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English words: scarfie to scelionid

300 English words, part 25 of 245 of the words starting with S, A to Z. 28 have a page of their own.

English words scarfie to scelionid

  1. scarfie noun: A university student, especially one from the University of Otago.
  2. scarfing noun, verb: Material for making scarves.
  3. scarfless adjective: Without a scarf.
  4. scarflike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a scarf.
  5. scarfmaker noun: someone who makes scarves
  6. Scarfo proper noun: A surname from Italian.
  7. scarfpin noun: A pin used to hold a scarf or tie in place.
  8. scarfskin noun: The epidermis, the outermost layer of skin, especially that which forms the cuticle of a nail.
  9. scarfwise adverb: In the manner of a scarf.
  10. scarfy adjective: Resembling or involving a scarf.
  11. Scargill proper noun: A hamlet and civil parish in County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ050106).
  12. Scargillian adjective: Of or relating to Arthur Scargill (born 1938), British politician and trade unionist.
  13. scariant noun: An unconfirmed or unstudied variant or strain of COVID-19 that causes widespread panic.
  14. scarid noun: Any of the family Scaridae; parrotfishes.
  15. scaries noun: A feeling of anxiety or feeling, especially that felt by children at night.
  16. scarification noun /ˌskɛɹɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/: The act of scarifying: raking the ground harshly to remove weeds, etc.
  17. scarificator noun: An instrument, principally used in cupping, containing several lancets that are moved simultaneously by a spring, used for making slight incisions on a body.
  18. scarified adjective, verb: damaged, barren, denuded, scarred, wasted
  19. scarifier noun /ˈskæɹɪfaɪə(ɹ)/: One who scarifies.
  20. scarify verb /ˈskæ.ɹɪˌfaɪ/: To remove thatch (build-up of organic matter on the soil) from a lawn, to dethatch.
  21. scarifyingly adverb: In a scarifying way.
  22. scarily adverb: In a scary manner.
  23. scarin' verb: Pronunciation spelling of scaring.
  24. scarine noun: Any fish of the subfamily Scarinae
  25. scariness noun /ˈskɛə.ɹi.nəs/: The property of being scary.
  26. scaringly adverb: In a manner that scares; frighteningly.
  27. scariole noun: Synonym of endive.
  28. scariose adjective: Alternative form of scarious.
  29. scarious adjective /ˈskɛəɹi.əs/: thin, dry, membranous, and not green
  30. scariously adverb: In a scarious manner.
  31. Scarisbrick proper noun: A village and civil parish in West Lancashire district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD3713).
  32. scarisome adjective: Characterised or marked by scariness; frightening
  33. scaritid noun: Any of the beetles in the carabid subfamily Scaritinae, which were formerly considered to be the family Scaritidae.
  34. scaritine noun: Any member of the subfamily Scaritinae of carabid beetles.
  35. scaritoxin noun: A marine toxin that can cause ciguatera.
  36. scarlatina noun: scarlet fever
  37. scarlatinal adjective: Of or pertaining to scarlet fever.
  38. scarlatiniform adjective: resembling scarlatina
  39. scarlatinoid adjective: Resembling scarlatina.
  40. scarlatinous adjective: Of or pertaining to scarlet fever.
  41. Scarlattian adjective: Of or relating to Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757), Italian composer.
  42. scarless adjective: Without scars.
  43. scarlessly adverb: Without leaving a scar
  44. scarlessness noun: The condition of being scarless
  45. scarlet adjective, noun, verb /ˈskɑɹlɪt/: A brilliant red colour sometimes tinged with orange.
  46. scarlet admiral noun: red admiral (a butterfly)
  47. scarlet banana noun: Musa coccinea, a species of flowering plant in the banana and plantain family Musaceae.
  48. scarlet bean noun: Synonym of scarlet runner.
  49. scarlet berry noun: Alternative form of scarletberry.
