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11-letter words containing p, o, k, e, a

  • office park — a complex of office buildings located on land planted with lawns, trees, bushes, etc.
  • open market — an unrestricted competitive market in which any buyer and seller is free to participate.
  • opera cloak — a large cloak worn over evening clothes
  • overpackage — to package excessively
  • packet boat — a boat that travels a regular route, as along a coast or on a river, carrying passengers, freight, and mail
  • packet soup — soup supplied in dried form in a packet
  • park forest — a city in NE Illinois.
  • passagework — writing that is often extraneous to the thematic material of a work and is typically of a virtuosic or decorative character: passagework consisting of scales, arpeggios, trills, and double octaves.
  • peacock ore — bornite.
  • peak period — the busiest or most popular time
  • peak season — busiest annual period
  • perestroika — Russian. the program of economic and political reform in the Soviet Union initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986.
  • pervouralsk — a city in the central RSFSR, in the Ural Mountains in Asia.
  • petrol tank — The petrol tank in a motor vehicle is the container for petrol.
  • phantomlike — an apparition or specter.
  • phrase book — a small book containing everyday phrases and sentences and their equivalents in a foreign language, written especially for travelers.
  • picket boat — a vessel used to patrol a harbor.
  • pigeon hawk — merlin.
  • plasterwork — finish or ornamental work done in plaster.
  • plate block — a block of four or more stamps containing the number or numbers of the printing plate or plates in the margin of the sheet.
  • pobeda peak — a mountain in central Asia, on the boundary between Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan) and China: highest peak of the Tien Shan range. 24,406 feet (7439 meters).
  • pocket park — a very small park or outdoor area for public leisure, especially an urban plaza or courtyard with benches and fountains.
  • poke around — to prod or push, especially with something narrow or pointed, as a finger, elbow, stick, etc.: to poke someone in the ribs.
  • poke fun at — to prod or push, especially with something narrow or pointed, as a finger, elbow, stick, etc.: to poke someone in the ribs.
  • poker-faced — an expressionless face: He can tell a funny story with a poker face.
  • policymaker — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
  • polkadotted — a dot or round spot (printed, woven, or embroidered) repeated to form a pattern on a textile fabric.
  • pond-skater — any of various heteropterous insects of the family Gerrididae, esp Gerris lacustris (common pond-skater), having a slender hairy body and long hairy legs with which they skim about on the surface of ponds
  • pork barrel — a government appropriation, bill, or policy that supplies funds for local improvements designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents.
  • porkpie hat — a hat with a round flat crown and a brim that can be turned up or down
  • potato cake — any of various kinds of small savoury cakes made from flour and mashed potatoes, often fried or baked
  • power brake — an automotive brake set by pressure from some power source, as a compressed-air reservoir, in proportion to a smaller amount of pressure on the brake pedal.
  • poyang lake — a lake in E China, in N Jiangxi province, connected by canal with the Yangtze River: the second largest lake in China. Area (at its greatest): 2780 sq km (1073 sq miles)
  • prayer book — a book containing formal prayers to be used in public or private religious devotions.
  • prokaryotes — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
  • prony brake — a friction brake serving as a dynamometer for measuring torque.
  • realpolitik — political realism or practical politics, especially policy based on power rather than on ideals.
  • report back — If you report back to someone, you tell them about something that they asked you to find out about.
  • sample book — a number of pieces of fabric, wallpaper, etc fastened together at one edge, for people to examine when trying to choose which example to buy
  • shopbreaker — a robber who breaks into a shop
  • sneak up on — If someone sneaks up on you, they try and approach you without being seen or heard, perhaps to surprise you or do you harm.
  • so to speak — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
  • spatterdock — any of various water lilies of the genus Nuphar, having globular yellow flowers and growing in lakes or sluggish streams, especially N. advena, of the eastern U.S.
  • spatterwork — a method of decorating whereby ink or another fluid is spattered over a medium
  • spokeswoman — a woman who speaks for another person or for a group.
  • sponge cake — a light, sweet cake made with a comparatively large proportion of eggs but no shortening.
  • spot market — a market in which commodities, as grain, gold, or crude oil, are dealt in for cash and immediate delivery (distinguished from futures market).
  • stroke play — medal play.
  • technospeak — any abstruse technical jargon
  • to speak of — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
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