Name Report For First Name SCE:

SCE

First name SCE's origin is Other. SCE means "from the happy meadow". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with SCE below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of sce.(Brown names are of the same origin (Other) with SCE and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with SCE - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming SCE

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES SCE AS A WHOLE:

ascencion jahnisce josceline joscelyne scelflesh sceadu sceapleigh sceley scelftun sceaplei scead crescent scelfleah josce sceotend joscelyn

NAMES RHYMING WITH SCE (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ce) - Names That Ends with ce:

fenice alarice canace candance circe dice dirce eunice eurydice glauce helice kalonice yohance benoyce prentice lance anstice eustace maurice aleece aleyece alice allyce alyce ance anice annice aviance berenice bernice bernyce brandice brandyce caidance candace candice candyce caprice catrice caydence cherice clarice clemence danice darice delice denice deniece derorice dulce ellice ellyce elyce essence felice florence france galice ganice grace gurice janice janiece jayce jeanice jenice jeniece jeyce joyce kadence kadience kaedence kaidance kandace kandice kandyce kaprice katrice kayce kaydance kaydence kaydience lanice loyce lucrece morgance morice pazice ranice ronce shace urice ace brice bryce cace canice chace chance chaunce

NAMES RHYMING WITH SCE (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (sc) - Names That Begins with sc:

scadwiella scaffeld scand scandleah scandy scanlan scanlon scannalan scarlet scarlett schaddoc schaeffer schaffer schlomit schmaiah schmuel schuyler schyler sciiti scilti scirloc scirwode sciymgeour scolaighe scot scota scotia scotlyn scott scottas scottie scottroc scotty scoville scowyrhta scrydan scully scur scylla

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH SCE:

First Names which starts with 's' and ends with 'e':

sadie sae saffire sage sahale saidie saige salbatore salhdene sallie salome salvadore salvatore sanbourne sandrine sanersone sanuye sapphire sarajane sauville saveage saville sawyere seamere searle sebastene sebastiene sebastienne sebe sebille sedge selassie selassiee sele selene selwine semele sente seoirse serafine seraphine serihilde severne seyane shadoe shae shaine shalene shanaye shane shantae sharlene shaundre shawe shawnette shayde shaye shaylee shayne sherborne sherbourne sherburne sherise shermarke shiye shizhe'e siddalee sidonie sifiye sigehere sigfriede sighle sigune sike sile silvestre simone sinclaire sine sive skene skete skippere skye slade slaine slainie slanie sloane smythe sofie solaine solange solonie somerville somhairle sonnie sophie sorine sparke

English Words Rhyming SCE

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES SCE AS A WHOLE:

abscessnoun (n.) A collection of pus or purulent matter in any tissue or organ of the body, the result of a morbid process.

abscessionnoun (n.) A separating; removal; also, an abscess.

acaulescentadjective (a.) Having no stem or caulis, or only a very short one concealed in the ground.

accrescencenoun (n.) Continuous growth; an accretion.

accrescentadjective (a.) Growing; increasing.
 adjective (a.) Growing larger after flowering.

acescencenoun (n.) Alt. of Acescency

acescencynoun (n.) The quality of being acescent; the process of acetous fermentation; a moderate degree of sourness.

acescentnoun (n.) A substance liable to become sour.
 adjective (a.) Turning sour; readily becoming tart or acid; slightly sour.

acquiescencenoun (n.) A silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content; -- distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction.
 noun (n.) Submission to an injury by the party injured.
 noun (n.) Tacit concurrence in the action of another.

acquiescencynoun (n.) The quality of being acquiescent; acquiescence.

acquiescentadjective (a.) Resting satisfied or submissive; disposed tacitly to submit; assentive; as, an acquiescent policy.

adipescentadjective (a.) Becoming fatty.

adnascentadjective (a.) Growing to or on something else.

adolescencenoun (n.) The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.

adolescencynoun (n.) The quality of being adolescent; youthfulness.

adolescentnoun (n.) A youth.
 adjective (a.) Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity.

albescencenoun (n.) The act of becoming white; whitishness.

albescentadjective (a.) Becoming white or whitish; moderately white.

alkalescencenoun (n.) Alt. of Alkalescency

alkalescencynoun (n.) A tendency to become alkaline; or the state of a substance in which alkaline properties begin to be developed, or to predominant.

alkalescentadjective (a.) Tending to the properties of an alkali; slightly alkaline.

antiputrescentadjective (a.) Counteracting, or preserving from, putrefaction; antiseptic.

arborescencenoun (n.) The state of being arborescent; the resemblance to a tree in minerals, or crystallizations, or groups of crystals in that form; as, the arborescence produced by precipitating silver.

arborescentadjective (a.) Resembling a tree; becoming woody in stalk; dendritic; having crystallizations disposed like the branches and twigs of a tree.

ascendingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ascend
 adjective (a.) Rising; moving upward; as, an ascending kite.

ascendableadjective (a.) Capable of being ascended.

ascendancynoun (n.) Alt. of Ascendance

ascendancenoun (n.) Same as Ascendency.

ascendantnoun (n.) Ascent; height; elevation.
 noun (n.) The horoscope, or that degree of the ecliptic which rises above the horizon at the moment of one's birth; supposed to have a commanding influence on a person's life and fortune.
 noun (n.) Superiority, or commanding influence; ascendency; as, one man has the ascendant over another.
 noun (n.) An ancestor, or one who precedes in genealogy or degrees of kindred; a relative in the ascending line; a progenitor; -- opposed to descendant.
 adjective (a.) Alt. of Ascendent

ascendentadjective (a.) Rising toward the zenith; above the horizon.
 adjective (a.) Rising; ascending.
 adjective (a.) Superior; surpassing; ruling.

ascendencynoun (n.) Governing or controlling influence; domination; power.

ascendibleadjective (a.) Capable of being ascended; climbable.

ascensionnoun (n.) The act of ascending; a rising; ascent.
 noun (n.) Specifically: The visible ascent of our Savior on the fortieth day after his resurrection. (Acts i. 9.) Also, Ascension Day.
 noun (n.) An ascending or arising, as in distillation; also that which arises, as from distillation.

ascensionaladjective (a.) Relating to ascension; connected with ascent; ascensive; tending upward; as, the ascensional power of a balloon.

ascensiveadjective (a.) Rising; tending to rise, or causing to rise.
 adjective (a.) Augmentative; intensive.

ascertainingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ascertain

ascertainableadjective (a.) That may be ascertained.

ascertainernoun (n.) One who ascertains.

ascertainmentnoun (n.) The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery.

ascessancyadjective (a.) Alt. of Ascessant

ascessantadjective (a.) See Acescency, Acescent.

asceticnoun (n.) In the early church, one who devoted himself to a solitary and contemplative life, characterized by devotion, extreme self-denial, and self-mortification; a hermit; a recluse; hence, one who practices extreme rigor and self-denial in religious things.
 adjective (a.) Extremely rigid in self-denial and devotions; austere; severe.

asceticismnoun (n.) The condition, practice, or mode of life, of ascetics.

bicrescenticadjective (a.) Having the form of a double crescent.

calescencenoun (n.) Growing warmth; increasing heat.

calorescencenoun (n.) The conversion of obscure radiant heat into light; the transmutation of rays of heat into others of higher refrangibility.

candescencenoun (n.) See Incandescence.

canescentadjective (a.) Growing white, or assuming a color approaching to white.

caulescentadjective (a.) Having a leafy stem.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH SCE (According to last letters):


Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (ce) - English Words That Ends with ce:


abaisancenoun (n.) Obeisance.

abearancenoun (n.) Behavior.

aberrancenoun (n.) Alt. of Aberrancy

abeyancenoun (n.) Expectancy; condition of being undetermined.
 noun (n.) Suspension; temporary suppression.

abhorrencenoun (n.) Extreme hatred or detestation; the feeling of utter dislike.

abidancenoun (n.) The state of abiding; abode; continuance; compliance (with).

abodancenoun (n.) An omen; a portending.

abscondencenoun (n.) Fugitive concealment; secret retirement; hiding.

absencenoun (n.) A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence.
 noun (n.) Want; destitution; withdrawal.
 noun (n.) Inattention to things present; abstraction (of mind); as, absence of mind.

absistencenoun (n.) A standing aloof.

abstinencenoun (n.) The act or practice of abstaining; voluntary forbearance of any action, especially the refraining from an indulgence of appetite, or from customary gratifications of animal or sensual propensities. Specifically, the practice of abstaining from intoxicating beverages, -- called also total abstinence.
 noun (n.) The practice of self-denial by depriving one's self of certain kinds of food or drink, especially of meat.

abundancenoun (n.) An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number.

accedencenoun (n.) The act of acceding.

acceptancenoun (n.) The act of accepting; a receiving what is offered, with approbation, satisfaction, or acquiescence; esp., favorable reception; approval; as, the acceptance of a gift, office, doctrine, etc.
 noun (n.) State of being accepted; acceptableness.
 noun (n.) An assent and engagement by the person on whom a bill of exchange is drawn, to pay it when due according to the terms of the acceptance.
 noun (n.) The bill itself when accepted.
 noun (n.) An agreeing to terms or proposals by which a bargain is concluded and the parties are bound; the reception or taking of a thing bought as that for which it was bought, or as that agreed to be delivered, or the taking possession as owner.
 noun (n.) An agreeing to the action of another, by some act which binds the person in law.
 noun (n.) Meaning; acceptation.

accidencenoun (n.) The accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar.
 noun (n.) The rudiments of any subject.

accomplicenoun (n.) A cooperator.
 noun (n.) An associate in the commission of a crime; a participator in an offense, whether a principal or an accessory.

accordancenoun (n.) Agreement; harmony; conformity.

accustomancenoun (n.) Custom; habitual use.

acenoun (n.) A unit; a single point or spot on a card or die; the card or die so marked; as, the ace of diamonds.
 noun (n.) Hence: A very small quantity or degree; a particle; an atom; a jot.
 noun (n.) A single point won by a stroke, as in handball, rackets, etc.; in tennis, frequently, a point won by a service stroke.

achievancenoun (n.) Achievement.

acquaintancenoun (n.) A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him.
 noun (n.) A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.

acquittancenoun (n.) The clearing off of debt or obligation; a release or discharge from debt or other liability.
 noun (n.) A writing which is evidence of a discharge; a receipt in full, which bars a further demand.
 verb (v. t.) To acquit.

acturiencenoun (n.) Tendency or impulse to act.

acustumauncenoun (n.) See Accustomance.

adarcenoun (n.) A saltish concretion on reeds and grass in marshy grounds in Galatia. It is soft and porous, and was formerly used for cleansing the skin from freckles and tetters, and also in leprosy.

addicenoun (n.) See Adze.

