13-letter words containing k, p
- stock company — Finance. a company or corporation whose capital is divided into shares represented by stock.
- stock options — an option giving the holder, usually an officer or employee, the right to buy stock of the issuing corporation at a specific price within a stated period.
- stork parking — spaces reserved in a parking lot for cars driven by pregnant women or new mothers.
- streptokinase — an enzyme used to dissolve blood clots.
- suffolk punch — a breed of draught horse with a chestnut coat and short legs
- sunlight peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,059 feet (4285 meters).
- supermarketer — a person who owns or operates a supermarket.
- take a powder — British Dialect. to rush.
- take pride in — be proud
- take the piss — mock
- take-home pay — the amount of salary remaining after deductions, as of taxes, have been made.
- talking point — a fact or feature that aids or supports one side, as in an argument or competition.
- tarpeian rock — a rock on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, from which criminals and traitors were hurled.
- to keep at it — If you keep at it, you continue doing something that you have started, even if you are tired and would prefer to stop.
- to keep going — If you keep going, you continue moving along or doing something that you have started, even if you are tired and would prefer to stop.
- to keep house — If you keep house, you do the cleaning and cooking for your household, and do not go out to work.
- to keep it up — If you keep it up, you continue working or trying as hard as you have been in the past.
- to keep track — If you keep track of a situation or a person, you make sure that you have the newest and most accurate information about them all the time.
- to play hooky — If a child plays hooky, they stay away from school without permission.
- token payment — a small payment binding an agreement or acknowledging a debt.
- tracking poll — a type of poll repeated periodically with the same group of people to check and measure changes of opinion or knowledge.
- triple-decker — three-decker (defs 3, 4).
- truchas peaks — group of mountains in N New Mexico, NE of Santa Fe in the S Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
- turkey carpet — a wool carpet made in one piece and having a deep velvety pile and rich glowing colours
- turkish pound — the Turkish lira.
- under-packing — the act or work of a person or thing that packs.
- unprovokingly — serving to provoke; causing annoyance.
- up shit creek — excrement; feces.
- upper chinook — a Chinookan language of the Columbia River valley from the Deschutes River to the estuary.
- vacuum-packed — packed and sealed in a container, as a can or jar, with as much air as possible evacuated before sealing, chiefly to preserve freshness.
- valet parking — a service offered by a hotel, restaurant, etc., by which patrons' cars are parked by an attendant.
- vinaya pitaka — a collection of scriptures, originally recorded from oral traditions in the 1st century b.c., divided into one of three parts (Pitaka) sermons () the rules of the Buddhist order () and several treatises on philosophy and psychology ()
- visakhapatnam — a seaport in Andhra Pradesh, in E India, on the Bay of Bengal.
- walleyed pike — walleye (def 1).
- warp knitting — a knitting process in which the yarn is knitted vertically in a flat form.
- well-speaking — the act, utterance, or discourse of a person who speaks.
- west pakistan — a former province of British Pakistan, separated from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) by N India: declared independence as Republic of Pakistan 1956.
- wicketkeepers — Plural form of wicketkeeper.
- wildlife park — animal reserve
- winkle-picker — a shoe or boot with a narrow, sharply pointed toe
- winnepesaukee — Lake, a lake in central New Hampshire: summer resort. 25 miles (40 km) long.
- winnipesaukee — Lake, a lake in central New Hampshire: summer resort. 25 miles (40 km) long.
- work stoppage — the collective stoppage of work by employees in a business or an industry to protest working conditions.
- worker-priest — (in France) a Roman Catholic priest who, in addition to his priestly duties, works part-time in a secular job.
- working group — A working group is the same as a working party.
- working party — A working party is a committee which is formed to investigate a particular situation or problem and to produce a report containing its opinions and suggestions.
- workingperson — a workingman or workingwoman.
- york imperial — an American variety of yellow or green apple with red stripes.
- zooplanktonic — Of or pertaining to zooplankton.