10-letter words containing p, e, s, k
- keypunches — Plural form of keypunch.
- kidnappers — Plural form of kidnapper.
- kiloparsec — a unit of distance, equal to 1000 parsecs. Abbreviation: kpc.
- kinescopes — Plural form of kinescope.
- kinesipath — someone who uses kinesipathy to treat diseases
- kings peak — a mountain in NE Utah: highest peak in the Uinta Mountains. 13,528 feet (4123 meters).
- kinsperson — A kinsman or kinswoman.
- kisspeptin — a protein molecule that is responsible for triggering the onset of puberty in humans
- knapsacked — Simple past tense and past participle of knapsack.
- kriegspiel — (sometimes initial capital letter) a game using small figures and counters that represent troops, ships, etc., played on a map or miniature battlefield, developed for teaching military tactics to officers.
- lake poets — the English poets Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey, who lived in and drew inspiration from the Lake District at the beginning of the 19th century
- lake pskov — the S part of Lake Peipus in NW Russia, linked to the main part by a channel 24 km (15 miles) long. Area: about 1000 sq km (400 sq miles)
- lapstrakes — Plural form of lapstrake.
- lipsticked — Decorated with lipstick.
- longs peak — a peak in N Colorado, in the Rocky Mountain National Park. 14,255 feet (4345 meters).
- loves park — a town in N Illinois.
- lumpsucker — A globular fish of cooler northern waters, typically having a ventral sucker and spiny fins; a lumpfish.
- mckeesport — a city in SW Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh.
- mediaspeak — The jargon used by the media.
- mispackage — a bundle of something, usually of small or medium size, that is packed and wrapped or boxed; parcel.
- muckspread — to muckrake
- mudskipper — any of several gobies of the genera Periophthalmus and Boleophthalmus, of tropical seas from Africa to the East Indies and Japan, noted for the habit of remaining out of water on mud flats for certain periods and jumping about when disturbed.
- neckpieces — Plural form of neckpiece.
- nitpickers — Plural form of nitpicker.
- nonspeaker — a person who does not or cannot speak
- open stock — merchandise, especially china, silverware, and glassware, sold in sets with additional individual pieces available from stock for future purchases, as for replacement.
- open-stack — having or being a system of library management in which patrons have direct access to stacks for browsing and selecting books; open-shelf.
- outsparkle — to sparkle more brilliantly than
- outspeckle — a spectacle
- pack-horse — a horse used for carrying goods, freight, supplies, etc.
- packsaddle — a saddle specifically designed for holding or supporting the load on a pack animal.
- paderewski — Ignace [French ee-nyas] /French iˈnyas/ (Show IPA), or Ignacy Jan [Polish ig-nah-tsi yahn] /Polish ɪgˈnɑ tsɪ yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1860–1941, Polish pianist, composer, patriot, and statesman.
- painstaker — a painstaking person
- parkleaves — a species of St John's wort
- peacockish — the male of the peafowl distinguished by its long, erectile, greenish, iridescent tail coverts that are brilliantly marked with ocellated spots and that can be spread in a fan.
- peak hours — prime time, busiest period
- peakedness — pale and drawn in appearance so as to suggest illness or stress; wan and sickly.
- pennsauken — a township in W New Jersey, on the Delaware River.
- perovskite — a naturally occurring titanate of calcium, CaTiO 3 , found as yellow, brown, or black cubic crystals, usually in metamorphic rocks.
- pick holes — If you pick holes in an argument or theory, you find weak points in it so that it is no longer valid.
- pickedness — sharpness or the state of being pointed
- picnickers — an excursion or outing in which the participants carry food with them and share a meal in the open air.
- pigsticker — to hunt for wild boar, usually on horseback and using a spear.
- pikes peak — a mountain in central Colorado: a peak of the Rocky Mountains. 14,108 feet (4300 meters).
- pikesville — a town in central Maryland, near Baltimore.
- pine snake — any of several subspecies of bullsnake of the eastern and southeastern U.S., chiefly in pine woods: now threatened.
- pink noise — a random signal within the audible frequency range whose amplitude decreases as frequency increases, maintaining constant audio power per frequency increment.
- pink slime — beef trimmings that have been ground and liquefied, used as a binder in minced beef and other meat products
- pink stern — a sharp stern having a narrow, overhanging, raking transom.
- pipe snake — any of several nonvenomous, burrowing snakes of the genus Cylindrophis, of southeastern Asia and the Malay Archipelago, having an evenly cylindrical body.