adherencenoun (n.) The quality or state of adhering.
 noun (n.) The state of being fixed in attachment; fidelity; steady attachment; adhesion; as, adherence to a party or to opinions.

admirancenoun (n.) Admiration.

admittancenoun (n.) The act of admitting.
 noun (n.) Permission to enter; the power or right of entrance; also, actual entrance; reception.
 noun (n.) Concession; admission; allowance; as, the admittance of an argument.
 noun (n.) Admissibility.
 noun (n.) The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate.
 noun (n.) The reciprocal of impedance.

advanceadjective (a.) Before in place, or beforehand in time; -- used for advanced; as, an advance guard, or that before the main guard or body of an army; advance payment, or that made before it is due; advance proofs, advance sheets, pages of a forthcoming volume, received in advance of the time of publication.
 verb (v. t.) To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.
 verb (v. t.) To raise; to elevate.
 verb (v. t.) To raise to a higher rank; to promote.
 verb (v. t.) To accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten; as, to advance the ripening of fruit; to advance one's interests.
 verb (v. t.) To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show; as, to advance an argument.
 verb (v. t.) To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.
 verb (v. t.) To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand; as, a merchant advances money on a contract or on goods consigned to him.
 verb (v. t.) To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate; as, to advance the price of goods.
 verb (v. t.) To extol; to laud.
 verb (v. i.) To move or go forward; to proceed; as, he advanced to greet me.
 verb (v. i.) To increase or make progress in any respect; as, to advance in knowledge, in stature, in years, in price.
 verb (v. i.) To rise in rank, office, or consequence; to be preferred or promoted.
 verb (v.) The act of advancing or moving forward or upward; progress.
 verb (v.) Improvement or progression, physically, mentally, morally, or socially; as, an advance in health, knowledge, or religion; an advance in rank or office.
 verb (v.) An addition to the price; rise in price or value; as, an advance on the prime cost of goods.
 verb (v.) The first step towards the attainment of a result; approach made to gain favor, to form an acquaintance, to adjust a difference, etc.; an overture; a tender; an offer; -- usually in the plural.
 verb (v.) A furnishing of something before an equivalent is received (as money or goods), towards a capital or stock, or on loan; payment beforehand; the money or goods thus furnished; money or value supplied beforehand.

advicenoun (n.) An opinion recommended or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel.
 noun (n.) Deliberate consideration; knowledge.
 noun (n.) Information or notice given; intelligence; as, late advices from France; -- commonly in the plural.
 noun (n.) Counseling to perform a specific illegal act.

affiancenoun (n.) Plighted faith; marriage contract or promise.
 noun (n.) Trust; reliance; faith; confidence.
 verb (v. t.) To betroth; to pledge one's faith to for marriage, or solemnly promise (one's self or another) in marriage.
 verb (v. t.) To assure by promise.

affirmancenoun (n.) Confirmation; ratification; confirmation of a voidable act.
 noun (n.) A strong declaration; affirmation.

affluencenoun (n.) A flowing to or towards; a concourse; an influx.
 noun (n.) An abundant supply, as of thought, words, feelings, etc.; profusion; also, abundance of property; wealth.

afterpiecenoun (n.) A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.
 noun (n.) The heel of a rudder.

aggracenoun (n.) Grace; favor.
 verb (v. t.) To favor; to grace.

aggrievancenoun (n.) Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance.

agracenoun (n. & v.) See Aggrace.

aidancenoun (n.) Aid.

allegeancenoun (n.) Allegation.

allegiancenoun (n.) The tie or obligation, implied or expressed, which a subject owes to his sovereign or government; the duty of fidelity to one's king, government, or state.
 noun (n.) Devotion; loyalty; as, allegiance to science.

alliancenoun (n.) The state of being allied; the act of allying or uniting; a union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league; as, matrimonial alliances; an alliance between church and state; an alliance between France and England.
 noun (n.) Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity.
 noun (n.) The persons or parties allied.
 verb (v. t.) To connect by alliance; to ally.

allicenoun (n.) Alt. of Allis

allowancenoun (n.) Approval; approbation.
 noun (n.) The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.
 noun (n.) Acknowledgment.
 noun (n.) License; indulgence.
 noun (n.) That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity, as of food or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short.
 noun (n.) Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth.
 noun (n.) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.
 noun (n.) To put upon a fixed allowance (esp. of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity; as, the captain was obliged to allowance his crew; our provisions were allowanced.

allspicenoun (n.) The berry of the pimento (Eugenia pimenta), a tree of the West Indies; a spice of a mildly pungent taste, and agreeably aromatic; Jamaica pepper; pimento. It has been supposed to combine the flavor of cinnamon, nutmegs, and cloves; and hence the name. The name is also given to other aromatic shrubs; as, the Carolina allspice (Calycanthus floridus); wild allspice (Lindera benzoin), called also spicebush, spicewood, and feverbush.

allurancenoun (n.) Allurement.

almucenoun (n.) Same as Amice, a hood or cape.

altarpiecenoun (n.) The painting or piece of sculpture above and behind the altar; reredos.

altiloquencenoun (n.) Lofty speech; pompous language.

ambulancenoun (n.) A field hospital, so organized as to follow an army in its movements, and intended to succor the wounded as soon as possible. Often used adjectively; as, an ambulance wagon; ambulance stretcher; ambulance corps.
 noun (n.) An ambulance wagon or cart for conveying the wounded from the field, or to a hospital.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH SCE (According to first letters):


Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (sc) - Words That Begins with sc:


scabnoun (n.) An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed by the drying up of the discharge from the diseased part.
 noun (n.) The itch in man; also, the scurvy.
 noun (n.) The mange, esp. when it appears on sheep.
 noun (n.) A disease of potatoes producing pits in their surface, caused by a minute fungus (Tiburcinia Scabies).
 noun (n.) A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
 noun (n.) A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
 noun (n.) A nickname for a workman who engages for lower wages than are fixed by the trades unions; also, for one who takes the place of a workman on a strike.
 noun (n.) Any one of various more or less destructive fungus diseases attacking cultivated plants, and usually forming dark-colored crustlike spots.
 verb (v. i.) To become covered with a scab; as, the wound scabbed over.

scabbingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scab

scabbardnoun (n.) The case in which the blade of a sword, dagger, etc., is kept; a sheath.
 verb (v. t.) To put in a scabbard.

scabbedadjective (a.) Abounding with scabs; diseased with scabs.
 adjective (a.) Fig.: Mean; paltry; vile; worthless.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Scab

scabbednessnoun (n.) Scabbiness.

scabbinessnoun (n.) The quality or state of being scabby.

scabiesnoun (n.) The itch.

scabiousadjective (a.) Consisting of scabs; rough; itchy; leprous; as, scabious eruptions.
 adjective (a.) Any plant of the genus Scabiosa, several of the species of which are common in Europe. They resemble the Compositae, and have similar heads of flowers, but the anthers are not connected.

scablingnoun (n.) A fragment or chip of stone.

scabreditynoun (n.) Roughness; ruggedness.

scabrousadjective (a.) Rough to the touch, like a file; having small raised dots, scales, or points; scabby; scurfy; scaly.
 adjective (a.) Fig.: Harsh; unmusical.

scabrousnessnoun (n.) The quality of being scabrous.

scabwortnoun (n.) Elecampane.

scadnoun (n.) A small carangoid fish (Trachurus saurus) abundant on the European coast, and less common on the American. The name is applied also to several allied species.
 noun (n.) The goggler; -- called also big-eyed scad. See Goggler.
 noun (n.) The friar skate.
 noun (n.) The cigar fish, or round robin.

scaffoldnoun (n.) A temporary structure of timber, boards, etc., for various purposes, as for supporting workmen and materials in building, for exhibiting a spectacle upon, for holding the spectators at a show, etc.
 noun (n.) Specifically, a stage or elevated platform for the execution of a criminal; as, to die on the scaffold.
 noun (n.) An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf, or dome-shaped obstruction, above the tuyeres in a blast furnace.
 verb (v. t.) To furnish or uphold with a scaffold.

scaffoldagenoun (n.) A scaffold.

scaffoldingnoun (n.) A scaffold; a supporting framework; as, the scaffolding of the body.
 noun (n.) Materials for building scaffolds.

scaglianoun (n.) A reddish variety of limestone.

scagliolanoun (n.) An imitation of any veined and ornamental stone, as marble, formed by a substratum of finely ground gypsum mixed with glue, the surface of which, while soft, is variegated with splinters of marble, spar, granite, etc., and subsequently colored and polished.

scalanoun (n.) A machine formerly employed for reducing dislocations of the humerus.
 noun (n.) A term applied to any one of the three canals of the cochlea.

scalableadjective (a.) Capable of being scaled.

scaladenoun (n.) Alt. of Scalado

scaladonoun (n.) See Escalade.

scalarnoun (n.) In the quaternion analysis, a quantity that has magnitude, but not direction; -- distinguished from a vector, which has both magnitude and direction.

scalarianoun (n.) Any one of numerous species of marine gastropods of the genus Scalaria, or family Scalaridae, having elongated spiral turreted shells, with rounded whorls, usually crossed by ribs or varices. The color is generally white or pale. Called also ladder shell, and wentletrap. See Ptenoglossa, and Wentletrap.

scalariformadjective (a.) Resembling a ladder in form or appearance; having transverse bars or markings like the rounds of a ladder; as, the scalariform cells and scalariform pits in some plants.
 adjective (a.) Like or pertaining to a scalaria.

scalaryadjective (a.) Resembling a ladder; formed with steps.

scalawagnoun (n.) A scamp; a scapegrace.

scaldingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scald

scaldnoun (n.) A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by some hot liquid, or by steam.
 noun (n.) Scurf on the head. See Scall.
 noun (n.) One of the ancient Scandinavian poets and historiographers; a reciter and singer of heroic poems, eulogies, etc., among the Norsemen; more rarely, a bard of any of the ancient Teutonic tribes.
 adjective (a.) Affected with the scab; scabby.
 adjective (a.) Scurvy; paltry; as, scald rhymers.
 verb (v. t.) To burn with hot liquid or steam; to pain or injure by contact with, or immersion in, any hot fluid; as, to scald the hand.
 verb (v. t.) To expose to a boiling or violent heat over a fire, or in hot water or other liquor; as, to scald milk or meat.

scaldernoun (n.) A Scandinavian poet; a scald.

scaldfishnoun (n.) A European flounder (Arnoglossus laterna, or Psetta arnoglossa); -- called also megrim, and smooth sole.

scaldicadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the scalds of the Norsemen; as, scaldic poetry.

