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11-letter words containing p, r, e, k

  • marlinspike — a pointed iron implement used in separating the strands of rope in splicing, marling, etc.
  • milk powder — dry milk.
  • mudskippers — Plural form of mudskipper.
  • nosy parker — a prying person
  • nyckelharpa — an old-time Swedish stringed musical instrument, similar to the hurdy-gurdy but sounded with a bow instead of a wheel.
  • 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
  • oyster pink — a delicate pinkish-white colour, sometimes with a greyish tinge
  • panel truck — a small truck having a fully enclosed body, used mainly to deliver light or small objects.
  • paper knife — a small, often decorative, knifelike instrument with a blade of metal, ivory, wood, or the like, for slitting open envelopes, the leaves of books, folded papers, etc.
  • papermaking — the art or action of making paper
  • park avenue — a wide street in New York City traditionally associated with luxurious residential and professional buildings, fashionable living, and high society.
  • park forest — a city in NE Illinois.
  • park-keeper — A park-keeper is a person whose job is to look after a park.
  • park-miller — A pseudorandom number generation algorithm which was discredited by Marsaglia and Steve Sullivanin in the July 1993 CACM.
  • parkersburg — a city in NW West Virginia, on the Ohio River.
  • partial key — (database)   A key which identifies a subset of a set of information items (e.g. database "records"), and which could narrow the subset to one item if other partial key(s) were combined with it.
  • 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.
  • pathbreaker — a person who blazes a trail or path; pathfinder.
  • peacekeeper — a person who maintains or restores peace and amity; mediator: Mother was the peacekeeper in our family.
  • peacock ore — bornite.
  • peak period — the busiest or most popular time
  • pearly king — the male London costermonger whose ceremonial clothes display the most lavish collection of pearl buttons
  • perestroika — Russian. the program of economic and political reform in the Soviet Union initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986.
  • persnickety — overparticular; fussy.
  • 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.
  • phrase book — a small book containing everyday phrases and sentences and their equivalents in a foreign language, written especially for travelers.
  • phrasemaker — a person who is skilled in coining well-turned phrases; phraseologist.
  • picked over — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
  • pieceworker — someone who does work paid for according to the quantity produced
  • pincer-like — resembling pincers in shape or action
  • pipe smoker — a person who smokes a tobacco pipe
  • placekicker — a player who takes place kicks
  • plank-sheer — a plank or timber covering the upper ends of the frames of a wooden vessel
  • plasterwork — finish or ornamental work done in plaster.
  • pocket door — a door, usually one of a communicating pair, that slides into and out of a recess in a doorway wall.
  • 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.
  • poker-faced — an expressionless face: He can tell a funny story with a poker face.
  • police work — the everyday duties of police officers, esp the investigation of criminal activities
  • policymaker — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
  • 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.
  • porkchopper — a labor official put on the union payroll as a reward for past loyalty or services.
  • porkpie hat — a hat with a round flat crown and a brim that can be turned up or down
  • pot sticker — a pan-fried and steamed Chinese dumpling with a ground meat or vegetable filling.
  • 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.
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