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science fiction fiction in which scientific findings, capabilities, or speculations provide an essential basis for the imagined events.
science-fiction of or pertaining to fiction in which scientific findings, capabilities, or speculations provide an essential basis for the imagined events.
scientific requiring or demonstrating systematic knowledge and skills, exactness in observation and testing, and keen but dispassionate interest in the truths of nature. [2 definitions]
scientist one who uses scientific procedures and is involved in science, esp. the physical or natural sciences.
sci-fi (informal) science fiction.
scilicet that is to say; to wit; namely.
scimitar a curved, one-edged sword that originated in the Orient.
scintilla a tiny amount; trace.
scintillate to send out sparks. [4 definitions]
scintillating intellectually lively or brilliant.
scintillation the act or process of scintillating. [2 definitions]
sciolism superficial knowledge or familiarity, used as a basis for scholarly pretensions.
scion an offspring or heir. [2 definitions]
scire facias in law, a judicial writ requiring a party to show cause why a judicial record should not be enforced, repealed, or annulled. [2 definitions]
scission the act or result of cutting, dividing, or splitting; fission.
scissor to cut with, or as with, a pair of scissors. [2 definitions]
scissors (sometimes used with a singular verb) a tool for cutting paper, fabric, or the like, made up of two blades joined with a pivot so their edges may be opened and closed. [2 definitions]
scissors hold a wrestling hold that uses the legs as a clamp.
scissors kick a swimming kick, as in the sidestroke, in which the legs are parted, one forward and one back, and then brought together forcefully.
scissortail a large flycatcher of the southwestern United States, and Central and South America, that has a gray body, salmon-pink sides and wing linings, and a long, deeply forked tail.
sclera the tough fibrous white or blue-white tissue that covers all of the eyeball except the part covered by the cornea.