A type of competition where the resource is inadequate to fit the needs of all, resulting in each competitor obtaining an equally partitioned amount and thus never the amount it needs.

scramble upverb

To cook (eggs) into scrambled eggs.

scrambledadj

Mixed, disordered, shuffled.

scrambled eggnoun

A dish made by beating and cooking eggs, sometimes mixed with milk, and typically stirred while cooking.

scrambled egg slime moldnoun

Fuligo septica, a plasmodial slime mold of the Myxomycetes class.

scrambleheadnoun

A stupid or muddle-headed person.

scramblernoun

Someone or something that scrambles (in various senses).

scramblesomeadj

Characterised or marked by scrambling (all senses)

scramblevisionnoun

pay-per-view television watched without a descrambler, so that the picture is distorted or missing

scramblingverb

present participle and gerund of scramble

scramblinglyadv

With a scrambling motion.

scramblyadj

Involving a certain amount of climbing.

scramjetnoun

A jet engine capable of propelling an aircraft at hypersonic speeds, in which combustion of the fuel and air mixture occurs at supersonic speeds.

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 150. 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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