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11-letter words containing n, a, p, k, i

  • pancake ice — newly formed ice in flat pieces too small and thin to obstruct navigation.
  • paper knife — a small, often decorative, knifelike instrument with a blade of metal, ivory, wood, or the like, for slitting open envelopes, the leaves of books, folded papers, etc.
  • papermaking — the art or action of making paper
  • parking bay — a space in a car park designed to be large enough to park a vehicle in
  • parking lot — an area, usually divided into individual spaces, intended for parking motor vehicles.
  • pawn ticket — a receipt given for goods left with a pawnbroker.
  • pawnbroking — the business of a pawnbroker.
  • peacemaking — a person, group, or nation that tries to make peace, especially by reconciling parties who disagree, quarrel, or fight.
  • pearly king — the male London costermonger whose ceremonial clothes display the most lavish collection of pearl buttons
  • pen and ink — A pen and ink drawing is done using a pen rather than a pencil.
  • phantomlike — an apparition or specter.
  • phitsanulok — a city in central Thailand.
  • pickwickian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Mr. Pickwick, central character of The Pickwick Papers.
  • pigeon hawk — merlin.
  • pink collar — of or relating to a type of employment traditionally held by women, especially relatively low-paying work: secretaries, phone operators, and other pink-collar workers.
  • pink family — the plant family Caryophyllaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having opposite leaves, usually swollen-jointed stems, flowers with petals notched at the tips, and fruit generally in the form of a many-seeded capsule, and including baby's-breath, carnation, chickweed, pink, and sweet william.
  • pink salmon — a small Pacific salmon, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, distinguished by its small scales and long anal fin and by the bright red spawning coloration of males, occurring from California to Alaska and in waters of Japan: fished commercially and for sport.
  • pink-collar — of or relating to a type of employment traditionally held by women, especially relatively low-paying work: secretaries, phone operators, and other pink-collar workers.
  • platemaking — the act of making plates
  • point-blank — aimed or fired straight at the mark especially from close range; direct.
  • printmaking — the art or technique of making prints, especially as practiced in engraving, etching, drypoint, woodcut or serigraphy.
  • pumpkinhead — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
  • punji stake — a sharp bamboo stake concealed in high grass at an angle so as to gash the feet and legs of enemy soldiers and often coated with excrement so as to cause an infected wound.
  • ripple-tank — a shallow container of water in which waves are produced by vibrating an object in the water, used to observe or demonstrate wave phenomena.
  • safekeeping — the act of keeping safe or the state of being kept safe; protection; care; custody.
  • salmon pink — salmon (defs 4, 5).
  • sandia peak — a mountain in N central New Mexico in the Sandia Mountains. 10,678 feet (3255 meters).
  • septic tank — a tank in which solid organic sewage is decomposed and purified by anaerobic bacteria.
  • shrink wrap — transparent film for wrapping food
  • shrink-wrap — to wrap and seal (a book, a food product, etc.) in a flexible film of plastic that, when exposed to a heating process, shrinks to the contour of the merchandise.
  • skyscraping — of or like a skyscraper; very high: a skyscraping chimney.
  • spanakopita — a baked dish consisting of spinach, feta cheese, eggs, and scallions enclosed in layers of phyllo.
  • sparklingly — in a sparkling manner
  • spinachlike — resembling or characteristic of spinach
  • stalin peak — former name of Communism Peak.
  • stickup man — a man who commits a stickup.
  • teppan-yaki — a Japanese dish of meat and vegetables stir-fried on, and eaten from, a hot steel plate that forms the centre of a table
  • tinley park — a town in NE Illinois.
  • top-ranking — A top-ranking person is someone who has a very high rank or status in a particular organization or field of activity.
  • windom peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,082 feet (4292 meters).
  • winter park — a city in E Florida.
  • workmanship — the art or skill of a workman or workwoman.
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