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13-letter words containing s, p, i, k

  • packet switch — packet switching
  • packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
  • painstakingly — taking or characterized by taking pains or trouble; expending or showing diligent care and effort; careful: a painstaking craftsman; painstaking research.
  • pairs skaters — two skaters, a man and a woman, or a boy and a girl, who skate together, esp in competitions
  • pannikin boss — an overseer of a small group of workers; person with minor authority.
  • paradise duck — a large duck, Casarca variegata, of New Zealand, having a brightly coloured plumage
  • parking strip — Chiefly Upper Midwest and Western U.S. parkway (def 2).
  • peak district — a region of N central England, mainly in N Derbyshire at the S end of the Pennines: consists of moors in the north and a central limestone plateau; many caves. Highest point: 727 m (2088 ft)
  • pembrokeshire — a historic county in Dyfed, in SW Wales.
  • people skills — ability to communicate
  • phosphokinase — an increase in the amount of creatine phosphokinase that is released into the bloodstream when a muscle becomes injured
  • pick holes in — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
  • pick up steam — If a belief, a plan, or a project picks up steam, it starts to develop and become more important.
  • pick-up stick — one of a group of sticks used in the game of jackstraws.
  • picnic basket — woven container for carrying food outdoors
  • piked dogfish — the spiny dogfish.
  • pine grosbeak — a large grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, of coniferous forests of northern North America and Eurasia, the male of which has rose and gray plumage.
  • pinellas park — a city in W central Florida.
  • platykurtosis — the state of being platykurtic.
  • plimsoll mark — load-line mark.
  • pocket chisel — any woodworking chisel having a blade of medium length.
  • prairie skirt — a full, dirndl-style skirt with a flounce on the bottom edge that is sometimes trimmed or lined to suggest a petticoat underneath.
  • pressed brick — face brick molded under pressure to a desired finish.
  • prick-teasing — the behaviour of a prick-tease
  • printer's ink — a type of quick-drying ink used in printing
  • psychokinesis — the purported ability to move or deform inanimate objects, as metal spoons, through mental processes.
  • quaking aspen — any of various poplars, as Populus tremula, of Europe, and P. tremuloides (quaking aspen) or P. alba (white aspen) of America, having soft wood and alternate ovate leaves that tremble in the slightest breeze.
  • quickstepping — Present participle of quickstep.
  • san luis peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,014 feet (4271 meters).
  • schiller park — a town in NE Illinois.
  • script kiddie — a child or teenager who gains illegal access to computer systems, often by using hacking programs downloaded from the internet
  • semipalatinsk — a city in NE Kazakhstan, on the Irtysh River.
  • shack-tapping — the making of house-by-house visits to canvass.
  • shakespearian — of, relating to, or suggestive of Shakespeare or his works.
  • shaking palsy — Parkinson's disease.
  • shepherd king — any of the Hyksos kings.
  • shocking pink — a vivid or intensely bright pink.
  • sinking spell — a temporary decline, as in health or market values: Wall Street is over its sinking spell.
  • skepticalness — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
  • skip distance — the minimum distance along the earth's surface between the position of a short-wave transmitter and the region where its signal is received after one reflection from the ionosphere.
  • skipping rope — A skipping rope or skip rope is a piece of rope, usually with handles at each end. You exercise or play with it by turning it round and round and jumping over it.
  • skipping-rope — Also, jump roping. a children's game or an exercise for children and adults in which a rope is swung over and under the standing jumper, who must leap over it each time it reaches the feet.
  • sky-blue pink — a jocular name for a nonexistent, unknown, or unimportant colour
  • slippery dick — a wrasse, Halichoeres bivittatus, inhabiting tropical regions of the Atlantic Ocean.
  • slow-speaking — tending to speak slowly
  • 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.
  • soupfin shark — a requiem shark, Galeorhinus zyopterus, inhabiting the Pacific Ocean, valued for its fins, which are used by the Chinese in the preparation of a soup, and for its liver, which is rich in vitamin A.
  • spaghettilike — resembling spaghetti
  • spark erosion — a method of machining using a shaped electrode which erodes the workpiece by an electric spark discharge between itself and the workpiece
  • sparking plug — spark plug (def 1).
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