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16-letter words containing k, i, e, s

  • slave-making ant — an ant of a species that raids the colonies of other ant species, carrying off larvae and pupae to be reared as slaves.
  • sleep like a top — a toy, often inversely conical, with a point on which it is made to spin.
  • sling one's hook — to leave
  • smack in the eye — a snub or setback
  • 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.
  • smoke inhalation — poisoning of the lungs caused by inhaling large quantities of toxic fumes from a fire
  • snakebite remedy — hard liquor.
  • solid state disk — (SSD) Any kind of solid-state storage device that appears to the system as a disk drive. SSDs are more expensive that the same capacity of magnetic disk but have much shorter access time.
  • sour-milk cheese — cottage cheese made from sour milk.
  • 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.
  • square kilometer — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one kilometer on each side. 2 , sq. km. Abbreviation: km.
  • squeaky-bum time — the tense final matches in the race to a league championship, esp from the point of view of the leaders
  • stab in the back — to pierce or wound with or as if with a pointed weapon: She stabbed a piece of chicken with her fork.
  • stick in the mud — someone who avoids new activities, ideas, or attitudes; old fogy.
  • stick out a mile — to be extremely obvious
  • stick-in-the-mud — someone who avoids new activities, ideas, or attitudes; old fogy.
  • sticking plaster — an adhesive cloth or other material for covering and closing superficial wounds, holding bandages in place, etc.
  • stocking machine — a type of knitting machine
  • stocking stuffer — a small, usually inexpensive gift that is placed with others in a Christmas stocking.
  • straight whiskey — pure, unblended whiskey of 80 to 110 proof.
  • streak lightning — lightning in which there is a sudden flash from what appears to be a single main line
  • strike a balance — compromise
  • strike a bargain — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
  • substantive rank — a permanent rank in the armed services obtained by length of service, selection, etc
  • swiss army knife — a small knife with blades and other tools, such as a nail file and corkscrew, all folding into the handle.
  • take by surprise — to strike or occur to with a sudden feeling of wonder or astonishment, as through unexpectedness: Her beauty surprised me.
  • take the biscuit — Take the biscuit means the same as take the cake.
  • the missing link — a hypothetical extinct animal or animal group, formerly thought to be intermediate between the anthropoid apes and man
  • the weakest link — the person who is making the least contribution to the collective achievement of a group
  • thick as thieves — very close friends
  • thieves' kitchen — a thieves' hideout
  • thumbnail sketch — small preliminary drawing
  • to stake a claim — If you stake a claim, you say that something is yours or that you have a right to it.
  • tokugawa iyeyasu — Tokugawa [taw-koo-gah-wah] /ˈtɔ kuˈgɑ wɑ/ (Show IPA), 1542–1616, Japanese general and public servant.
  • tollhouse cookie — a crisp cookie containing bits of chocolate and sometimes chopped nuts.
  • turkish crescent — crescent (def 6).
  • unpublished work — a literary work that has not been reproduced for sale or publicly distributed.
  • unskilled worker — a worker who does not have any special skill or training
  • upside-down cake — a cake that is baked on a layer of fruit, then turned before serving so that the fruit is on top.
  • user-defined key — a key on the keyboard of a computer that can be used to carry out any of a limited number of predefined actions as selected by the user
  • walking distance — distance that can easily be walked
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