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11-letter words containing p, i, k, e

  • keep wicket — to play as wicketkeeper in the game of cricket
  • kentia palm — a palm, Howea forsterana, of Lord Howe Island, Australia, having erect leaves, widely cultivated as an ornamental.
  • kewpie doll — a doll having rosy cheeks and a curl of hair on its head
  • kiddie porn — child pornography.
  • killer poke — A recipe for inducing hardware damage on a machine via insertion of invalid values (see poke) into a memory-mapped control register; used especially of various fairly well-known tricks on bitty boxes without hardware memory management (such as the IBM PC and Commodore PET) that can overload analog electronics in the monitor. See also HCF.
  • kiloparsecs — Plural form of kiloparsec.
  • kinderspiel — a play or piece of musical theatre performed by children
  • kindredship — a person's relatives collectively; kinfolk; kin.
  • kinetograph — a camera for taking pictures for a kinetoscope.
  • kinetoplast — A mass of mitochondrial DNA lying close to the nucleus in some flagellate protozoa.
  • kinetoscope — an early motion-picture device, invented by Edison, in which the film passed behind a peephole for viewing by a single viewer.
  • klappvisier — a visor attached by a hinge at the top: used on basinets of the 14th century.
  • kleptomania — an irresistible impulse to steal, stemming from emotional disturbance rather than economic need.
  • knee spavin — chronic inflammation of the carpal joint of a horse
  • kneecapping — (uncountable) The act of destroying the kneecaps of (a person), usually by shooting at the knees, as a punishment carried out by criminals or terrorists.
  • knife pleat — a sharply creased narrow pleat, usually one of a series folded in the same direction.
  • knife-point — the sharp tip of a knife.
  • knifepoints — Plural form of knifepoint.
  • knotty pine — pine wood with many knots
  • kohl pencil — a thin cylindrical cosmetic instrument used to darken the area around the eyes
  • kuiper belt — a disk-shaped region on the edge of the solar system that contains masses of ice and icy rock, believed to be the source of comets with orbital periods of less than 200 years. Compare Oort cloud.
  • lake placid — a town in NE New York, in the Adirondack Mountains: resort.
  • leopardskin — the skin of a leopard
  • leptokurtic — (of a frequency distribution) being more concentrated about the mean than the corresponding normal distribution.
  • leucoplakia — a disorder of a mucous membrane characterized by one or more white patches, occurring most commonly on the cheek, tongue, vulva, or penis: often medically insignificant but sometimes becoming malignant.
  • leukoplakia — a disorder of a mucous membrane characterized by one or more white patches, occurring most commonly on the cheek, tongue, vulva, or penis: often medically insignificant but sometimes becoming malignant.
  • leukoplakic — Relating to leukoplakia.
  • leukoplasia — a disorder of a mucous membrane characterized by one or more white patches, occurring most commonly on the cheek, tongue, vulva, or penis: often medically insignificant but sometimes becoming malignant.
  • lickspittle — a contemptible, fawning person; a servile flatterer or toady.
  • lymphokines — Plural form of lymphokine.
  • magpie lark — a black-and-white pied bird, Grallina cyanoleuca, inhabiting areas near water in Australia and southern New Guinea.
  • maiden pink — a turf-forming plant, Dianthus deltoides , found from western Europe to eastern Asia, having red or pink flowers.
  • marking pen — marker (def 10).
  • marlinspike — a pointed iron implement used in separating the strands of rope in splicing, marling, etc.
  • meatpacking — (US) The slaughter and further processing of animals for meat.
  • milk powder — dry milk.
  • mis-package — a bundle of something, usually of small or medium size, that is packed and wrapped or boxed; parcel.
  • misspeaking — (obsolete) Speaking ill; defamation, slander.
  • mudskippers — Plural form of mudskipper.
  • nonspeaking — the act, utterance, or discourse of a person who speaks.
  • office park — a complex of office buildings located on land planted with lawns, trees, bushes, etc.
  • open ticket — a return ticket which does not specify a date for travel
  • optokinetic — relating to a reflex whereby the eye follows a moving object
  • oyster pink — a delicate pinkish-white colour, sometimes with a greyish tinge
  • pancake ice — newly formed ice in flat pieces too small and thin to obstruct navigation.
  • paper knife — a small, often decorative, knifelike instrument with a blade of metal, ivory, wood, or the like, for slitting open envelopes, the leaves of books, folded papers, etc.
  • papermaking — the art or action of making paper
  • park-miller — A pseudorandom number generation algorithm which was discredited by Marsaglia and Steve Sullivanin in the July 1993 CACM.
  • partial key — (database)   A key which identifies a subset of a set of information items (e.g. database "records"), and which could narrow the subset to one item if other partial key(s) were combined with it.
  • pawn ticket — a receipt given for goods left with a pawnbroker.
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