9-letter words containing s, c, r, a
- scrap car — an old or damaged car that is to be reprocessed by a scrap dealer
- scrapable — to deprive of or free from an outer layer, adhering matter, etc., or to smooth by drawing or rubbing something, especially a sharp or rough instrument, over the surface: to scrape a table to remove paint and varnish.
- scrapbook — an album in which pictures, newspaper clippings, etc., may be pasted or mounted.
- scrape by — If someone scrapes by, they earn just enough money to live on with difficulty.
- scrape in — to succeed in entering with difficulty or by a narrow margin
- scrape up — to deprive of or free from an outer layer, adhering matter, etc., or to smooth by drawing or rubbing something, especially a sharp or rough instrument, over the surface: to scrape a table to remove paint and varnish.
- scrapegut — a fiddle player
- scrapheap — a pile of old, discarded material, as metal.
- scrapings — Scrapings are small amounts or pieces that have been scraped off something.
- scrappage — the act or process of scrapping
- scrapping — a fight or quarrel: She got into a scrap with her in-laws.
- scrapyard — A scrapyard is a place where old machines such as cars or ships are destroyed and where useful parts are saved.
- scratcher — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
- scratches — Old Scratch; Satan.
- scratchie — a scratchcard
- scrawling — to write or draw in a sprawling, awkward manner: He scrawled his name hastily across the blackboard.
- screaking — screeching or creaking
- screaming — uttering screams.
- screw cap — a cap designed to screw onto the threaded mouth of a bottle, jar, or the like.
- screwable — able to be screwed
- screwball — Slang. an eccentric or whimsically eccentric person; a nut.
- screwbean — a small tree or shrub of the south-western United States that has edible pods
- screwhead — the head or top of a screw having a slot for the end of a screwdriver.
- scribable — able to be written or written on
- scrimmage — a rough or vigorous struggle.
- scrimshaw — a carved or engraved article, especially of whale ivory, whalebone, walrus tusks, or the like, made by whalers as a leisure occupation.
- scrippage — the contents of a scrip
- scrub jay — a crestless jay, Aphelocoma coerulescens, of the western and southern U.S. and Mexico, having blue and grayish plumage.
- scrub oak — any of several oaks, as Quercus ilicifolia and Q. prinoides, characterized by a scrubby manner of growth, usually found in dry, rocky soil.
- scrubland — land on which the natural vegetation is chiefly scrub.
- scrummage — scrum (defs 1, 3).
- scrutable — capable of being understood by careful study or investigation.
- scrutator — a person who investigates.
- scuddaler — a leader of festivities
- scumboard — a board or strip of material partly immersed in flowing water to hold back scum.
- sea perch — surfperch.
- sea reach — a straight course at the mouth of a river, connecting with the sea.
- sea wrack — seaweed or a growth of seaweed, especially of the larger kinds cast up on the shore.
- search me — to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost: They searched the woods for the missing child. I searched the desk for the letter.
- searching — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
- secateurs — scissors or shears, especially pruning shears.
- secondary — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
- secretage — the use of mercury in treating or felting furs
- secretary — 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.
- sectarial — distinguishing or differentiating a sect
- sectarian — of or relating to sectaries or sects.
- sectorial — of or relating to a sector.
- secularly — of or relating to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal: secular interests.
- securable — free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
- securance — the act or process of securing