12-letter words containing p, a, c, k, t
- parity check — a method for detecting errors in data communications or within a computer system by counting the number of ones or zeros per byte or per word, including a special check bit (parity bit) to see if the value is even or odd.
- patch pocket — a pocket formed by sewing a piece of shaped material to the outside of a garment.
- payback time — Payback time is when someone has to take the consequences of what they have done in the past. You can use this expression to talk about good or bad consequences.
- peak traffic — traffic at the time it is most busy
- penalty kick — a free kick awarded for an infraction committed by a defensive player in the penalty area and taken by the offensive player who has been fouled from a point 12 yards (11 meters) directly in front of the goal.
- petach tikva — a city in W Israel, NE of Tel Aviv.
- pilot jacket — a type of leather jacket associated with U.S. Army pilots in World War II
- plane ticket — entitlement to travel by aircraft
- port jackson — an inlet of the Pacific in SE Australia: the harbor of Sydney.
- postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
- prickly heat — a cutaneous eruption accompanied by a prickling and itching sensation, due to an inflammation of the sweat glands.
- product mark — a trademark used on only one product.
- puffa jacket — a warm quilted and padded jacket
- 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
- radar picket — a ship, vehicle, or aircraft stationed at a distance from a protected force to increase radar detection range.
- risk capital — venture capital.
- rocket plane — aircraft that launches rockets
- sitka spruce — a spruce, Picea sitchensis, of western North America, having long, silvery-white needles, grown as an ornamental.
- slash pocket — a pocket set into a garment, especially below the waistline, to which easy access is provided by an exterior, vertical or diagonal slit.
- sport jacket — A sport jacket is the same as a sport coat.
- stage pocket — one of several metal boxes placed backstage in the floor (floor pocket) or wall of a theater and containing jacks for electric cables used in lighting units.
- starter pack — a pack containing basic equipment or information
- stocking cap — a long, conical, knitted cap, usually with a tassel or pompon at the tip.
- thinking cap — a state of mind marked by reflection or concentration: If we put on our thinking caps, we may come up with the answer.
- to keep pace — If something keeps pace with something else that is changing, it changes quickly in response to it.
- truck camper — a type of camper designed to be mounted on a pickup truck.
- watch pocket — a small pocket in a garment, as in a vest or trousers, for holding a pocket watch, change, etc. Compare fob1 (def 1).
- water pocket — a cavity at the foot of a cliff formed by the falling action of an intermittent stream.