Index of English words, starting with "sc"

(1) - Screech (n.) A harsh, shrill cry, as of one in acute pain or in fright; a shriek; a scream.
(2) - Screech (v.) To utter a harsh, shrill cry; to make a sharp outcry, as in terror or acute pain; to scream; to shriek.

(1) - Screed (n.) An harangue; a long tirade on any subject.
(2) - Screed (n.) A breach or rent; a breaking forth into a loud, shrill sound; as, martial screeds.
(3) - Screed (n.) A fragment; a portion; a shred.
(4) - Screed (n.) A wooden straightedge used to lay across the plaster screed, as a limit for the thickness of the coat.
(5) - Screed (n.) A strip of plaster of the thickness proposed for the coat, applied to the wall at intervals of four or five feet, as a guide.

(1) - Screen (v. t.) To pass, as coal, gravel, ashes, etc., through a screen in order to separate the coarse from the fine, or the worthless from the valuable; to sift.
(2) - Screen (v. t.) To provide with a shelter or means of concealment; to separate or cut off from inconvenience, injury, or danger; to shelter; to protect; to protect by hiding; to conceal; as, fruits screened from cold winds by a forest or hill.
(3) - Screen (n.) A long, coarse riddle or sieve, sometimes a revolving perforated cylinder, used to separate the coarser from the finer parts, as of coal, sand, gravel, and the like.
(4) - Screen (n.) A surface, as that afforded by a curtain, sheet, wall, etc., upon which an image, as a picture, is thrown by a magic lantern, solar microscope, etc.
(5) - Screen (n.) A dwarf wall or partition carried up to a certain height for separation and protection, as in a church, to separate the aisle from the choir, or the like.
(6) - Screen (n.) Anything that separates or cuts off inconvenience, injury, or danger; that which shelters or conceals from view; a shield or protection; as, a fire screen.