English Words: S

54,294 words · Page 147 of 1086

Scotocentricadj

Centred on Scotland.

scotochromogennoun

A microorganism whose pigmentation develops in the dark as well as in the light.

scotochromogenicadj

Of or pertaining to a scotochromogen.

scotodinianoun

A form of vertigo involving sudden dizziness, headache, and blurred vision

scotogenicadj

Created from dark matter

scotographnoun

An instrument for writing in the dark, or by the blind.

scotographynoun

Radiography.

scotomanoun

An area of impaired or lost vision within a visual field otherwise in a good (or at least healthy) state.

scotomaphobianoun

Fear of blindness; fear of spots in one's visual field.

scotomatousadj

Of or relating to a scotoma.

scotometernoun

An instrument for detecting and measuring scotomas.

scotometrynoun

The detection and measurement of scotomas.

scotomianoun

Obsolete form of scotoma.

scotomizationnoun

According to some psychoanalytic theories, the mental ability to delete and forget a trauma or overwhelming event.

scotomizeverb

To avoid or forget an undesirable memory or trauma.

scotomizingverb

present participle and gerund of scotomize

scotomynoun

dizziness with dimness of sight

scotoperiodnoun

The period of darkness, or absence of daylight, experienced by an organism.

scotophasenoun

The dark phase in a cycle of light and darkness, especially artificially induced.

scotophasicadj

Relating to the scotophase.

scotophilnoun

The phase of a two-phase circadian rhythm associated with dark and relaxation or regeneration.

Scotophilianoun

A love for the Scots or for Scotland.

scotophilicadj

That thrives in darkness or low light levels

Scotophobenoun

One who fears or hates Scotland.

scotophobianoun

Fear of darkness.

Scotophobicadj

Fearing or hating Scotland.

scotophobinnoun

A supposed biochemical once thought to be responsible for maintaining an induced fear of the dark in the brains of rats.

scotophoricadj

Relating to, or characteristic of a scotophor

scotopianoun

The vision of an eye under low-light conditions.

scotopicadj

Relating to or denoting vision in dim light, believed to involve chiefly the rods of the retina.

scotopsinnoun

The protein component of rhodopsin.

scotoscopenoun

Any instrument for viewing objects in the dark or in a faint light.

scotosisnoun

Intellectual blindness: a hardening of the mind against unwanted wisdom.

scototaxisnoun

A preference for, and subsequent movement towards darkness.

scototherapynoun

Therapeutic use of darkness, once proposed to treat malaria and more recently to treat sleep disorders and depression.

Scotsname

A Germanic language closely related to English and descended from northern dialects of Middle English, spoken in parts of Scotland, now especially in the northeastern and southern regions of the country.

Scotsmannoun

A man from Scotland; a Scot.

Scotspersonnoun

A Scottish person; a Scot.

Scotswomannoun

A woman from Scotland.

Scottname

An English ethnic surname transferred from the nickname for someone with Scottish ancestry.

Scott Basename

A research station on Ross Island in Antarctica.

Scott connectionnoun

A type of circuit used to produce two-phase electric power from a three-phase source, or vice versa.

Scott continuitynoun

The property of being Scott-continuous.

Scott Countyname

One of 75 counties in Arkansas, United States. County seat: Waldron. Named after Andrew Scott.

Scott topologynoun

A topology on a partially ordered set, consisting of the Scott-open subsets of that set.

Scott's spleenwortnoun

Asplenium × ebenoides, a hybrid fern native to eastern North America.

Scott's trickname

A method for giving a definition of equivalence classes for equivalence relations on a proper class, relying on the axiom of regularity but not on the axiom of choice.

Scott-continuousadj

Given two partially ordered sets P and Q, a function f: P → Q between them is Scott-continuous if it preserves all directed suprema.

Scott-openadj

Of a subset O of a partially ordered set P: such that it is an upper set and is inaccessible by directed joins, i.e. all directed sets D with supremum in O have non-empty intersection with O.

Scottianadj

Of or relating to Walter Scott (1771–1832), Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet.

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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 147. 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.

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