scalenoun (n.) The dish of a balance; hence, the balance itself; an instrument or machine for weighing; as, to turn the scale; -- chiefly used in the plural when applied to the whole instrument or apparatus for weighing. Also used figuratively.
 noun (n.) The sign or constellation Libra.
 noun (n.) One of the small, thin, membranous, bony or horny pieces which form the covering of many fishes and reptiles, and some mammals, belonging to the dermal part of the skeleton, or dermoskeleton. See Cycloid, Ctenoid, and Ganoid.
 noun (n.) Hence, any layer or leaf of metal or other material, resembling in size and thinness the scale of a fish; as, a scale of iron, of bone, etc.
 noun (n.) One of the small scalelike structures covering parts of some invertebrates, as those on the wings of Lepidoptera and on the body of Thysanura; the elytra of certain annelids. See Lepidoptera.
 noun (n.) A scale insect. (See below.)
 noun (n.) A small appendage like a rudimentary leaf, resembling the scales of a fish in form, and often in arrangement; as, the scale of a bud, of a pine cone, and the like. The name is also given to the chaff on the stems of ferns.
 noun (n.) The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife. See Illust. of Pocketknife.
 noun (n.) An incrustation deposit on the inside of a vessel in which water is heated, as a steam boiler.
 noun (n.) The thin oxide which forms on the surface of iron forgings. It consists essentially of the magnetic oxide, Fe3O4. Also, a similar coating upon other metals.
 noun (n.) A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
 noun (n.) Hence, anything graduated, especially when employed as a measure or rule, or marked by lines at regular intervals.
 noun (n.) A mathematical instrument, consisting of a slip of wood, ivory, or metal, with one or more sets of spaces graduated and numbered on its surface, for measuring or laying off distances, etc., as in drawing, plotting, and the like. See Gunter's scale.
 noun (n.) A series of spaces marked by lines, and representing proportionately larger distances; as, a scale of miles, yards, feet, etc., for a map or plan.
 noun (n.) A basis for a numeral system; as, the decimal scale; the binary scale, etc.
 noun (n.) The graduated series of all the tones, ascending or descending, from the keynote to its octave; -- called also the gamut. It may be repeated through any number of octaves. See Chromatic scale, Diatonic scale, Major scale, and Minor scale, under Chromatic, Diatonic, Major, and Minor.
 noun (n.) Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order; as, a scale of being.
 noun (n.) Relative dimensions, without difference in proportion of parts; size or degree of the parts or components in any complex thing, compared with other like things; especially, the relative proportion of the linear dimensions of the parts of a drawing, map, model, etc., to the dimensions of the corresponding parts of the object that is represented; as, a map on a scale of an inch to a mile.
 verb (v. t.) To weigh or measure according to a scale; to measure; also, to grade or vary according to a scale or system.
 verb (v. t.) To strip or clear of scale or scales; as, to scale a fish; to scale the inside of a boiler.
 verb (v. t.) To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
 verb (v. t.) To scatter; to spread.
 verb (v. t.) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
 verb (v. i.) To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae; as, some sandstone scales by exposure.
 verb (v. i.) To separate; to scatter.
 verb (v. t.) To climb by a ladder, or as if by a ladder; to ascend by steps or by climbing; to clamber up; as, to scale the wall of a fort.
 verb (v. i.) To lead up by steps; to ascend.

scalingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scale
 adjective (a.) Adapted for removing scales, as from a fish; as, a scaling knife; adapted for removing scale, as from the interior of a steam boiler; as, a scaling hammer, bar, etc.
 adjective (a.) Serving as an aid in clambering; as, a scaling ladder, used in assaulting a fortified place.

scalebacknoun (n.) Any one of numerous species of marine annelids of the family Polynoidae, and allies, which have two rows of scales, or elytra, along the back. See Illust. under Chaetopoda.

scalebeamnoun (n.) The lever or beam of a balance; the lever of a platform scale, to which the poise for weighing is applied.
 noun (n.) A weighing apparatus with a sliding weight, resembling a steelyard.

scaleboardnoun (n.) A thin slip of wood used to justify a page.
 noun (n.) A thin veneer of leaf of wood used for covering the surface of articles of furniture, and the like.

scaledadjective (a.) Covered with scales, or scalelike structures; -- said of a fish, a reptile, a moth, etc.
 adjective (a.) Without scales, or with the scales removed; as, scaled herring.
 adjective (a.) Having feathers which in form, color, or arrangement somewhat resemble scales; as, the scaled dove.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Scale

scalelessadjective (a.) Destitute of scales.

scalenenoun (n.) A triangle having its sides and angles unequal.
 adjective (a.) Having the sides and angles unequal; -- said of a triangle.
 adjective (a.) Having the axis inclined to the base, as a cone.
 adjective (a.) Designating several triangular muscles called scalene muscles.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the scalene muscles.

scalenohedraladjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a scalenohedron.

scalenohedronnoun (n.) A pyramidal form under the rhombohedral system, inclosed by twelve faces, each a scalene triangle.

scalernoun (n.) One who, or that which, scales; specifically, a dentist's instrument for removing tartar from the teeth.

scalinessnoun (n.) The state of being scaly; roughness.

scaliolanoun (n.) Same as Scagliola.

scalladjective (a.) A scurf or scabby disease, especially of the scalp.
 adjective (a.) Scabby; scurfy.

scalledadjective (a.) Scabby; scurfy; scall.

scallionnoun (n.) A kind of small onion (Allium Ascalonicum), native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot.
 noun (n.) Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek.

