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15-letter words containing p, i, t, a, k

  • pullman kitchen — a kitchenette, often recessed into a wall and concealed by double doors or a screen.
  • rocket airplane — an airplane propelled wholly or mainly by a rocket engine.
  • sanitary napkin — a pad of absorbent material, as cotton, worn by women during menstruation to absorb the uterine flow.
  • shock probation — the release on probation of a criminal after brief imprisonment
  • shopping basket — a metal or plastic container with one or two handles, used to carry shopping in a shop
  • shrimp cocktail — prawns and lettuce in Mary Rose sauce
  • slap and tickle — sexual play
  • sparkling water — soda water (def 1).
  • speaking as sth — You can say 'speaking as a parent' or 'speaking as a teacher', for example, to indicate that the opinion you are giving is based on your experience as a parent or as a teacher.
  • speaking of sth — You can say speaking of something that has just been mentioned as a way of introducing a new topic which has some connection with that thing.
  • spiral notebook — a notebook held together by a coil of wire passed through small holes punched at the back edge of the covers and individual pages
  • steak au poivre — pepper steak (def 2).
  • stephen hawkingStephen William, born 1942, English mathematician and theoretical physicist.
  • strike pay dirt — to achieve one's objective
  • swamp white oak — an oak, Quercus bicolor, of eastern North America, yielding a hard, heavy wood used in shipbuilding, for making furniture, etc.
  • sympathetic ink — a fluid for producing writing that is invisible until brought out by heat, chemicals, etc.; invisible ink.
  • sympathy strike — a strike by a body of workers, not because of grievances against their own employer, but by way of endorsing and aiding another group of workers who are on strike or have been locked out.
  • take one's pick — If you are told to take your pick, you can choose any one that you like from a group of things.
  • talking picture — Older Use. a motion picture with accompanying synchronized speech, singing, etc.
  • thomas à kempis — Thomas à, 1379?–1471, German ecclesiastic and author.
  • turk's-cap lily — either of two lilies, Lilum martagon or L. superbum, having nodding flowers with the perianth segments rolled backward.
  • university park — a city in N Texas.
  • unsportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
  • working capital — the amount of capital needed to carry on a business.
  • you can keep it — I have no interest in what you are offering
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