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10-letter words containing p, e, c, k

  • prepacking — a package assembled by a manufacturer, distributor, or retailer and containing a specific number of items or a specific assortment of sizes, colors, flavors, etc., of a product.
  • press pack — a dismissive term for a group of journalists, viewed as hounding a person
  • press-back — a wooden chair back having a design pressed, rather than carved, into its crossrails.
  • quicksteps — Plural form of quickstep.
  • red packet — a sum of money folded inside red paper and given at the Chinese New Year to unmarried younger relatives
  • repackager — a person who or a company that repackages
  • rock maple — the sugar maple, Acer saccharum.
  • rock opera — an album that tells a story through the songs it contains
  • rock tripe — any lichen of the genus Umbilicaria.
  • rockhopper — a small penguin, Eudyptes crestatus, of Antarctica, the Falkland Islands, and New Zealand, with a yellow crest on each side of its head
  • schipperke — one of a Belgian breed of small dogs having erect ears and a thick, black coat, originally used as a watchdog on boats in the Netherlands and Belgium.
  • scoop neck — a round, usually low, neckline on a dress, blouse, etc.
  • shankpiece — a piece of metal or fiber for giving form to the shank of a shoe.
  • sheep tick — a wingless, bloodsucking, dipterous insect, Melophagus ovinus, that is parasitic on sheep.
  • sheeptrack — a small natural terrace on a hillside
  • skepticism — skeptical attitude or temper; doubt.
  • sketch map — a rough map of the principal features of a locale, as one drawn from memory.
  • skyscraper — a relatively tall building of many stories, especially one for office or commercial use.
  • space junk — objects such as artificial satellites, material discarded from space stations, etc that remain in space after use
  • space mark — a proofreader's symbol used to indicate the need to insert space, as between two typed or printed words that have been run together. Symbol: #.
  • space walk — When an astronaut goes on a space walk, he or she leaves the spacecraft and works outside it while floating in space.
  • specmark89 — (benchmark)   An old SPECmark benchmark result derived from a set of floating-point and integer benchmarks. It is the geometric mean of ten SPEC ratios of the outdated 1989 SPEC benchmark suite. The use of SPECmark89 is strongly discouraged, having been superseded by CINT92 and CFP92.
  • spellcheck — If you spellcheck something you have written on a computer, you use a special program to check whether you have made any spelling mistakes.
  • spongecake — sweet cake of eggs and flour
  • spot check — impromptu inspection
  • spot-check — to examine or investigate by means of a spot check.
  • stuck pipe — Stuck pipe happens when part of the drillpipe cannot be turned or moved up or down.
  • superblock — an area of city land larger than the usual block, treated according to a unified plan and generally closed to vehicular through traffic.
  • superflack — an extremely competent, successful press agent
  • superstock — an exceptionally lucrative investment
  • superthick — extremely thick
  • supertruck — a fast powerful truck used in truck racing
  • supplejack — a strong, pliant cane or walking stick.
  • take place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
  • taper jack — a device for melting sealing wax, having a waxed wick fed through a plate from a reel.
  • taperstick — a candlestick designed to hold tapers.
  • thinkpiece — an article analyzing and giving the background of a news event, often with the author's opinions and forecast for the future.
  • tipsy cake — a kind of trifle made from a sponge cake soaked with white wine or sherry and decorated with almonds and crystallized fruit
  • trickle-up — noting or pertaining to the theory that monetary benefits directed toward small businesses and the poor will gradually pass up to big business and the rich.
  • unpackaged — a bundle of something, usually of small or medium size, that is packed and wrapped or boxed; parcel.
  • unpickable — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
  • upper deck — the uppermost continuous deck that is capable of being made watertight; freeboard deck.
  • wackyparse — (Internet, slang) In Kibology, the practice of misreading text to humorous effect (perhaps deliberately), especially in line with traditional absurdist humor.
  • woodpecker — any of numerous climbing birds of the family Picidae, having a hard, chisellike bill that it hammers repeatedly into wood in search of insects, stiff tail feathers to assist in climbing, and usually more or less boldly patterned plumage.
  • work space — area used for work
  • workpieces — Plural form of workpiece.
  • workplaces — Plural form of workplace.
  • workspaces — Plural form of workspace.
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