16-letter words containing s, i, l, k, e
- like gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
- lipstick lesbian — a lesbian who is feminine in manner or appearance; a femme.
- little smalltalk — A line-oriented near-subset of Smalltalk-80 written in C by Tim Budd <[email protected]>. Version 3 runs on Unix, IBM PC, Atari and VMS.
- lumberjack shirt — a thick checked shirt, as worn by lumberjacks
- megakaryoblastic — (cytology) Of or pertaining to a megakaryoblast.
- milk of magnesia — a milky white suspension in water of magnesium hydroxide, Mg (OH) 2 , used as an antacid or laxative.
- network analysis — a mathematical method of analyzing complex problems, as in transportation or project scheduling, by representing the problem as a network of lines and nodes.
- oil storage tank — a very large industrial container where petroleum is stored
- philosopher king — the Platonic ideal of a ruler, philosophically trained and enlightened.
- philosopher-king — the Platonic ideal of a ruler, philosophically trained and enlightened.
- pigs in blankets — small frankfurters wrapped in dough and baked, served as an appetizer
- plain-spokenness — the quality or characteristic of being plain-spoken
- pleasure-seeking — always looking for pleasure
- pocket billiards — pool2 (def 1).
- pressure flaking — a method of manufacturing a flint tool by pressing flakes from a stone core with a pointed implement, usually of wood tipped with antler or copper.
- reckless driving — a serious traffic offence whereby the driver of a vehicle disregards the rules of the road, driving very dangerously, causing accidents or other damage
- sailmaker's palm — palm1 (def 4).
- sb will be lucky — If you say that someone will be lucky to do or get something, you mean that they are very unlikely to do or get it, and will definitely not do or get any more than that.
- security blanket — a blanket or other familiar item carried especially by a young child to provide reassurance and a feeling of psychological security.
- selective strike — a partial strike against a particular area of a business or against one employer or a small number of employers in a collective bargaining situation
- shrinking violet — a shy, modest, or self-effacing person.
- silk-cotton tree — any of several spiny trees belonging to the genus Ceiba, of the bombax family, having palmately compound leaves and seeds surrounded by silk cotton, especially C. pentandra, from which kapok is obtained.
- silky flycatcher — any of several passerine birds of the family Ptilogonatidae, of the southwestern U.S. to Panama, related to the waxwings.
- 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 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
- 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
- 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.
- stick out a mile — to be extremely obvious
- sticking plaster — an adhesive cloth or other material for covering and closing superficial wounds, holding bandages in place, etc.
- streak lightning — lightning in which there is a sudden flash from what appears to be a single main line
- strike a balance — compromise
- 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
- 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.
- tollhouse cookie — a crisp cookie containing bits of chocolate and sometimes chopped nuts.
- 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
- walking distance — distance that can easily be walked
- wild honeysuckle — pinxter flower.