| scrivener | (noun) someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts | Synonyms: copyist, scribe |
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| scrod | (noun) young Atlantic cod or haddock especially one split and boned for cooking | Synonyms: schrod |
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| (noun) flesh of young Atlantic cod weighing up to 2 pounds; also young haddock and pollock; often broiled | Synonyms: schrod |
| scrofula | (noun) a form of tuberculosis characterized by swellings of the lymphatic glands | Synonyms: king's evil, struma |
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| scroll | (noun) a document that can be rolled up (as for storage) | Synonyms: roll |
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| (noun) a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) | Synonyms: coil, curl, curlicue, gyre, ringlet, roll, whorl |
| scrooge | (noun) a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend | Synonyms: churl, niggard, skinflint |
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| scrotum | (noun) the external pouch that contains the testes | - |
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| scrounger | (noun) someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free) | Synonyms: cadger, mooch, moocher |
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| scrub | (noun) the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water | Synonyms: scouring, scrubbing |
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| (noun) dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes | Synonyms: bush, chaparral |
| scrubber | (noun) a purifier that removes impurities from a gas | - |
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| (noun) a brush with short stiff bristles for heavy cleaning | Synonyms: scrub brush, scrubbing brush |
| (noun) a worker who uses a scrub brush to clean a surface (usually a floor or deck) | - |
| scrubbiness | (noun) the property of being stunted and inferior in size or quality | Synonyms: scrawniness |
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| scrubbing | (noun) the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water | Synonyms: scouring, scrub |
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| scrubbird | (noun) small fast-running Australian bird resembling a wren and frequenting brush or scrub | Synonyms: scrub-bird, scrub bird |
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| scrubland | (noun) an uncultivated region covered with scrub vegetation | - |
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| scrubs | (noun) protective garment worn by surgeons during operations | Synonyms: gown, surgical gown |
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| scruff | (noun) the back side of the neck | Synonyms: nape, nucha |
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| scrum | (noun) (rugby) the method of beginning play in which the forwards of each team crouch side by side with locked arms; play starts when the ball is thrown in between them and the two sides compete for possession | Synonyms: scrummage |
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| scrummage | (noun) (rugby) the method of beginning play in which the forwards of each team crouch side by side with locked arms; play starts when the ball is thrown in between them and the two sides compete for possession | Synonyms: scrum |
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| scrumpy | (noun) strong cider (as made in western England) | - |
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| scrunch | (noun) a crunching noise | - |
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| scruple | (noun) an ethical or moral principle that inhibits action | - |
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| (noun) uneasiness about the fitness of an action (particularly for reasons of ethics, morals or propriety) | Synonyms: misgiving, qualm |
| (noun) a unit of apothecary weight equal to 20 grains | - |
| scruples | (noun) motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions | Synonyms: conscience, moral sense, sense of right and wrong |
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| scrupulousness | (noun) conformity to high standards of ethics or excellence | - |
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| (noun) strict attention to minute details | Synonyms: meticulosity, meticulousness, punctiliousness |
| scrutineer | (noun) someone who examines votes at an election | Synonyms: canvasser |
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| scrutiniser | (noun) a careful examiner; someone who inspects with great care | Synonyms: scrutinizer |
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| scrutinizer | (noun) a careful examiner; someone who inspects with great care | Synonyms: scrutiniser |
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| scrutiny | (noun) the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes) | Synonyms: examination |
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| (noun) a prolonged intense look | - |
| setscrew | (noun) a screw (often without a head) that fits into the boss or hub of a wheel or cam etc. and prevents motion of the part relative to the shaft on which it is mounted | - |
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| (noun) a screw that is used to adjust the tension on a spring | - |
| silkscreen | (noun) a print made using a stencil process in which an image or design is superimposed on a very fine mesh screen and printing ink is squeegeed onto the printing surface through the area of the screen that is not covered by the stencil | Synonyms: serigraph, silk screen print |
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| skyscraper | (noun) a very tall building with many stories | - |
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| smokescreen | (noun) an action intended to conceal or confuse or obscure | Synonyms: smoke screen |
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| (noun) (military) screen consisting of a cloud of smoke that obscures movements | Synonyms: smoke screen |
| subscriber | (noun) someone who contributes (or promises to contribute) a sum of money | Synonyms: contributor |
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| (noun) someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication | Synonyms: reader |
| (noun) someone who expresses strong approval | Synonyms: endorser, indorser, ratifier |
| subscript | (noun) a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character | Synonyms: inferior |
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| subscription | (noun) a pledged contribution | - |
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| (noun) the act of signing your name; writing your signature (as on a document) | - |
| (noun) agreement expressed by (or as if expressed by) signing your name | - |
| (noun) a payment for consecutive issues of a newspaper or magazine for a given period of time | - |
| sunscreen | (noun) a cream spread on the skin; contains a chemical (as PABA) to filter out ultraviolet light and so protect from sunburn | Synonyms: sun blocker, sunblock |
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| superscript | (noun) a character or symbol set or printed or written above and immediately to one side of another character | Synonyms: superior |
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| superscription | (noun) the activity of superscribing | - |
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| (noun) an inscription written above something else | - |
| thumbscrew | (noun) screw designed to be turned with the thumb and fingers | - |
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| (noun) instrument of torture that crushes the thumb | - |
| touchscreen | (noun) a computer display that enables the user to interact with the computer by touching areas on the screen | Synonyms: touch screen |
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| transcriber | (noun) someone who makes a written version of spoken material | - |
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| (noun) someone who represents the sounds of speech in phonetic notation | - |
| (noun) a musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance | Synonyms: adapter, arranger |
| (noun) a person who translates written messages from one language to another | Synonyms: translator |
| (noun) someone who rewrites in a different script | - |
| transcript | (noun) a reproduction of a written record (e.g. of a legal or school record) | Synonyms: copy |
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| (noun) something that has been transcribed; a written record (usually typewritten) of dictated or recorded speech | - |
| transcriptase | (noun) the enzyme that copies DNA into RNA | Synonyms: RNA polymerase |
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| transcription | (noun) the act of making a record (especially an audio record) | Synonyms: recording |
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| (noun) the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music | Synonyms: arrangement, arranging |
| (noun) a sound or television recording (e.g., from a broadcast to a tape recording) | - |
| (noun) something written, especially copied from one medium to another, as a typewritten version of dictation | Synonyms: written text |
| (noun) (genetics) the organic process whereby the DNA sequence in a gene is copied into mRNA; the process whereby a base sequence of messenger RNA is synthesized on a template of complementary DNA | - |
| typescript | (noun) typewritten matter especially a typewritten copy of a manuscript | - |
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| unscrupulousness | (noun) the quality of unscrupulous dishonesty | - |
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| windscreen | (noun) transparent screen (as of glass) to protect occupants of a vehicle | Synonyms: windshield |
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| woodscrew | (noun) a metal screw that tapers to a point so that it can be driven into wood with a screwdriver | - |
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