Nouns starting with S

• scutch grass — Noun – English ～ trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions; used for lawns and pastures especially in southern United States and India
• scutcheon — Noun – English ～ a flat protective covering (on a door or wall etc) to prevent soiling by dirty fingers
• scutcheon — Noun – English ～ a shield; especially one displaying a coat of arms
• scute — Noun – English ～ large bony or horny plate as on an armadillo or turtle or the underside of a snake
• Scutellaria — Noun – English ～ an asterid dicot genus that includes the skullcaps
• Scutellaria lateriflora — Noun – English ～ an American mint that yields a resinous exudate used especially formerly as an antispasmodic
• Scutigera coleoptrata — Noun – English ～ long-legged centipede common in damp places as e.g. cellars
• Scutigera — Noun – English ～ a genus of Scutigeridae
• Scutigerella immaculata — Noun – English ～ minute arthropod often infesting the underground parts of truck-garden and greenhouse crops
• Scutigerella — Noun – English ～ garden centipedes
• Scutigeridae — Noun – English ～ a family of Chilopoda
• scuttle — Noun – English ～ container for coal; shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the fire
• scuttle — Noun – English ～ an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship
• scuttlebutt — Noun – English ～ a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people; "the divorce caused much gossip"
• Scyliorhinidae — Noun – English ～ small bottom-dwelling sharks
• scylla — Noun – English ～ (Greek mythology) a sea nymph transformed into a sea monster who lived on one side of a narrow strait; drowned and devoured sailors who tried to escape Charybdis (a whirlpool) on the other side of the strait
• Scyphozoa — Noun – English ～ coelenterates in which the polyp stage is absent or at least inconspicuous: jellyfishes
• scyphozoan — Noun – English ～ any of various usually free-swimming marine coelenterates having a gelatinous medusoid stage as the dominant phase of its life cycle
• scyphus — Noun – English ～ an ancient Greek drinking cup; two handles and footed base
• scythe — Noun – English ～ an edge tool for cutting grass; has a long handle that must be held with both hands and a curved blade that moves parallel to the ground

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