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10-letter words containing p, e, s, k

  • pluckiness — having or showing pluck or courage; brave: The drowning swimmer was rescued by a plucky schoolboy.
  • pokerishly — in a pokerish manner
  • postmarked — an official mark stamped on letters and other mail, serving as a cancellation of the postage stamp and indicating the place, date, and sometimes time of sending or receipt.
  • poststrike — of or relating to the period after a (workers) strike
  • potsticker — a pan-fried and steamed Chinese dumpling with a ground meat or vegetable filling.
  • press pack — a dismissive term for a group of journalists, viewed as hounding a person
  • press-back — a wooden chair back having a design pressed, rather than carved, into its crossrails.
  • proskomide — prothesis (def 2a).
  • quicksteps — Plural form of quickstep.
  • rump steak — Rump or rump steak is meat cut from the rear end of a cow.
  • schipperke — one of a Belgian breed of small dogs having erect ears and a thick, black coat, originally used as a watchdog on boats in the Netherlands and Belgium.
  • scoop neck — a round, usually low, neckline on a dress, blouse, etc.
  • seakeeping — the ability of a vessel to endure rough conditions at sea and navigate safely during long storms.
  • shankpiece — a piece of metal or fiber for giving form to the shank of a shoe.
  • sheep tick — a wingless, bloodsucking, dipterous insect, Melophagus ovinus, that is parasitic on sheep.
  • sheepshank — a kind of knot, hitch, or bend made on a rope to shorten it temporarily.
  • sheeptrack — a small natural terrace on a hillside
  • shell pink — delicate whitish to yellow pink.
  • shopkeeper — a retail merchant or tradesman; a person who owns or operates a small store or shop.
  • shopwalker — a floorwalker.
  • shrimplike — any of several small, long-tailed, chiefly marine crustaceans of the decapod suborder Natania, certain species of which are used as food.
  • silk paper — paper that contains silk fibers and is sometimes used for printing postage stamps and revenue stamps.
  • skate park — area for skateboarding
  • skepticism — skeptical attitude or temper; doubt.
  • sketch map — a rough map of the principal features of a locale, as one drawn from memory.
  • skeuomorph — an ornament or design on an object copied from a form of the object when made from another material or by other techniques, as an imitation metal rivet mark found on handles of prehistoric pottery.
  • skippering — the master or captain of a vessel, especially of a small trading or fishing vessel.
  • skyscraper — a relatively tall building of many stories, especially one for office or commercial use.
  • skytrooper — a paratrooper.
  • smoke shop — a shop selling tobacco products.
  • smokeproof — that cannot be penetrated by smoke: a fireproof and smokeproof compartment.
  • soapflakes — small particles of solid soap or detergent used for washing clothes
  • space junk — objects such as artificial satellites, material discarded from space stations, etc that remain in space after use
  • space mark — a proofreader's symbol used to indicate the need to insert space, as between two typed or printed words that have been run together. Symbol: #.
  • space walk — When an astronaut goes on a space walk, he or she leaves the spacecraft and works outside it while floating in space.
  • sparkliest — tending to sparkle; animated; lively: a row of sparkly cheerleaders.
  • speak-easy — a place where alcoholic drinks are sold illegally, esp. such a place in the U.S. during Prohibition
  • speakerine — a female television or radio announcer
  • speakingly — in an eloquent manner
  • specmark89 — (benchmark)   An old SPECmark benchmark result derived from a set of floating-point and integer benchmarks. It is the geometric mean of ten SPEC ratios of the outdated 1989 SPEC benchmark suite. The use of SPECmark89 is strongly discouraged, having been superseded by CINT92 and CFP92.
  • speedfreak — an addict or habitual user of amphetamines, methamphetamines, or similar stimulating drugs.
  • speedwalks — power walking.
  • spellcheck — If you spellcheck something you have written on a computer, you use a special program to check whether you have made any spelling mistakes.
  • spelunking — to explore caves, especially as a hobby.
  • sperm bank — a repository for storing sperm and keeping it viable under scientifically controlled conditions prior to its use in artificial insemination.
  • spherelike — relating to or resembling spheres
  • sphinxlike — like the Sphinx; enigmatic or inscrutable
  • spiderlike — any of numerous predaceous arachnids of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs that serve as nests and as traps for prey.
  • spiderwork — a thing which has the appearance of a spider's web
  • spike heel — a very high heel that tapers to a narrow base, used on women's shoes.
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