13-letter words starting with s
- scintigraphic — of or relating to scintigraphy
- scintillating — animated; vivacious; effervescent: a scintillating personality.
- scintillation — the act of scintillating; sparkling.
- scintiscanner — a device that records the distribution and intensity of an internally administered radiopharmaceutical, producing a scintigram.
- scissors hold — a wrestling hold in which one contestant clasps the other with the legs
- scissors jack — a horizontal screw that raises or lowers a hinged, diamond-shaped frame.
- scissors kick — a propelling motion of the legs in which they move somewhat like the blades of a pair of scissors, used in the sidestroke.
- sclerocaulous — having a hard, dry stem
- sclerodermite — the hard covering of a section or segment of the body of an insect
- scleromalacia — a thinning of the sclera (the eyeball's outer covering) which can occur as a result of rheumatoid arthritis
- scleroprotein — protein that is fibrous and insoluble in water, serving a protective or supportive function in the body.
- sclerotherapy — Medicine/Medical. a treatment for varicose veins in which blood flow is diverted and the veins collapsed by injection of a hardening solution, also used cosmetically in spider veins to eliminate discoloration.
- scoinson arch — sconcheon arch.
- scoping study — a preliminary study to define the scope of a project
- scorchingness — the state or quality of being scorching
- scorification — an assaying process whereby gold or silver is separated from ore by fusion with lead.
- scorpion fish — any of several tropical and temperate marine scorpaenid fishes, especially members of the genus Scorpaena, many having venomous dorsal spines.
- scotch bonnet — a small, irregularly shaped, extremely hot chili pepper, the fruit of a variety of Capsicum chinense related to the habanero and ranging from yellow to red.
- scotch crocus — a garden plant, Crocus biflorus, of southeastern Europe and Turkey, having purple-striped, yellow-throated flowers.
- scotch lovage — a similar and related plant, Ligusticum scoticum, of N Europe
- scotch plains — a township in NE New Jersey.
- scotch whisky — whiskey distilled in Scotland, especially from malted barley in a pot still.
- scotch-hearth — ore hearth.
- scotland yard — a short street in central London, England: formerly the site of the London police headquarters, which were removed 1890 to a Thames embankment (New Scotland Yard, ).
- scottish fold — a breed of medium-sized short-haired cat with folded ears
- scottish rite — one of the two advanced divisions of Masonic membership, leading to the 33rd degree.
- scouring rush — any of certain horsetails, especially Equisetum hyemale, used for scouring and polishing.
- scout uniform — the uniform worn by the Scouts
- scrambled egg — eggs stirred while cooking
- scratch paper — rough paper for notes, etc.
- scratch score — an estimated number of strokes for a hole or course that a scratch player should make
- scratch sheet — a racing publication giving the betting odds and other information on the horses entered at a racetrack or racetracks during a racing day.
- scratch video — the technique or practice of recycling images from films or television to make collages
- scratchpad ii — See Scratchpad I, AXIOM.
- 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.
- screen legend — a very famous and much admired film actor
- screen memory — a childhood memory, perhaps recalled falsely, that screens out a more distressing recollection.
- screen reader — (application) A text-to-speech system, intended for use by blind or low-vision users, that speaks the text content of a computer display.
- screen rights — the rights to make a film version of a book
- screen server — (spelling) Do you mean "screen saver"?
- screenwriting — writing film scripts
- screwworm fly — the adult screwworm.
- scribble down — If you scribble down something, you write it quickly or roughly.
- script doctor — one who revises or alters a script to improve it.
- script kiddie — a child or teenager who gains illegal access to computer systems, often by using hacking programs downloaded from the internet
- script reader — playreader.
- scripturalism — the state of being scriptural or adhering to the Scriptures when translating or writing
- scripturalist — a literalist or translator obedient to the Scriptures
- scriptwriting — a person who writes scripts, as for movies, radio, or television.
- scrivenership — the position of being a scrivener or scribe; scribing