  50. scarlet-bodied wasp moth noun: A species of erebid moth, Cosmosoma myrodora, inhabiting the coastal plains of the United States in Florida and from South Carolina to Texas.
  51. scarlet-browed tanager noun: Heterospingus xanthopygius, a species of perching bird.
  52. scarlet buglar noun: Alternative spelling of scarlet bugler.
  53. scarlet bugler noun /ˈskɑrlət ˈbʌɡlər/: A plant of species Penstemon centranthifolius.
  54. scarlet-collar adjective: Of or pertaining to female entrepreneurs in the Internet sex industry.
  55. Scarlet Day noun: A religiously or academically significant day; one on which festal academic dress should be worn.
  56. scarlet eggplant noun: Synonym of Ethiopian nightshade (Solanum aethiopicum).
  57. scarlet fever noun: A streptococcal infection, mainly occurring among children, and characterized by a red skin rash, sore throat and fever.
  58. scarlet geranium noun: A small annual flowering shrub, endemic to South Africa, of species Pelargonium inquinans, popular as an ornamental plant during the Victorian era.
  59. scarlet honeycreeper noun: Synonym of iiwi.
  60. scarlet honeysuckle noun: Synonym of trumpet honeysuckle.
  61. scarlet ibis noun: A brightly scarlet, migratory species of ibis, of species Eudocimus ruber, of South America and the Caribbean.
  62. scarlet letter noun: The letter "A" in scarlet cloth required to be worn by those convicted of adultery in 17th-century Puritan New England.
  63. scarlet lightning noun: The plant Silene chalcedonica (syn. Lychnis chalcedonica), with bright red flowers.
  64. scarlet-like adjective: Like or resembling scarlet.
  65. scarlet lily beetle noun: The leaf beetle species Lilioceris lilii, that eats various parts of lilies, fritillaries and other members of the family Liliaceae and lays its eggs on them.
  66. scarlet macaw noun: A large, colorful parrot, Ara macao, native to the Amazon rainforest and parts of Central America.
  67. scarlet milkweed noun: tropical milkweed
  68. scarlet minivet noun: The bird Pericrocotus speciosus.
  69. Scarlet O'Hara noun: A glamorous or sophisticated woman, especially a Southern belle known for putting off worrying until "tomorrow".
  70. scarlet oak noun: The tree Quercus coccinea.
  71. scarlet percher noun: A species of libellulid dragonfly, Diplacodes haematodes, of mainland Australia, New Guinea, Timor, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia; the males are bright red.
  72. scarlet pimpernel noun: A flowering plant, of species Lysimachia arvensis (syn. Anagallis arvensis), of the Primulaceae family, having small orange flowers.
  73. scarlet queening noun: Synonym of summer queening.
  74. scarlet red noun: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see scarlet, red.
  75. scarlet rosefinch noun: Carpodacus erythrinus, an Old World warbler.
  76. scarlet runner noun: Phaseolus coccineus, the runner bean.
  77. scarlet runner bean noun: Synonym of runner bean (Phaseolus coccineus)
  78. scarlet shiner noun: A fish of species Lythrurus fasciolaris, a native of fresh waters of the eastern United States.
  79. scarlet snake noun: Cemophora coccinea, a non-venomous colubrid snake of the southeastern United States, having a gray body with black-bordered blotches of red.
  80. scarlet tanager noun: Piranga olivacea, a medium-sized American songbird. Adult males are crimson-red with black wings and tail.
  81. scarlet tiger noun: Callimorpha dominula, a colourful moth of Europe and the Near East.
  82. scarlet woman noun: A woman who behaves in an adulterous manner.
  83. scarletberry noun: The bittersweet nightshade, Solanum dulcamara.
  84. scarleteer noun: One who wears scarlet robes of office, such as a cardinal.
  85. scarletish adjective: Somewhat scarlet.
  86. scarletly adverb: In a scarlet manner; with scarlet color.
  87. scarletness noun: The state of being scarlet.
