9-letter words containing k, p
- boxkeeper — an attendant responsible for theatre boxes
- brake pad — the flat metal casting, together with the bound friction material, in a disc brake
- brat pack — A brat pack is a group of young people, especially actors or writers, who are popular or successful at the moment.
- buck slip — Informal. a paper attached to and showing the destination and source of an interoffice memorandum, file, or the like.
- buckle up — When you buckle up in a car or a plane, you fasten your seat belt.
- bull kelp — any of various large brown seaweeds of Pacific and Antarctic waters
- bumpkinly — like a bumpkin
- cake shop — a shop that sells cakes
- cape work — the skillful practice of a bullfighter in using a cape to maneuver a bull.
- cape york — the northernmost point of the Australian mainland, in N Queensland on the Torres Strait at the tip of Cape York Peninsula (a peninsula between the Coral Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria)
- cell pack — a container made of cellular plastic, as one used for holding flowers or plants.
- chalkpits — Plural form of chalkpit.
- chapbooks — Plural form of chapbook.
- chapstick — a cylinder of a substance for preventing or soothing chapped lips
- cheapjack — a peddler, especially of inferior articles.
- chempaduk — an evergreen moraceous tree, Artocarpus champeden (or A. integer), of Malaysia, similar to the jackfruit
- chick-pea — Also called garbanzo. a widely cultivated plant, Cicer arietinum, of the legume family, bearing pods containing pealike seeds.
- chickpeas — Plural form of chickpea.
- chinkapin — chinquapin
- chipmaker — a manufacturer of electronic chips.
- chipmunks — Plural form of chipmunk.
- chokedamp — blackdamp
- chop mark — a notch or other mark made in a coin to indicate verification of its authenticity, especially by a banker or merchant in the Far East during the 18th or 19th centuries.
- chopblock — butcher-block.
- chopsocky — a genre of martial arts film containing superfluous violence
- chopsteak — chopped steak.
- chopstick — Chopsticks are a pair of thin sticks which people in China and the Far East use to eat their food.
- clapstick — A kind of drumstick used by striking one against another, to maintain rhythm in Aboriginal voice chants.
- clerkship — The position or status of a clerk, especially in the legal profession.
- clickwrap — an agreement made by a computer user through clicking on a particular button onscreen
- cockahoop — Alternative form of cock-a-hoop.
- cockapoos — Plural form of cockapoo.
- cockspurs — Plural form of cockspur.
- cold pack — a method of lowering the body temperature by wrapping a person in a sheet soaked in cold water
- cold-pack — to place a cold pack on: to cold-pack a feverish patient.
- cook shop — a shop that sells cookery equipment
- cooked up — to prepare (food) by the use of heat, as by boiling, baking, or roasting.
- cooked-up — to prepare (food) by the use of heat, as by boiling, baking, or roasting.
- copacking — The manufacture and packaging of a product under contract to a client (and having the client's name/brand on the packaging).
- copy desk — a desk where copy is edited
- copybooks — Plural form of copybook.
- copybroke — (security) /kop'ee-brohk/ (Or "copywronged" - a play on "copyright") 1. Used to describe an instance of a copy-protected program that has been "broken"; that is, a copy with the copy-protection scheme disabled or removed. 2. Copy-protected software which is unusable because of some bit-rot or bug that has confused the copy protection. 3. Used to describe data damaged because of a side effect of a copy protection system.
- copytaker — (esp in a newspaper office) a person employed to type reports as journalists dictate them over the telephone
- coupstick — (historical) A stick or switch used among some Native Americans for making or counting a coup.
- cowkeeper — (archaic) cowherd.
- crackpots — Plural form of crackpot.
- crampbark — a large deciduous shrub, Viburnum opulus, of the Caprifoliaceae family, native to Europe and eastern parts of North America
- crankpins — Plural form of crankpin.
- crapelike — resembling crape
- crock pot — slow cooker