| scorbutic | (adjective) of or relating to or having or resembling scurvy | - |
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| scorbutus | (noun) a condition caused by deficiency of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) | Synonyms: scurvy |
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| scorch | (noun) a discoloration caused by heat | - |
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| (noun) a surface burn | Synonyms: singe |
| (noun) a plant disease that produces a browning or scorched appearance of plant tissues | - |
| (verb) burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color | Synonyms: blacken, char, sear |
| (verb) make very hot and dry | Synonyms: sear |
| (verb) become scorched or singed under intense heat or dry conditions | - |
| (verb) destroy completely by or as if by fire | - |
| (verb) become superficially burned | Synonyms: sear, singe |
| (verb) subject to harsh criticism | Synonyms: blister, scald, whip |
| scorched | (adjective) having everything destroyed so nothing is left salvageable by an enemy | - |
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| (adjective) dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight | Synonyms: adust, baked, parched, sunbaked |
| scorcher | (noun) a very hard hit ball | Synonyms: screamer |
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| (noun) an extremely hot day | - |
| scorching | (adjective) hot and dry enough to burn or parch a surface | - |
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| (adverb) capable of causing burns | - |
| scorchingness | (noun) The quality of being scorching; extreme heat. | - |
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| score | (noun) the act of scoring in a game or sport | - |
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| (noun) a seduction culminating in sexual intercourse | Synonyms: sexual conquest |
| (noun) a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance) | Synonyms: grade, mark |
| (noun) the facts about an actual situation | - |
| (noun) a written form of a musical composition; parts for different instruments appear on separate staves on large pages | Synonyms: musical score |
| (noun) a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation | Synonyms: grievance, grudge |
| (noun) a set of twenty members | - |
| (noun) grounds | Synonyms: account |
| (noun) a number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an individual in a game or contest | - |
| (noun) a slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally) | Synonyms: scotch |
| (noun) an amount due (as at a restaurant or bar) | - |
| (verb) assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation | Synonyms: grade, mark |
| (verb) make underscoring marks | Synonyms: mark |
| (verb) gain points in a game | Synonyms: rack up, tally |
| (verb) get a certain number or letter indicating quality or performance | - |
| (verb) make small marks into the surface of | Synonyms: mark, nock |
| (verb) induce to have sex | Synonyms: make, seduce |
| (verb) write a musical score for | - |
| scoreboard | (noun) a large board for displaying the score of a contest (and some other information) | - |
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| scorecard | (noun) (golf) a record of scores (as in golf) | Synonyms: card |
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| scorekeeper | (noun) an official who records the score during the progress of a game | Synonyms: scorer |
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| scoreless | (adjective) having no points scores | Synonyms: goalless, hitless, pointless |
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| scorer | (noun) a player who makes a score in a game or contest | - |
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| (noun) a logger who marks trees to be felled | - |
| (noun) an official who records the score during the progress of a game | Synonyms: scorekeeper |
| scores | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, slews, stacks, tons, wads |
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| scoria | (noun) the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals | Synonyms: dross, slag |
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| scoring | (noun) evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score | Synonyms: grading, marking |
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| scorn | (noun) open disrespect for a person or thing | Synonyms: contempt |
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| (noun) lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike | Synonyms: contempt, despite, disdain |
| (verb) reject with contempt | Synonyms: disdain, freeze off, pooh-pooh, reject, spurn, turn down |
| (verb) look down on with disdain | Synonyms: contemn, despise, disdain |
| scorned | (adjective) treated with dislike or contempt | Synonyms: despised, detested, hated |
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| scorner | (noun) a person who expresses contempt by remarks or facial expression | Synonyms: sneerer |
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| scornful | (adjective) expressing extreme contempt | Synonyms: contemptuous, disdainful, insulting |
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| scornfully | (adverb) without respect; in a disdainful manner | Synonyms: contemptuously, contumeliously, disdainfully |
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| scorpaenid | (noun) any of numerous carnivorous usually bottom-dwelling warm-water marine fishes found worldwide but most abundant in the Pacific | Synonyms: scorpaenid fish |
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| scorpaenoid | (noun) fishes having the head armored with bony plates | Synonyms: scorpaenoid fish |
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| scorper | (noun) a graver used to scoop out broad areas when engraving wood or metal | Synonyms: scauper |
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| scorpion | (noun) arachnid of warm dry regions having a long segmented tail ending in a venomous stinger | - |
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| scorpionfish | (noun) marine fishes having a tapering body with an armored head and venomous spines | Synonyms: scorpion fish, sea scorpion |
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| scorpionweed | (noun) any plant of the genus Phacelia | Synonyms: phacelia, scorpion weed |
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| scorzonera | (noun) long black salsify | Synonyms: black salsify |
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| (noun) perennial south European herb having narrow entire leaves and solitary yellow flower heads and long black edible roots shaped like carrots | Synonyms: black salsify, Scorzonera hispanica, viper's grass |