A temporary modular system of tubes, bamboo or wood forming a framework used to support people and material in the construction or repair of buildings and other large structures.

scaffoldishadj

that resembles a scaffold

scaffoldlessadj

That lacks a scaffold

scaffoldlikeadj

Resembling or characteristic of a scaffold.

scaffoldwideadj

Throughout a scaffold

scaffoldyadj

Of a building or a wall: covered in or looking like a scaffold.

scaffynoun

A street sweeper; a dustman, a refuse collector.

Scafidiname

A surname from Italian.

scagnoun

Heroin.

scaggyadj

vile; skanky; physically unattractive and/or sexually promiscuous

scagheadnoun

A heroin user.

scaglianoun

A reddish variety of limestone.

scagliolanoun

Plasterwork imitating marble, granite, etc.

scagnosticnoun

A heuristic used to automatically analyse variables in a large dataset in order to determine which scatterplots are to be visualised in a scatterplot matrix.

Scaifename

A surname from Old Norse.

scainiitenoun

A monoclinic-prismatic bluish black mineral containing antimony, lead, oxygen, and sulfur.

scaithnoun

Injury; wound.

scalanoun

Ladder; sequence.

scala naturaenoun

Synonym of great chain of being.

Scala Nuovaname

Former name of Kuşadası: a city in Turkey.

scalabilitynoun

The property of being scalable.

scalableadj

Capable of being climbed.

scalablyadv

In a scalable manner

scaladenoun

An escalade.

scaladonoun

An escalade.

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