  88. Scarlett proper noun: A surname originating as an occupation for a dyer or seller of (scarlet) fabric.
  89. Scarlette proper noun: A female given name transferred from the surname.
  90. scarletwork noun: redwork
  91. scarlety adjective: Somewhat scarlet in colour.
  92. scarlike adjective: Having the characteristics of a scar.
  93. scarna noun: Alternative form of scaRNA.
  94. scaroid adjective, noun: Of or relating to the Scaridae, a family of marine fishes.
  95. scaroused adjective: Both scared and aroused.
  96. scarp noun, verb /skɑːp/: The steep artificial slope below a fort's parapet.
  97. Scarpa proper noun: A surname.
  98. Scarpa's triangle noun: The femoral triangle.
  99. scarpariello noun /skɑɹpɑɹiˈɛloʊ/: An Italian piquant sauce of crushed tomatoes, basil and cheese.
  100. scarpe noun: Alternative form of scrape (“diminutive bend”).
  101. Scarpelli proper noun: A surname.
  102. scarper noun, verb /ˈskɑːpə/: Chiefly in scarper the letty: to depart quickly or run away from (a place); to flee.
  103. scarper the letty verb: To depart quickly from a rented place without paying.
  104. scarph noun, verb: Alternative form of scarf (“joint in woodworking”)
  105. scarpines noun: An instrument of torture resembling the boot.
  106. scarping noun, verb: A scarp (cliff caused by erosion).
  107. scarpland noun: A landscape characterised by scarps.
  108. scarplet noun: A small scarp.
  109. scarpment noun: Alternative form of escarpment.
  110. scarproof adjective: Resistant to being scarred.
  111. Scarpulla proper noun: A surname from Italian.
  112. scarred adjective, verb /skɑː(ɹ)d/: Having a scar or scars.
  113. scarrer noun: One who or that which scars.
  114. scarring noun, verb: A scar; a mark.
  115. scarringly adverb: So as to leave scars.
  116. Scarronian adjective: Of or relating to Paul Scarron (1610–1660), French poet, dramatist, and novelist.
  117. Scarrow proper noun: A surname.
  118. scarry adjective /ˈskɑːɹi/: Like a scar, or rocky eminence.
  119. Scarsdale proper noun: An ancient hundred in Derbyshire, England.
  120. scarsella noun: rectangular apse
  121. scart noun, verb: To scratch or scrape.
  122. scarus noun: A parrotfish, a Mediterranean food fish (any of various Scaridae species).
  123. scarve verb: Alternative form of scarf (“to cover as or like a scarf”).
  124. scarved adjective, verb: Wearing a scarf.
  125. scarving noun, verb: Alternative form of scarfing.
  126. scarwed adjective /ˈskɛəd/: Scared.
  127. scary adjective, adverb, noun /ˈskɛə.ɹi/: Causing fear or anxiety
  128. scary-ass adjective: A cowardly person.
  129. scary sharp adjective: Of tools: sharpened with sandpaper instead of the conventional oilstone or waterstone, etc.
  130. scarysome adjective: Alternative form of scarisome.
  131. scasely adverb /ˈskeɪsli/: scarcely; hardly
  132. scat interjection, noun, verb /skæt/: A tax; tribute.
  133. scat singing noun: The act of vocalizing, using nonsense syllables or sounds (e.g. "dool-yuh doot-n dwee-dah") to create an improvised melodic solo, often imitative of other...
  134. scatback noun: A small lightweight running back valued for speed rather than power.
  135. scatch noun: A kind of bit for the bridle of a horse.
  136. Scatcherd proper noun: A surname.
  137. scath noun /skæθ/: Alternative form of scathe (“harm; damage”).
  138. scathand adjective: Harmful; scathing.
  139. scathe noun, verb /skeɪð/: Damage, harm, hurt, injury.
  140. scathefire noun: Destructive flames; a conflagration.
  141. scatheful adjective: Causing harm or mischief; destructive, injurious.
