13-letter words containing k, p, e
- slippery dick — a wrasse, Halichoeres bivittatus, inhabiting tropical regions of the Atlantic Ocean.
- slow-speaking — tending to speak slowly
- smooth-spoken — speaking or spoken easily and softly.
- sneak preview — a preview of a motion picture, often shown in addition to an announced film, in order to observe the reaction of the audience.
- space blanket — a plastic insulating body wrapping coated on one or both sides with aluminium foil which reflects back most of the body heat lost by radiation: carried by climbers, mountaineers, etc, for use in cases of exposure or exhaustion
- spaghettilike — resembling spaghetti
- spark chamber — a device for detecting elementary particles, consisting of a series of charged plates separated by a gas so that the passage of a charged particle causes sparking between adjacent plates.
- spark erosion — a method of machining using a shaped electrode which erodes the workpiece by an electric spark discharge between itself and the workpiece
- speak volumes — a collection of written or printed sheets bound together and constituting a book.
- speaking part — a part in which the character speaks scripted dialogue
- speaking tube — a tube for conveying the voice over a somewhat limited distance, as from one part of a building or ship to another.
- speaking type — a device on a medal or coin that has a punning reference to a person or thing.
- speckled wood — a common woodland brown satyrid butterfly, Pararge aegeria, marked with pale orange or yellowish-white spots
- speech making — act of addressing the public formally
- speed skating — ice skating as a form of racing, usually on an oval course and against other competitors or the clock.
- speed walking — power walking.
- spell checker — a computer program for checking the spelling of words in an electronic document.
- spell-checker — A spell-checker is a special program on a computer which you can use to check whether something you have written contains any spelling mistakes.
- spelling book — an elementary textbook or manual to teach spelling
- spelling-book — a person who spells words.
- spider monkey — any of several tropical American monkeys of the genus Ateles, having a slender body, long, slender limbs, and a long, prehensile tail: some are endangered.
- spindleshanks — spindlelegs.
- spokesmanship — the office or skilful use of the office of spokesman
- sports jacket — a jacket, often of textured wool or colorful pattern, with a collar, lapels, long sleeves, and buttons in the front, cut somewhat fuller than the jacket of a business suit, worn with slacks for informal occasions.
- sportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
- spotted crake — a Eurasian rail, Porzana porzana, of swamps and marshes, having a buff speckled plumage and dark brown wings
- spotted skunk — either of two small, nocturnal skunks of the genus Spilogale, distinguished by a white forehead patch and a luxuriant coat of broken stripes and spots, including S. putorius of temperate North America and S. pygmaea of Mexico.
- spring a leak — to develop a leak
- sprocket hole — any of a series of regular perforations along the edge of photographic film for engaging the drive sprockets in a motion-picture camera or projector.
- sticker price — the dealer's full asking price of a new automobile as shown on a sticker attached to it and accompanied by an itemized list of the cost of its basic and optional equipment and other charges.
- streptokinase — an enzyme used to dissolve blood clots.
- sunlight peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,059 feet (4285 meters).
- supermarketer — a person who owns or operates a supermarket.
- take a powder — British Dialect. to rush.
- take pride in — be proud
- take the piss — mock
- take-home pay — the amount of salary remaining after deductions, as of taxes, have been made.
- tarpeian rock — a rock on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, from which criminals and traitors were hurled.
- to keep at it — If you keep at it, you continue doing something that you have started, even if you are tired and would prefer to stop.
- to keep going — If you keep going, you continue moving along or doing something that you have started, even if you are tired and would prefer to stop.
- to keep house — If you keep house, you do the cleaning and cooking for your household, and do not go out to work.
- to keep it up — If you keep it up, you continue working or trying as hard as you have been in the past.
- to keep track — If you keep track of a situation or a person, you make sure that you have the newest and most accurate information about them all the time.
- token payment — a small payment binding an agreement or acknowledging a debt.
- triple-decker — three-decker (defs 3, 4).
- truchas peaks — group of mountains in N New Mexico, NE of Santa Fe in the S Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
- turkey carpet — a wool carpet made in one piece and having a deep velvety pile and rich glowing colours
- under-packing — the act or work of a person or thing that packs.
- up shit creek — excrement; feces.
- upper chinook — a Chinookan language of the Columbia River valley from the Deschutes River to the estuary.