| scan | (noun) the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region | - |
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| (noun) an image produced by scanning | Synonyms: CAT scan |
| (verb) obtain data from magnetic tapes or other digital sources | Synonyms: read |
| (verb) read metrically | - |
| (verb) make a wide, sweeping search of | - |
| (verb) move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image | - |
| (verb) examine hastily | Synonyms: glance over, rake, run down, skim |
| (verb) examine minutely or intensely | - |
| (verb) conform to a metrical pattern | - |
| scandal | (noun) disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people | Synonyms: dirt, malicious gossip |
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| (noun) a disgraceful event | Synonyms: outrage |
| scandalisation | (noun) the act of scandalizing | Synonyms: outrage, scandalization |
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| (noun) the condition of being shocked (as by improper behavior) | Synonyms: scandalization |
| scandalise | (verb) strike with disgust or revulsion | Synonyms: appal, appall, offend, outrage, scandalize, shock |
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| scandalization | (noun) the act of scandalizing | Synonyms: outrage, scandalisation |
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| (noun) the condition of being shocked (as by improper behavior) | Synonyms: scandalisation |
| scandalize | (verb) strike with disgust or revulsion | Synonyms: appal, appall, offend, outrage, scandalise, shock |
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| scandalmonger | (noun) a person who spreads malicious gossip | - |
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| scandalmongering | (adjective) typical of tabloids | Synonyms: sensationalistic, yellow |
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| (noun) spreading malicious gossip | - |
| scandalous | (adjective) giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation | Synonyms: disgraceful, shameful, shocking |
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| scandalously | (adverb) in a scandalous manner | - |
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| scandalousness | (noun) disgracefulness that offends public morality | - |
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| scandent | (adjective) used especially of plants; having a tendency to climb | - |
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| scandium | (noun) a white trivalent metallic element; sometimes classified in the rare earth group; occurs in the Scandinavian mineral thortveitite | Synonyms: atomic number 21, Sc |
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| scanner | (noun) a radio receiver that moves automatically across some selected range of frequencies looking for some signal or condition | Synonyms: electronic scanner |
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| (noun) a radar dish that rotates or oscillates in order to scan a broad area | - |
| (noun) an electronic device that generates a digital representation of an image for data input to a computer | Synonyms: digital scanner, image scanner |
| (noun) someone who scans verse to determine the number and prosodic value of the syllables | - |
| scanning | (noun) the act of systematically moving a finely focused beam of light or electrons over a surface in order to produce an image of it for analysis or transmission | - |
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| (noun) the process of translating photographs into a digital form that can be recognized by a computer | - |
| scansion | (noun) analysis of verse into metrical patterns | - |
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| scant | (adjective) less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so | Synonyms: light, short |
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| (verb) supply sparingly and with restricted quantities | Synonyms: skimp, stint |
| (verb) limit in quality or quantity | Synonyms: skimp |
| (verb) work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially | Synonyms: skimp |
| scantily | (adverb) in a skimpy manner | Synonyms: skimpily |
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| scantiness | (noun) the quality of being meager | Synonyms: exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantness |
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| (noun) Of a garment, the property of being very small, light, or revealing. | Synonyms: skimpiness |
| scantling | (noun) an upright in house framing | Synonyms: stud |
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| scantness | (noun) the quality of being meager | Synonyms: exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness |
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| scanty | (adjective) lacking in magnitude or quantity | Synonyms: bare, spare |
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| (adjective) (of clothing) revealing the body | Synonyms: skimpy |
| (noun) short underpants for women or children | Synonyms: pantie, panty, step-in |