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12-letter words containing p, i, n, k, s

  • plain-spoken — candid; frank; blunt.
  • prankishness — the quality or condition of being prankish
  • risk pooling — Risk pooling is the practice of sharing all risks among a group of insurance companies.
  • rock springs — a city in SW Wyoming.
  • safe-keeping — the act of keeping safe or the state of being kept safe; protection; care; custody.
  • science park — A science park is an area, usually linked to a university, where there are a lot of private companies, especially ones concerned with high technology.
  • scorekeeping — an official of a sports contest who keeps record of the score.
  • scrapbooking — hobby: collaging
  • send packing — to dismiss peremptorily
  • shopbreaking — the act of breaking into a shop
  • skiing pants — warm, waterproof, protective trousers worn while skiing
  • skip welding — a technique of spacing welds on thin structural members in order to balance and minimize internal stresses due to heat.
  • sleepwalking — an act of sleepwalking; somnambulation.
  • smoking lamp — formerly, a lamp aboard ship for lighting pipes, now used figuratively to indicate when smoking is or is not allowed: The smoking lamp is lit.
  • snake-hipped — having thin, sinuous hips.
  • soup kitchen — a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to the needy.
  • specksioneer — a whaler
  • speedskating — a form of ice skating in which contestants race against each other or the clock over various distances
  • spinal block — spinal anesthesia.
  • sports drink — a drink containing sugar and salts, etc designed to help replace fluid and energy lost through the physical exertion of sport
  • spring break — a vacation from school or college during the spring term, lasting about a week.
  • springkeeper — a salamander
  • stinky pinky — an oral word game in which one player provides a definition to which the others are to supply a rhyming phrase, as “a mighty nightie” for “a powerful pair of pajamas.”.
  • stinky-pinky — an oral word game in which one player provides a definition to which the others are to supply a rhyming phrase, as “a mighty nightie” for “a powerful pair of pajamas.”.
  • stock option — an option giving the holder, usually an officer or employee, the right to buy stock of the issuing corporation at a specific price within a stated period.
  • stocking cap — a long, conical, knitted cap, usually with a tassel or pompon at the tip.
  • stockpunisht — punished by being put in stocks
  • suckling pig — piglet not yet weaned
  • sukarnoputri — Megawati (ˈmɛɡəˌwɒtɪ). born 1947, Indonesian politician; president of Indonesia (2001–04): daughter of Achmed Sukarno
  • superkingdom — in some systems of biological classification, either of the two major subdivisions, prokaryote or eukaryote, into which all living organisms can be placed
  • talking shop — If you say that a conference or a committee is just a talking shop, you disapprove of it because nothing is achieved as a result of what is discussed.
  • trunk piston — a piston with a long skirt to take the side thrust, as in an automobile engine.
  • wackyparsing — (Internet, slang) present participle of wackyparse.
  • walk spanish — to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.
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