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10-letter words containing k, r, t

  • pentaquark — a subatomic particle consisting of four quarks and one antiquark
  • 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.
  • pigsticker — to hunt for wild boar, usually on horseback and using a spear.
  • 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.
  • pocket rat — kangaroo rat (sense 1)
  • poltoratsk — a city in and the capital of Turkmenistan, in the S central part, near the Iranian border.
  • 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.
  • prick-post — (in a framed structure) a secondary post, as a queen post.
  • 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.
  • promptbook — a copy of the script of a play, containing cues and notes, used by the prompter, stage manager, etc.
  • pyatigorsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, in Caucasia.
  • quark star — a hypothetical celestial object that is intermediate in density between a neutron star and a black hole, possibly the remnant of a massive neutron star with all particles reduced to strange quarks.
  • quickthorn — hawthorn, esp when planted as a hedge
  • quickwater — the part of a river or other stream having a strong current.
  • quikscript — Simulation language derived from SIMSCRIPT, based on 20-GATE.
  • rabbitlike — Similar to a rabbit.
  • race-track — a plot of ground, usually oval, laid out for horse racing.
  • racetracks — Plural form of racetrack.
  • racked out — a framework of bars, wires, or pegs on which articles are arranged or deposited: a clothes rack; a luggage rack.
  • ratemaking — the process or practice of establishing rates of payment, especially for public transportation or utilities.
  • ratskeller — the cellar of a town hall, esp one used as a beer hall or restaurant
  • red jacket — (Sagoyewatha) c1756–1830, Seneca leader.
  • red packet — a sum of money folded inside red paper and given at the Chinese New Year to unmarried younger relatives
  • reknitting — the method of repairing holes or runs in knitted garments
  • reknotting — the craft of repairing knots, esp in a carpet or jewellery
  • repair kit — a set of items, instructions, etc designed to assist with the repair of a specific thing
  • rethinking — the act of reconsidering.
  • retracking — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
  • return key — the key on a keyboard which moves the cursor to the next line
  • rickettsia — any member of the genus Rickettsia, comprising rod-shaped to coccoid microorganisms that resemble bacteria but can be as small as a large virus and reproduce only inside a living cell, parasitic in fleas, ticks, lice, and mites and transmitted by bite to vertebrate hosts, including humans, causing such severe diseases as typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
  • ricky-tick — the mechanical, repetitive style and beat of ragtime or early swing music.
  • riebeckite — an amphibolic mineral, silicate of sodium and iron, occurring usually in feldspathoid rocks.
  • right bank — a part of Paris, France, on the N bank of the Seine.
  • rigil kent — the star Alpha Centauri
  • rock pipit — a small passerine bird; Anthus petrosis
  • rock plant — a plant found among rocks or in rock gardens.
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