10-letter words containing p, s, k
- mediaspeak — The jargon used by the media.
- mispackage — a bundle of something, usually of small or medium size, that is packed and wrapped or boxed; parcel.
- muckspread — to muckrake
- mudskipper — any of several gobies of the genera Periophthalmus and Boleophthalmus, of tropical seas from Africa to the East Indies and Japan, noted for the habit of remaining out of water on mud flats for certain periods and jumping about when disturbed.
- multipacks — Plural form of multipack.
- musk plant — a perennial North American plant (Mimulus moschatus) of the figwort family, with yellow tubular flowers and, sometimes, a musky odor
- neckpieces — Plural form of neckpiece.
- nitpickers — Plural form of nitpicker.
- nonspeaker — a person who does not or cannot speak
- open stock — merchandise, especially china, silverware, and glassware, sold in sets with additional individual pieces available from stock for future purchases, as for replacement.
- open-stack — having or being a system of library management in which patrons have direct access to stacks for browsing and selecting books; open-shelf.
- optic disk — blind spot (sense 1)
- ostpolitik — the German policy toward the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, especially the expansionist views of Hitler in the 1930s and the normalization program of the West German government in the 1960s and 1970s.
- outsparkle — to sparkle more brilliantly than
- outspeckle — a spectacle
- pack-horse — a horse used for carrying goods, freight, supplies, etc.
- packsaddle — a saddle specifically designed for holding or supporting the load on a pack animal.
- paderewski — Ignace [French ee-nyas] /French iˈnyas/ (Show IPA), or Ignacy Jan [Polish ig-nah-tsi yahn] /Polish ɪgˈnɑ tsɪ yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1860–1941, Polish pianist, composer, patriot, and statesman.
- painstaker — a painstaking person
- paraskiing — the sport of jumping off high mountains wearing skis and a light parachute composed of inflatable fabric tubes that form a semirigid wing
- parkleaves — a species of St John's wort
- pastrycook — a person who makes pastry or pastries
- peacockish — the male of the peafowl distinguished by its long, erectile, greenish, iridescent tail coverts that are brilliantly marked with ocellated spots and that can be spread in a fan.
- peak hours — prime time, busiest period
- peakedness — pale and drawn in appearance so as to suggest illness or stress; wan and sickly.
- pennsauken — a township in W New Jersey, on the Delaware River.
- perovskite — a naturally occurring titanate of calcium, CaTiO 3 , found as yellow, brown, or black cubic crystals, usually in metamorphic rocks.
- physicking — a medicine that purges; cathartic; laxative.
- piatigorsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, in Caucasia.
- pick basic — Data/BASIC
- pick holes — If you pick holes in an argument or theory, you find weak points in it so that it is no longer valid.
- pickedness — sharpness or the state of being pointed
- picnickers — an excursion or outing in which the participants carry food with them and share a meal in the open air.
- pigsticker — to hunt for wild boar, usually on horseback and using a spear.
- pikes peak — a mountain in central Colorado: a peak of the Rocky Mountains. 14,108 feet (4300 meters).
- pikesville — a town in central Maryland, near Baltimore.
- pilliwinks — an old instrument of torture similar to the thumbscrew.
- pine snake — any of several subspecies of bullsnake of the eastern and southeastern U.S., chiefly in pine woods: now threatened.
- pink noise — a random signal within the audible frequency range whose amplitude decreases as frequency increases, maintaining constant audio power per frequency increment.
- pink slime — beef trimmings that have been ground and liquefied, used as a binder in minced beef and other meat products
- pink stern — a sharp stern having a narrow, overhanging, raking transom.
- pipe snake — any of several nonvenomous, burrowing snakes of the genus Cylindrophis, of southeastern Asia and the Malay Archipelago, having an evenly cylindrical body.
- pitchforks — a large, long-handled fork for manually lifting and pitching hay, stalks of grain, etc.
- pluckiness — having or showing pluck or courage; brave: The drowning swimmer was rescued by a plucky schoolboy.
- pogo stick — a long stick having a pair of handles at the top and, near the bottom, a pair of footrests attached to a powerful spring, so that by standing on the footrests while grasping the handles, one can propel oneself along in a series of leaps.
- poison oak — either of two shrubs, Rhus toxicodendron, of the eastern U.S., or R. diversiloba, of the Pacific coast of North America, resembling poison ivy and causing severe dermatitis when touched by persons sensitive to them.
- pokerishly — in a pokerish manner
- polka dots — Polka dots are very small spots printed on a piece of cloth.
- polo stick — a stick used to strike the ball in the game of polo
- poltoratsk — a city in and the capital of Turkmenistan, in the S central part, near the Iranian border.