  142. scathefulness noun: Injuriousness; destructiveness.
  143. scatheless adjective: Without scathe or harm; without mischief, injury, or damage; unharmed.
  144. scathelessly adverb: Without scathe or harm.
  145. scathelessness noun: Freedom from harm or injury.
  146. scathely adjective: Harmful; scatheful.
  147. scathful adjective: Alternative form of scatheful.
  148. scathfulness noun: The quality of being scathful; harm.
  149. scathing adjective, verb /ˈskeɪðɪŋ/: Harshly or bitterly critical; vitriolic.
  150. scathingly adverb: In a scathing manner.
  151. scathingness noun: The quality of being scathing.
  152. scathless adjective: Alternative form of scatheless.
  153. scathlessly adverb: Alternative spelling of scathelessly.
  154. scathlessness noun: Alternative spelling of scathelessness.
  155. scathold noun: An area of open ground for pasture or for furnishing fuel; a scatland.
  156. scathophagid noun: Any fly of the family Scathophagidae.
  157. scathy adjective: Mischievous; vicious; dangerous.
  158. scatland noun: Land on which scat (Shetland Islands land tax) is paid.
  159. scato- prefix: excrement
  160. scatole noun: Alternative spelling of skatole.
  161. scatolia noun: The act of smearing faeces.
  162. scatologic adjective: Synonym of scatological.
  163. scatological adjective: Relating to the research area of scatology, the particulate study of biological excrement, feces, or dung.
  164. scatologically adverb: In a scatological manner.
  165. scatologism noun: A scatological term or phrase.
  166. scatologist noun: A writer or producer of scatological works.
  167. scatology noun: The scientific study or chemical analysis of faeces.
  168. scatoma noun: Synonym of fecaloma.
  169. scatomancy noun: divination by the examination of feces, especially of an animal
  170. scatophage noun: A shiteater: a human or animal that consumes excrement.
  171. scatophagia noun: Synonym of coprophagy.
  172. scatophagid noun: Any fish in the family Scatophagidae.
  173. scatophagous adjective: Synonym of coprophagous: typified by consuming shit or other excrement.
  174. scatophagy noun: Synonym of coprophagy.
  175. scatophile noun: A person who takes pleasure from contact with human excrement.
  176. scatophilia noun: A paraphilia involving pleasure from contact with excrement.
  177. scatophiliac noun: One who exhibits scatophilia.
  178. scatophilic adjective: Taking pleasure from contact with human excrement.
  179. scatopsid noun: Any fly in the family Scatopsidae.
  180. scatoscopy noun: Synonym of scatomancy (“divination by examining feces”).
  181. scatporn noun: Pornography that features defecation.
  182. scattald noun: Common land used for pasture and digging turf.
  183. scatter noun, verb /ˈskætə/: To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.
  184. scatter band noun: Synonym of scramble band.
  185. scatter-brained adjective: Alternative spelling of scatterbrained.
  186. scatter buffet noun: A buffet consisting of several separate tables or counters serving different foods.
  187. scatter cushion noun: Synonym of throw pillow.
  188. scatter diagram noun: Synonym of scatter plot
  189. scatter/gather adjective: Being or relating to a form of I/O by which a single procedure call sequentially writes data from multiple buffers to a single data stream, or reads data...
  190. scatter gun noun: Synonym of shotgun.
  191. scatter hoarding noun: The hoarding of food in many, small caches (typically by squirrels)
  192. scatter plot noun: A type of display using Cartesian coordinates to display values for two variables for a set of data.
  193. scatter point noun: Any of the individual points of a scatter plot
  194. scatter rug noun: A small rug, especially one of several used as a floor covering.
  195. scatter site noun: An area of state-sponsored housing used as a shelter for homeless people; such housing is scattered across different parts of a city rather than...
  196. scatter-story noun: A person who spreads stories.
  197. scatterable adjective: Of land mines: designed to be dispersed from a height, as from a helicopter.
