9-letter words starting with sc
- 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.
- screeched — to utter or make a harsh, shrill cry or sound: The child screeched hysterically. The brakes screeched.
- screening — a movable or fixed device, usually consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc.
- screw cap — a cap designed to screw onto the threaded mouth of a bottle, jar, or the like.
- screw eye — a screw having a ring-shaped head.
- screw fly — screwworm fly.
- screw nut — a nut threaded to receive a screw.
- screw off — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
- screw top — (of a container) having a top that screws on.
- screw you — expressing contempt
- screw-off — a loafer; idler.
- screw-top — (of a container) having a top that screws on.
- 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.
- screwworm — the larva of any of certain flies of the genus Callitroga, which sometimes infests wounds and the nose and navel of domestic animals and humans.
- scribable — able to be written or written on
- scribbler — a machine for scribbling wool fibers.
- 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.
- scripless — a receipt, certificate, list, or similar brief piece of writing.
- scrippage — the contents of a scrip
- scripters — the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.
- scriptics — (company) John Ousterhout's company that is the home of Tcl development and the TclPro tool suite.
- scripting — the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.
- scriptory — of or relating to writing
- scripture — Often, Scriptures. Also called Holy Scripture, Holy Scriptures. the sacred writings of the Old or New Testaments or both together.
- scrivener — scribe1 (defs 1, 2).
- scroddled — made of different-coloured scraps of pottery
- scrolling — computing: moving around screen
- scrooched — to crouch, squeeze, or huddle (usually followed by down, in, or up).
- scrounger — to borrow (a small amount or item) with no intention of repaying or returning it: to scrounge a cigarette.
- 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.
- scrubbily — in a scrubby or messy manner
- scrubbing — to rub hard with a brush, cloth, etc., or against a rough surface in washing.
- scrubdown — an act or instance of scrubbing, especially a thorough washing of a surface or object: The decks of the ship get a scrubdown every morning.
- scrubland — land on which the natural vegetation is chiefly scrub.
- scruffily — in an unkempt or shabby fashion
- scrumdown — the forming of a scrum in rugby
- scrummage — scrum (defs 1, 3).
- scrunched — to crunch, crush, or crumple.
- scrunchie — an elastic band covered with gathered fabric, used to fasten the hair, as in a ponytail.
- scrutable — capable of being understood by careful study or investigation.
- scrutator — a person who investigates.
- scrutoire — writing desk (def 1).
- scuddaler — a leader of festivities