11-letter words containing p, e, s, k
- peak season — busiest annual period
- peckishness — the state or condition of being peckish
- penny stock — common stock, usually highly speculative, selling for less than a dollar a share.
- perestroika — Russian. the program of economic and political reform in the Soviet Union initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986.
- persnickety — overparticular; fussy.
- pervouralsk — a city in the central RSFSR, in the Ural Mountains in Asia.
- phrase book — a small book containing everyday phrases and sentences and their equivalents in a foreign language, written especially for travelers.
- phrasemaker — a person who is skilled in coining well-turned phrases; phraseologist.
- pine siskin — a small, North American finch, Carduelis pinus, of coniferous forests, having yellow markings on the wings and tail.
- pinkishness — a pinkish quality or colouring
- pipe smoker — a person who smokes a tobacco pipe
- plank-sheer — a plank or timber covering the upper ends of the frames of a wooden vessel
- plasterwork — finish or ornamental work done in plaster.
- plisetskaya — Maya (Mikhailovna) [mah-yuh myi-khahy-luh v-nuh] /ˈmɑ yə myɪˈxaɪ ləv nə/ (Show IPA), 1925–2015, Soviet ballet dancer.
- pocket-size — small enough to fit conveniently into one's pocket.
- pond-skater — any of various heteropterous insects of the family Gerrididae, esp Gerris lacustris (common pond-skater), having a slender hairy body and long hairy legs with which they skim about on the surface of ponds
- pot sticker — a pan-fried and steamed Chinese dumpling with a ground meat or vegetable filling.
- press brake — brake1 (def 6).
- prick-tease — a woman who is sexually provocative but refuses to engage in sexual activity
- prokaryotes — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
- prokopyevsk — a city in the S central Russian Federation in Asia, NW of Novokuznetsk.
- psyche knot — a woman's hairdo in which a knot or coil of hair projects from the back of the head.
- puckishness — the state of being puckish
- pumpkinseed — the seed of the pumpkin.
- punji stake — a sharp bamboo stake concealed in high grass at an angle so as to gash the feet and legs of enemy soldiers and often coated with excrement so as to cause an infected wound.
- pyrokinesis — the ability to set objects or people on fire through the concentration of psychic power.
- rocket ship — a rocket-propelled aircraft or spacecraft.
- rope socket — either of a pair of matching fittings fastened to the ends of lengths of wire rope to join them together.
- safekeeping — the act of keeping safe or the state of being kept safe; protection; care; custody.
- sample book — a number of pieces of fabric, wallpaper, etc fastened together at one edge, for people to examine when trying to choose which example to buy
- sandia peak — a mountain in N central New Mexico in the Sandia Mountains. 10,678 feet (3255 meters).
- scorekeeper — an official of a sports contest who keeps record of the score.
- septic tank — a tank in which solid organic sewage is decomposed and purified by anaerobic bacteria.
- serpentlike — resembling a serpent
- shakespeare — William ("the Bard"; "the Bard of Avon") 1564–1616, English poet and dramatist.
- sheep track — a pathway made by and used by sheep, often in rocky or mountainous terrain, and sometimes followed by hikers
- sheep-shank — a kind of knot, hitch, or bend made on a rope to shorten it temporarily.
- ship-broker — a person who acts for a shipowner by getting cargo and passengers for his ships and also handling insurance and other matters
- shipwrecked — the destruction or loss of a ship, as by sinking.
- shopbreaker — a robber who breaks into a shop
- shopkeeping — a retail merchant or tradesman; a person who owns or operates a small store or shop.
- skeptically — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
- skip tracer — an investigator whose job is to locate missing persons, especially debtors.
- sleepwalker — the act or state of walking, eating, or performing other motor acts while asleep, of which one is unaware upon awakening; somnambulism.
- slit pocket — a pocket on the underside of a garment, reached through a vertical opening
- slop bucket — slop pail.
- smoke point — heat at which oil gives off smoke
- smokejumper — a firefighter who parachutes to forest fires inaccessible to ground crews.
- snake plant — a widely grown houseplant, Sansevieria trifasciata, having stiffly erect, mottled, lance-shaped leaves.
- snapperback — the center on the offensive team.