7-letter words containing k, p
- pickaxe — a pick, especially a mattock.
- pickeer — to engage in skirmishes in advance of troops of an army.
- pickens — Andrew, 1739–1817, American Revolutionary general.
- pickery — petty theft
- pickett — Bill, 1871–1932, U.S. rodeo performer: famed as bulldogger.
- picking — (in a loom) one passage of the shuttle.
- pickled — preserved or steeped in brine or other liquid.
- pickmaw — a type of gull with a black head
- pickney — a child
- pickoff — a move in baseball which involves the pitcher throwing the ball to a fielder
- piddock — any bivalve mollusk of the genus Pholas or the family Pholadidae, having long, ovate shells and burrowing in soft rock, wood, etc.
- piglike — like or reminiscent of a pig
- pigskin — the skin of a pig.
- pikeman — a soldier armed with a pike.
- pilikia — trouble.
- pillock — idiot
- pin oak — an oak, Quercus palustris, characterized by the pyramidal manner of growth of its branches and deeply pinnatifid leaves.
- pinkeye — a contagious, epidemic form of acute conjunctivitis occurring in humans and certain animals: so called from the color of the inflamed eye.
- pinkham — Lydia (Estes) 1819–83, U.S. businesswoman: manufactured patent medicine.
- pinkies — inferior or cheap wine, especially red wine.
- pinking — to pierce with a rapier or the like; stab.
- pinkish — somewhat pink: The sky at sunset has a pinkish glow.
- pinnock — any of various small songbirds such as the dunnock
- pinwork — (in the embroidery of needlepoint lace) crescent-shaped stitches raised from the surface of the design.
- pishpek — former name (until 1926) of Bishkek.
- pkunzip — (tool, compression) A program to unpack archives created by PKZIP, written by PKWARE, Inc. and released as shareware. Versions exist for MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows and Open VMS. PKUNZIP is no longer distributed, its functions having been incorporated into PKZIP.
- placket — the opening or slit at the top of a skirt, or in a dress or blouse, that facilitates putting it on and taking it off.
- plinker — a person who shoots a handgun recreationally
- pliskie — a practical joke
- plonker — idiot, foolish person
- plucked — to pull off or out from the place of growth, as fruit, flowers, feathers, etc.: to pluck feathers from a chicken.
- plucker — to pull off or out from the place of growth, as fruit, flowers, feathers, etc.: to pluck feathers from a chicken.
- plunker — a person or thing that plunks.
- plunket — Saint Oliver. 1629–81, Irish Roman Catholic churchman and martyr; wrongly executed as a supposed conspirator in the Popish Plot (1678). Feast day: July 11
- pockies — woollen mittens
- pockily — in a pocky manner
- pockpit — a mark left on skin after a pock has healed
- podlike — resembling a pod
- podolsk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, S of Moscow.
- pokable — to prod or push, especially with something narrow or pointed, as a finger, elbow, stick, etc.: to poke someone in the ribs.
- poke at — If you poke at something, you make lots of little pushing movements at it with a sharp object.
- pokeful — the contents of a small bag
- polatsk — a city in N Belarus, on the Dvina River.
- pollack — a food fish, Pollachius pollachius, of the cod family, inhabiting coastal North Atlantic waters from Scandinavia to northern Africa.
- pollock — Also called saithe. a North Atlantic food fish, Pollachius virens, of the cod family.
- popsock — a knee-length nylon sock, worn under trousers
- poptalk — (language, product) A commercial object-oriented derivative of POP, from Cambridge Consultants, used in the expert system MUSE.
- porkpie — a snap-brimmed hat with a round, flat crown, usually made of felt.
- porlock — to interrupt or intrude at an awkward moment
- pothook — a hook for suspending a pot or kettle over an open fire.