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  • scouring pad — a small pad, as of steel wool or plastic mesh, used for scouring pots, pans, etc.
  • scrapbooking — hobby: collaging
  • sea scorpion — scorpionfish.
  • self-proving — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
  • septentrions — the seven stars of the Plough
  • serpentiform — shaped like a snake.
  • serpentinous — of the nature of serpentine; containing or consisting of serpentine
  • share option — A share option is an opportunity for the employees of a company to buy shares at a special price.
  • shopbreaking — the act of breaking into a shop
  • signal corps — a branch of the army responsible for military communications, meteorological studies, and related work.
  • silver point — the melting point of silver, equal to 960.8°C, used as a fixed point on the international temperature scale.
  • silver spoon — spoon (def 16).
  • sinanthropus — the genus to which Peking man was formerly assigned.
  • siphonophore — any pelagic hydrozoan of the order Siphonophora, being a floating or swimming colony composed of polyps.
  • somatotropin — a hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland, that stimulates growth in humans.
  • somers point — a town in SE New Jersey.
  • sparcstation — (computer)   A family of workstations from Sun Microsystems based on the SPARC architecture. Models include the SPARCStation 1, 1+, SLC, SPARCStation ELC, IPX, SPARCStation 5, SPARCStation 10 and SPARCStation 20.
  • specksioneer — a whaler
  • spermagonium — Botany, Mycology. spermogonium.
  • spermogonium — one of the cup-shaped or flask-shaped receptacles in which the spermatia of certain fungi and red algae are produced.
  • spin control — Slang. an attempt to give a bias to news coverage, especially of a political candidate or event.
  • spinning rod — a flexible fishing rod, often made of fiberglass, used with a spinning reel.
  • spinsterhood — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
  • spiral-bound — having a spiral binding.
  • spoil ground — an area within a body of water, especially in the sea, where dredged material is deposited.
  • sponsorships — a person who vouches or is responsible for a person or thing.
  • sporangiolum — a small sporangium
  • sporogenesis — the production of spores; sporogony.
  • sportfishing — fishing with a rod and reel for sport, especially for saltwater sport fish from a motorboat.
  • sporting dog — one of any of several breeds of usually large dogs especially suited by size and training for hunting by pointing, flushing, and retrieving game and including the pointers, setters, retrievers, and spaniels.
  • sporting gun — a gun intended for hunting
  • sports drink — a drink containing sugar and salts, etc designed to help replace fluid and energy lost through the physical exertion of sport
  • spring onion — scallion
  • square piano — a piano with a rectangular, horizontal body.
  • state prison — a prison maintained by a state for the confinement of felons.
  • stauropegion — (in an autocephalous church) a monastery subject directly to the primate.
  • stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
  • stereophonic — pertaining to a system of sound recording or reproduction using two or more separate channels to produce a more realistic effect by capturing the spatial dimensions of a performance (the location of performers as well as their acoustic surroundings), used especially with high-fidelity recordings and reproduction systems (opposed to monophonic).
  • stereoptican — a projector usually consisting of two complete lanterns arranged so that one picture appears to dissolve while the next is forming.
  • stereopticon — a projector usually consisting of two complete lanterns arranged so that one picture appears to dissolve while the next is forming.
  • stereotyping — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
  • stirrup bone — the stapes, one of the three bones of the middle ear
  • strepitation — the quality or state of being strepitant
  • streptolysin — a type of hemolysin produced by certain species of streptococcus.
  • streptomycin — an antibiotic, C 2 1 H 3 9 N 7 O 1 2 , produced by a soil actinomycete, Streptomyces griseus, and used in medicine in the form of its white, water-soluble sulfate salt, chiefly in the treatment of tuberculosis.
  • stride piano — a style of jazz piano playing in which the right hand plays the melody while the left hand plays a single bass note or octave on the strong beat and a chord on the weak beat, developed in Harlem during the 1920s, partly from ragtime piano playing.
  • strong point — Bridge. a long suit that contains high cards.
  • strophanthin — a very poisonous, bitter glycoside or mixture of glycosides obtained from the dried, ripe seeds of a strophanthus, especially Strophanthus kombe, used as a cardiac stimulant.
  • subinspector — a secondary or assistant inspector
  • subscription — a sum of money given or pledged as a contribution, payment, investment, etc.
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