16-letter words containing e, p, i, k
- pigs in blankets — small frankfurters wrapped in dough and baked, served as an appetizer
- plain-spokenness — the quality or characteristic of being plain-spoken
- pleasure-seeking — always looking for pleasure
- pocket billiards — pool2 (def 1).
- portfolio worker — a person in portfolio employment
- posigrade rocket — an auxiliary rocket used to separate the sections of a multistage rocket, fired in the direction of flight.
- potemkin village — a pretentiously showy or imposing façade intended to mask or divert attention from an embarrassing or shabby fact or condition.
- poverty-stricken — suffering from poverty; extremely poor: poverty-stricken refugees.
- pressure flaking — a method of manufacturing a flint tool by pressing flakes from a stone core with a pointed implement, usually of wood tipped with antler or copper.
- proboscis monkey — a reddish, arboreal monkey, Nasalis larvatus, of Borneo, the male of which has a long, flexible nose: an endangered species.
- put the skids to — to thwart or cause to fail
- river carpsucker — a carpsucker, Carpiodes carpio, found in silty rivers of the central U.S. south to Mexico.
- sailmaker's palm — palm1 (def 4).
- san antonio peak — a mountain in S California: highest peak in the San Gabriel Mountains, near San Bernardino. 10,080 feet (3072 meters).
- sheepskin jacket — a short jacket made of the skin of a sheep with the wool still attached to it
- sleep like a top — a toy, often inversely conical, with a point on which it is made to spin.
- smack one's lips — If you smack your lips, you open and close your mouth noisily, especially before or after eating, to show that you are eager to eat or enjoyed eating.
- spanish mackerel — an American game fish, Scomberomorus maculatus, inhabiting the Atlantic Ocean.
- sparking voltage — the minimum voltage required to produce a spark across a given spark gap.
- speak for itself — be self-evident
- speak in tongues — to engage in glossolalia
- speak one's mind — give one's frank opinion
- speaking trumpet — a trumpet-shaped instrument used to carry the voice a great distance or held to the ear by a deaf person to aid his hearing
- speed networking — the practice of trying to form business connections and contacts through meetings at which individuals are given the opportunity to have several conversations of limited duration with strangers
- spelling mistake — error in writing a word
- spring snowflake — a European amaryllidaceous plant, Leucojum vernum, with white nodding bell-shaped flowers
- sprinkler system — apparatus for automatically extinguishing fires in a building, consisting of a system of water pipes in or below the ceilings, with valves or sprinklers usually made to open automatically at a certain temperature.
- sticking plaster — an adhesive cloth or other material for covering and closing superficial wounds, holding bandages in place, etc.
- take by surprise — to strike or occur to with a sudden feeling of wonder or astonishment, as through unexpectedness: Her beauty surprised me.
- thinking pattern — manner of thinking
- tiger kidnapping — a kidnapping in which one or more hostages are taken to coerce another person, usually a relation of the person or people held, to take part in a crime
- tightrope walker — performer who walks on high wire
- two-percent milk — Two-percent milk is milk from which some of the cream has been removed.
- unpublished work — a literary work that has not been reproduced for sale or publicly distributed.
- up with the lark — up early in the morning
- upside-down cake — a cake that is baked on a layer of fruit, then turned before serving so that the fruit is on top.
- walk a tightrope — be in a precarious position
- work-in-progress — In book-keeping, work-in-progress refers to the monetary value of work that has not yet been paid for because it has not yet been completed.
- yellow pikeperch — the walleye, Stizostedion vitreum.