9-letter words starting with s
- scarifier — to make scratches or superficial incisions in (the skin, a wound, etc.), as in vaccination.
- scariness — the state or quality of being scary
- scaringly — to fill, especially suddenly, with fear or terror; frighten; alarm.
- scarlatti — Alessandro [ah-luh-sahn-droh;; Italian ah-les-sahn-draw] /ˌɑ ləˈsɑn droʊ;; Italian ˌɑ lɛsˈsɑn drɔ/ (Show IPA), 1659–1725, Italian composer.
- scarpetto — a type of shoe traditionally worn by Alpine climbers
- scarpines — an instrument for torturing feet
- scarsdale — a town in SE New York, N of New York City.
- scatheful — causing harm or injury
- scatology — the study of or preoccupation with excrement or obscenity.
- scattered — distributed or occurring at widely spaced and usually irregular intervals: scattered villages; scattered showers.
- scatterer — to throw loosely about; distribute at irregular intervals: to scatter seeds.
- scavenger — an animal or other organism that feeds on dead organic matter.
- scazontic — relating to or consisting of scazons
- scelerate — a villain, or extremely wicked person; a criminal
- scenarios — an outline of the plot of a dramatic work, giving particulars as to the scenes, characters, situations, etc.
- scenarist — a writer of motion-picture or television scenarios.
- scenarize — to make or create a scenario of something
- sceneries — the general appearance of a place; the aggregate of features that give character to a landscape.
- scenester — a person who tries to fit into a particular cultural scene
- scentless — a distinctive odor, especially when agreeable: the scent of roses.
- sceptered — a rod or wand borne in the hand as an emblem of regal or imperial power.
- sceptical — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
- schatchen — shadkhan.
- schaudinn — Fritz [frits] /frɪts/ (Show IPA), 1871–1906, German zoologist.
- schechter — Solomon, 1847–1915, U.S. Hebraist, born in Romania.
- schedular — a plan of procedure, usually written, for a proposed objective, especially with reference to the sequence of and time allotted for each item or operation necessary to its completion: The schedule allows three weeks for this stage.
- scheduled — a plan of procedure, usually written, for a proposed objective, especially with reference to the sequence of and time allotted for each item or operation necessary to its completion: The schedule allows three weeks for this stage.
- scheduler — scheduling
- scheelite — calcium tungstate, CaWO 4 , usually occurring in tetragonal crystals: an important ore of tungsten.
- schelling — Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von [free-drikh vil-helm yoh-zef fuh n] /ˈfri drɪx ˈvɪl hɛlm ˈyoʊ zɛf fən/ (Show IPA), 1775–1854, German philosopher.
- schematic — pertaining to or of the nature of a schema, diagram, or scheme; diagrammatic.
- schematik — A NeXT front-end to MIT Scheme for the NeXT by Chris Kane and Max Hailperin <[email protected]>. Schematik provides syntax-knowledgeable text editing, graphics windows and a user-interface to an underlying MIT Scheme process. It comes with MIT Scheme 7.1.3 ready to install on the NeXT and requires NEXTSTEP. Version: 1.1.5.2.
- scheme->c — Scheme-to-C
- schiavone — the Italian name for a 17th century basket-hilted sword with a double edge
- schickard — a large crater in the SW quadrant of the moon, about 227 kilometres (141 miles) in diameter
- schilling — a copper and aluminum coin and monetary unit of Austria until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 groschen. Abbreviation: S., Sch.
- schippers — Thomas, 1930–77, U.S. orchestra conductor.
- schistose — of, resembling, or in the form of schist.
- schizopod — any crustacean of the former order or division Schizopoda, now divided into the orders Mysidacea, comprising the opossum shrimps, and Euphausiacea, comprising krill.
- schleiden — Matthias Jakob [mah-tee-ahs yah-kawp] /mɑˈti ɑs ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1804–81, German botanist.
- schlemiel — an awkward and unlucky person for whom things never turn out right.
- schlemihl — an awkward and unlucky person for whom things never turn out right.
- schlepper — to carry; lug: to schlep an umbrella on a sunny day.
- schlesien — German name of Silesia.
- schleswig — a seaport in N Germany, on the Baltic.
- schlieren — Petrography. streaks or irregularly shaped masses in an igneous rock that differ in texture or composition from the main mass.
- schlocker — something of poor quality; schlock
- schmaltzy — of, relating to, or characterized by schmaltz.
- schmecker — a heroin user
- schmeling — Max [maks;; German mahks] /mæks;; German mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1905–2005, German boxer: world heavyweight champion 1930–32.