5-letter words containing a, s, c
- scart — to scratch or scrape
- scary — causing fright or alarm.
- scatt — (in the Shetland and Orkney Islands) a crown tax, as for use of common lands.
- scaup — any of several diving ducks of the genus Aythya, especially A. marila (greater scaup) of the Northern Hemisphere, having a bluish-gray bill.
- sceat — a silver Anglo-Saxon coin of the 7th and 8th centuries, sometimes including an amount of gold.
- scena — an extended operatic vocal solo, usually including an aria and a recitative.
- schav — a cold soup of sorrel to which chopped egg, sour cream, lemon juice, and chopped scallions are sometimes added.
- schwa — the mid-central, neutral vowel sound typically occurring in unstressed syllables in English, however spelled, as the sound of a in alone and sofa, e in system, i in easily, o in gallop, u in circus.
- scopa — pollen brush.
- scrab — to scratch or scrape
- scrag — a lean or scrawny person or animal.
- scram — to go away; get out (usually used as a command): I said I was busy, so scram.
- scran — food; provisions
- scrap — a fight or quarrel: She got into a scrap with her in-laws.
- scrat — to scratch
- scraw — a sod from the surface of a peat bog or from a field
- scray — the common tern
- scuba — a portable breathing device for free-swimming divers, consisting of a mouthpiece joined by hoses to one or two tanks of compressed air that are strapped on the back.
- scuta — plural of scutum.
- secam — séquentiel couleur à mémoire: a colour-television broadcasting system used in France, the former Soviet Union, and some other countries
- serac — a large irregularity of glacial ice, as a pinnacle found in glacial crevasses and formed by melting or movement of the ice.
- shack — a rough cabin; shanty.
- shaco — An early system on the IBM 701.
- slack — not tight, taut, firm, or tense; loose: a slack rope.
- smack — Arthur, 1863–1935, British statesman and labor leader: Nobel Peace Prize 1934.
- snack — a small portion of food or drink or a light meal, especially one eaten between regular meals.
- space — the unlimited or incalculably great three-dimensional realm or expanse in which all material objects are located and all events occur.
- spacy — spaced-out (def 2).
- sparc — 1. (processor) Scalable Processor ARChitecture. 2. (database) ANSI/SPARC Architecture.
- spica — spike2 .
- stack — a more or less orderly pile or heap: a precariously balanced stack of books; a neat stack of papers.
- stacy — a male or female given name.
- sumac — any of several shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Rhus of the cashew family, having milky sap, compound leaves, and small, fleshy fruit.
- supac — Student Union Project Advisory Committee
- swack — a hard blow
- taces — tasset.
- tacks — a lease, especially on farmland.
- tacts — a keen sense of what to say or do to avoid giving offense; skill in dealing with difficult or delicate situations.
- tosca — an opera (1900) by Giacomo Puccini.
- uncas — ("the Circler") 1588?–1683? Mohegan leader.
- wacks — Plural form of wack.
- wocas — a yellow pond lily, Nuphar polysepalum, of northwestern North America, having heart-shaped leaves and cup-shaped flowers.
- yacks — Plural form of yack.
- zacks — Plural form of zack.