| ascus | (noun) saclike structure in which ascospores are formed through sexual reproduction of ascomycetes | - |
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| auscultation | (noun) listening to sounds within the body (usually with a stethoscope) | - |
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| bascule | (noun) a structure or device in which one end is counterbalanced by the other (on the principle of the seesaw) | - |
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| biscuit | (noun) small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda | - |
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| (noun) any of various small flat sweet cakes | Synonyms: cookie, cooky |
| chiaroscuro | (noun) a monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the same color | - |
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| crepuscule | (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscle, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight |
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| crosscurrent | (noun) actions counter to the main group activity | Synonyms: countercurrent |
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| (noun) a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current | Synonyms: countercurrent, rip, riptide, tide rip |
| crosscut | (noun) a route shorter than the usual one | Synonyms: cutoff, shortcut |
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| (noun) a diagonal path | - |
| cuscus | (noun) woolly-haired monkey-like arboreal marsupial of New Guinea and northern Australia | - |
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| discursiveness | (noun) the quality of being discursive | - |
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| discus | (noun) a disk used in throwing competitions | Synonyms: saucer |
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| (noun) an athletic competition in which a disk-shaped object is thrown as far as possible | - |
| discussant | (noun) a participant in a formal discussion | - |
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| discussion | (noun) an exchange of views on some topic | Synonyms: give-and-take, word |
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| (noun) an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic | Synonyms: discourse, treatment |
| emasculation | (noun) neutering a male animal by removing the testicles | Synonyms: castration |
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| (noun) loss of power and masculinity | - |
| escudo | (noun) the basic unit of money on Cape Verde; equal to 100 centavos | Synonyms: Cape Verde escudo |
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| (noun) formerly the basic monetary unit of Portugal; equal to 100 centavo | Synonyms: Portuguese escudo |
| escutcheon | (noun) a shield; especially one displaying a coat of arms | Synonyms: scutcheon |
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| (noun) (nautical) a plate on a ship's stern on which the name is inscribed | - |
| (noun) a flat protective covering (on a door or wall etc) to prevent soiling by dirty fingers | Synonyms: finger plate, scutcheon |
| fescue | (noun) grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawns | Synonyms: fescue grass, Festuca elatior, meadow fescue |
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| hibiscus | (noun) any plant of the genus Hibiscus | - |
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| inosculation | (noun) a natural or surgical joining of parts or branches of tubular structures so as to make or become continuous | Synonyms: anastomosis |
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| lemniscus | (noun) a bundle of sensory nerve fibers going to the thalamus | Synonyms: fillet |
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| lobscuse | (noun) a stew of meat and vegetables and hardtack that is eaten by sailors | Synonyms: lobscouse, scouse |
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| majuscule | (noun) one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis | Synonyms: capital, capital letter, upper-case letter, uppercase |
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| masculine | (noun) a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to males or to objects classified as male | - |
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| masculinisation | (noun) the abnormal development of male sexual characteristics in a female (usually as the result of hormone therapies or adrenal malfunction) | Synonyms: masculinization, virilisation, virilization |
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| masculinity | (noun) the properties characteristic of the male sex | Synonyms: maleness |
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| (noun) the trait of behaving in ways considered typical for men | - |
| masculinization | (noun) the abnormal development of male sexual characteristics in a female (usually as the result of hormone therapies or adrenal malfunction) | Synonyms: masculinisation, virilisation, virilization |
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| meniscus | (noun) (physics) the curved upper surface of a nonturbulent liquid in a vertical tube | - |
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| (noun) (optics) a lens that is concave on one side and convex on the other | - |
| (noun) (anatomy) a disk of cartilage that serves as a cushion between the ends of bones that meet at a joint | Synonyms: semilunar cartilage |
| minuscule | (noun) a small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts | - |
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| (noun) the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case | Synonyms: lower-case letter, lowercase, small letter |
| miscue | (noun) a faulty shot in billiards; the cue tip slips off the cue ball | - |
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| (noun) a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc. | Synonyms: parapraxis, slip-up, slip |
| molluscum | (noun) any skin disease characterized by soft pulpy nodules | - |
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| muscularity | (noun) possessing muscular strength | Synonyms: brawn, brawniness, heftiness, muscle, sinew |
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| (noun) an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing) | Synonyms: energy, vigor, vigour, vim |
| (noun) the physiological state of having or consisting of muscle | - |
| musculature | (noun) the muscular system of an organism | Synonyms: muscle system, muscular structure |
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| musculus | (noun) one of the contractile organs of the body | Synonyms: muscle |
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| obscurantism | (noun) a deliberate act intended to make something obscure | - |
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| (noun) a policy of opposition to enlightenment or the spread of knowledge | - |
| obscurantist | (noun) a person who is deliberately vague | - |
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| obscureness | (noun) the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand | Synonyms: abstruseness, obscurity, reconditeness |
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| (noun) the state of being humble and unimportant | Synonyms: humbleness, lowliness, unimportance |
| (noun) the state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illumination | Synonyms: obscurity |
| obscurity | (noun) the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand | Synonyms: abstruseness, obscureness, reconditeness |
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| (noun) an obscure and unimportant standing; not well known | - |
| (noun) the state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illumination | Synonyms: obscureness |
| osculation | (noun) the act of caressing with the lips (or an instance thereof) | Synonyms: buss, kiss |
