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13-letter words containing k, p

  • computer geek — (jargon)   (Or "turbo nerd", "turbo geek") One who eats (computer) bugs for a living. One who fulfils all the dreariest negative stereotypes about hackers: an asocial, malodourous, pasty-faced monomaniac with all the personality of a cheese grater. The term cannot be used by outsiders without implied insult to all hackers; compare black-on-black usage of "nigger". A computer geek may be either a fundamentally clueless individual or a proto-hacker in larval stage. See also Alpha Geek, propeller head, clustergeeking, geek out, wannabee, terminal junkie, spod, weenie.
  • cooper's hawk — a small North American hawk, Accipiter cooperii, having a bluish-grey back and wings and a reddish-brown breast
  • cotton picker — a machine for harvesting cotton fibre
  • cottonpickin' — damned; confounded: That's a cottonpickin' lie.
  • counterpicket — a picket which opposes an existing picket at the same location
  • court packing — an unsuccessful attempt by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937 to appoint up to six additional justices to the Supreme Court, which had invalidated a number of his New Deal laws.
  • crestone peak — a peak in S central Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. 14,294 feet (4360 meters).
  • cripple creek — a village in central Colorado: gold-mining centre since 1891, once the richest in the world
  • crookes space — a dark region near the cathode in some low-pressure gas-discharge tubes
  • deptford pink — a plant, Dianthus armeria, of the pink family, native to Eurasia, having slender, erect stems and leaves and clusters of small, bright pink flowers.
  • diplock court — in Northern Ireland, a court of law designed to try cases linked with terrorism. In order to prevent the intimidation of jurors, the court consists of a single judge and no jury
  • dipstick test — a test for detecting the presence of sugar in the urine, as in diabetes.
  • disk capacity — the maximum number of bytes that can be held on a disk
  • disk striping — data striping
  • dock-walloper — a casual laborer about docks or wharves.
  • donnan uptake — The Donnan uptake is the uptake of an electrolyte (= a substance which electricity can pass through) as a neutral pair of ions during a sorption process.
  • doublespeaker — a person who uses doublespeak
  • drake passage — a strait between S South America and the South Shetland Islands, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
  • drink problem — If someone is said to have a drink problem, they are thought to drink too much alcohol
  • dry ski slope — A dry ski slope is a slope made of an artificial substance on which you can practise skiing.
  • east pakistan — former name of Bangladesh.
  • fairview park — a city in N Ohio.
  • feedback loop — the path by which some of the output of a circuit, system, or device is returned to the input.
  • fingerpicking — Present participle of fingerpick.
  • flower-pecker — any of numerous small, arboreal, usually brightly colored oscine birds of the family Dicaeidae, of southeastern Asia and Australia.
  • flying picket — (in industrial disputes) a member of a group of pickets organized to be able to move quickly from place to place
  • frank chapman — Frank Michler [mik-ler] /ˈmɪk lər/ (Show IPA), 1864–1945, U.S. ornithologist, museum curator, and author.
  • franklin park — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • futtock plate — a metal plate placed perpendicular to the top of a ship's lower mast to hold the futtock shrouds.
  • glockenspiels — Plural form of glockenspiel.
  • greek cypriot — a Cypriot of Greek descent
  • greenskeepers — Plural form of greenskeeper.
  • groundkeepers — Plural form of groundkeeper.
  • groundskeeper — a person who is responsible for the care and maintenance of a particular tract of land, as an estate, a park, or a cemetery.
  • highland park — a city in NE Illinois, on Lake Michigan.
  • hockey player — sportsperson: plays hockey
  • hopkinsianism — a modified Calvinism taught by Samuel Hopkins (1721–1803), that emphasized the sovereignty of God, the importance of His decrees, and the necessity of submitting to His will, accepting even damnation, if required, for His glory, and holding that ethics is merely disinterested benevolence.
  • hub-and-spoke — of or designating a system of air transportation by which local flights carry passengers to one major regional airport where they can board long-distance or other local flights for their final destinations.
  • humboldt peak — a mountain in S Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo range. 14,064 feet (4290 meters).
  • hunt and peck — a slow and inefficient method of typing by looking for each key separately before striking it: used by untrained typists.
  • hunt-and-peck — a method of typing while looking at the keyboard, usually using only the forefingers to press the keys
  • hunter's pink — a brilliant red often used for the jackets of hunters.
  • hunting pinks — the traditional attire worn by people in Britain while fox hunting, the distinguishing feature of which is a scarlet jacket
  • in the pocket — (of a fly half) in an attacking position slightly further back from play than normal, making himself available for a drop goal attempt
  • jacket potato — potato: baked in its skin
  • japanese mink — a dark-brown arboreal marten, Martes melampus, native to Japan, having a long body and bushy tail.
  • japanese silk — raw silk of usually high quality produced in Japan, used in the manufacture of such fabrics as shantung and habutai.
  • joseph hooker — Joseph, 1814–79, Union general in the U.S. Civil War.
  • kachang puteh — (in Malaysia) roasted or fried nuts or beans
  • kaleidoscoped — Simple past tense and past participle of kaleidoscope.
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