scallopnoun (n.) Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve mollusks of the genus Pecten and allied genera of the family Pectinidae. The shell is usually radially ribbed, and the edge is therefore often undulated in a characteristic manner. The large adductor muscle of some the species is much used as food. One species (Vola Jacobaeus) occurs on the coast of Palestine, and its shell was formerly worn by pilgrims as a mark that they had been to the Holy Land. Called also fan shell. See Pecten, 2.
 noun (n.) One of series of segments of circles joined at their extremities, forming a border like the edge or surface of a scallop shell.
 noun (n.) One of the shells of a scallop; also, a dish resembling a scallop shell.
 noun (n.) To bake in scallop shells or dishes; to prepare with crumbs of bread or cracker, and bake. See Scalloped oysters, below.
 verb (v. t.) To mark or cut the edge or border of into segments of circles, like the edge or surface of a scallop shell. See Scallop, n., 2.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH SCE:

English Words which starts with 's' and ends with 'e':

sabrenoun (n.) A sword with a broad and heavy blade, thick at the back, and usually more or less curved like a scimiter; a cavalry sword.
 noun (n. & v.) See Saber.
 verb (v. t.) To strike, cut, or kill with a saber; to cut down, as with a saber.

sabinenoun (n.) One of the Sabine people.
 noun (n.) See Savin.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the ancient Sabines, a people of Italy.

sablenoun (n.) A carnivorous animal of the Weasel family (Mustela zibellina) native of the northern latitudes of Europe, Asia, and America, -- noted for its fine, soft, and valuable fur.
 noun (n.) The fur of the sable.
 noun (n.) A mourning garment; a funeral robe; -- generally in the plural.
 noun (n.) The tincture black; -- represented by vertical and horizontal lines crossing each other.
 adjective (a.) Of the color of the sable's fur; dark; black; -- used chiefly in poetry.
 verb (v. t.) To render sable or dark; to drape darkly or in black.

sabotierenoun (n.) A kind of freezer for ices.

sabretaschenoun (n.) A leather case or pocket worn by cavalry at the left side, suspended from the sword belt.

sabuloseadjective (a.) Growing in sandy places.

saccadenoun (n.) A sudden, violent check of a horse by drawing or twitching the reins on a sudden and with one pull.

saccateadjective (a.) Having the form of a sack or pouch; furnished with a sack or pouch, as a petal.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Saccata, a suborder of ctenophores having two pouches into which the long tentacles can be retracted.

saccharatenoun (n.) A salt of saccharic acid.
 noun (n.) In a wider sense, a compound of saccharose, or any similar carbohydrate, with such bases as the oxides of calcium, barium, or lead; a sucrate.

saccharinatenoun (n.) A salt of saccharinic acid.
 noun (n.) A salt of saccharine.

saccharinenoun (n.) A trade name for benzoic sulphinide.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to sugar; having the qualities of sugar; producing sugar; sweet; as, a saccharine taste; saccharine matter.

saccharonatenoun (n.) A salt of saccharonic acid.

saccharonenoun (n.) A white crystalline substance, C6H8O6, obtained by the oxidation of saccharin, and regarded as the lactone of saccharonic acid.
 noun (n.) An oily liquid, C6H10O2, obtained by the reduction of saccharin.

saccharosenoun (n.) Cane sugar; sucrose; also, in general, any one of the group of which saccharose, or sucrose proper, is the type. See Sucrose.

saccholactatenoun (n.) A salt of saccholactic acid; -- formerly called also saccholate.

sacchulmatenoun (n.) A salt of sacchulmic acid.

sacculenoun (n.) A little sac; specifically, the sacculus of the ear.

sackagenoun (n.) The act of taking by storm and pillaging; sack.

sacquenoun (n.) Same as 2d Sack, 3.

sacrenoun (n.) See Saker.
 verb (v. t.) To consecrate; to make sacred.

sacrificableadjective (a.) Capable of being offered in sacrifice.

sacrificenoun (n.) The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite.
 noun (n.) Anything consecrated and offered to God, or to a divinity; an immolated victim, or an offering of any kind, laid upon an altar, or otherwise presented in the way of religious thanksgiving, atonement, or conciliation.
 noun (n.) Destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else; devotion of some desirable object in behalf of a higher object, or to a claim deemed more pressing; hence, also, the thing so devoted or given up; as, the sacrifice of interest to pleasure, or of pleasure to interest.
 noun (n.) A sale at a price less than the cost or the actual value.
 noun (n.) To make an offering of; to consecrate or present to a divinity by way of expiation or propitiation, or as a token acknowledgment or thanksgiving; to immolate on the altar of God, in order to atone for sin, to procure favor, or to express thankfulness; as, to sacrifice an ox or a sheep.
 noun (n.) Hence, to destroy, surrender, or suffer to be lost, for the sake of obtaining something; to give up in favor of a higher or more imperative object or duty; to devote, with loss or suffering.
 noun (n.) To destroy; to kill.
 noun (n.) To sell at a price less than the cost or the actual value.
 verb (v. i.) To make offerings to God, or to a deity, of things consumed on the altar; to offer sacrifice.

sacrilegenoun (n.) The sin or crime of violating or profaning sacred things; the alienating to laymen, or to common purposes, what has been appropriated or consecrated to religious persons or uses.

