10-letter words containing k, r, p
- pentaquark — a subatomic particle consisting of four quarks and one antiquark
- perikaryal — of or pertaining to the perikaryon of a nerve; involving or occurring within a perikaryon
- perikaryon — cell body.
- periwinkle — Also called myrtle. a trailing plant, Vinca minor, of the dogbane family, having glossy, evergreen foliage and usually blue-violet flowers.
- pernickety — persnickety.
- perovskite — a naturally occurring titanate of calcium, CaTiO 3 , found as yellow, brown, or black cubic crystals, usually in metamorphic rocks.
- piatigorsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, in Caucasia.
- pick apart — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
- pickleworm — the larva of a pyralid moth, Diaphania nitidalis, that bores into the stem and fruit of squash, cucumber, and other cucurbitaceous plants.
- pickup arm — tone arm.
- picnickers — an excursion or outing in which the participants carry food with them and share a meal in the open air.
- pigsticker — to hunt for wild boar, usually on horseback and using a spear.
- pilgarlick — a bald person; a person looked upon with humorous contempt or mock pity
- pink stern — a sharp stern having a narrow, overhanging, raking transom.
- pit worker — a person who works down a mine, esp a coal miner
- pitch-dark — dark or black as pitch: a pitch-dark night.
- pitchforks — a large, long-handled fork for manually lifting and pitching hay, stalks of grain, etc.
- plate mark — hallmark.
- plate rack — a rack where you put plates after you have washed them or to store them
- platemaker — a machine that makes plates used for reproducing illustrations or printed matter, especially halftone or etched illustrations.
- playbroker — play agent.
- pocket rat — kangaroo rat (sense 1)
- pockmarked — Usually, pockmarks. scars or pits left by a pustule in smallpox or the like.
- poker dice — (used with a plural verb) dice that, instead of being marked with spots, carry on their faces a picture or symbol representing the six highest playing cards: ace, king, queen, jack, ten, nine.
- poker face — an expressionless face: He can tell a funny story with a poker face.
- pokerishly — in a pokerish manner
- poltoratsk — a city in and the capital of Turkmenistan, in the S central part, near the Iranian border.
- pork belly — a side of fresh pork.
- portakabin — A Portakabin is a small building that can be moved by truck and that can be used for a short period of time, for example as a temporary office.
- postmarked — an official mark stamped on letters and other mail, serving as a cancellation of the postage stamp and indicating the place, date, and sometimes time of sending or receipt.
- poststrike — of or relating to the period after a (workers) strike
- potsticker — a pan-fried and steamed Chinese dumpling with a ground meat or vegetable filling.
- powder keg — a small, metal, barrellike container for gunpowder or blasting powder.
- powderlike — resembling powder (usually in consistency or texture); powdery
- power pack — a device for converting the voltage from a power line or battery to the various voltages required by the components of an electronic circuit.
- prankingly — showily, in an ostentatious or pranking manner
- prankishly — in a prankish manner, mischievously
- pre-cooked — Pre-cooked food has been prepared and cooked in advance so that it only needs to be heated quickly before you eat it.
- pre-packed — Pre-packed goods are packed or wrapped before they are sent to the shop where they are sold.
- prebreaker — A prebreaker is a machine for breaking up large feed before a size reduction process.
- prepackage — to package (foodstuffs or manufactured goods) before retail distribution or sale.
- prepacking — a package assembled by a manufacturer, distributor, or retailer and containing a specific number of items or a specific assortment of sizes, colors, flavors, etc., of a product.
- press pack — a dismissive term for a group of journalists, viewed as hounding a person
- press-back — a wooden chair back having a design pressed, rather than carved, into its crossrails.
- prick song — written music.
- prick-post — (in a framed structure) a secondary post, as a queen post.
- pricklings — tingly sensations of discomfort or euphoria
- printmaker — a person who makes prints, especially an artist working in one of the graphic mediums.
- printworks — (used with a singular or plural verb) a factory that prints textiles or other materials.
- prokaryote — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.