English Words: S

54,294 words · Page 110 of 1086

scavenge pumpnoun

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 be able to draw fuel from the tank.

scavengeableadj

Capable of being scavenged.

scavengernoun

Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things.

scavenger huntnoun

A game in which individuals or teams seek to find a number of specific items, or perform tasks, as given in a list.

scavenger salenoun

The sale of a property whose previous tenants were ejected for not paying rent.

scavengerismnoun

The practice of scavenging.

scavengerousadj

scavenging

scavengershipnoun

The role or activity of a scavenger.

scavengingnoun

The act of searching through refuse for useful material.

scavernicknoun

A hare.

Scavoname

A surname from Italian.

scavvynoun

The tropical shrub Scaevola taccada.

scawnoun

A wood or forest; a shaw.

Scawbyname

A village and civil parish in North Lincolnshire district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SE9605).

scawtitenoun

A monoclinic-prismatic colorless mineral containing calcium, carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon.

scazonnoun

A limping satiric meter in classical verse.

SCCnoun

Initialism of single-column centimetre (“a charging unit for advertising space in newspapers”).

SCEname

European Cooperative Society

sceachnoun

A whitethorn, hawthorn or similar bush.

scearnoun

Obsolete spelling of sear.

sceatnoun

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).

sceattnoun

Alternative form of sceat.

scedasticadj

related to the variance of (statistical) errors

scedasticitynoun

The distribution of error terms. Error terms are distributed either randomly and with constant variance (homoscedasticity) or with some kind of pattern (heteroscedasticity).

scedulenoun

Obsolete form of schedule.

sceleratnoun

A criminal, a villain.

scelerateadj

Wicked; villainous.

scelerophobenoun

One who suffers from scelerophobia.

scelerophobianoun

The fear of crime, burglars or thieves.

scelesticadj

evil; wicked; atrocious

sceletaladj

Obsolete form of skeletal.

scelidosaurnoun

A dinosaur of the genus Scelidosaurus.

scenanoun

A scene in an opera.

scenarinoun

plural of scenario

scenariinoun

plural of scenario

scenarionoun

An outline or model of an expected or supposed sequence of events.

scenarioistnoun

One who prepares the scenario for a film or other work.

scenarioizeverb

To turn (a story, idea etc.) into a scenario for a play or film.

scenariosnoun

plural of scenario

scenariseverb

To create the physical set and staging for a film or play.

scenaristnoun

A writer of screenplays; a screenwriter.

scenarizeverb

Alternative form of scenarise.

scenarynoun

Obsolete spelling of scenery.

scendnoun

The rising motion of water as a wave passes; a surge; the upward angular displacement of a vessel, opposed to pitch, the correlative downward movement.

scenenoun

The location of an event that attracts attention.

scene packnoun

A set of flats stored together for use in a particular scene.

scene-docknoun

An area in a theatre with access to the stage and the loading doors where scenery is temporarily stored

scene-stealingadj

That steals the scene (“dominates a performance through charisma, humour, or powerful acting”).

scenecorenoun

An intense or hardcore idealized form of the scene youth subculture of the 2000s and early 2010s.

scenecraftnoun

The art or skill of designing scenes for theatrical performances.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English alphabetical index for the letter S contains 54,294 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 1,086 pages, and you are currently viewing page 110. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.

On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.

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