Nouns

schlimazel

noun

(Yiddish) a very unlucky or inept person who fails at everyt...

schlock

noun

merchandise that is shoddy or inferior

schnorrer

noun

(Yiddish) a scrounger who takes advantage of the generosity...

scholasticism

noun

orthodoxy of a scholastic variety

scholiast

noun

a scholar who writes explanatory notes on an author (especia...

scholium

noun

a marginal note written by a scholiast (a commentator on anc...

schonbein

noun

German chemist who discovered ozone and developed guncotton...

schoolchild

noun

a young person attending school (up through senior high scho...

schoolman

noun

a scholar in one of the universities of the Middle Ages; ver...

schoolma'am

noun

a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict)

schorl

noun

black tourmaline

schottische

noun

a German round dance resembling a slow polka

schutzstaffel

noun

special police force in Nazi Germany founded as a personal b...

schwa

noun

a neutral middle vowel; occurs in unstressed syllables

schwarzwald

noun

a hilly forest region in southwestern Germany

schwann

noun

German physiologist and histologist who in 1838 and 1839 ide...

schweiz

noun

a landlocked federal republic in central Europe

sciaenid

noun

widely distributed family of carnivorous percoid fishes havi...

scilla

noun

an Old World plant of the genus Scilla having narrow basal l...

scintillation

noun

a rapid change in brightness; a brief spark or flash

sciolist

noun

an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intent...

scission

noun

the act of dividing by cutting or splitting

scissure

noun

a long narrow opening

sclaff

noun

a poor golf stroke in which the club head hits the ground be...

sclera

noun

the whitish fibrous membrane (albuginea) that with the corne...

sclerite

noun

hard plate or element of the exoskeleton of some arthropods

scleritis

noun

inflammation of the sclera

scleroderma

noun

genus of poisonous fungi having hard-skinned fruiting bodies...

sclerometer

noun

a measuring instrument that measures the hardness of materia...

scleroprotein

noun

a simple protein found in horny and cartilaginous tissues an...

sclerotomy

noun

surgical incision of the sclerotic coat of the eye

scofflaw

noun

one who habitually ignores the law and does not answer court...

scoke

noun

tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowe...

scolion

noun

a song (sometimes improvised) sung by guests at a banquet

scolopendrium

noun

a fern thought to resemble a millipede

scoopful

noun

the quantity a scoop will hold

scoria

noun

the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals

scorpaenoid

noun

fishes having the head armored with bony plates

scorpaenid

noun

any of numerous carnivorous usually bottom-dwelling warm-wat...

scorpionfish

noun

marine fishes having a tapering body with an armored head an...

scorzonera

noun

perennial south European herb having narrow entire leaves an...

scoter

noun

large black diving duck of northern parts of the northern he...

scotchman

noun

a native or inhabitant of Scotland

scotoma

noun

an isolated area of diminished vision within the visual fiel...

scourer

noun

someone who cleanses by scouring

scouser

noun

a native or resident of Liverpool

scouter

noun

an adult member of the Boy Scouts movement

scrapie

noun

a fatal disease of sheep characterized by chronic itching an...

scrawler

noun

a writer whose handwriting is careless and hard to read

scrimshaw

noun

a carving (or engraving) on whalebone, whale ivory, walrus t...