11-letter words containing p, e, s, k
- sneak up on — If someone sneaks up on you, they try and approach you without being seen or heard, perhaps to surprise you or do you harm.
- sneaky pete — a homemade or inferior liquor or wine.
- so to speak — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
- sock puppet — a hand puppet made out of a sock.
- soft-spoken — (of persons) speaking with a soft or gentle voice; mild.
- spacewalker — a person who manoeuvres in space while outside but attached to a spacecraft
- sparklessly — in a sparkless manner
- spatterdock — any of various water lilies of the genus Nuphar, having globular yellow flowers and growing in lakes or sluggish streams, especially N. advena, of the eastern U.S.
- spatterwork — a method of decorating whereby ink or another fluid is spattered over a medium
- speakeasies — a saloon or nightclub selling alcoholic beverages illegally, especially during Prohibition.
- speakership — a person who speaks.
- speechmaker — a person who delivers speeches.
- speed brake — a flap on an aircraft wing used to decrease speed in flight in preparation for landing.
- speed check — a method of checking the speed at which vehicles are travelling, used by police
- speed freak — an addict or habitual user of amphetamines, methamphetamines, or similar stimulating drugs.
- speed skate — racing skate.
- spell check — to process (a document) with a spell checker; check the spelling of.
- spell-check — to process (a document) with a spell checker; check the spelling of.
- spike heath — a Eurasian evergreen shrub, Bruckenthalia spiculifolia, of the heath family, having narrow leaves and bell-shaped, pink flowers, growing in gritty soil.
- spike heels — Spike heels are women's shoes with very high narrow heels.
- spinachlike — resembling or characteristic of spinach
- spirit lake — a lake in SW Washington, at the N foot of Mount St. Helens: site of devastation during 1980 eruptions of Mount St. Helens.
- spirketting — deck planking near the bulwarks
- spitsticker — a wood-engraving tool with a fine prow-shaped point for cutting curved lines
- spoken word — The spoken word is used to refer to language expressed in speech, for example in contrast to written texts or music.
- spokesmodel — an attractive or otherwise appealing person who is hired to speak on behalf of a company or product, as in a commercial.
- spokeswoman — a woman who speaks for another person or for a group.
- sponge cake — a light, sweet cake made with a comparatively large proportion of eggs but no shortening.
- sports desk — the editorial section of a newspaper, television or radio programme, etc that deals with sports news
- spot market — a market in which commodities, as grain, gold, or crude oil, are dealt in for cash and immediate delivery (distinguished from futures market).
- spot strike — a labor strike by a local branch of a union.
- sprinklered — having or protected by a sprinkler system.
- stalin peak — former name of Communism Peak.
- steeplejack — a person who climbs steeples, towers, or the like, to build or repair them.
- step reebok — a set of aerobic exercises designed to improve the cardiovascular system, which consists of stepping on and off a special box of adjustable height
- step rocket — a multistage rocket that discards burned-out stages.
- stepanakert — a city in and the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, within Azerbaijan.
- sticky tape — adhesive strip
- stock power — a power of attorney permitting a person other than the owner of stock in a corporation to transfer the title of ownership to a third party.
- stockkeeper — a person responsible for inventorying and monitoring stock levels
- stoke poges — a village in S Buckinghamshire, in S England, W of London: the churchyard here is believed to be the setting of Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.
- storekeeper — a person who owns a store.
- strike slip — the component of slip on a fault parallel with the linear extension or strike of the fault.
- strip poker — a game of poker in which the losers in a hand remove an article of clothing.
- strip steak — cut of beef: sirloin
- stroke play — medal play.
- stumpsucker — windsucker; cribber.
- suckerpunch — to strike (someone) with an unexpected blow.
- super-slick — very well-executed or presented
- supermarket — a large retail market that sells food and other household goods and that is usually operated on a self-service basis.