5 Letter Words That Start With SC

scale

Noun : (obsolete) A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.

Noun : An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement; means of assigning a magnitude.

Noun : Size; scope.

score

Noun : The total number of goals, points, runs, etc. earned by a participant in a game.

Noun : The number of points accrued by each of the participants in a game, expressed as a ratio or a series of numbers.

Noun : The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a grade.

scope

Noun : The breadth, depth or reach of a subject; a domain.

Noun : (weaponry) A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.

Noun : Opportunity; broad range; degree of freedom.

screw

Noun : A device that has a helical function.

Noun : A simple machine, a helical inclined plane.

Noun : A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a partially or completely threaded shank, sometimes with a threaded point, and a head used to both hold the top material and to drive the screw either directly into a soft material or into a prepared hole.

scion

Noun : A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant of a distinguished family.

Noun : The heir to a throne.

Noun : A guardian.

scene

Noun : The location of an event that attracts attention.

Noun : (archaic, theater) The stage.

Noun : (theater) The decorations; furnishings and backgrounds of a stage, representing the place in which the action of a play is set

scrap

Noun : A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.

Noun : The smallest amount.

Noun : (usually in the plural) Leftover food.

scorn

Verb : (transitive) To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.

Verb : (transitive) To reject, turn down.

Verb : (transitive) To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.

scoop

Noun : Any cup- or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.

Noun : The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.

Noun : The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.

scant

Adjective : Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; scanty; meager.

Adjective : Sparing; parsimonious; chary.

Verb : (transitive) To limit in amount or share; to stint.

scoff

Noun : A derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach.

Noun : An object of scorn, mockery, or derision.

Verb : (intransitive) To jeer; to laugh with contempt and derision.

scold

Noun : A person who habitually scolds, in particular a troublesome and angry woman.

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To rebuke angrily.

Verb : (ornithology) Of birds, to make harsh vocalisations in aggression.

scout

Noun : A person sent out to gain and bring in tidings; especially, one employed in war to gain information about the enemy and ground.

Noun : An act of scouting or reconnoitering.

Noun : A member of any number of youth organizations belonging to the international scout movement, such as the Boy Scouts of America or Girl Scouts of the United States.

scour

Verb : (transitive) To clean, polish, or wash (something) by rubbing and scrubbing it vigorously, frequently with an abrasive or cleaning agent.

Verb : (transitive) To remove debris and dirt (from something) by purging; to sweep along or off by a current of water.

Verb : (transitive, veterinary medicine) To clear the digestive tract (of an animal) by administering medication that induces defecation or vomiting; to purge.

scrub

Adjective : Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.

Noun : One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.

Noun : One who is incompetent or unable to complete easy tasks.

scary

Adjective : (now chiefly informal) Causing fear or anxiety

Adjective : (informal) Uncannily striking or surprising.

Adjective : (US, colloquial) Subject to sudden alarm; easily frightened.

scowl

Noun : The wrinkling of the brows or face in frowning; the expression of displeasure, sullenness, or discontent in the countenance; an angry frown.

Noun : (by extension) Gloom; dark or threatening aspect.

Verb : (intransitive) To wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe, or angry.

scrum

Noun : A tightly-packed and disorderly crowd of people.

Noun : (Canada) A tightly packed group of reporters surrounding a person, usually a politician, asking for comments about an issue; an opportunity provided for a politician to be approached this way.

Noun : (rugby) In rugby union or rugby league, all the forwards joined together in an organised way.

schwa

Noun : (phonetics) An indeterminate central vowel sound as the "a" in "about", represented as /ə/ in IPA.

Noun : The character ə.

Verb : (phonetics, of a vowel sound, rare) To be reduced to schwa.

scarf

Noun : A long, often knitted, garment worn around the neck.

Noun : A headscarf.

Noun : (dated) A neckcloth or cravat.

scent

Noun : A distinctive smell.

Noun : A smell left by an animal that may be used for tracing.

Noun : The sense of smell.

scare

Noun : A minor fright.

Noun : A cause of slight terror; something that inspires fear or dread.

Noun : A device or object used to frighten.

scree

Noun : (uncountable) Loose stony debris on a slope.

Noun : (uncountable, by extension) Similar debris made up of broken building material such as bricks, concrete, etc.

Noun : (countable) A slope made up of loose stony debris at the base of a cliff, mountain, etc.

scrim

Noun : A kind of light cotton or linen fabric, often woven in openwork patterns, used for curtains, etc,.

Noun : A large military scarf, usually camouflage coloured and used for concealment when not used as a scarf.

Noun : A woven, nonwoven or knitted fabric composed of continuous strands of material used for reinforcing or strengthening membranes.

scrip

Noun : A small medieval bag used to carry food, money, utensils etc.

Noun : (archaic) Small change.

Noun : A scrap of paper.

scart

Noun : A French-originated standard and associated 21-pin connector for connecting audiovisual equipment.

Verb : (Scotland, transitive) To scratch or scrape.

Noun : (Scotland) A slight wound.

scoot

Noun : (slang) A dollar.

Noun : (slang) a scooter.

Noun : A sideways shuffling or sliding motion.

scamp

Noun : A rascal, swindler, or rogue; a ne'er-do-well.

Noun : A mischievous person, especially a playful, impish youngster.

Verb : (dated) To skimp; to do something in a skimpy or slipshod fashion.

scape

Noun : (botany) A leafless stalk growing directly out of a root, bulb, or subterranean structure.

Noun : The basal segment of an insect's antenna (i.e. the part closest to the body).

Noun : The basal part, more specifically known as the oviscape, of the ovipositor of an insect.

scalp

Noun : (now dialectal) The top of the head; the skull.

Noun : The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from.

Noun : (historical) A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, formerly cut or torn off from an enemy by warriors in some cultures as a token of victory.

scald

Verb : To burn with hot liquid.

Verb : (cooking) To heat almost to boiling.

Noun : A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by hot liquid or steam.

scone

Noun : A small, rich, pastry or quick bread, sometimes baked on a griddle.

Noun : (Utah, Idaho) Frybread served with honey butter spread on it.

Noun : (informal, Australia, New Zealand) The head.

scuff

Verb : To scrape the feet while walking.

Verb : To scrape and roughen the surface of (shoes, etc.)

Verb : To hit lightly, to brush against.

scott

Noun : (countable) An English ethnic surname transferred from the nickname for someone with Scottish ancestry.

Noun : (countable) A male given name transferred from the surname.

Noun : A placename:

scull

Noun : A single oar mounted at the stern of a boat and moved from side to side to propel the boat forward.

Noun : One of a pair of oars handled by a single rower.

Noun : A small rowing boat, for one person.

scarp

Noun : The steep artificial slope below a fort's parapet.

Noun : (geology) A cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge caused by erosion or faulting; the steeper side of an escarpment.

Verb : (earth science, geography, transitive) to cut, scrape, erode, or otherwise make into a scarp or escarpment

scram

Verb : (intransitive, originally US, often imperative) To leave in a hurry; to go away.

Noun : (MLE, slang) A gun, firearm.

Verb : (transitive) To shut down (a nuclear reactor or, by extension, some other thing) for safety reasons, usually because of an emergency.

scuba

Noun : (underwater diving) An apparatus carried by a diver, which includes a tank holding compressed, filtered air and a regulator which delivers the air to the diver at ambient pressure which can be used underwater.

Verb : (rare) To perform scuba diving.

scrag

Noun : (archaic) A thin or scrawny person or animal.

Noun : (archaic) The lean end of a neck of mutton; the scrag end.

Noun : (archaic) The neck, especially of a sheep.

scrow

Noun : (obsolete) A scroll.

Noun : (obsolete) A clipping from skins; a currier's cuttings.

scath

Noun : (UK dialectal, archaic) Alternative form of scathe (“harm; damage”) [(countable, uncountable) Damage, harm, hurt, injury.]

Verb : Archaic form of scathe. [(archaic or Scotland) To harm or injure (someone or something) physically.]

scads

Noun : a large number or amoun

scena

Noun : A scene in an opera.

Noun : An accompanied dramatic recitative, interspersed with passages of melody, or followed by a full aria.

Noun : (historical) The stage of an ancient theatre.

scrod

Noun : (New England) Any cod, pollock, haddock, or other whitefish.

Verb : (transitive) To shred.

scoat

Verb : (UK, dialect) To prop; to scotch.

scurf

Noun : A skin disease.

Noun : The flakes of skin that fall off as a result of a skin disease.

Noun : Any crust-like formations on the skin, or in general.

schmo

Noun : A stupid, obnoxious, pathetic, or otherwise contemptible person.

Noun : Any average Joe; any Joe Schmoe.

scaly

Adjective : Covered or abounding with scales.

Adjective : Composed of scales lying over each other.

Adjective : Resembling scales, laminae, or layers.

scaup

Noun : Any of three species of small diving duck in the genus Aythya.

Noun : (Scotland) Alternative form of scalp (“a bed or stratum of shellfish”) [(now dialectal) The top of the head; the skull.]

scute

Noun : (zoology) A horny, chitinous, or bony external plate or scale, as on the shell of a turtle or the skin of crocodiles.

Noun : (genetics) A proneural gene, often associated with achaete, that is required for the formation of many larval and adult sense organs

Noun : (obsolete) A small shield.

scafe

sculp

Verb : (obsolete, sometimes humorous) To sculpture; to carve or engrave.

Verb : (transitive) To flay.

scala

Noun : Ladder; sequence.

Noun : (anatomy) Ladder-like structure in the cochlea of a mammal's ear.

Noun : A machine formerly used for reducing dislocations of the humerus.

scopa

Noun : Any of various clusters of hair of non-parasitic bees that serve to carry pollen. In parasitic Hymenoptera it refers to a local patch of hairs, regardless of function.

Noun : (card games) A Neapolitan card game.

Noun : (UK) Acronym of Seed Crushers and Oil Processors Association.

scots

Noun : 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.

Adjective : (sometimes proscribed) Scottish

scall

Noun : A scurf or scabby disease, especially of the scalp.

Noun : (mining) Loose ground.

Adjective : Mean; wretched.

scrog

Noun : A stunted or shrivelled bush.

Noun : Brushwood.

Noun : (heraldry, countable) The branch of a tree, especially one used as a charge in Scottish heraldry.

scend

Noun : 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.

Verb : (intransitive) To heave upward.

scran

Noun : (UK, Ireland, slang) Food, especially that of an inferior quality; grub.

Noun : Refuse; rubbish.

Verb : (slang, Liverpool, Manchester, Scotland) To eat.

scrat

Verb : (obsolete) To scratch; to use one's nails or claws.

Verb : (obsolete, UK) To rake; to search.

Noun : (obsolete) A hermaphrodite.

scudo

Noun : (historical) A silver coin and unit of currency of various Italian states from the 16th to the 19th centuries.

Noun : A former unit of currency in Malta, now the official currency of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.

Noun : (historical) A unit of currency in 19th-century Bolivia, equal to 16 soles.

scars

Noun : A permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound.

Noun : (by extension) A permanent negative effect on someone's mind, caused by a traumatic experience.

Noun : Any permanent mark resulting from damage.

scrid

Noun : A screed; a shred; a fragment.

scuzz

Noun : (slang, countable) A scuzzy person, an unpleasant or disgusting person.

Noun : (slang) A scuzzy thing, a disgusting substance, especially dirt or grime.

scyle

Verb : (obsolete, transitive) To hide; to secrete; to conceal.

scatt

Noun : Obsolete spelling of scat (“tax, tribute”) [A tax; tribute.]

scard

Noun : (obsolete) A shard or fragment.

scada

Noun : (electricity, software) Acronym of Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (electrical network typically containing at least IED's, RTU's, and a master station equipped with an HMI. Used to monitor and control process automation systems, such as those used by electrical and water utilities.)

scarn

Noun : (obsolete, UK, dialect) dung

scrit

scarm

scrib

Noun : (dated) Something scribed; an inscription.

scane

scaur

Noun : (chiefly Scotland) A steep cliff or bank.

scorm

Noun : Initialism of Sharable Content Object Reference Model: a collection of standards and specifications for e-learning.

schiz

sculk

Verb : Alternative spelling of skulk [To stay where one cannot be seen, conceal oneself (often in a cowardly way or with the intent of doing harm).]

scole

Noun : A surname.

scorp

Noun : (military, slang, dated) A resident of Gibraltar.

Noun : A woodworking tool for roughing out concave shapes such as bowls and spoons.

scoft

scraw

Noun : A sod of grass-grown turf from the surface of a bog or from a field.

Noun : A turf covering the roof of a cottage beneath the thatch.

scans

Verb : (transitive) To examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely.

Verb : (computing, transitive) To inspect, analyse or go over, often to find something.

Verb : (transitive) To look about for; to look over quickly.

scink

Noun : Archaic form of skink (“animal”). [(Scotland, Northern England) A shin of beef.]

scoby

Noun : A surname.

Noun : Acronym of symbiotic culture (or community, or colony) of bacteria and yeast.

Noun : Alternative form of scobby (“chaffinch”) [(UK, dialect, archaic) The chaffinch.]

scoke

Noun : Pokeweed, Phytolacca americana (formerly Phytolacca decandra).

scabs

Noun : An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.

Noun : (colloquial or obsolete) The scabies.

Noun : The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.

scand

scern

Verb : (obsolete) To discern; to perceive.

scrab

Verb : (transitive) To scrape or scratch.

Noun : A crabapple.

scate

Noun : Obsolete form of skate (“footwear”). [A runner or blade, usually of steel, with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, made to be fastened under the foot, and used for gliding on ice.]

Noun : Obsolete form of skate (“fish”). [A runner or blade, usually of steel, with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, made to be fastened under the foot, and used for gliding on ice.]

schon

Noun : A surname.

scops

Noun : The scops owl.

schul

Noun : Alternative form of shul (“Ashkenazic synagogue”) [(Judaism) An Ashkenazi synagogue.]

scise

Verb : (intransitive, obsolete) To cut; to penetrate.

scalf

Noun : A surname.

schah

Noun : Archaic form of shah. [A king of Persia or Iran.]

scifi

Noun : Alternative spelling of sci-fi

sci fi

Noun : Alternative form of sci-fi

schug

Noun : A surname.

scame

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