17-letter words containing p, e, s, k
- sacrifice paddock — a grassed area allowed to be grazed completely, to be cultivated and resown later
- severance package — an amount of compensation paid by an organization to an employee who leaves because, through no fault of their own, the job to which they were appointed ceases to exist, as during rationalization, and no comparable job is available to them
- silk-screen print — a type of print made with a stencil and a fine mesh screen. Ink is applied to and forced through the small holes in the screen leaving the covered area free from ink
- sleeping sickness — Also called African sleeping sickness, African trypanosomiasis. a generally fatal disease, common in parts of Africa, characterized by fever, wasting, and progressive lethargy: caused by a parasitic protozoan, Trypanosoma gambiense or T. rhodesiense, that is carried by a tsetse fly, Glossina palpalis.
- spark transmitter — a transmitting set that generates electromagnetic waves by the oscillatory discharge from a capacitor through an inductor and a spark gap.
- speak one's piece — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
- split keyboarding — the act or practice of editing data from one terminal on another terminal
- spring cankerworm — the striped, green caterpillar of any of several geometrid moths: a foliage pest of various fruit and shade trees, as Paleacrita vernata (spring cankerworm) and Alsophila pometaria (fall cankerworm)
- strike-slip fault — a geological fault on which the movement is along the strike of the fault
- striped killifish — a killifish, Fundulus majalis, of the Atlantic coast of the U.S., the female of which is marked with black stripes.
- take no prisoners — to be uncompromising and resolute in one's actions
- take second place — If one thing takes second place to another, it is considered to be less important and is given less attention than the other thing.
- take upon oneself — to take the responsibility for; accept as a charge
- take-no-prisoners — wholeheartedly aggressive; zealous; gung-ho: a businessman with a take-no-prisoners attitude toward dealmaking.
- the plot thickens — People sometimes say 'the plot thickens' when a situation or series of events is getting more and more complicated and mysterious.
- to keep the books — to keep written records of the finances of a business or other enterprise
- to know the ropes — If you know the ropes, you know how a particular job or task should be done.
- triskaidekaphobia — fear or a phobia concerning the number 13.
- video disk player — a device that reads the information on a video disc
- wastepaper basket — a standing basket for wastepaper, small items of trash, etc.
- yorkshire pudding — a pudding made of an unsweetened batter of flour, salt, eggs, and milk, baked under meat as it roasts to catch the drippings or baked separately with a small amount of meat drippings.