13-letter words containing k, p
- passager hawk — young hawk or falcon caught while on migration
- patch pumpkin — pumpkin
- path-breaking — very original; ground-breaking
- pattern maker — someone who creates plans or diagrams used as a guide in making something
- patternmaking — a person who makes patterns, as for clothing or metal castings.
- pay the check — When a customer pays the check in a restaurant, they pay the amount that they owe for their meal.
- pay-per-click — a system used to set prices for online advertisements on a search engine or other website, by which the advertiser pays a small fee to the website publisher each time a user clicks on the advertisement.
- peace-keeping — the maintenance of international peace and security by the deployment of military forces in a particular area: the United Nations' efforts toward peacekeeping.
- peacock chair — a wicker armchair with a high, circular back.
- peacock plant — a plant, Calathea makoyana, native to Brazil, having leaves that are spotted on the upper surface and purple on the lower surface.
- peak district — a region of N central England, mainly in N Derbyshire at the S end of the Pennines: consists of moors in the north and a central limestone plateau; many caves. Highest point: 727 m (2088 ft)
- pecking order — Animal Behavior. a dominance hierarchy, seen especially in domestic poultry, that is maintained by one bird pecking another of lower status.
- pedestal desk — a desk with a writing surface supported by a pair of sets of drawers
- pembrokeshire — a historic county in Dyfed, in SW Wales.
- people skills — ability to communicate
- pepper shaker — container that dispenses pepper
- peruvian bark — cinchona (def 2).
- petrol tanker — a specially equipped ship or truck for transporting petrol and other fuels
- petropavlovsk — a city in N Kazakhstan on the Ishim River. Pop: 190 000 (2005 est)
- phantom stock — an employee bonus expressed as the cash value of a specified amount of company stock to be received at a future date, meant to create employee interest in raising stock prices without giving any stock away.
- phone hacking — an act or instance of gaining access to a phone's voicemail, email, text messages, etc., without authorization from the phone's owner.
- phosphokinase — an increase in the amount of creatine phosphokinase that is released into the bloodstream when a muscle becomes injured
- phrase marker — (in generative grammar) a representation of the constituent structure of a sentence, using a tree diagram or labeled bracketing.
- phytoplankter — a minute organism which constitutes part of phytoplankton
- phytoplankton — the aggregate of plants and plantlike organisms in plankton.
- pick holes in — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
- pick up steam — If a belief, a plan, or a project picks up steam, it starts to develop and become more important.
- pick-and-roll — an offensive maneuver in which a player interposes himself or herself between a teammate with the ball and a defender, then cuts quickly toward the basket for a pass from the same teammate.
- pick-up joint — a place where people go with the intention of meeting someone to start a sexual relationship with
- pick-up point — the prearranged place where you go to collect people or things
- pick-up stick — one of a group of sticks used in the game of jackstraws.
- pickerel frog — a meadow frog, Rana palustris, common in eastern North America, similar to the leopard frog but with squarish dark spots on the back.
- pickup camper — camper (def 3).
- picnic basket — woven container for carrying food outdoors
- piece of cake — a sweet, baked, breadlike food, made with or without shortening, and usually containing flour, sugar, baking powder or soda, eggs, and liquid flavoring.
- piece of work — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
- pig in a poke — something not adequately appraised or of undetermined value, as an offering or purchase.
- piggyback car — a flatcar designed to accommodate containers or highway truck trailers.
- piked dogfish — the spiny dogfish.
- pine grosbeak — a large grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, of coniferous forests of northern North America and Eurasia, the male of which has rose and gray plumage.
- pinellas park — a city in W central Florida.
- pink bollworm — the larva of a gelechiid moth, Pectinophora gossypiella, that feeds on the seeds of the bolls of cotton and was introduced into cotton-growing regions of the world from Asia.
- planet-struck — affected adversely by the supposed influence of a planet.
- plant kingdom — the plants of the world collectively.
- platykurtosis — the state of being platykurtic.
- playback head — the part of a tape recorder that is used to pick up the magnetic pattern on tape in order to play back material previously recorded.
- playing trick — a card in a hand considered as likely to take a trick, assuming that the player who holds the hand or that player's partner is the declarer.
- plimsoll mark — load-line mark.
- plunket nurse — a child-care nurse appointed by the Plunket Society
- plymouth rock — a rock at Plymouth, Massachusetts, on which the Pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower are said to have stepped ashore when they landed in America in 1620.