16-letter words containing k, p, e, l
- slap on the back — to congratulate
- sleep like a top — a toy, often inversely conical, with a point on which it is made to spin.
- sleep-wake cycle — Physiology. the species-specific biological pattern of alternating sleep and wakefulness, in humans roughly 8 hours of nocturnal sleep and 16 hours of daytime activity.
- 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.
- smokeless powder — any of various substitutes for ordinary gunpowder that give off little or no smoke, especially one composed wholly or mostly of guncotton.
- 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
- spelling mistake — error in writing a word
- spotted mackerel — a small mackerel, Scomberomorus queenslandicus, of northern Australian waters
- 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.
- stalked puffball — a puffball-like mushroom of the genus Tulestoma, maturing in early winter.
- sticking plaster — an adhesive cloth or other material for covering and closing superficial wounds, holding bandages in place, etc.
- take one's lumps — a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape: a lump of coal.
- take one's place — to take up one's usual or specified position
- the long paddock — a stockroute or roadside area offering feed to sheep and cattle in dry times
- tightrope walker — performer who walks on high wire
- to speak volumes — If something such as an action speaks volumes about a person or thing, it gives you a lot of information about them.
- 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- unpublished work — a literary work that has not been reproduced for sale or publicly distributed.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
- walk a tightrope — be in a precarious position
- yellow pikeperch — the walleye, Stizostedion vitreum.