crisp pastry filled with vegetables and sometimes meat.
- panic attack — an intense attack of anxiety characterized by feelings of impending doom and trembling, sweating, pounding heart, and other physical symptoms.