saddlenoun (n.) A seat for a rider, -- usually made of leather, padded to span comfortably a horse's back, furnished with stirrups for the rider's feet to rest in, and fastened in place with a girth; also, a seat for the rider on a bicycle or tricycle.
 noun (n.) A padded part of a harness which is worn on a horse's back, being fastened in place with a girth. It serves various purposes, as to keep the breeching in place, carry guides for the reins, etc.
 noun (n.) A piece of meat containing a part of the backbone of an animal with the ribs on each side; as, a saddle of mutton, of venison, etc.
 noun (n.) A block of wood, usually fastened to some spar, and shaped to receive the end of another spar.
 noun (n.) A part, as a flange, which is hollowed out to fit upon a convex surface and serve as a means of attachment or support.
 noun (n.) The clitellus of an earthworm.
 noun (n.) The threshold of a door, when a separate piece from the floor or landing; -- so called because it spans and covers the joint between two floors.
 noun (n.) A ridge connected two higher elevations; a low point in the crest line of a ridge; a col.
 noun (n.) A formation of gold-bearing quartz occurring along the crest of an anticlinal fold, esp. in Australia.
 verb (v. t.) To put a saddle upon; to equip (a beast) for riding.
 verb (v. t.) Hence: To fix as a charge or burden upon; to load; to encumber; as, to saddle a town with the expense of bridges and highways.

saddletreenoun (n.) The frame of a saddle.

sadduceenoun (n.) One of a sect among the ancient Jews, who denied the resurrection, a future state, and the existence of angels.

safenoun (n.) A place for keeping things in safety.
 noun (n.) A strong and fireproof receptacle (as a movable chest of steel, etc., or a closet or vault of brickwork) for containing money, valuable papers, or the like.
 noun (n.) A ventilated or refrigerated chest or closet for securing provisions from noxious animals or insects.
 superlative (superl.) Free from harm, injury, or risk; untouched or unthreatened by danger or injury; unharmed; unhurt; secure; whole; as, safe from disease; safe from storms; safe from foes.
 superlative (superl.) Conferring safety; securing from harm; not exposing to danger; confining securely; to be relied upon; not dangerous; as, a safe harbor; a safe bridge, etc.
 superlative (superl.) Incapable of doing harm; no longer dangerous; in secure care or custody; as, the prisoner is safe.
 verb (v. t.) To render safe; to make right.

safraninenoun (n.) An orange-red nitrogenous dyestuff produced artificially by oxidizing certain aniline derivatives, and used in dyeing silk and wool; also, any one of the series of which safranine proper is the type.

sagamorenoun (n.) The head of a tribe among the American Indians; a chief; -- generally used as synonymous with sachem, but some writters distinguished between them, making the sachem a chief of the first rank, and a sagamore one of the second rank.
 noun (n.) A juice used in medicine.

sagenoun (n.) A suffruticose labiate plant (Salvia officinalis) with grayish green foliage, much used in flavoring meats, etc. The name is often extended to the whole genus, of which many species are cultivated for ornament, as the scarlet sage, and Mexican red and blue sage.
 noun (n.) The sagebrush.
 noun (n.) A wise man; a man of gravity and wisdom; especially, a man venerable for years, and of sound judgment and prudence; a grave philosopher.
 superlative (superl.) Having nice discernment and powers of judging; prudent; grave; sagacious.
 superlative (superl.) Proceeding from wisdom; well judged; shrewd; well adapted to the purpose.
 superlative (superl.) Grave; serious; solemn.

sagenenoun (n.) A Russian measure of length equal to about seven English feet.

sagenitenoun (n.) Acicular rutile occurring in reticulated forms imbedded in quartz.

sagittateadjective (a.) Shaped like an arrowhead; triangular, with the two basal angles prolonged downward.

sahlitenoun (n.) See Salite.

sailableadjective (a.) Capable of being sailed over; navigable; as, a sailable river.

saintlikeadjective (a.) Resembling a saint; suiting a saint; becoming a saint; saintly.

saithenoun (n.) The pollock, or coalfish; -- called also sillock.

sajenenoun (n.) Same as Sagene.

sakenoun (n.) Final cause; end; purpose of obtaining; cause; motive; reason; interest; concern; account; regard or respect; -- used chiefly in such phrases as, for the sake of, for his sake, for man's sake, for mercy's sake, and the like; as, to commit crime for the sake of gain; to go abroad for the sake of one's health.

salableadjective (a.) Capable of being sold; fit to be sold; finding a ready market.

saladenoun (n.) A helmet. See Sallet.

salaganenoun (n.) The esculent swallow. See under Esculent.

salamandrineadjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a salamander; enduring fire.

salamstonenoun (n.) A kind of blue sapphire brought from Ceylon.

salenoun (n.) See 1st Sallow.
 verb (v. t.) The act of selling; the transfer of property, or a contract to transfer the ownership of property, from one person to another for a valuable consideration, or for a price in money.
 verb (v. t.) Opportunity of selling; demand; market.
 verb (v. t.) Public disposal to the highest bidder, or exposure of goods in market; auction.

saliaunceadjective (a.) Salience; onslaught.

salicylatenoun (n.) A salt of salicylic acid.

salicylidenoun (n.) A white crystalline substance obtained by dehydration of salicylic acid.

salicylitenoun (n.) A compound of salicylal; -- named after the analogy of a salt.

saliencenoun (n.) The quality or condition of being salient; a leaping; a springing forward; an assaulting.
 noun (n.) The quality or state of projecting, or being projected; projection; protrusion.

salifiableadjective (a.) Capable of neutralizing an acid to form a salt; -- said of bases; thus, ammonia is salifiable.

