9-letter words containing k, p
- keep down — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- keep from — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- keep pace — go as fast
- keep step — to remain walking, marching, dancing, etc, in unison or in a specified rhythm
- keep time — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- keepsakes — Plural form of keepsake.
- keg party — a beer bust.
- kei-apple — a thorny shrub or small tree, Dovyalis caffra, of southern Africa, having round, yellow, juicy-pulped, cranberry-flavored fruit that is edible only when cooked.
- kelp bass — a sea bass, Paralabrax clathratus, of southern California coastal waters, valued as a food and game fish.
- kelp crab — any of several spider crabs common among kelp beds along the Pacific coast of North America.
- kerplunks — Plural form of kerplunk.
- key plate — (in color printing) the plate providing the greatest definition of detail, usually the black plate, on which the other plates are registered.
- key punch — Also, key punch. Also called card punch. a machine, operated by a keyboard, for coding information by punching holes in cards or paper tape in specified patterns.
- keyphrase — (cryptography) A phrase used in encryption in the style of a keyword.
- kharagpur — city in SW West Bengal, India: pop. 265,000
- kidnapers — Plural form of kidnaper.
- kidnaping — to steal, carry off, or abduct by force or fraud, especially for use as a hostage or to extract ransom.
- kidnapped — a novel (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson.
- kidnappee — to steal, carry off, or abduct by force or fraud, especially for use as a hostage or to extract ransom.
- kidnapper — to steal, carry off, or abduct by force or fraud, especially for use as a hostage or to extract ransom.
- kiloflops — (unit) 1000 FLOPS. See prefix.
- kinescope — a cathode-ray tube with a fluorescent screen on which an image is reproduced by a directed beam of electrons.
- king post — a structural member running vertically between the apex and base of a triangular roof truss.
- kingklips — Plural form of kingklip.
- kingships — Plural form of kingship.
- kingsport — a city in NE Tennessee.
- kintpuash — (Kintpuash) 1837?–73, Modoc leader.
- kippering — Present participle of kipper.
- klemperer — Otto, 1885–1973, German orchestra conductor.
- kleopatra — Cleopatra (def 2).
- klephtism — the activities or life of klephts
- klopstock — Friedrich Gottlieb [free-drikh gawt-leep] /ˈfri drɪx ˈgɔt lip/ (Show IPA), 1724–1803, German poet.
- knapsacks — Plural form of knapsack.
- knapweeds — Plural form of knapweed.
- knaveship — a small proportion of milled grain that was due to the person who did the milling
- knee drop — a wrestling attack in which a wrestler lifts his or her opponent and drops him or her onto his or her bent knee
- knee-deep — reaching the knees: knee-deep mud.
- kneepiece — a piece of armor for protecting the knee, as a poleyn.
- kniphofia — Any of several plants, of the genus Kniphofia, having bright, upright flowers.
- koniscope — a device for detecting and measuring dust in the air
- kraepelin — Emil [ey-meel] /ˈeɪ mil/ (Show IPA), 1856–1926, German psychiatrist.
- kropotkin — Prince Pëter Alekseevich [pyawtr uh-lyi-ksyey-yi-vyich] /ˈpyɔtr ʌ lyɪˈksyeɪ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1842–1921, Russian geographer, author, and anarchist.
- krupskaya — Nadezhda Konstantinovna [nuh-dye-zhduh kuh n-stuhn-tyee-nuh v-nuh] /nʌˈdyɛ ʒdə kən stʌnˈtyi nəv nə/ (Show IPA), 1869–1939, Russian social worker and wife of V.I. Lenin.
- kuchipudi — a form of S Indian classical dancing
- kugelhopf — a sweetened bread, flavored with raisins and almonds, baked in a ring-shaped mold, and usually dusted with powdered sugar before serving.
- kymograph — an instrument for measuring and graphically recording variations in fluid pressure, as those of the human pulse.
- lampblack — a fine black pigment consisting of almost pure carbon collected as soot from the smoke of burning oil, gas, etc.
- lapstrake — clinker-built (def 2).
- lapstreak — Alternative form of lapstrake.
- larkspurs — Plural form of larkspur.