6-letter words containing k, p
- plinky — (of a sound) short, sharp, and metallic
- plisky — a mischievous trick; practical joke; prank.
- plokta — /plok't*/ Press Lots Of Keys To Abort. To press random keys in an attempt to get some response from the system. One might plokta when the abort procedure for a program is not known, or when trying to figure out if the system is just sluggish or really hung. Plokta can also be used while trying to figure out any unknown key sequence for a particular operation. Someone going into "plokta mode" usually places both hands flat on the keyboard and mashes them down, hoping for some useful response. A slightly more directed form of plokta can often be seen in mail messages or Usenet articles from new users - the text might end with ^X^C q quit :q ^C end x exit ZZ ^D ? help as the user vainly tries to find the right exit sequence, with the incorrect tries piling up at the end of the message.
- plonko — an alcoholic, esp one who drinks wine
- plucky — having or showing pluck or courage; brave: The drowning swimmer was rescued by a plucky schoolboy.
- plunky — twanging
- pocked — marked with pustules or with pits left by them; pitted.
- pocket — a shaped piece of fabric attached inside or outside a garment and forming a pouch used especially for carrying small articles.
- podunk — any small and insignificant or inaccessible town or village: After a year in the big city, I was ready to move back to Podunk.
- pokier — puttering; slow; dull: poky drivers.
- poking — to prod or push, especially with something narrow or pointed, as a finger, elbow, stick, etc.: to poke someone in the ribs.
- polack — Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a Pole or person of Polish descent.
- polska — Polish name of Poland.
- pondok — a crudely built hut or shelter formed of sheets of corrugated iron, tin, etc.; shanty.
- porker — a pig, especially one being fattened for its meat.
- poukit — (of a bird or animal) plucked, moulted
- pranky — inclined to play pranks.
- pricky — prickly.
- proker — a fire poker
- prusik — a sliding knot that locks under pressure and can be used to form a loop (prusik loop) in which a climber can place his foot in order to stand or ascend a rope
- pucker — a wrinkle; an irregular fold.
- puckle — a mischievous or evil spirit
- pukeko — a wading bird, Porphyrio melanotus, of New Zealand, with a brightly coloured plumage
- punkah — (especially in India) a fan, especially a large, swinging, screenlike fan hung from the ceiling and moved by a servant or by machinery.
- punker — Slang. something or someone worthless or unimportant. a young ruffian; hoodlum. an inexperienced youth. a young male partner of a homosexual. an apprentice, especially in the building trades. Prison Slang. a boy.
- punkey — a biting midge of the family Ceratopogonidae
- punkie — any of the minute biting gnats of the family Ceratopogonidae.
- punkin — pumpkin.
- puskas — Ferenc (ˈfɛrɛnk). 1927–2006, Hungarian footballer; played for Hungary (1945–56) and Real Madrid (1958–66)
- pyknic — (of a physical type) having a fat, rounded build or body structure. Compare asthenic (def 2), athletic (def 5).
- repack — fill luggage again
- repark — to park (a vehicle) again
- reperk — to (cause to) perk or perk up again
- ripken — Calvin Edward, Jr ("Cal"; "Iron Man") born 1960, U.S. baseball player.
- shapka — a round, slightly tapered, brimless fur hat worn especially in Russia.
- skimpy — lacking in size, fullness, etc.; scanty: a skimpy hem; a skimpy dinner.
- skippy — tending to skip
- skopje — Also, Macedon [mas-i-don] /ˈmæs ɪˌdɒn/ (Show IPA). an ancient kingdom in the Balkan Peninsula, in S Europe: now a region in N Greece, SW Bulgaria, and the Republic of Macedonia.
- skycap — a porter who carries passenger baggage at an airport or airline terminal.
- spanks — to strike (a person, usually a child) with the open hand, a slipper, etc., especially on the buttocks, as in punishment.
- sparke — a battle-axe
- sparks — an elegant or foppish young man.
- sparky — emitting or producing sparks.
- spiked — Something that is spiked has one or more spikes on it.
- spiker — a pointed, perforated tube connected to a garden hose, pushed into the soil for deep watering.
- spikes — shoes with metal projections on the sole and heel for greater traction, as used by athletes
- splake — the hybrid offspring of a lake trout and a brook trout.
- spoked — a simple past tense of speak.
- spoken — a past participle of speak.
- spokes — a simple past tense of speak.