8-letter words containing p, e, k
- sprocket — Machinery. Also called chainwheel, sprocket wheel. a toothed wheel engaging with a conveyor or power chain. one tooth of such a wheel.
- spruiker — to make or give a speech, especially extensively or elaborately; spiel; orate.
- stake up — to close up (or in) with a fence of stakes
- steplike — a movement made by lifting the foot and setting it down again in a new position, accompanied by a shifting of the weight of the body in the direction of the new position, as in walking, running, or dancing.
- stoke up — to feed and tend (a fire, etc) with fuel
- the park — a soccer pitch
- the poky — prison
- toe pick — one of the sharp teeth in the front part of a figure-skating blade.
- topmaker — a wool dealer who specializes in selling wool tops to spinners
- turnpike — a high-speed highway, especially one maintained by tolls.
- unpicked — to take out the stitches of (sewing, knitting, etc.).
- unpinked — not decorated with a perforated pattern
- unpucker — to remove the wrinkles or puckers from (the brow, mouth, lips, etc)
- unspoken — implied or understood without being spoken or uttered.
- upmarket — appealing or catering to high-income consumers; of high quality; not easily affordable or accessible: upmarket fashions.
- upstroke — an upward stroke, especially of a pen or pencil, or of a piston in a vertical cylinder.
- verkramp — bigoted or illiberal
- wasplike — any of numerous social or solitary hymenopterous insects of the Vespidae, Sphecidae, and allied families, generally having a long, slender body and narrow waist and, in the female, a stinger.
- wet pack — a type of bath in which wet sheets are applied to the patient.
- whiplike — to beat with a strap, lash, rod, or the like, especially by way of punishment or chastisement; flog; thrash: Criminals used to be whipped for minor offenses.
- wisplike — a handful or small bundle of straw, hay, or the like.