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12-letter words containing k, u, p

  • mossycup oak — bur oak
  • muckspreader — a machine for spreading manure over farmland
  • mullein pink — rose campion.
  • nip and tuck — to squeeze or compress tightly between two surfaces or points; pinch; bite.
  • pack a punch — be powerful
  • package tour — a planned tour in which one fee is charged for all expenses: offering package tours of the chateau country.
  • packed lunch — A packed lunch is food, for example sandwiches, which you take to work, to school, or on a trip and eat as your lunch.
  • packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
  • pallet truck — a powered truck with a mast, sometimes telescopic, on which slides a carriage which can be raised and lowered hydraulically. The carriage has extended forks which can be passed under a palletized load for stacking or moving to a new position
  • peacock blue — a lustrous greenish blue, as of certain peacock feathers.
  • picker-upper — something that restores one's depleted energy or depressed spirits; pick-me-up.
  • picture book — a book consisting mainly or entirely of pictures, especially one for children who have not yet learned to read.
  • picture desk — the department at a magazine or newspaper publisher, that deals with photographs for the paper or magazine
  • plain turkey — a bustard
  • plunket baby — a baby brought up in infancy under the dietary recommendations of the Plunket Society
  • pocket mouse — any of numerous burrowing rodents, especially of the genus Perognathus, chiefly inhabiting arid regions of the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico, having fur-lined cheek pouches and a long tail.
  • pork butcher — a butcher who specializes in pork
  • pork sausage — a sausage made with pork
  • poughkeepsie — a city in SE New York, on the Hudson.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • puffa jacket — a warm quilted and padded jacket
  • pumpernickel — a coarse, dark, slightly sour bread made of unbolted rye.
  • pumpkin head — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
  • put-and-take — any of various games of chance played with a teetotum or other special type of top, in which each player puts in an equal stake before starting to spin the top.
  • quickstepped — Simple past tense and past participle of quickstep.
  • red larkspur — a plant, Delphinium nudicaule, of the buttercup family, native to the western coast of the U.S., having orange-red or sometimes yellow flowers.
  • rough-spoken — coarse or vulgar in speech.
  • sitka spruce — a spruce, Picea sitchensis, of western North America, having long, silvery-white needles, grown as an ornamental.
  • skeuomorphic — an ornament or design on an object copied from a form of the object when made from another material or by other techniques, as an imitation metal rivet mark found on handles of prehistoric pottery.
  • smoke jumper — an employee of the forest service parachuted to strategic spots in fighting forest fires
  • soup kitchen — a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to the needy.
  • splatterpunk — a form of fiction featuring extremely graphic violence.
  • stick up for — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
  • stockpunisht — punished by being put in stocks
  • stumpknocker — spotted sunfish.
  • suck up (to) — to flatter or fawn (on) ingratiatingly
  • sucker punch — to strike (someone) with an unexpected blow.
  • sucker-punch — to strike (someone) with an unexpected blow.
  • suckers' gap — a temporary improvement, occurring between two periods of inclement weather, which deceives people into acting in expectation of continued fine weather
  • suckling pig — piglet not yet weaned
  • sukarnoputri — Megawati (ˈmɛɡəˌwɒtɪ). born 1947, Indonesian politician; president of Indonesia (2001–04): daughter of Achmed Sukarno
  • superkingdom — in some systems of biological classification, either of the two major subdivisions, prokaryote or eukaryote, into which all living organisms can be placed
  • sutta pitaka — a collection of scriptures, originally recorded from oral traditions in the 1st century b.c., divided into one of three parts (Pitaka) sermons () the rules of the Buddhist order () and several treatises on philosophy and psychology ()
  • take up arms — Usually, arms. weapons, especially firearms.
  • take up with — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
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