12-letter words containing p, i, t, k
- pair skating — a form of competitive skating in which a man and a woman skate together in performing a choreographed series of jumps, lifts, and other acrobatic moves to a selection of music.
- pallet knife — a small, flat utensil for picking up and handling pastry paste.
- panic attack — an intense attack of anxiety characterized by feelings of impending doom and trembling, sweating, pounding heart, and other physical symptoms.
- parity check — a method for detecting errors in data communications or within a computer system by counting the number of ones or zeros per byte or per word, including a special check bit (parity bit) to see if the value is even or odd.
- pathbreaking — pertaining to blazing a trail or path.
- payback time — Payback time is when someone has to take the consequences of what they have done in the past. You can use this expression to talk about good or bad consequences.
- peak traffic — traffic at the time it is most busy
- pekinologist — a person who studies the People's Republic of China
- penalty kick — a free kick awarded for an infraction committed by a defensive player in the penalty area and taken by the offensive player who has been fouled from a point 12 yards (11 meters) directly in front of the goal.
- pencil skirt — women's garment: straight skirt
- persian knot — a hand-tied knot, used in rug weaving, in which the ends of yarn looped around a warp thread appear at each of the interstices between adjacent threads and produce a compact and relatively even pile effect.
- petach tikva — a city in W Israel, NE of Tel Aviv.
- photokinesis — movement occurring upon exposure to light.
- pickeringite — a mineral, magnesia alum, occurring usually in the form of white fibrous masses.
- picket fence — a fence consisting of pickets or pales nailed to horizontal stringers between upright posts.
- picture book — a book consisting mainly or entirely of pictures, especially one for children who have not yet learned to read.
- picture desk — the department at a magazine or newspaper publisher, that deals with photographs for the paper or magazine
- pigtail hook — a screw hook having an eye in the form of a spiral for holding a loop, chain link, etc., at any angle.
- pilot jacket — a type of leather jacket associated with U.S. Army pilots in World War II
- piston skirt — The piston skirt is the cylindrical walls of a piston.
- plain turkey — a bustard
- plane ticket — entitlement to travel by aircraft
- plinth block — a plinth interrupting a door or window architrave at the floor or ground level.
- pocket drive — a small portable memory device that can be plugged into the USB port of many different types of computer
- pocket knife — A pocket knife is a small knife with several blades which fold into the handle so that you can carry it around with you safely.
- pocket piece — (in a window frame) a removable part of a pulley stile permitting access to sash weights.
- pocket-sized — If you describe something as pocket-sized, you approve of it because it is small enough to fit in your pocket.
- poikilotherm — an organism with poikilothermic qualities
- poodle skirt — 1950s-style woman's circular skirt
- postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
- power kiting — an activity in which a person, sitting in a small buggy or wearing skis, etc, is propelled by the wind power generated by a large kite to which he or she is attached by ropes
- premarketing — before the development of a market
- price ticket — a ticket or label on an article for sale showing its price
- prickly heat — a cutaneous eruption accompanied by a prickling and itching sensation, due to an inflammation of the sweat glands.
- printing ink — a type of ink that flows smoothly, dries quickly, and is of a consistency able to hold enough color to make printed matter legible: used to transfer the image on a press plate to the printing surface.
- private joke — a joke that is understood only by a certain social group
- quickstepped — Simple past tense and past participle of quickstep.
- radar picket — a ship, vehicle, or aircraft stationed at a distance from a protected force to increase radar detection range.
- receipt book — book containing receipt slips
- risk capital — venture capital.
- septic shock — condition caused by blood poisoning
- sitka spruce — a spruce, Picea sitchensis, of western North America, having long, silvery-white needles, grown as an ornamental.
- skiing pants — warm, waterproof, protective trousers worn while skiing
- soup kitchen — a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to the needy.
- speedskating — a form of ice skating in which contestants race against each other or the clock over various distances
- split ticket — a ballot on which not all votes have been cast for candidates of the same party.
- sports drink — a drink containing sugar and salts, etc designed to help replace fluid and energy lost through the physical exertion of sport
- spotted dick — a steamed or boiled suet pudding containing dried fruit
- stick up for — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- 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.”.