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| (noun) (mathematics) a contact of two curves (or two surfaces) at which they have a common tangent | - |
| osculator | (noun) someone who kisses | Synonyms: kisser |
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| promiscuity | (noun) indulging in promiscuous (casual and indiscriminate) sexual relations | Synonyms: promiscuousness, sleeping around |
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| promiscuousness | (noun) indulging in promiscuous (casual and indiscriminate) sexual relations | Synonyms: promiscuity, sleeping around |
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| rescue | (noun) recovery or preservation from loss or danger | Synonyms: deliverance, delivery, saving |
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| rescuer | (noun) someone who saves something from danger or violence | Synonyms: recoverer, saver |
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| (noun) a person who rescues you from harm or danger | Synonyms: deliverer, savior, saviour |
| scuba | (noun) a device (trade name Aqua-Lung) that lets divers breathe under water; scuba is an acronym for self-contained underwater breathing apparatus | Synonyms: Aqua-Lung, aqualung |
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| scud | (noun) the act of moving along swiftly (as before a gale) | Synonyms: scudding |
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| scudding | (noun) the act of moving along swiftly (as before a gale) | Synonyms: scud |
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| scuff | (noun) the act of scuffing (scraping or dragging the feet) | - |
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| (noun) a slipper that has no fitting around the heel | Synonyms: mule |
| scuffer | (noun) a lightweight flexible sandal with a sturdy sole; worn as play shoes by children and as sportswear by adults | - |
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| scuffle | (noun) disorderly fighting | Synonyms: dogfight, hassle, rough-and-tumble, tussle |
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| (noun) an unceremonious and disorganized struggle | Synonyms: scramble |
| (noun) a hoe that is used by pushing rather than pulling | Synonyms: Dutch hoe, scuffle hoe |
| scull | (noun) a racing shell that is propelled by sculls | - |
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| (noun) each of a pair of short oars that are used by a single oarsman | - |
| (noun) a long oar that is mounted at the stern of a boat and moved left and right to propel the boat forward | - |
| sculler | (noun) someone who sculls (moves a long oar pivoted on the back of the boat to propel the boat forward) | - |
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| scullery | (noun) a small room (in large old British houses) next to the kitchen; where kitchen utensils are cleaned and kept and other rough household jobs are done | - |
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| sculling | (noun) rowing by a single oarsman in a racing shell | - |
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| scullion | (noun) a kitchen servant employed to do menial tasks (especially washing) | - |
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| sculpin | (noun) any of numerous spiny large-headed usually scaleless scorpaenoid fishes with broad mouths | - |
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| sculptor | (noun) an artist who creates sculptures | Synonyms: carver, sculpturer, statue maker |
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| sculptress | (noun) a woman sculptor | - |
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| sculpture | (noun) creating figures or designs in three dimensions | Synonyms: carving |
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| (noun) a three-dimensional work of plastic art | - |
| sculpturer | (noun) an artist who creates sculptures | Synonyms: carver, sculptor, statue maker |
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| scum | (noun) a film of impurities or vegetation that can form on the surface of a liquid | - |
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| (noun) worthless people | Synonyms: trash |
| scumbag | (noun) a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible | Synonyms: bum, crumb, dirty dog, git, lowlife, puke, rat, rotter, scum bag, skunk, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot |
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| scumble | (noun) the application of very thin coat of color over the surface of a picture | - |
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| scunner | (noun) a strong dislike | - |
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| scup | (noun) porgy of southern Atlantic coastal waters of North America | Synonyms: southern porgy, southern scup, Stenotomus aculeatus |
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| (noun) found in Atlantic coastal waters of North America from South Carolina to Maine; esteemed as a panfish | Synonyms: northern porgy, northern scup, Stenotomus chrysops |
| (noun) lean flesh of fish found in warm waters of southern Atlantic coast of the United States | Synonyms: porgy |
| (noun) flesh of fish found in colder waters of northern Atlantic coast of the United States | - |
| scupper | (noun) drain that allows water on the deck of a vessel to flow overboard | - |
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| scuppernong | (noun) amber-green muscadine grape of southeastern United States | - |
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| scurf | (noun) (botany) a covering that resembles scales or bran that covers some plant parts | - |
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| (noun) a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin | Synonyms: exfoliation, scale |
| scurrility | (noun) foul-mouthed or obscene abuse | Synonyms: billingsgate |
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| scurry | (noun) rushing about hastily in an undignified way | Synonyms: scamper, scramble |
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| scurvy | (noun) a condition caused by deficiency of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) | Synonyms: scorbutus |
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| scut | (noun) a short erect tail | - |
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| scutcheon | (noun) a shield; especially one displaying a coat of arms | Synonyms: escutcheon |
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| (noun) a flat protective covering (on a door or wall etc) to prevent soiling by dirty fingers | Synonyms: escutcheon, finger plate |
| scute | (noun) large bony or horny plate as on an armadillo or turtle or the underside of a snake | - |
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| scuttle | (noun) container for coal; shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the fire | Synonyms: coal scuttle |
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| (noun) an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship | Synonyms: hatchway, opening |
| scuttlebutt | (noun) a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people | Synonyms: comment, gossip |
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| vascularisation | (noun) the organic process whereby body tissue becomes vascular and develops capillaries | Synonyms: vascularization |
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| vascularity | (noun) the property being vascular | - |
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| vascularization | (noun) the organic process whereby body tissue becomes vascular and develops capillaries | Synonyms: vascularisation |
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| vasculitis | (noun) inflammation of a blood vessel | - |
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| viscus | (noun) a main organ that is situated inside the body | Synonyms: internal organ |
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