  198. scatteration noun: A scattered arrangement.
  199. scatterbrain noun: A flighty, disorganized or forgetful person.
  200. scatterbrained adjective /ˈskætə(ɹ)ˌbɹeɪnd/: Having the qualities of a scatterbrain: absent-minded, forgetful, easily distracted.
  201. scatterbrainedness noun: The state or quality of being scatterbrained.
  202. scatterbrains noun: A flighty, disorganized or forgetful person.
  203. scattered adjective, verb /ˈskætɚd/: Dispersed, spread apart into disunited units.
  204. scattered disc object noun: Any trans-Neptunian object whose orbit is wholly within the scattered disc.
  205. scattered disk object noun: Alternative form of scattered disc object.
  206. scattered Kuiper belt object noun: Synonym of scattered disc object.
  207. scattered shower noun: Any of a series of showers of rain, whose number, location and timing are impossible to predict
  208. scatteredly adverb: In a scattered manner.
  209. scatteredness noun: The quality of being scattered.
  210. scatterer noun: One who, or that which, scatters.
  211. scattergood noun: Someone who wastes; a spendthrift.
  212. scattergram noun: scatter plot
  213. scattergraph noun: scatter plot
  214. scattergun adjective, noun: Synonym of shotgun.
  215. scatterhoard verb: To hoard food in multiple caches in different locations.
  216. scatterhoarder noun: An animal that scatterhoards.
  217. scattering noun, verb /ˈskætəɹɪŋ/: A small quantity of something being dispersed (at random points).
  218. scattering function noun: A function which describes the intensity of scattered radiation in any given direction
  219. scatteringly adverb: in a scattering manner, suggesting scattering.
  220. scatterling noun: One who has no fixed residence; a vagabond.
  221. scattermouch noun: Any Latin or Levantine person.
  222. scatterogram noun: Alternative form of scattergram.
  223. scatterometer noun: A form of radar used to measure surface winds from satellites, by detecting scattered microwave radiation
  224. scatterometric adjective: Of or pertaining to scatterometry
  225. scatterometry noun: The design and use of scatterometers
  226. scatterplot noun, verb: Alternative spelling of scatter plot.
  227. scatterplotted adjective, verb: Represented as a scatter plot
  228. scatterpoint noun: Alternative form of scatter point.
  229. scattershot adjective: Covering a broad range in a random and unsystematic way.
  230. scattersome adjective: Characterised or marked by scattering
  231. scattery adjective: Tending to scatter or be scattered; loose, ragtag.
  232. scattily adverb: In a scatty manner.
  233. scattiness noun: The quality of being scatty.
  234. scatting noun, verb: scat singing
  235. scattland noun: Alternative form of scatland.
  236. scatty adjective, noun: Scatterbrained; flighty.
  237. scaturience noun: The flowing or moving outward in abundance.
  238. scaturient adjective: Abundant; overflowing.
  239. scaturiginous adjective: Having a copious supply of springs or sources of water; vernal.
  240. scaup noun /skɔːp/: Any of three species of small diving duck in the genus Aythya.
  241. scauper noun: A tool with a semicircular edge, used by engravers to clear away the spaces between the lines of an engraving.
  242. scaur noun /skɔː/: A steep cliff or bank.
  243. scaurie noun: The young of any gull.
  244. scaury noun: A young gull.
  245. scav verb /skæv/: To scavenge; to steal.
  246. scavage noun, verb: A tax on non-resident merchant goods by city officials for resident merchant advantage, similar to a tariff.
  247. scavager noun: One who scavages.
  248. scavengable adjective: Alternative form of scavengeable.
  249. scavenge verb /ˈskæv.ɪndʒ/: To collect and remove refuse, or to search through refuse, carrion, or abandoned items for useful material.
  250. scavenge pump noun: A fuel pump used to remove the last dregs of usable fuel from a fuel tank once the fuel level in the tank has fallen too low for the primary fuel pumps to...
