9-letter words containing k, p
- grapelike — Resembling a grape or some aspect of grapes.
- groupwork — (education, therapy) Work done in groups.
- hacked up — (jargon, programming) Sufficiently patched, kluged, and tweaked that the surgical scars are beginning to crowd out normal tissue (compare critical mass). Not all programs that are hacked become "hacked up"; if modifications are done with some eye to coherence and continued maintainability, the software may emerge better for the experience. Contrast hack up.
- half-peck — a unit of dry measure equal to 4 quarts (4.4 liters).
- half-pike — spontoon.
- hammerkop — A bird from southern Africa, Scopus umbretta, of the Scopidae family and related to the herons.
- hand-pick — to pick by hand.
- handspike — a bar used as a lever.
- harpylike — resembling a harpy
- help desk — A help desk is a special service that you can telephone or e-mail in order to get information about a particular product or subject.
- henpecked — browbeaten, bullied, or intimidated by one's wife, girlfriend, etc.: a henpecked husband who never dared to contradict his wife.
- hinkypunk — (West Country) a will o' the wisp.
- hip flask — small container for carrying alcohol
- hockshops — (US, rare) Plural form of hockshop.
- hoop back — a chair back having the uprights and crest rail in a continuous arched form.
- hopkinson — Francis, 1737–91, American statesman and satirist.
- housekeep — to keep or maintain a house.
- housekept — to keep or maintain a house.
- humpbacks — Plural form of humpback.
- hyde park — a public park in London, England.
- hyperlink — hypertext link
- hypertalk — A verbose semicompiled language by Bill Atkinson and Dan Winkler, with loose syntax and high readability. HyperTalk uses HyperCard as an object management system, development environment and interface builder. Programs are organised into "stacks" of "cards", each of which may have "buttons" and "fields". All data storage is in zero-terminated strings in fields, local, or global variables; all data references are through "chunk expressions" of the form: 'last item of background field "Name List" of card ID 34217'. Flow of control is event-driven and uses message-passing among scripts that are attached to stack, background, card, field and button objects.
- ill-kempt — unkempt.
- in pocket — a shaped piece of fabric attached inside or outside a garment and forming a pouch used especially for carrying small articles.
- innkeeper — a person who owns or manages an inn or, sometimes, a hotel.
- interpeak — Between peaks.
- jack kemp — Jack F. 1935–2009, U.S. politician: congressman 1970–89.
- jack pine — a scrubby pine, Pinus banksiana, growing on tracts of poor, rocky land in Canada and the northern U.S., bearing short needles and curved cones.
- jack post — a post for supporting a floor beam, having two telescoping sections, adjustable to any height.
- jack rope — a rope for bending the foot of a sail to a boom.
- jackanape — Of or pertaining to a jackanapes.
- jacksnipe — Also called half snipe. a small, short-billed snipe, Limnocryptes minimus, of Europe and Asia.
- jampacked — to fill or pack as tightly or fully as possible: We jam-packed the basket with all kinds of fruit.
- jockstrap — an elasticized belt, a men's undergarment, with a pouch for supporting and protecting the genitals, worn especially while participating in athletics.
- jonkoping — a city in S Sweden.
- junk heap — an accumulation of refuse and discarded matter
- junk shop — a shop selling miscellaneous secondhand goods
- kakotopia — Alternative form of cacotopia.
- kalispell — a city in NW Montana.
- kallitype — an photographic printing process using silver and ferric salts, popular in the 19th century
- kampuchea — People's Republic of, a former official name of Cambodia.
- kapa haka — the traditional Māori performing arts, often performed competitively
- kapil dev — (Ramlal) Nikhanj (nɪˈkændʒ). born 1959, Indian cricketer: an all-rounder, he played in 131 test matches and captained India to victory in the 1983 World Cup
- kapok oil — a yellowish-green oil expressed from the seeds of the kapok tree, used especially in foods and in the manufacture of soap.
- karpathos — an island off the SE coast of Greece, part of the Dodecanese Islands, in the Aegean Sea. 110 sq. mi. (280 sq. km).
- karyotype — the chromosomes of a cell, usually displayed as a systematized arrangement of chromosome pairs in descending order of size.
- keep away — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- keep back — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- keep cool — avoid getting hot
- keep dark — to keep secret or hidden