14-letter words containing k, e, p, l, r
- potluck dinner — a meal consisting of whatever food happens to be available without special preparation
- practical joke — a playful trick, often involving some physical agent or means, in which the victim is placed in an embarrassing or disadvantageous position.
- 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.
- pyramidal peak — a sharp peak formed where the ridges separating three or more cirques intersect; horn
- rip van winkle — (in a story by Washington Irving) a ne'er-do-well who sleeps 20 years and upon waking is startled to find how much the world has changed.
- sakha republic — an administrative division in E Russia, in NE Siberia on the Arctic Ocean: the coldest inhabited region of the world; it has rich mineral resources. Capital: Yakutsk. Pop: 948 100 (2002). Area: 3 103 200 sq km (1 197 760 sq miles)
- shipping clerk — a clerk who attends to the packing, unpacking, receiving, sending out, and recording of shipments.
- skull practice — a meeting for the purpose of discussion, exchange of ideas, solving problems, etc.
- sparkling wine — a wine that is naturally carbonated by a second fermentation.
- speak well for — to say or indicate something favorable about
- speckled trout — brook trout (def 1).
- spike lavender — a lavender, Lavandula latifolia, having spikes of pale-purple flowers, and yielding an oil used in painting.
- ticket scalper — an unauthorized ticket speculator who buys tickets to a performance or sports event and resells them at inflated prices.
- walking papers — notice of dismissal
- winkle-pickers — shoes or boots with very pointed narrow toes, popular in the mid-20th century
- work placement — temporary job, internship