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14-letter words containing r, a, k, e

  • pancake batter — batter made from eggs and flour and used to make thin flat cakes often served rolled and filled with a sweet or savoury mixture
  • panic-stricken — overcome with, characterized by, or resulting from fear, panic, or the like: panic-stricken parents looking for their child; a panic-stricken phone call.
  • paperback book — a book with covers made of flexible card, sold relatively cheaply
  • park chung hee — 1917–79, South Korean politician: president 1963–79 (assassinated).
  • parking garage — A parking garage is a building where people can leave their cars.
  • parking sensor — A parking sensor is a device on a vehicle which detects obstacles and alerts the driver if the vehicle comes too close to them when being parked.
  • parking ticket — written notice of a parking violation
  • partners' desk — a desk constructed so that two people may work at it face-to-face, as one having a kneehole and drawers on two fronts.
  • passion killer — something that is sexually unattractive or inhibiting
  • payback period — the period in which money owed, debts, etc, have to be paid back
  • peacock-flower — royal poinciana.
  • pearl necklace — jewelry: string of pearls
  • pedal keyboard — pedal (def 3a).
  • pembroke table — a drop-leaf table with fly rails and with a drawer at one end or each end of the skirt.
  • penalty killer — a player used when the player's team is short-handed as a result of a penalty, especially a player skilled at defense and employed regularly in such situations.
  • penalty stroke — a stroke added to a score for a rule infraction.
  • permanent link — (web)   A URL that always points to the same piece of web content. Web pages that appear for a limited time at their main URL, such as web logs or news sites, often display an alternative, permanent link. Readers can quote, bookmark, or link to this URL in order to refer to a particular item, rather than the page displaying the latest item. For example, the URL http://news.bbc.co.uk/ points to the latest news from the BBC whereas http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/2614839.stm is a permanent link to a particular news story.
  • petermann peak — a mountain in E Greenland. 9645 feet (2940 meters).
  • phosphate rock — phosphorite.
  • pinking shears — shears that have notched blades, for cutting and simultaneously pinking fabric or for finishing garments with a notched, nonfraying edge.
  • pipeline break — (architecture)   (Or "pipeline stall") The delay caused on a processor using pipelines when a transfer of control is taken. Normally when a control-transfer instruction (a branch, conditional branch, call or trap) is taken, any following instructions which have been loaded into the processor's pipeline must be discarded or "flushed" and new instructions loaded from the branch destination. This introduces a delay before the processor can resume execution. "Delayed control-transfer" is a technique used to reduce this effect.
  • play for keeps — to do something seriously and without showing any mercy
  • poikilothermal — cold-blooded (def 1 .) (opposed to homoiothermal).
  • poikilothermia — Medicine/Medical. the inability to regulate core body temperature (as by sweating to cool off or by putting on clothes to warm up), found especially in some spinal cord injury patients and in patients under general anesthesia.
  • polar outbreak — a vigorous thrust of cold, polar air across temperate regions.
  • post-breakfast — the first meal of the day; morning meal: A hearty breakfast was served at 7 a.m.
  • practical joke — a playful trick, often involving some physical agent or means, in which the victim is placed in an embarrassing or disadvantageous position.
  • pre-earthquake — a series of vibrations induced in the earth's crust by the abrupt rupture and rebound of rocks in which elastic strain has been slowly accumulating.
  • printer's mark — a stamp or device, usually found on the copyright page, that identifies a book as the work of a particular printer.
  • promenade deck — an upper deck or part of a deck on a passenger ship where passengers can stroll, often covered with a light shade deck.
  • purbeck marble — a fossil-rich limestone that takes a high polish: used for building, etc
  • purple grackle — the eastern subspecies of the common grackle, Quiscalus quiscula, of North America, having an iridescent purple back.
  • pyjama cricket — one-day cricket, in which the players wear colourful clothing rather than the traditional whites used in longer forms of the game
  • pyramidal peak — a sharp peak formed where the ridges separating three or more cirques intersect; horn
  • quaker meeting — a meeting of Quakers, at which all members, except those moved to speak, remain silent.
  • quarterbacking — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
  • railway worker — railroad employee
  • raking cornice — either of two straight, sloping cornices on a pediment following or suggesting the slopes of a roof.
  • rangeley lakes — chain of lakes in W Me. & NE N.H.
  • rank-and-filer — a member of the rank and file.
  • rathke's pouch — an invagination of stomodeal ectoderm developing into the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland.
  • re-embarkation — the act of boarding a ship or aircraft again
  • ready reckoner — reckoner (def 2).
  • recklinghausen — a city in NW Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
  • record-breaker — A record-breaker is someone or something that beats the previous best result in a sport or other activity.
  • reefing jacket — a man's short double-breasted jacket of sturdy wool
  • reference mark — Surveying. a permanent mark set at a specific distance in a specific direction from a survey station so as to permit accurate reestablishment of the station.
  • remarkableness — notably or conspicuously unusual; extraordinary: a remarkable change.
  • removable disk — removable hard disk
  • retail banking — banking for individual customers
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