9-letter words containing p, i, k, e
- platelike — a shallow, usually circular dish, often of earthenware or porcelain, from which food is eaten.
- pocketing — a shaped piece of fabric attached inside or outside a garment and forming a pouch used especially for carrying small articles.
- potlicker — Midland and Southern U.S. Eye Dialect. pot liquor.
- predikant — a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, esp in South Africa
- preshrink — to subject (textiles, garments, etc.) to a shrinking process before marketing to minimize subsequent shrinkage.
- press kit — a packet of promotional materials, as background information, photographs, or samples, for distribution to the press, as at a press conference.
- prestrike — of the period before a strike
- prestwick — international airport in W Scotland.
- princekin — a small, young, or minor prince.
- prokofiev — Sergei Sergeevich [syir-gyey syir-gye-yi-vyich] /syɪrˈgyeɪ syɪrˈgyɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1891–1953, Russian composer.
- proselike — the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
- puppylike — resembling a puppy or the manner of a puppy
- purselike — resembling a purse
- push bike — A push bike is a bicycle which you move by turning the pedals with your feet.
- push-bike — a standard bicycle, operated by pedals rather than a motor.
- puttylike — resembling or characteristic of putty
- quickstep — (formerly) a lively step used in marching.
- ragpicker — a person who picks up rags and other waste material from the streets, refuse heaps, etc., for a livelihood.
- rose pink — a light pinkish red color.
- sheeplike — any of numerous ruminant mammals of the genus Ovis, of the family Bovidae, closely related to the goats, especially O. aries, bred in a number of domesticated varieties.
- sheepskin — the skin of a sheep, especially such a skin dressed with the wool on, as for a garment.
- sheeptick — a wingless, bloodsucking, dipterous insect, Melophagus ovinus, that is parasitic on sheep.
- shipwreck — the destruction or loss of a ship, as by sinking.
- shunpiker — a driver who takes a side road to avoid paying a turnpike toll
- skeptical — doubtful about a particular thing: My teacher thinks I can get a scholarship, but I'm skeptical.
- ski slope — snow-covered hill at ski resort
- skiascope — retinoscope.
- skin deep — superficial or slight; not profound or substantial: Their sincerity is only skin-deep.
- skin-deep — superficial or slight; not profound or substantial: Their sincerity is only skin-deep.
- skip rope — A skip rope is a piece of rope, usually with handles at each end. You exercise or play with it by turning it around and around and jumping over it.
- skip zone — a region surrounding a broadcasting station that cannot receive transmissions either directly or by reflection off the ionosphere
- skippable — able to be skipped, omitted, or passed over without loss; unimportant.
- sleeplike — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
- snake pit — a mental hospital marked by squalor and inhumane or indifferent care for the patients.
- spadelike — resembling a spade
- spearlike — resembling a spear
- special k — an animal anaesthetic, ketamine hydrochloride, sold illegally as a hallucinogenic drug
- speranski — Mikhail Mikhailovich (mixɑˈil). 1772–1839, Russian statesman, chief adviser (1807–12) to Alexander I. His greatest achievement was the codification of Russian law (begun 1826)
- spikedace — a scaleless, mottled, olive-brown fish, Meda fulgida, of the Gila River system in New Mexico and Arizona, having two dorsal spines.
- spikefish — a large sea fish
- spikelike — resembling a spike
- spikenard — an aromatic, Indian plant, Nardostachys jatamansi, of the valerian family, believed to be the nard of the ancients.
- spinelike — resembling a spine
- spinnaker — a large, usually triangular sail carried by a yacht as a headsail when running before the wind or when the wind is abaft the beam.
- spokewise — in relation to, away from, or toward a center, as the spokes on a wheel: The projections were arranged spokewise around the core.
- sprekelia — a bulbous plant, Sprekelia formosissima, from Mexico and Guatemala, related to hippeastrum and grown for its striking crimson or white pendent flowers, in the form of a cross: family Amaryllidaceae
- sprinkler — any of various devices for sprinkling, as a watering pot, a container of water with a perforated top used to sprinkle clothes before ironing, or especially a perforated ring or small stand with a revolving nozzle to which a hose is attached for watering a lawn with a fine, even spray.
- stockpile — a supply of material, as a pile of gravel in road maintenance.
- strike up — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- superbike — a high-performance motorcycle