15-letter words containing p, o, k, e, a
- not to speak of — You can use not to speak of when adding something which your previous statement also applies to, or applies to even more than other things.
- oil tanker pier — An oil tanker pier is a structure over water where oil tankers can stop and load or unload.
- pack one's bags — If you pack your bags, you leave a place where you have been staying or living.
- package holiday — a holiday arranged by a travel company in which your travel and accommodation are booked for you
- parking offence — the act of leaving your car somewhere illegally
- passive smoking — the inhaling of cigarette, cigar, and pipe smoke of others, especially by a nonsmoker in an enclosed area.
- pat on the back — to strike lightly or gently with something flat, as with a paddle or the palm of the hand, usually in order to flatten, smooth, or shape: to pat dough into flat pastry forms.
- peacock feather — a (distinctive and brightly coloured) feather from the peacock
- peak production — the maximum production
- pedunculate oak — a large deciduous oak tree, Quercus robur, of Eurasia, having lobed leaves and stalked acorns
- phenakistoscope — an early form of a zoetrope in which figures are depicted in different poses around the edge of a disc. When the disc is spun, and the figures observed through the apertures around the edge of the disc, they appear to be moving
- phenylketonuria — an inherited disease due to faulty metabolism of phenylalanine, characterized by phenylketones in the urine and usually first noted by signs of mental retardation in infancy.
- pick and choose — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
- pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
- platform rocker — a rocking chair supported on a stationary base
- platform ticket — a pass allowing a visitor to enter upon a railroad platform from which those not traveling are ordinarily excluded.
- poke mullock at — to ridicule
- police marksman — a police officer skilled in precision shooting, esp with a sniper rifle
- power breakfast — If business people have a power breakfast, they go to a restaurant early in the morning so that they can have a meeting while they eat breakfast.
- programme-maker — someone who creates programmes for television and radio
- property market — business or trade in land and houses
- put the make on — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- rake's progress — a series of paintings and engravings by William Hogarth.
- raw-pack method — cold pack (def 2).
- rocket airplane — an airplane propelled wholly or mainly by a rocket engine.
- shopping basket — a metal or plastic container with one or two handles, used to carry shopping in a shop
- spark generator — an alternating-current power source with a condenser discharging across a spark gap.
- 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.
- spell a paddock — to give a field a rest period by letting it lie fallow
- 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
- sport one's oak — to shut this door as a sign one does not want visitors
- steak au poivre — pepper steak (def 2).
- swamp white oak — an oak, Quercus bicolor, of eastern North America, yielding a hard, heavy wood used in shipbuilding, for making furniture, etc.
- take down a peg — to lower the pride or conceit of; humble or dispirit
- 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.
- the upper karoo — one of the two divisions of the Karoo
- thomas à kempis — Thomas à, 1379?–1471, German ecclesiastic and author.
- to take up arms — If one group or country takes up arms against another, they prepare to attack and fight them.
- unsportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
- walleye pollock — a cod, Theragra chalcogramma, ranging the northern Pacific, that is related to and resembles the pollock.
- yorke peninsula — a peninsula in S Australia between Spencer Gulf and the Gulf of St. Vincent. 160 miles (257 km) long and 20–35 miles (32–56 km) wide.
- you can keep it — I have no interest in what you are offering