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12-letter words that end in k

  • passage work — 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.
  • passion week — the week preceding Easter; Holy Week.
  • pattern book — collection of textile motifs or designs
  • pelican hook — a hooklike device for holding the link of a chain or the like, consisting of a long shackle with a hinged rod held closed with a sliding ring.
  • penalty kick — a free kick awarded for an infraction committed by a defensive player in the penalty area and taken by the offensive player who has been fouled from a point 12 yards (11 meters) directly in front of the goal.
  • pension book — In Britain, a pension book is a small book which is given to pensioners by the government. Each week, one page can be exchanged for money at a Post Office.
  • pepper steak — strips of beefsteak sautéed with strips of green pepper and onion, and often flavored with soy sauce.
  • pereira bark — the bark of any of several South American trees belonging to the genus Geissospermum, of the dogbane family, especially that of G. vellosii, used in Brazil to allay fever.
  • petrozavodsk — a city in NW Russia, capital of the Karelian Autonomous Republic, on Lake Onega: developed around ironworks established by Peter the Great in 1703; university (1940). Pop: 265 000 (2005 est)
  • phone phreak — a person who uses computers or other electronic devices to place long-distance telephone calls without paying toll charges.
  • picture book — a book consisting mainly or entirely of pictures, especially one for children who have not yet learned to read.
  • picture desk — the department at a magazine or newspaper publisher, that deals with photographs for the paper or magazine
  • pigeon clock — a device for timing the arrivals of pigeons being raced, consisting of a magazine for holding the identification bands of the contestants in the order in which they are inserted and a recording clock to register the times of insertion.
  • pigtail hook — a screw hook having an eye in the form of a spiral for holding a loop, chain link, etc., at any angle.
  • pillow block — a cast-iron or steel block for supporting a journal or bearing.
  • pioneer work — pioneer work does something that has not been done before, for example by developing or using new methods or techniques
  • plinth block — a plinth interrupting a door or window architrave at the floor or ground level.
  • powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
  • pressed duck — a cooked duck sprinkled with red wine and then pressed in a device (duck press) so that the juices can be collected and served as a sauce over the breast meat and legs.
  • printing ink — a type of ink that flows smoothly, dries quickly, and is of a consistency able to hold enough color to make printed matter legible: used to transfer the image on a press plate to the printing surface.
  • product mark — a trademark used on only one product.
  • pruning hook — an implement with a hooked blade, used for pruning vines, branches, etc.
  • pyramid peak — a mountain in W central Colorado, in the Elk Range, in the S Rocky Mountains. 14,018 feet (4276 meters).
  • quartz clock — an extremely accurate electronic movement utilizing the natural frequency of vibrations of a quartz crystal to regulate the operation of the timepiece (quartz clock or quartz watch)
  • quillai bark — soapbark (def 2).
  • rappahannock — a river flowing SE from N Virginia into the Chesapeake Bay: Civil War battle 1863. 185 miles (300 km) long.
  • ratchet jack — a screw jack rotated by a ratchet mechanism.
  • reading book — a book for people who are learning to read, to help them become accustomed to looking at and understanding written words
  • reading desk — a desk for use in reading, especially by a person standing.
  • reading week — university: week-long break from classes
  • reaping hook — a curved cutting tool with a sharp edge, used in the cutting or harvesting of crops
  • receipt book — book containing receipt slips
  • reform flask — an English salt-glazed stoneware flask of the early 19th century formed as an effigy of one of the figures connected with the Reform Bill of 1832.
  • reserve bank — one of the 12 principal banks of the U.S. Federal Reserve System.
  • reserve tank — the tank or part of a tank in a car engine that reserves fuel in case the main fuel supply runs out
  • rhythm stick — a small wooden stick used, especially by a child, as a simple percussive instrument in learning the rudiments of musical rhythm.
  • ribeye steak — a large beefsteak cut from the outer, or eye, side of the ribs.
  • ring network — (networking, topology)   A network topology in which all nodes are connected to a single wire in a ring or point-to-point. There are no endpoints. This topology is used by token ring networks. Compare: bus network, star network.
  • rohnert park — a city in W California.
  • rooter skunk — hog-nosed skunk (def 1).
  • roselle park — a borough in NE New Jersey.
  • rubber check — a check drawn on an account lacking the funds to pay it; a check that bounces.
  • running back — an offensive back, as a halfback or fullback, whose principal role is advancing the ball by running with it on plays from scrimmage.
  • running kick — a kick made (to something or somebody) after running a short distance
  • saddle block — a type of spinal anaesthesia producing sensory loss in the buttocks, inner sides of the thighs, and perineum
  • sale of work — a sale of goods and handicrafts made by the members of a club, church congregation, etc, to raise money
  • salmon brick — a soft, imperfectly fired brick having a reddish-orange color.
  • salmon steak — a thick slice of salmon
  • sanity check — (programming)   1. Checking code (or anything else, e.g. a Usenet posting) for completely stupid mistakes. Implies that the check is to make sure the author was sane when it was written; e.g. if a piece of scientific software relied on a particular formula and was giving unexpected results, one might first look at the nesting of parentheses or the coding of the formula, as a "sanity check", before looking at the more complex I/O or data structure manipulation routines, much less the algorithm itself. Compare reality check. 2. A run-time test, either validating input or ensuring that the program hasn't screwed up internally (producing an inconsistent value or state).
  • savings bank — a bank that receives savings accounts only and pays interest to its depositors.
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