Index of English words, starting with "sc"

(1) - Scantly (adv.) Scarcely; hardly; barely.
(2) - Scantly (adv.) In a scant manner; not fully or sufficiently; narrowly; penuriously.

(1) - Scantness (n.) The quality or condition of being scant; narrowness; smallness; insufficiency; scantiness.

(1) - Scanty (a.) Sparing; niggardly; parsimonious.
(2) - Scanty (a.) Somewhat less than is needed; insufficient; scant; as, a scanty supply of words; a scanty supply of bread.
(3) - Scanty (a.) Wanting amplitude or extent; narrow; small; not abundant.

(1) - Scape (n.) Loose act of vice or lewdness.
(2) - Scape (n.) A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.
(3) - Scape (n.) Means of escape; evasion.
(4) - Scape (n.) An escape.
(5) - Scape (v. t. & i.) To escape.
(6) - Scape (n.) The apophyge of a shaft.
(7) - Scape (n.) The shaft of a column.
(8) - Scape (n.) The long basal joint of the antennae of an insect.
(9) - Scape (n.) A peduncle rising from the ground or from a subterranean stem, as in the stemless violets, the bloodroot, and the like.

(1) - Scapegoat (n.) Hence, a person or thing that is made to bear blame for others.
(2) - Scapegoat (n.) A goat upon whose head were symbolically placed the sins of the people, after which he was suffered to escape into the wilderness.