6-letter words starting with s
- scaffy — a street sweeper or refuse collector
- scalar — representable by position on a scale or line; having only magnitude: a scalar variable.
- scaled — noting armor having imbricated metal plates sewn to a flexible backing.
- scaler — a person or thing that scales.
- scales — a succession or progression of steps or degrees; graduated series: the scale of taxation; the social scale.
- scalia — Antonin [an-tuh-nin] /ˈæn tə nɪn/ (Show IPA), born 1936, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court since 1986.
- scally — a rascal; rogue
- scamel — a bird mentioned in Shakespeare's The Tempest
- scampi — a large shrimp or prawn.
- scamto — the argot of urban South African Black people
- scanno — /skan'oh/ An error in a document caused by a scanner glitch, analogous to a typo or thinko.
- scanty — scant in amount, quantity, etc.; barely sufficient.
- scapus — a leafless flower stalk
- scarab — any scarabaeid beetle, especially Scarabaeus sacer, regarded as sacred by the ancient Egyptians.
- scarce — insufficient to satisfy the need or demand; not abundant: Meat and butter were scarce during the war.
- scared — to fill, especially suddenly, with fear or terror; frighten; alarm.
- scarer — to fill, especially suddenly, with fear or terror; frighten; alarm.
- scarfe — Gerald. born 1936, British cartoonist, famous for his scathing caricatures of politicians and celebrities
- scarph — to assemble with a scarf joint.
- scarre — to scare
- scarry — full of precipitous, rocky places.
- scathe — to attack with severe criticism.
- scato- — dung or excrement
- scatty — scatterbrained.
- scaury — (on Orkney and Shetland) a young seagull
- scazon — a metre in poetry in which the spondee or trochee replaces the final iambus; a choliamb
- scenic — of or relating to natural scenery.
- scerne — to discern or to perceive something
- schama — Simon (Michael). born 1945, British historian, art critic, and broadcaster, based in the US; his work includes The Embarrassment of Riches (1987), Landscape and Memory (1995), and the BBC television series A History of Britain (2000–02)
- schema — a diagram, plan, or scheme. Synonyms: outline, framework, model.
- scheme — a plan, design, or program of action to be followed; project.
- scherm — (in South Africa) a hut, screen, or shelter constructed from branches and canvas, scraped animal hides, or the like.
- schick — Béla [bey-luh;; Hungarian bey-lo] /ˈbeɪ lə;; Hungarian ˈbeɪ lɒ/ (Show IPA), 1877–1967, U.S. pediatrician, born in Hungary.
- schiff — Sir Andras (ˈɑndrəs). born 1953, Hungarian concert pianist; became British citizen in 2001; knighted (2014) for services to music
- schipa — Tito [tee-taw] /ˈti tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1890–1965, Italian operatic tenor.
- schism — division or disunion, especially into mutually opposed parties.
- schist — any of a class of crystalline metamorphic rocks whose constituent mineral grains have a more or less parallel or foliated arrangement.
- schizo — a schizophrenic or schizoid person.
- schizy — schizoid or schizophrenic.
- schlag — whipped cream, used especially as a topping for cake, coffee, etc.
- schlep — to carry; lug: to schlep an umbrella on a sunny day.
- schley — Winfield Scott [win-feeld] /ˈwɪnˌfild/ (Show IPA), 1839–1911, U.S. rear admiral.
- schlub — zhlob.
- schmoe — a foolish, boring, or stupid person; a jerk.
- schnoz — a nose, especially one of unusually large size.
- school — a large number of fish, porpoises, whales, or the like, feeding or migrating together.
- schorl — Mineralogy. a black tourmaline.
- schout — (formerly) a council officer or sheriff in the Netherlands
- schrod — a young Atlantic codfish or haddock, especially one split for cooking.
- schtup — to have sexual intercourse with.