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5 letter words starting with sc

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  • SCABS
  • SCADS
  • SCAFF
  • SCAGS
  • SCAIL
  • SCALA
  • SCALD
  • SCALE
  • SCALL
  • SCALP
  • SCALY
  • SCAMP
  • SCAMS
  • SCAND
  • SCANS
  • SCANT
  • SCAPA
  • SCAPE
  • SCAPI
  • SCARE
  • SCARF
  • SCARP
  • SCARS
  • SCART
  • SCARY
  • SCATH
  • SCATS
  • SCATT
  • SCAUD
  • SCAUP
  • SCAUR
  • SCAWS
  • SCEAT
  • SCENA
  • SCEND
  • SCENE
  • SCENT
  • SCHAV
  • SCHIF
  • SCHMO
  • SCHUL
  • SCHWA
  • SCIFI
  • SCIND
  • SCION
  • SCIRE
  • SCLIM
  • SCOBE
  • SCODY
  • SCOFF
  • SCOGS
  • SCOLD
  • SCONE
  • SCOOG
  • SCOOP
  • SCOOT
  • SCOPA
  • SCOPE
  • SCOPS
  • SCORE
  • SCORN
  • SCORP
  • SCOTE
  • SCOTS
  • SCOUG
  • SCOUP
  • SCOUR
  • SCOUT
  • SCOWL
  • SCOWP
  • SCOWS
  • SCRAB
  • SCRAE
  • SCRAG
  • SCRAM
  • SCRAN
  • SCRAP
  • SCRAT
  • SCRAW
  • SCRAY
  • SCREE
  • SCREW
  • SCRIM
  • SCRIP
  • SCROB
  • SCROD
  • SCROG
  • SCROO
  • SCROW
  • SCRUB
  • SCRUM
  • SCUBA
  • SCUDI
  • SCUDO
  • SCUDS
  • SCUFF
  • SCUFT
  • SCUGS
  • SCULK
  • SCULL
  • SCULP
  • SCULS
  • SCUMS
  • SCUPS
  • SCURF
  • SCURS
  • SCUSE
  • SCUTA
  • SCUTE
  • SCUTS
  • SCUZZ
  • SCYES

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Definition of scale

scale (noun)

  1. A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
  2. An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement, means of assigning a magnitude.
  3. Size; scope.
  4. The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.
  5. A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.
  6. A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
  7. A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix.
  8. Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.
  9. A standard amount of money to be received by a performer or writer, negotiated by a union.

scale (verb)

  1. To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product.
  2. To climb to the top of.
  3. To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
  4. To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.

scale (noun)

  1. Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of an animal, particularly a fish or reptile.
  2. A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.
  3. A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
  4. Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard protective layers forming a pinecone that flare when mature to release pine nut seeds.
  5. The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
  6. Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
  7. Limescale.
  8. A scale insect.
  9. The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife.

scale (verb)

  1. To remove the scales of.
  2. To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
  3. To strip or clear of scale; to descale.
  4. To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
  5. To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.
  6. To scatter; to spread.
  7. To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.

scale (noun)

  1. A device to measure mass or weight.
  2. Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.

Definition of screw

screw (noun)

  1. A device that has a helical function.
  2. The motion of screwing something; a turn or twist to one side.
  3. A prison guard.
  4. An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint.
  5. An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or strict examination of a student by an instructor.
  6. Sexual intercourse; the act of screwing.
  7. A casual sexual partner.
  8. Salary, wages.
  9. Backspin.
  10. A small packet of tobacco.
  11. An old, worn-out, unsound and worthless horse.
  12. A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated. It is used to express the displacement of a rigid body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis.
  13. An amphipod crustacean.
  14. (in the plural, with "the") Rheumatism.

screw (verb)

  1. To connect or assemble pieces using a screw.
  2. To have sexual intercourse with.
  3. To cheat someone or ruin their chances in a game or other situation.
  4. To practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions; to put the screws on.
  5. To contort.
  6. To miskick (a ball) by hitting it with the wrong part of the foot.
  7. To screw back.
  8. To examine (a student) rigidly; to subject to a severe examination.

Definition of scrub

scrub (noun)

  1. One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.
  2. One who is incompetent or unable to complete easy tasks.
  3. A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant
  4. (stock breeding) One of the common livestock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, especially when inferior in size, etc. Often used to refer to male animals unsuited for breeding.
  5. Vegetation of inferior quality, though sometimes thick and impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand; also, brush.
  6. One not on the first team of players; a substitute.

scrub (adjective)

  1. Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.

scrub (noun)

  1. An instance of scrubbing.
  2. A cancellation.
  3. A worn-out brush.
  4. One who scrubs.
  5. (in the plural) Clothing worn while performing surgery.
  6. (by extension, in the plural) Any medical uniform consisting of a short-sleeved shirt and pants (trousers).
  7. An exfoliant for the body.

scrub (verb)

  1. To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening
  2. To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour
  3. To be diligent and penurious
  4. To call off a scheduled event; to cancel.
  5. To eliminate or to correct data from a set of records to bring it inline with other similar datasets
  6. (audio) To move a recording tape back and forth with a scrubbing motion to produce a scratching sound, or to do so by a similar use of a control on an editing system.
  7. (audio, video) To maneuver the play position on a media editing system by using a scroll bar or touch-based interface.

Definition of scurf

scurf (noun)

  1. A skin disease.
  2. The flakes of skin that fall off as a result of a skin disease.
  3. Any crust-like formations on the skin, or in general.
  4. The foul remains of anything adherent.
  5. Minute membranous scales on the surface of some leaves, as in the goosefoot.

scurf (noun)

  1. A grey bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus).