5 Letter Words That Start With SC

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.

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.

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.

scope

Noun : The breadth, depth or reach of a subject; the extent of applicability or relevance; a domain, purview or remit.

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

Noun : Potential range of action; degree of freedom; opportunity.

scold

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

Verb : (ambitransitive) To rebuke angrily.

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

scant

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

Adjective : Sparing; parsimonious; chary.

Adjective : (cooking, of a measurement) Slightly diminished; just short of the amount described.

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.

scion

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

Noun : The heir to a throne.

Noun : A guardian.

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.

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.

scrap

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

Noun : The smallest amount.

Noun : (usually in the plural) Leftover food.

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.

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.

scoot

Noun : A sideways shuffling or sliding motion.

Noun : (slang) A dollar.

Verb : (intransitive) To walk or travel fast; to go quickly.

scent

Noun : A distinctive smell.

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

Noun : The sense of smell.

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.

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.

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.

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.

scary

Adjective : (now chiefly informal) Causing fear or anxiety

Adjective : (informal) Uncannily striking or surprising.

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

scrub

Adjective : Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.

Noun : (uncountable) A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant.

Noun : (uncountable) Vegetation judged to be of inferior quality or of little use to humans, though sometimes thick and impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand; also, brush.

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.

scarf

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

Noun : A headscarf.

Noun : (dated) A neckcloth or cravat.

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.

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.

scrip

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

Noun : (archaic) Small change.

Noun : A scrap of paper.

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.

scoop

Noun : Any cup-shaped 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

scraw

Noun : (Ireland, archaic) 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.

scard

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.

scear

Noun : Obsolete spelling of sear. [A scar produced by searing]

scads

Noun : a large number or amoun

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.

scomm

Noun : (obsolete) A buffoon.

Noun : (obsolete) A flout; a jeer; a gibe; a taunt.

scyle

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

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

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.

scaly

Adjective : Covered or abounding with scales.

Adjective : Composed of scales lying over each other.

Adjective : Resembling scales, laminae, or layers.

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.

schmo

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

Noun : Any average Joe; any Joe Schmoe.

scall

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

Noun : (mining) Loose ground.

Adjective : Mean; wretched.

sculp

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

Verb : (transitive) To flay.

scran

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

Noun : Refuse; rubbish.

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

scism

Noun : A surname.

Noun : Obsolete spelling of schism. [A split or separation within a group or organization, typically caused by discord.]

scyon

Noun : Archaic spelling of scion. [A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant of a distinguished family.]

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.

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.]

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.

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.

scrow

Noun : scroll

Noun : (in the plural) writings

Noun : the sky, the heavens

scrat

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

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

Noun : (obsolete) A hermaphrodite.

scray

Noun : (UK, archaic) A tern; the sea swallow.

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.]

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.]

schau

Noun : A surname.

scien

Noun : Obsolete spelling of scion. [A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant of a distinguished family.]

sculd

Verb : (transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To accuse (someone) of wrongdoing, especially under the procedure known as sculding.

Noun : (rare, UK dialectal) A parting.

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.

scrod

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

Verb : (transitive) To shred.

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.

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.

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.

scatt

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

scuds

Adjective : (slang, Scotland) Naked.

Verb : (intransitive) To race along swiftly (especially used of clouds).

Verb : (ambitransitive, nautical) To run, or be driven, before a high wind with no sails set.

scopy

Adjective : Alternative form of scopey [Of a horse: capable of performing jumps in a stylish and skilful manner.]

scrid

Noun : (originally Maine) a shred; a fragment.

scise

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

Noun : (India) Alternative form of sais (servant responsible for horses) [(chiefly India) A groom, or servant with responsibility for the horses.]

scrab

Verb : (transitive) To scrape or scratch.

Noun : A crabapple.

scove

Noun : (UK, dialect, Cornwall, mining) Rich, pure tin ore.

Verb : (transitive) To cover with clay so as to prevent the escape of heat in burning.

scuse

scusa

scano

Noun : Alternative spelling of scanno [(informal) A typographical error caused by optical character recognition (OCR) software, which may mistake a letter or set of letters for a letter or set of letters of similar shape.]

schak

Noun : Alternative spelling of shalk [(obsolete) A servant.]

schoo

scody

sc.d.

Noun : (education) Initialism of Doctor of Science. [An academic research degree awarded in a number of countries throughout the world. (Latin: Scientiæ Doctor)]

sceme

schou

scovy

scscc

scyen

Noun : Obsolete spelling of scion. [A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant of a distinguished family.]

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.

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.

Noun : Alternative letter-case form of scuba [(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.]

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:

sci fi

Noun : Alternative form of sci-fi

scuta

Noun : A scutum (shield).

scoke

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

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.

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.

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.

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.)

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.

scams

Noun : a 2019 Japanese-language TV series starring Yosuke Sugino and Tomoya Maeno.

scler

scarn

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