  251. scavengeability noun: The condition of being scavengeable
  252. scavengeable adjective: Capable of being scavenged.
  253. scavenger noun, verb /ˈskæv.ən.d͡ʒə(ɹ)/: Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things.
  254. scavenger beetle noun: water scavenger beetle
  255. scavenger crab noun: A crab which feeds on dead and decaying matter, such as fish, invertebrates, and algae.
  256. scavenger hunt noun /ˈskæv.ən.d͡ʒə(ɹ)hʌnt/: A game in which individuals or teams seek to find a number of specific items, or perform tasks, as given in a list.
  257. scavenger's daughter noun: Alternative form of Skeffington's daughter.
  258. scavenger sale noun: The sale of a property whose previous tenants were ejected for not paying rent.
  259. scavengering noun, verb: scavenging
  260. scavengerism noun: The practice of scavenging.
  261. scavengerous adjective: scavenging
  262. scavengership noun: The role or activity of a scavenger.
  263. scavengery noun: The act of scavenging.
  264. scavenging adjective, noun, verb: That eats carrion
  265. scavernick noun: A hare.
  266. scavilones noun: Men's drawers worn under the hose in the 16th century.
  267. Scavo proper noun: A surname from Italian.
  268. scavvy noun: The tropical shrub Scaevola taccada.
  269. scaw noun: Alternative form of skaw (“promontory”).
  270. scawtite noun: A monoclinic-prismatic colorless mineral containing calcium, carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon.
  271. scazon noun /ˈskeɪzɒn/: A limping satiric meter in classical verse.
  272. scazontic adjective, noun: Of or relating to a scazon.
  273. SCBA noun: Initialism of self-contained breathing apparatus, a portable breathing device for persons entering a toxic environment.
  274. SCBU noun: Initialism of special care baby unit.
  275. SCC noun: Initialism of single-column centimetre (“a charging unit for advertising space in newspapers”).
  276. SCD noun: Initialism of slowly changing dimension.
  277. SCDMA noun: Initialism of Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access.
  278. scdna noun: single-copy DNA
  279. sce. noun: Abbreviation of scenario.
  280. SCEA noun: Initialism of Sun Certified Enterprise Architect.
  281. sceach noun: A whitethorn, hawthorn or similar bush.
  282. sceat noun /ʃæt/: A small Anglo-Saxon coin, especially one made of silver; sometimes regarded as a weight (and thus a comparative measure of a coin's value).
  283. sceatt noun: Alternative form of sceat.
  284. sceatta noun: Alternative form of sceat.
  285. Sceaux proper noun: A commune in Hauts-de-Seine department, Île-de-France, France.
  286. scedastic adjective /sɪˈdæstɪk/: related to the variance of (statistical) errors
  287. scedasticity noun: The distribution of error terms. Error terms are distributed either randomly and with constant variance (homoscedasticity) or with some kind of pattern...
  288. scedosporiosis noun: Any disease caused by the presence of a Scedosporium fungus
  289. sceffoleoside noun: A pentacyclic triterpenoid saponin present in Centella asiatica
  290. scelerat noun /ˈsɛləɹət/: A criminal, a villain.
  291. scelerate adjective: Wicked; villainous.
  292. sceleratine noun: A pyrrolizidine alkaloid found in several plants and which is often toxic to livestock.
  293. scelerophobe noun: One who suffers from scelerophobia.
  294. scelerophobia noun: The fear of crime, burglars or thieves.
  295. scelerous adjective: wicked; scelerate
  296. scelestic adjective: evil; wicked; atrocious
  297. scelidate adjective: Having legs
  298. scelidosaur noun /sɪˈlɪdəsɔː(ɹ)/: A dinosaur of the genus Scelidosaurus.
  299. scelidosaurid noun: Any dinosaur of the family Scelidosauridae.
  300. scelionid noun: Any wasp in the family Scelionidae.

Part 24 · Part 26 · English words: S

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under S: 73,223 words, in 245 parts.