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11-letter words that end in k

  • oxygen mask — a masklike device placed or worn over the nose and mouth when inhaling supplementary oxygen from an attached tank.
  • oyster fork — a small, three-pronged fork, used especially in eating seafood.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • peking duck — a Chinese dish consisting of roast duck with a crispy skin; the meat is served with strips of vegetables, steamed pancakes, and hoisin sauce
  • pen and ink — A pen and ink drawing is done using a pen rather than a pencil.
  • penny black — the first adhesive postage stamp, issued in Britain in 1840; an imperforate stamp bearing the profile of Queen Victoria on a dark background
  • penny stock — common stock, usually highly speculative, selling for less than a dollar a share.
  • 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.
  • phitsanulok — a city in central Thailand.
  • phrase book — a small book containing everyday phrases and sentences and their equivalents in a foreign language, written especially for travelers.
  • pigeon hawk — merlin.
  • pigeon milk — crop milk.
  • pillow talk — private conversation, endearments, or confidences exchanged in bed or in intimate circumstances between spouses or lovers.
  • pitch-black — extremely black or dark as pitch: a pitch-black night.
  • plasterwork — finish or ornamental work done in plaster.
  • plate block — a block of four or more stamps containing the number or numbers of the printing plate or plates in the margin of the sheet.
  • plough back — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
  • pobeda peak — a mountain in central Asia, on the boundary between Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan) and China: highest peak of the Tien Shan range. 24,406 feet (7439 meters).
  • pocket book — a book small enough to be carried in one's pocket
  • pocket park — a very small park or outdoor area for public leisure, especially an urban plaza or courtyard with benches and fountains.
  • point-blank — aimed or fired straight at the mark especially from close range; direct.
  • police work — the everyday duties of police officers, esp the investigation of criminal activities
  • policy wonk — a person who studies or makes political policies, esp one who has a strong enthusiasm for technical details
  • pool a risk — If an insurer pools a risk, it takes on a share of each risk underwritten by every other member in an association of insurers or reinsurers.
  • pop-up book — book: illustrations open out
  • prajadhipok — 1893–1941, king of Siam 1925–35.
  • prayer book — a book containing formal prayers to be used in public or private religious devotions.
  • price break — a reduction in price, esp for bulk purchase
  • price check — A price check is an investigation of the prices charged by different retailers for the same goods to find the best value.
  • prickleback — any of several blennioid fishes of the family Stichaeidae, usually inhabiting cold waters, having spiny rays in the dorsal fin.
  • privet hawk — a hawk moth, Sphinx ligustri, with a mauve-and-brown striped body: frequents privets
  • prokopyevsk — a city in the S central Russian Federation in Asia, NW of Novokuznetsk.
  • pugil stick — a long pole or stick with padded ends used to carry out mock combat.
  • pulled pork — of or denoting meat that is cooked until the meat can easily be pulled off the bone, as in pulled pork.
  • punch-drunk — (especially of a boxer) having cerebral concussion caused by repeated blows to the head and consequently exhibiting unsteadiness of gait, hand tremors, slow muscular movement, hesitant speech, and dulled mentality.
  • purple book — 1.   (publication)   The "System V Interface Definition". The covers of the first editions were an amazingly nauseating shade of off-lavender. 2.   (publication)   The Wizard Book. See also book titles.
  • puzzle book — a book of games or questions presenting problems that require skill or ingenuity for their solution
  • quack-quack — a duck
  • quail clock — a clock that announces the hours by a sound resembling that of a quail.
  • quarterback — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
  • quarterdeck — the part of a weather deck that runs aft from the midship area or the mainmast to the stern or poop of a vessel.
  • quick trick — a card, or group of cards, that will probably win the first or second trick in a suit, regardless of who plays it or at what declaration.
  • radio shack — a room or structure, as on a ship, for housing radio equipment.
  • random walk — Statistics. the path taken by a point or quantity that moves in steps, where the direction of each step is determined randomly.
  • ration book — a book showing an individual's entitlement to certain rationed goods
  • realpolitik — political realism or practical politics, especially policy based on power rather than on ideals.
  • recipe book — a book containing lists of ingredients and directions for making different food dishes
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