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12-letter words containing k, p

  • paper napkin — a napkin or serviette made from tissue paper
  • paring knife — a short-bladed kitchen knife for paring fruits and vegetables.
  • parish clerk — an official designated to carry out various duties, either for a church parish or a parish council
  • parity check — a method for detecting errors in data communications or within a computer system by counting the number of ones or zeros per byte or per word, including a special check bit (parity bit) to see if the value is even or odd.
  • park savanna — savanna grassland scattered with trees
  • parking fine — penalty fee for an offence
  • parking ramp — apron (def 6).
  • parkinsonian — (sometimes initial capital letter) of, related to, or resembling Parkinson's disease.
  • parkinsonism — Parkinson's disease.
  • passage hawk — a young hawk during its first migration.
  • passage work — writing that is often extraneous to the thematic material of a work and is typically of a virtuosic or decorative character: passagework consisting of scales, arpeggios, trills, and double octaves.
  • passion week — the week preceding Easter; Holy Week.
  • patch pocket — a pocket formed by sewing a piece of shaped material to the outside of a garment.
  • pathbreaking — pertaining to blazing a trail or path.
  • pattern book — collection of textile motifs or designs
  • patternmaker — a person who makes patterns, as for clothing or metal castings.
  • payback time — Payback time is when someone has to take the consequences of what they have done in the past. You can use this expression to talk about good or bad consequences.
  • peacekeeping — the maintenance of international peace and security by the deployment of military forces in a particular area: the United Nations' efforts toward peacekeeping.
  • peacock blue — a lustrous greenish blue, as of certain peacock feathers.
  • peacock worm — feather-duster worm.
  • peak traffic — traffic at the time it is most busy
  • pecksniffery — hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
  • pecksniffian — hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
  • pekinologist — a person who studies the People's Republic of China
  • pelican hook — a hooklike device for holding the link of a chain or the like, consisting of a long shackle with a hinged rod held closed with a sliding ring.
  • penalty kick — a free kick awarded for an infraction committed by a defensive player in the penalty area and taken by the offensive player who has been fouled from a point 12 yards (11 meters) directly in front of the goal.
  • pencil skirt — women's garment: straight skirt
  • penny stocks — Penny stocks are high-risk stock that sells for a very low price outside of the main stock exchange.
  • pension book — In Britain, a pension book is a small book which is given to pensioners by the government. Each week, one page can be exchanged for money at a Post Office.
  • pepper steak — strips of beefsteak sautéed with strips of green pepper and onion, and often flavored with soy sauce.
  • peppershaker — a container with a perforated top for sprinkling ground pepper.
  • peppershrike — either of two large vireos of the genus Cyclarhis, ranging from Mexico to Chile, and having heavy shrikelike bills.
  • pereira bark — the bark of any of several South American trees belonging to the genus Geissospermum, of the dogbane family, especially that of G. vellosii, used in Brazil to allay fever.
  • persian knot — a hand-tied knot, used in rug weaving, in which the ends of yarn looped around a warp thread appear at each of the interstices between adjacent threads and produce a compact and relatively even pile effect.
  • petach tikva — a city in W Israel, NE of Tel Aviv.
  • petrozavodsk — a city in NW Russia, capital of the Karelian Autonomous Republic, on Lake Onega: developed around ironworks established by Peter the Great in 1703; university (1940). Pop: 265 000 (2005 est)
  • phone phreak — a person who uses computers or other electronic devices to place long-distance telephone calls without paying toll charges.
  • photokinesis — movement occurring upon exposure to light.
  • phrase-maker — a person who is skilled in coining well-turned phrases; phraseologist.
  • phrasemaking — the making up or coining of memorable phrases or slogans
  • pick 'n' mix — Pick 'n' mix is used to describe a way of getting a collection of things together by choosing a number of different ones.
  • pick and mix — a selection of sweets from which the customer can choose, paid for by weight
  • picker-upper — something that restores one's depleted energy or depressed spirits; pick-me-up.
  • pickerelweed — any American plant of the genus Pontederia, especially P. cordata, having spikes of blue flowers, common in shallow fresh water.
  • pickeringite — a mineral, magnesia alum, occurring usually in the form of white fibrous masses.
  • picket fence — a fence consisting of pickets or pales nailed to horizontal stringers between upright posts.
  • picture book — a book consisting mainly or entirely of pictures, especially one for children who have not yet learned to read.
  • picture desk — the department at a magazine or newspaper publisher, that deals with photographs for the paper or magazine
  • pigeon clock — a device for timing the arrivals of pigeons being raced, consisting of a magazine for holding the identification bands of the contestants in the order in which they are inserted and a recording clock to register the times of insertion.
  • piggybacking — on the back or shoulders: The little girl rode piggyback on her father.
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