10-letter words containing p, i, s, k
- optic disk — blind spot (sense 1)
- ostpolitik — the German policy toward the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, especially the expansionist views of Hitler in the 1930s and the normalization program of the West German government in the 1960s and 1970s.
- paderewski — Ignace [French ee-nyas] /French iˈnyas/ (Show IPA), or Ignacy Jan [Polish ig-nah-tsi yahn] /Polish ɪgˈnɑ tsɪ yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1860–1941, Polish pianist, composer, patriot, and statesman.
- painstaker — a painstaking person
- paraskiing — the sport of jumping off high mountains wearing skis and a light parachute composed of inflatable fabric tubes that form a semirigid wing
- peacockish — the male of the peafowl distinguished by its long, erectile, greenish, iridescent tail coverts that are brilliantly marked with ocellated spots and that can be spread in a fan.
- perovskite — a naturally occurring titanate of calcium, CaTiO 3 , found as yellow, brown, or black cubic crystals, usually in metamorphic rocks.
- physicking — a medicine that purges; cathartic; laxative.
- piatigorsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, in Caucasia.
- pick basic — Data/BASIC
- pick holes — If you pick holes in an argument or theory, you find weak points in it so that it is no longer valid.
- pickedness — sharpness or the state of being pointed
- picnickers — an excursion or outing in which the participants carry food with them and share a meal in the open air.
- pigsticker — to hunt for wild boar, usually on horseback and using a spear.
- pikes peak — a mountain in central Colorado: a peak of the Rocky Mountains. 14,108 feet (4300 meters).
- pikesville — a town in central Maryland, near Baltimore.
- pilliwinks — an old instrument of torture similar to the thumbscrew.
- pine snake — any of several subspecies of bullsnake of the eastern and southeastern U.S., chiefly in pine woods: now threatened.
- pink noise — a random signal within the audible frequency range whose amplitude decreases as frequency increases, maintaining constant audio power per frequency increment.
- pink slime — beef trimmings that have been ground and liquefied, used as a binder in minced beef and other meat products
- pink stern — a sharp stern having a narrow, overhanging, raking transom.
- pipe snake — any of several nonvenomous, burrowing snakes of the genus Cylindrophis, of southeastern Asia and the Malay Archipelago, having an evenly cylindrical body.
- pitchforks — a large, long-handled fork for manually lifting and pitching hay, stalks of grain, etc.
- pluckiness — having or showing pluck or courage; brave: The drowning swimmer was rescued by a plucky schoolboy.
- pogo stick — a long stick having a pair of handles at the top and, near the bottom, a pair of footrests attached to a powerful spring, so that by standing on the footrests while grasping the handles, one can propel oneself along in a series of leaps.
- poison oak — either of two shrubs, Rhus toxicodendron, of the eastern U.S., or R. diversiloba, of the Pacific coast of North America, resembling poison ivy and causing severe dermatitis when touched by persons sensitive to them.
- pokerishly — in a pokerish manner
- polo stick — a stick used to strike the ball in the game of polo
- 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.
- prankishly — in a prankish manner, mischievously
- prick song — written music.
- prick-post — (in a framed structure) a secondary post, as a queen post.
- pricklings — tingly sensations of discomfort or euphoria
- printworks — (used with a singular or plural verb) a factory that prints textiles or other materials.
- proskomide — prothesis (def 2a).
- puschkinia — a small spring-flowering bulb, Puschkinia scilloides, of Asia Minor and the Caucasus, having white or pale blue flowers striped with dark blue
- pyatigorsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, in Caucasia.
- quicksteps — Plural form of quickstep.
- quikscript — Simulation language derived from SIMSCRIPT, based on 20-GATE.
- 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.
- 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.
- shell pink — delicate whitish to yellow pink.
- shrimplike — any of several small, long-tailed, chiefly marine crustaceans of the decapod suborder Natania, certain species of which are used as food.
- shrinkpack — flexible plastic used for shrink-wrapping goods
- sick puppy — mentally ill or depraved person
- silk paper — paper that contains silk fibers and is sometimes used for printing postage stamps and revenue stamps.
- skepticism — skeptical attitude or temper; doubt.