4-letter words containing s, c
- scam — a confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, especially for making a quick profit; swindle.
- scan — to glance at or over or read hastily: to scan a page.
- scar — a precipitous, rocky place; cliff.
- scat — to sing by making full or partial use of the technique of scat singing.
- scaw — (in Shetland) a headland or promontory
- sccs — (software) Source Code Control System: a popular source code management system found on Unix since early versions.
- sch. — school
- sci. — science
- scid — severe combined immune deficiency; a serious condition in which babies are born with reduced numbers of T- and B-lymphocytes, which impairs their immune systems and makes them susceptible to severe infections and cancer
- sclc — Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- scog — to shelter
- scop — an Old English bard or poet.
- scot — a native or inhabitant of Scotland.
- scow — any of various vessels having a flat-bottomed rectangular hull with sloping ends, built in various sizes with or without means of propulsion, as barges, punts, rowboats, or sailboats.
- scpi — Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments
- scqf — Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework
- scry — to use divination to discover hidden knowledge or future events, especially by means of a crystal ball.
- scsi — Small Computer System Interface
- sctu — Singapore Chinese Teachers Union
- scud — to run or move quickly or hurriedly.
- scul — an old spelling of school when referring to a school of fish
- scum — a film or layer of foul or extraneous matter that forms on the surface of a liquid.
- scup — a sparid food fish, Stenotomus chrysops, found along the Atlantic coast of the U.S., having a compressed body and high back.
- scur — a small unattached growth of horn at the site of a normal horn in cattle
- scut — a worthless, contemptible person.
- scye — a sleeve-hole
- sdlc — 1. (communications) Synchronous Data Link Control. 2. (programming) Systems Development Life Cycle.
- sdrc — (company) The company behind VGX.
- seac — School Examination and Assessment Council
- secc — Single Edge Contact Cartridge
- sech — a hyperbolic secant; a hyperbolic function that is the reciprocal of cosh
- seco — (of wine) dry
- sect — a body of persons adhering to a particular religious faith; a religious denomination.
- secy — secretary
- serc — Science and Engineering Research Council
- sgcp — Simple Gateway Control Protocol
- sica — Vittorio [vi-tawr-ee-oh,, -tohr-;; Italian veet-taw-ryaw] /vɪˈtɔr iˌoʊ,, -ˈtoʊr-;; Italian vitˈtɔ ryɔ/ (Show IPA), 1901–74, Italian motion-picture director, producer, and actor.
- sice — (in India) a groom; stable attendant.
- sick — afflicted with ill health or disease; ailing.
- sicl — Standard Instrument Control Library
- slcm — sea-launched cruise missile: a type of cruise missile that can be launched from either a submarine or a surface ship
- slsc — Surf Life Saving Club
- smcc — Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation.
- sncc — a U.S. civil-rights organization formed by students and active especially during the 1960s, whose aim was to achieve political and economic equality for blacks through local and regional action groups.
- sncf — Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer: the French national railway system
- soc. — Soc. is the written abbreviation for society.
- soca — a style of Caribbean dance music derived from calypso and American soul music and having a pounding beat.
- sock — a short stocking usually reaching to the calf or just above the ankle.
- spca — Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
- spcc — Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children