5-letter words containing c, s, r
- scorn — open or unqualified contempt; disdain: His face and attitude showed the scorn he felt.
- scour — to range over, as in a search: They scoured the countryside for the lost child.
- 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
- scree — a steep mass of detritus on the side of a mountain.
- screw — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
- scrim — a cotton or linen fabric of open weave used for bunting, curtains, etc.
- scrip — a prescription, as for a drug.
- scrod — a young Atlantic codfish or haddock, especially one split for cooking.
- scrog — any naturally short or stunted tree or bush, as a crab apple tree or blackthorn bush.
- scrow — a scroll
- scrub — to rub hard with a brush, cloth, etc., or against a rough surface in washing.
- scrum — a Rugby play in which, typically, three members of each team line up opposite one another with a group of two and a group of three players behind them, making an eight-person, three-two-three formation on each side; the ball is then rolled between the opposing front lines, the players of which stand with arms around a teammate's waist, meeting the opponent shoulder to shoulder, and attempt to kick the ball backward to a teammate.
- scurf — the scales or small shreds of epidermis that are continually exfoliated from the skin.
- serac — a large irregularity of glacial ice, as a pinnacle found in glacial crevasses and formed by melting or movement of the ice.
- seric — made of silk; silken
- sparc — 1. (processor) Scalable Processor ARChitecture. 2. (database) ANSI/SPARC Architecture.
- sucre — Antonio José de [ahn-taw-nyaw haw-se th e] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ hɔˈsɛ ðɛ/ (Show IPA), 1793–1830, Venezuelan general and South American liberator: 1st president of Bolivia 1826–28.
- worcs — Worcestershire
- wssrc — World Sailing Speed Record Committee