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12-letter words containing p, e, k

  • cluster pack — a package containing a collection of related goods, sold as a single unit
  • college park — a city in N Georgia.
  • compound key — (database)   (Or "multi-part key", "concatenated key") A key which consists of more than one attribute of the body of information (e.g. database "record") it identifies.
  • computerlike — similar to a computer
  • cookie press — a device, operating in a manner similar to that of a syringe, in which dough is inserted in a chamber and extruded, by means of a plunger, through one of a number of interchangeable dies to form a shaped cylinder that is sliced into individual cookies.
  • cooper creek — an intermittent river in E central Australia, in the Channel Country: rises in central Queensland and flows generally southwest, reaching Lake Eyre only during wet-year floods; scene of the death of the explorers Burke and Wills in 1861; the surrounding basin provides cattle pastures after the floods subside. Total length: 1420 km (880 miles)
  • cryptolocker — (security)   The best known example of the kind of malware known as ransomware. CryptoLocker encrypts files on your computer and then demands that you send the malware operator money in order to have the files decrypted. According to FBI estimates, CryptoLocker had more than 500,000 victims between September 2013 and May 2014. Around 1.3 percent paid to free their files, earning the malware makers around $3 million. The criminal network was smashed by authorities and security researchers in May 2014 and a tool put online to decryt victim's files for free.
  • culebra peak — a peak in S central Colorado, in the Culebra Range of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. 14,069 feet (4288 meters).
  • cypress knee — one of the woody growths that project above water from the roots of the bald cypress.
  • deck passage — overnight accommodation on a vessel other than in a regular sleeping space.
  • deckle strap — a strap on each edge of the moving web of paper on a paper-making machine that fixes the width of the paper
  • deep kissing — the act of taking part in a deep kiss
  • deep linking — Digital Technology. the practice of using a link that sends traffic to an internal web page with more relevant or specific content, rather than to the website's home page, as to increase user engagement.
  • deep pockets — If you say that a person or organization has deep pockets, you mean that they have a lot of money with which to pay for something.
  • dockwalloper — longshoreman
  • dumper truck — A dumper truck is the same as a dump truck.
  • economy pack — a large pack of goods that is cheaper than a normal-sized pack
  • ekman spiral — a complex interaction on the surface of the sea between wind, rotation of the earth, and friction forces, discovered by Vagn Walfrid Ekman
  • epoch-making — An epoch-making change or declaration is considered to be extremely important because it is likely to have a significant effect on a particular period of time.
  • eriskay pony — a breed of medium-sized pony, typically grey, with a dense waterproof coat. The Eriskay is the only surviving variety of the native ponies of the Western Isles of Scotland
  • floor 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.
  • flowerpecker — any of numerous small, arboreal, usually brightly colored oscine birds of the family Dicaeidae, of southeastern Asia and Australia.
  • fort pickensAndrew, 1739–1817, American Revolutionary general.
  • fruit-picker — a person or a tool that picks fruit from trees
  • glacier peak — a volcanic mountain in NW central Washington, in the Cascade range. 10,541 feet (3213 meters).
  • glockenspiel — a musical instrument composed of a set of graduated steel bars mounted in a frame and struck with hammers, used especially in bands.
  • gopher snake — a bullsnake, Pituophis melanoleucus, of western North America, that invades burrows to prey on rodents.
  • granite peak — the highest elevation in Montana, in the S part. 12,799 feet (3901 meters).
  • grape picker — someone who picks grapes
  • green keeper — greenskeeper.
  • greenskeeper — a person charged with the care and maintenance of a golf course.
  • groundkeeper — groundskeeper.
  • handies peak — a peak in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,048 feet (4285 meters).
  • hanover park — a city in NE Illinois.
  • heckelphones — Plural form of heckelphone.
  • hello packet — (networking, communications)   An OSPF packet sent periodically on each network interface, real or virtual, to discover and test connections to neighbours. Hello packets are multicast on physical networks capable of multicasting or broadcasting to enable dynamic router discovery. They include the parameters that routers connected to a common network must agree on. Hello packets increase network resilience by, e.g., allowing a router to establish a secondary connection when a primary connection fails.
  • hemiplankton — plankton that spend part of their life cycle in a vegetative state on the sea bottom, riverbed, etc. (opposed to holoplankton).
  • hickory pine — bristlecone pine.
  • hopkinsville — a city in S Kentucky.
  • hotelkeepers — Plural form of hotelkeeper.
  • housekeepers — Plural form of housekeeper.
  • housekeeping — the maintenance of a house or domestic establishment.
  • hupokeimenon — (philosophy) That which underlies, or lies beneath; substratum.
  • hyperkalemia — an abnormally high concentration of potassium in the blood.
  • hyperkalemic — Having a high percentage of potassium in one's blood.
  • hyperkinesia — Pathology. an abnormal amount of uncontrolled muscular action; spasm.
  • hyperkinesis — Pathology. an abnormal amount of uncontrolled muscular action; spasm.
  • hyperkinetic — Pathology. an abnormal amount of uncontrolled muscular action; spasm.
  • hyperlinking — Present participle of hyperlink.
  • hypermarkets — Plural form of hypermarket.
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