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  • scintigraphic — of or relating to scintigraphy
  • scoinson arch — sconcheon arch.
  • scotch plains — a township in NE New Jersey.
  • scratch video — the technique or practice of recycling images from films or television to make collages
  • scratchpad ii — See Scratchpad I, AXIOM.
  • scythian lamb — a fern, Cibotium barometz, of southeastern Asia, having stalks covered with shaggy, brownish hair and large, feathery leaves, formerly believed to be a source of vegetable wool.
  • search engine — a computer program that searches documents, especially on the World Wide Web, for a specified word or words and provides a list of documents in which they are found.
  • secretaryship — a person, usually an official, who is in charge of the records, correspondence, minutes of meetings, and related affairs of an organization, company, association, etc.: the secretary of the Linguistic Society of America.
  • self-adhesive — having a side or surface coated with an adhesive substance to permit sticking without glue, paste, or the like: a self-adhesive label; self-adhesive ceramic tiles.
  • self-chastise — to discipline, especially by corporal punishment.
  • self-loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
  • semi-attached — partially attached; semidetached.
  • semi-detached — partly detached.
  • semi-mythical — pertaining to, of the nature of, or involving a myth.
  • semiochemical — a chemical substance produced by an animal and used in communications, such as a pheromone
  • seneschalship — the office or position of a seneschal
  • sensible heat — Sensible heat is heat which is exchanged in an energy generation system, and which only affects the temperature of one or more substances.
  • sergeant fish — cobia
  • serial rights — the rights to reprint or publish a serial or as a serial
  • serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
  • sex chromatin — Barr body.
  • shack-tapping — the making of house-by-house visits to canvass.
  • shadow boxing — to make the motions of attack and defense, as in boxing, as a training or conditioning procedure.
  • shadowcasting — the enhancement of images by the casting of shadows
  • shag pile rug — a piece of thick material with a nap of long rough strands that you put on a floor. It is like a carpet but covers a smaller area
  • shakespearian — of, relating to, or suggestive of Shakespeare or his works.
  • shaking palsy — Parkinson's disease.
  • shambolically — in a completely disorganized or chaotic manner
  • shape-shifter — a creature or thing that can change shape at will or that does so under certain conditions
  • share capital — A company's share capital is the money that shareholders invest in order to start or expand the business.
  • share premium — the excess of the amount actually subscribed for an issue of corporate capital over its par value
  • sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
  • shark biscuit — a bodyboard
  • shark finning — the practice of catching sharks, removing their fins (which are commercially valuable) and throwing the rest of the shark back into the sea (often while it is still alive, but doomed to drown because it cannot swim without its fins)
  • sharp-sighted — having keen sight.
  • shaving brush — a short, cylindrical brush with long, soft, bristles, used in lathering the face before shaving.
  • shaving cream — a preparation, as of soap and free fatty acid, that is lathered and applied to the face to soften and condition the beard for shaving.
  • shaving horse — a trestle for supporting and steadying a piece of work being shaved.
  • shaving stick — a piece of shaving foam moulded into a slender shape and held in a slender container for ease of application to the face when removing hair with a razor
  • shearing gang — a group of itinerant workers who contract to shear, class, and bale a farmer's wool clip
  • shearing shed — a farm building equipped with power machinery for sheepshearing and equipment for baling wool
  • sheep farming — agriculture: sheep raising
  • sheep station — a large sheep farm
  • sheepshearing — an act or instance of shearing sheep.
  • shield bearer — an attendant who carries the shield or arms of a warrior.
  • shih huang ti — 259–210 b.c, Chinese emperor c247–210 b.c. initiated the building of the Great Wall of China.
  • shilling mark — a virgule, as used as a divider between shillings and pence: One reads 2/6 as “two shillings and sixpence” or “two and six.”.
  • shilly-shally — to show indecision or hesitation; be irresolute; vacillate.
  • shingle beach — a beach made of a mass of small pieces of rough stone
  • ship chandler — a person who deals in cordage, canvas, and other supplies for ships.
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