11-letter words containing p, e, k
- chicken pox — a disease, commonly of children, caused by the varicella zoster virus and characterized by mild headache and fever, malaise, and eruption of blisters on the skin and mucous membranes.
- chip basket — a wire basket for holding potato chips, etc, while frying in deep fat
- choke point — a place of greatest congestion and often hazard; bottleneck.
- chokepoints — Plural form of chokepoint.
- chop stroke — (in tennis, cricket, etc.) a stroke made with a sharp downward movement of the racket, bat, etc., imparting a backspin to the ball.
- clasp knife — a large knife with one or more blades or other devices folding into the handle
- clock speed — clock rate
- computernik — a person who is very interested in, and knowledgeable about, computers
- cork-tipped — (of a cigarette) having a filter of cork or some material resembling cork
- corn picker — a machine for picking the ears of corn from standing stalks and removing the husks.
- corn-picker — a machine for removing ears of maize from the standing stalks, often also equipped to separate the corn from the husk and shell
- cost keeper — a cost accountant.
- cow-spanker — a dairy farmer
- cupronickel — any ductile corrosion-resistant copper alloy containing up to 40 per cent nickel: used in coins, condenser tubes, turbine blades, etc
- cypherpunks — Plural form of cypherpunk.
- data packet — packet
- deep pocket — extensive financial resources; great wealth
- desk copier — a photocopier compact enough to fit on a desk, table, or similar surface.
- dill pickle — a cucumber pickle flavored with dill.
- doctorspeak — the language of physicians and other health professionals; specialized or technical jargon used by healthcare workers.
- donkeypunch — Alternative form of donkey punch.
- doorkeepers — Plural form of doorkeeper.
- double-park — If someone double-parks their car or their car double-parks, they park in a road by the side of another parked car.
- doublespeak — evasive, ambiguous language that is intended to deceive or confuse.
- drop cookie — a cookie made by dropping batter from a spoon onto a cookie sheet for baking.
- duck plague — an acute, highly fatal disease of ducks caused by a herpesvirus
- duplex lock — a lock capable of being opened either by a master key or a change key, each operating its own mechanism.
- enkephalins — Plural form of enkephalin.
- epimanikion — Cuffs worn over the sticharion by clergy in the Greek Orthodox Church, corresponding to a maniple in other catholic churches.
- escape cock — a valve that releases air, steam, etc, above a certain pressure; relief valve or safety valve
- eureka step — In program transformation, a transformation which is not obvious or easy to define as an algorithm.
- eye make-up — cosmetics for the eyes, such as mascara and eyeliner
- fair-spoken — speaking or spoken in a courteous, civil, or plausible manner; smooth-spoken.
- fast packet — Asynchronous Transfer Mode
- fingerpicks — Plural form of fingerpick.
- flank speed — the maximum possible speed of a ship.
- flashpacker — a backpacker who has a considerable disposable income
- flat-packed — (of a piece of furniture, equipment, or other construction) supplied in pieces packed into a flat box for assembly by the buyer
- flock paper — a wallpaper treated with flock to emphasize a design or effect.
- flyspecking — A technique for painting furniture with flicked drops of paint.
- forcepslike — Resembling a forceps.
- forest park — a city in NW Georgia.
- frankpledge — a system of dividing a community into tithings or groups of ten men, each member of which was responsible for the conduct of the other members of his group and for the assurance that a member charged with a breach of the law would be produced at court.
- franks peak — a mountain in NW Wyoming: highest peak in the Absaroka Range of the Rocky Mountains. 13,153 feet (4009 meters).
- free-spoken — given to speaking freely or without reserve; frank; outspoken.
- gamekeepers — Plural form of gamekeeper.
- gamekeeping — a person employed, as on an estate or game preserve, to prevent poaching and provide a natural environment conducive to the propagation of game, as by thinning brush, scattering food after a snowstorm, and the like.
- garden pink — the plant Dianthus plumarius
- gatekeepers — Plural form of gatekeeper.
- gatekeeping — The activity of controlling, and usually limiting, general access to something.