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  • santa clarita — city in SW Calif., near Los Angeles: pop. 151,000
  • sarcasticness — of, relating to, or characterized by sarcasm: a sarcastic reply.
  • scan register — (electronics, testing)   A digital logic circuit which can act either as a flip-flop or as a serial shift register and which is used to form a scan path for testing. The most common design is a multiplexed flip-flop: The other common design is level-sensitive scan design (LSSD).
  • scarfed joint — a lapped joint between two pieces of timber made by notching or grooving the ends and strapping, bolting, or gluing the two pieces together
  • scarification — an act or instance of scarifying.
  • scenarization — the process of making or creating a scenario, esp to aid distance learning education
  • scene painter — a person who paints scenery in a theatre
  • sciatic nerve — either of a pair of nerves, the largest in the body, that originate in the sacral plexus of the lower back and extend down the buttocks to the back of the knees, where they divide into other nerves: the sciatic nerve and its branches innervate large areas of the pelvis, leg, and foot.
  • scintigraphic — of or relating to scintigraphy
  • scintiscanner — a device that records the distribution and intensity of an internally administered radiopharmaceutical, producing a scintigram.
  • scorification — an assaying process whereby gold or silver is separated from ore by fusion with lead.
  • screaming tty — [Unix] A terminal line which spews an infinite number of random characters at the operating system. This can happen if the terminal is either disconnected or connected to a powered-off terminal but still enabled for login; misconfiguration, misimplementation, or simple bad luck can start such a terminal screaming. A screaming tty or two can seriously degrade the performance of a vanilla Unix system; the arriving "characters" are treated as userid/password pairs and tested as such. The Unix password encryption algorithm is designed to be computationally intensive in order to foil brute-force crack attacks, so although none of the logins succeeds; the overhead of rejecting them all can be substantial.
  • sectorization — the act or state of sectorizing
  • self-catering — holiday accommodation not including meals
  • self-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
  • serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
  • sex chromatin — Barr body.
  • ship decanter — a glass decanter with a very wide base.
  • shopping cart — a four-wheeled cart provided by a supermarket or other retail store for a customer's use in collecting purchases.
  • side entrance — an entrance at the side of a building
  • significatory — serving to signify
  • singles chart — a ranked chart of popular music (individual songs, not albums or collections) for a specific period of time
  • sinistrocular — favoring the left eye, rather than the right, by habit or for effective vision (opposed to dextrocular).
  • skin reaction — an irritation or inflammation of the skin due to an allergy or infection, brought about by natural means or by a skin test.
  • south african — of southern Africa.
  • spectral line — a line in a spectrum due to the absorption or emission of light at a discrete frequency.
  • spermatogenic — relating to the development of spermatozoa
  • sportscasting — the reporting of a sports event by radio or television broadcast.
  • standard coin — a coin having value in bullion at least equal to its face value.
  • standing crop — the totality of living things in an ecosystem at a given time.
  • stock raising — the breeding and raising of livestock.
  • strip cartoon — A strip cartoon is the same as a comic strip.
  • structuration — the act of giving structure to something
  • sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
  • superreaction — a reverse movement or tendency; an action in a reverse direction or manner.
  • superromantic — exceptionally romantic
  • tariffication — the creation, fixing, or conversion of a tariff
  • tarpeian rock — a rock on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, from which criminals and traitors were hurled.
  • tautochronism — the fact or quality of being a tautochrone
  • tax inspector — a government official whose job is to make sure that people and companies are paying the right amount of tax
  • tennis racket — long-handled bat used in tennis
  • tercentennial — pertaining to 300 years or a period of 300 years.
  • terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
  • the antarctic — Antarctica and the surrounding waters
  • the archfiend — the chief of fiends or devils; Satan
  • the caribbean — the states and islands of the Caribbean Sea, including the West Indies, when considered as a geopolitical region
  • the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
  • the ediacaran — the Ediacaran period or rock system
  • the franchise — the right to vote, esp for representatives in a legislative body; suffrage
  • thermodynamic — of or relating to thermodynamics.
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