9-letter words containing p, e, c, k
- kampuchea — People's Republic of, a former official name of Cambodia.
- keep back — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- keep cool — avoid getting hot
- keep pace — go as fast
- kelp crab — any of several spider crabs common among kelp beds along the Pacific coast of North America.
- key punch — Also, key punch. Also called card punch. a machine, operated by a keyboard, for coding information by punching holes in cards or paper tape in specified patterns.
- kinescope — a cathode-ray tube with a fluorescent screen on which an image is reproduced by a directed beam of electrons.
- kneepiece — a piece of armor for protecting the knee, as a poleyn.
- koniscope — a device for detecting and measuring dust in the air
- lickpenny — something that uses up large amounts of money
- lock step — a way of marching in such close file that the corresponding legs of the marchers must keep step precisely
- locked up — Synonym for hung, wedged.
- luckpenny — a coin kept for luck
- mispacked — filled to capacity; full: They've had a packed theater for every performance.
- mispickel — arsenopyrite.
- mock epic — a long, humorous poem written in mock-heroic style.
- muck heap — a pile of dung, soil or refuse
- muckheaps — Plural form of muckheap.
- neckpiece — a scarf, especially one of fur.
- nitpicked — Simple past tense and past participle of nitpick.
- nitpicker — a person who nitpicks, especially habitually.
- pacemaker — pacesetter.
- pack date — the date on which a foodstuff was processed or packed, often shown on the package or label.
- pack-year — a measure of the amount of cigarettes a person has smoked over an extended period, equal to one packet of 20 every day for one year
- packframe — a framework, usually of lightweight metal tubing, that supports a backpack on the wearer, often by curved extensions that fit over the shoulders.
- packhorse — a horse used for carrying goods, freight, supplies, etc.
- packsheet — a cloth used for packing goods
- page-jack — to steal contents or code from a (website) and place it on another website, causing users to be redirected to the other site.
- paperback — a book bound in a flexible paper cover, often a lower-priced edition of a hardcover book.
- parbuckle — a kind of tackle for raising or lowering a cask or similar object along an inclined plane or a vertical surface, consisting of a rope looped over a post or the like, with its two ends passing around the object to be moved.
- pawtucket — a city in NE Rhode Island.
- peckinpah — David Samuel ("Sam") 1925–84, U.S. film director and screenwriter.
- pecksniff — a person of Pecksniffian attitudes or behavior: a virtuousness that only a pecksniff could aspire to.
- physicked — a medicine that purges; cathartic; laxative.
- pick over — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
- pickeerer — somebody who pickeers
- pickering — Edward Charles, 1846–1919, and his brother, William Henry, 1858–1938, U.S. astronomers.
- picketing — a post, stake, pale, or peg that is used in a fence or barrier, to fasten down a tent, etc.
- pickiness — extremely fussy or finicky, usually over trifles.
- picnicker — an excursion or outing in which the participants carry food with them and share a meal in the open air.
- piecework — work done and paid for by the piece.
- pikeperch — any of several pikelike fishes of the perch family, especially the walleye, Stizostedion vitreum.
- pinchbeck — an alloy of copper and zinc, used in imitation of gold.
- pipe rack — a steel framed structure that pipes (used to drill for oil, etc) are stacked on for storage
- pipe-rack — offering services or goods at low cost because of avoidance of expensive interior decoration, as by displaying clothing for sale on plain pipe racks.
- placekick — a kick made while the ball is in place, often held in place, on the ground, as in kicking off or in attempting a field goal
- plackless — lacking money; penniless
- pocketful — the amount that a pocket will hold.
- pocketing — a shaped piece of fabric attached inside or outside a garment and forming a pouch used especially for carrying small articles.
- polo neck — high turtleneck collar