| schoolgirl |
a girl who attends school. |
| schoolhouse |
a building used for a school. |
| schooling |
education or training, esp. formal instruction in a school. |
| schoolman |
(often cap.) a medieval philosopher or theologian teaching at a university by the scholastic system; scholastic. |
| schoolmarm |
(informal) formerly, a female schoolteacher, esp. a strict, humorless one. |
| schoolmaster |
a male schoolteacher or headmaster. |
| schoolmate |
a fellow pupil at school with whom one is acquainted or friendly. |
| schoolmistress |
a headmistress or female schoolteacher. |
| schoolroom |
a room in which classes are taught. |
| school system |
all the schools and their auxiliaries that are administered by a single board of education. |
| schoolteacher |
someone who instructs students in a school. |
| schoolwork |
study or practice assigned and done at school or as homework. |
| schoolyard |
the open area of ground near a school used as a playground, playing field or the like. |
| school year |
the annual period from the beginning of a school's classes, usu. in late summer, to the end of classes and examinations, usu. in late spring. |
| schooner |
a sailing ship with at least two masts, all rigged with fore-and-aft sails. |
| schottische |
a round dance similar to but slower than the polka. |
| schuss |
in skiing, a fast, straight descent. [2 definitions] |
| schwa |
an indistinct vowel sound that occurs in most unstressed syllables in English, such as the first "a" in "away". [2 definitions] |
| sci. |
abbreviation of "science." |
| sciatic |
of, pertaining to, near, or affecting the hip or nerves of the hip. [2 definitions] |
| sciatica |
pain from an inflamed sciatic nerve, which runs through the pelvis and upper leg; pain in the hip and thigh. |