12-letter words containing k, r
- pork butcher — a butcher who specializes in pork
- pork sausage — a sausage made with pork
- pork-chopper — a labor official put on the union payroll as a reward for past loyalty or services.
- port jackson — an inlet of the Pacific in SE Australia: the harbor of Sydney.
- postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
- postworkshop — occurring after a workshop
- powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
- power broker — a person who wields great political, governmental, or financial power.
- power kiting — an activity in which a person, sitting in a small buggy or wearing skis, etc, is propelled by the wind power generated by a large kite to which he or she is attached by ropes
- power-broker — a person who wields great political, governmental, or financial power.
- powerwalking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
- prankishness — the quality or condition of being prankish
- pre-packaged — Pre-packaged foods have been prepared in advance and put in plastic or cardboard containers to be sold.
- prebreakfast — occurring before breakfast, of or pertaining to the period before breakfast
- premarketing — before the development of a market
- prepackaging — to package (foodstuffs or manufactured goods) before retail distribution or sale.
- pressed duck — a cooked duck sprinkled with red wine and then pressed in a device (duck press) so that the juices can be collected and served as a sauce over the breast meat and legs.
- price ticket — a ticket or label on an article for sale showing its price
- prickly heat — a cutaneous eruption accompanied by a prickling and itching sensation, due to an inflammation of the sweat glands.
- prickly pear — any of numerous cacti of the genus Opuntia, having flattened, usually spiny stem joints, yellow, orange, or reddish flowers, and ovoid, often edible fruit.
- printing ink — a type of ink that flows smoothly, dries quickly, and is of a consistency able to hold enough color to make printed matter legible: used to transfer the image on a press plate to the printing surface.
- private joke — a joke that is understood only by a certain social group
- product mark — a trademark used on only one product.
- pruning hook — an implement with a hooked blade, used for pruning vines, branches, etc.
- public works — government-funded construction
- puck control — an offensive strategy to maintain control of the puck to prevent the other team from having scoring opportunities.
- puck-carrier — the player who has the puck and moves it along.
- pumpernickel — a coarse, dark, slightly sour bread made of unbolted rye.
- pyramid peak — a mountain in W central Colorado, in the Elk Range, in the S Rocky Mountains. 14,018 feet (4276 meters).
- quack doctor — an unqualified person who claims medical knowledge or other skills
- quacksalvers — Plural form of quacksalver.
- quarterbacks — Plural form of quarterback.
- quarterdecks — Plural form of quarterdeck.
- quartz clock — an extremely accurate electronic movement utilizing the natural frequency of vibrations of a quartz crystal to regulate the operation of the timepiece (quartz clock or quartz watch)
- quick-drying — (of paint, concrete, glue, etc) that dries quickly
- quick-freeze — to freeze (cooked or uncooked food) rapidly, permitting it to be stored almost indefinitely at freezing temperatures.
- quicksilvery — resembling quicksilver
- quillai bark — soapbark (def 2).
- racing skate — a tubular ice skate having a long blade extending beyond the heel and toe.
- rack railway — cog railway.
- racket press — a device consisting of a frame closed by a spring mechanism, for keeping taut the strings of a tennis racket, squash racket, etc
- racketeering — a person engaged in a racket.
- radar picket — a ship, vehicle, or aircraft stationed at a distance from a protected force to increase radar detection range.
- raking piece — a sloping piece of scenery, as on a television or stage set, especially such a piece used for masking the side of a ramp.
- rapacki plan — the denuclearization of Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and West Germany, proposed by Adam Rapacki (1909–70), the Polish foreign minister, in 1957
- rappahannock — a river flowing SE from N Virginia into the Chesapeake Bay: Civil War battle 1863. 185 miles (300 km) long.
- rat kangaroo — any of several rabbit-sized, ratlike Australian kangaroos of the subfamily Potoroinae.
- rat-kangaroo — any of several rabbit-sized, ratlike Australian kangaroos of the subfamily Potoroinae.
- ratchet jack — a screw jack rotated by a ratchet mechanism.
- rattlesnakes — any of several New World pit vipers of the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus, having a rattle composed of a series of horny, interlocking elements at the end of the tail.