11-letter words containing p, a, k, n
- plank floor — a floor made from sawed, straight-grained timber.
- plank-sheer — a plank or timber covering the upper ends of the frames of a wooden vessel
- platemaking — the act of making plates
- point-blank — aimed or fired straight at the mark especially from close range; direct.
- poke around — to prod or push, especially with something narrow or pointed, as a finger, elbow, stick, etc.: to poke someone in the ribs.
- poke fun at — to prod or push, especially with something narrow or pointed, as a finger, elbow, stick, etc.: to poke someone in the ribs.
- pond-skater — any of various heteropterous insects of the family Gerrididae, esp Gerris lacustris (common pond-skater), having a slender hairy body and long hairy legs with which they skim about on the surface of ponds
- poyang lake — a lake in E China, in N Jiangxi province, connected by canal with the Yangtze River: the second largest lake in China. Area (at its greatest): 2780 sq km (1073 sq miles)
- prank flash — a short film or animation linked surreptitiously to an innocuous website, intended to shock unsuspecting and easily-offended users of the internet
- printmaking — the art or technique of making prints, especially as practiced in engraving, etching, drypoint, woodcut or serigraphy.
- prony brake — a friction brake serving as a dynamometer for measuring torque.
- pumpkinhead — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
- puncak jaya — a mountain in Irian Jaya, Indonesia, on W New Guinea: highest island point in the world. 16,503 feet (5030 meters).
- 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.
- rockhampton — a city in E Queensland, in E Australia.
- 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.
- sheep-shank — a kind of knot, hitch, or bend made on a rope to shorten it temporarily.
- 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.
- snake plant — a widely grown houseplant, Sansevieria trifasciata, having stiffly erect, mottled, lance-shaped leaves.
- snapperback — the center on the offensive team.
- sneak up on — If someone sneaks up on you, they try and approach you without being seen or heard, perhaps to surprise you or do you harm.
- sneaky pete — a homemade or inferior liquor or wine.
- 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
- spokeswoman — a woman who speaks for another person or for a group.
- sponge cake — a light, sweet cake made with a comparatively large proportion of eggs but no shortening.
- stalin peak — former name of Communism Peak.
- stepanakert — a city in and the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, within Azerbaijan.
- stickup man — a man who commits a stickup.
- sukarnapura — Jayapura
- supertanker — a tanker with a deadweight capacity of over 75,000 tons.
- technospeak — any abstruse technical jargon
- 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.
- unspeakable — not speakable; that may not be spoken.
- unspeakably — not speakable; that may not be spoken.
- 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.
- wrest plank — the part of a piano in which the wrest pin is embedded
- zooplankter — an individual animal or animallike organism in plankton.
- zooplankton — the aggregate of animal or animallike organisms in plankton, as protozoans.