13-letter words containing p, o, l, k
- overland park — a town in E Kansas, near Kansas City.
- panleukopenia — distemper1 (def 1c).
- parker bowles — Camilla (née Shand). born 1947, became the second wife of Prince Charles in 2005; created Duchess of Cornwall and Duchess of Rothesay
- peacock plant — a plant, Calathea makoyana, native to Brazil, having leaves that are spotted on the upper surface and purple on the lower surface.
- people skills — ability to communicate
- petrol tanker — a specially equipped ship or truck for transporting petrol and other fuels
- petropavlovsk — a city in N Kazakhstan on the Ishim River. Pop: 190 000 (2005 est)
- phytoplankter — a minute organism which constitutes part of phytoplankton
- phytoplankton — the aggregate of plants and plantlike organisms in plankton.
- pick holes in — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
- pick-and-roll — an offensive maneuver in which a player interposes himself or herself between a teammate with the ball and a defender, then cuts quickly toward the basket for a pass from the same teammate.
- pickerel frog — a meadow frog, Rana palustris, common in eastern North America, similar to the leopard frog but with squarish dark spots on the back.
- pink bollworm — the larva of a gelechiid moth, Pectinophora gossypiella, that feeds on the seeds of the bolls of cotton and was introduced into cotton-growing regions of the world from Asia.
- plant kingdom — the plants of the world collectively.
- platykurtosis — the state of being platykurtic.
- plimsoll mark — load-line mark.
- plymouth rock — a rock at Plymouth, Massachusetts, on which the Pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower are said to have stepped ashore when they landed in America in 1620.
- pocket chisel — any woodworking chisel having a blade of medium length.
- policy-making — Policy-making is the making of policies.
- pollen basket — (of bees) a smooth area on the hind tibia of each leg fringed with long hairs and serving to transport pollen.
- pompton lakes — a town in NE New Jersey.
- poplar kitten — a moth, (Furcula bifida,) which has larvae like those of the related puss moth
- porcelainlike — resembling porcelain
- pork-barreler — a politician, especially a senator or member of Congress who is party to or benefits from a pork barrel.
- powdered milk — dry milk.
- power walking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
- prickly poppy — any tropical American poppy of the genus Argemone, especially A. mexicana (Mexican poppy) having prickly pods and leaves and yellow or white, poppylike flowers.
- prolonge knot — a knot consisting of three overlapping loops formed by a single rope passed alternately over and under itself at crossings.
- propeller key — feature key
- realpolitiker — someone who practises or believes in realpolitik
- redcloud peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains, in the S Rocky Mountains. 14,034 feet (4278 meters).
- roll-top desk — a flexible, sliding cover for the working area of a desk, opening by rising upward and back in quadrantal grooves and rolling up beneath the top.
- saloon keeper — a person who owns or operates a saloon.
- slow-speaking — tending to speak slowly
- speak volumes — a collection of written or printed sheets bound together and constituting a book.
- speckled wood — a common woodland brown satyrid butterfly, Pararge aegeria, marked with pale orange or yellowish-white spots
- spelling book — an elementary textbook or manual to teach spelling
- spelling-book — a person who spells words.
- sportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
- sprocket hole — any of a series of regular perforations along the edge of photographic film for engaging the drive sprockets in a motion-picture camera or projector.
- suffolk punch — a breed of draught horse with a chestnut coat and short legs
- talking point — a fact or feature that aids or supports one side, as in an argument or competition.
- to play hooky — If a child plays hooky, they stay away from school without permission.
- tracking poll — a type of poll repeated periodically with the same group of people to check and measure changes of opinion or knowledge.
- unprovokingly — serving to provoke; causing annoyance.
- york imperial — an American variety of yellow or green apple with red stripes.
- zooplanktonic — Of or pertaining to zooplankton.