salinenoun (n.) A crude potash obtained from beet-root residues and other similar sources.
 noun (n.) A metallic salt; esp., a salt of potassium, sodium, lithium, or magnesium, used in medicine.
 adjective (a.) Consisting of salt, or containing salt; as, saline particles; saline substances; a saline cathartic.
 adjective (a.) Of the quality of salt; salty; as, a saline taste.
 adjective (a.) A salt spring; a place where salt water is collected in the earth.

saliqueadjective (a.) Salic.

salitenoun (n.) A massive lamellar variety of pyroxene, of a dingy green color.
 verb (v. t.) To season with salt; to salt.

salliancenoun (n.) Salience.

salsenoun (n.) A mud volcano, the water of which is often impregnated with salts, whence the name.

saltlenoun (n.) The European dab.

saltigradaenoun (n. pl.) A tribe of spiders including those which lie in wait and leap upon their prey; the leaping spiders.

saltigradenoun (n.) One of the Saltigradae, a tribe of spiders which leap to seize their prey.
 adjective (a.) Having feet or legs formed for leaping.

saltpetrenoun (n.) Potassium nitrate; niter; a white crystalline substance, KNO3, having a cooling saline taste, obtained by leaching from certain soils in which it is produced by the process of nitrification (see Nitrification, 2). It is a strong oxidizer, is the chief constituent of gunpowder, and is also used as an antiseptic in curing meat, and in medicine as a diuretic, diaphoretic, and refrigerant.

salvableadjective (a.) Capable of being saved; admitting of salvation.

salvagenoun (n.) The act of saving a vessel, goods, or life, from perils of the sea.
 noun (n.) The compensation allowed to persons who voluntarily assist in saving a ship or her cargo from peril.
 noun (n.) That part of the property that survives the peril and is saved.
 noun (a. & n.) Savage.

salvenoun (n.) An adhesive composition or substance to be applied to wounds or sores; a healing ointment.
 noun (n.) A soothing remedy or antidote.
 noun (n.) To heal by applications or medicaments; to cure by remedial treatment; to apply salve to; as, to salve a wound.
 noun (n.) To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good; to soothe, as with an ointment, especially by some device, trick, or quibble; to gloss over.
 verb (v. t.) To say "Salve" to; to greet; to salute.
 verb (v. t. & i.) To save, as a ship or goods, from the perils of the sea.
  (interj.) Hail!

samarenoun (n.) See Simar.

samarskiteadjective (a.) A rare mineral having a velvet-black color and submetallic luster. It is a niobate of uranium, iron, and the yttrium and cerium metals.

sambukenoun (n.) An ancient stringed instrument used by the Greeks, the particular construction of which is unknown.

samettenoun (n.) See Samite.

samiteadjective (a.) A species of silk stuff, or taffeta, generally interwoven with gold.

samphirenoun (n.) A fleshy, suffrutescent, umbelliferous European plant (Crithmum maritimum). It grows among rocks and on cliffs along the seacoast, and is used for pickles.
 noun (n.) The species of glasswort (Salicornia herbacea); -- called in England marsh samphire.
 noun (n.) A seashore shrub (Borrichia arborescens) of the West Indies.

samplenoun (n.) Example; pattern.
 noun (n.) A part of anything presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen; as, goods are often purchased by samples.
 verb (v. t.) To make or show something similar to; to match.
 verb (v. t.) To take or to test a sample or samples of; as, to sample sugar, teas, wools, cloths.

sanableadjective (a.) Capable of being healed or cured; susceptible of remedy.

sanativeadjective (a.) Having the power to cure or heal; healing; tending to heal; sanatory.

sanctitudenoun (n.) Holiness; sacredness; sanctity.

sandrenoun (n.) A Russian fish (Lucioperca sandre) which yields a valuable oil, called sandre oil, used in the preparation of caviare.

sandstonenoun (n.) A rock made of sand more or less firmly united. Common or siliceous sandstone consists mainly of quartz sand.

saneadjective (a.) Being in a healthy condition; not deranged; acting rationally; -- said of the mind.
 adjective (a.) Mentally sound; possessing a rational mind; having the mental faculties in such condition as to be able to anticipate and judge of the effect of one's actions in an ordinary maner; -- said of persons.

sangareenoun (n.) Wine and water sweetened and spiced, -- a favorite West Indian drink.

sanguinenoun (n.) Blood color; red.
 noun (n.) Anything of a blood-red color, as cloth.
 noun (n.) Bloodstone.
 noun (n.) Red crayon. See the Note under Crayon, 1.
 adjective (a.) Having the color of blood; red.
 adjective (a.) Characterized by abundance and active circulation of blood; as, a sanguine bodily temperament.
 adjective (a.) Warm; ardent; as, a sanguine temper.
 adjective (a.) Anticipating the best; not desponding; confident; full of hope; as, sanguine of success.
 verb (v. t.) To stain with blood; to impart the color of blood to; to ensanguine.

sanguisugenoun (n.) A bloodsucker, or leech.

saniclenoun (n.) Any plant of the umbelliferous genus Sanicula, reputed to have healing powers.

sanidinenoun (n.) A variety of orthoclase feldspar common in certain eruptive rocks, as trachyte; -- called also glassy feldspar.

santonatenoun (n.) A salt of santonic acid.

santoninatenoun (n.) A salt of santoninic acid.

sapiencenoun (n.) The quality of being sapient; wisdom; sageness; knowledge.

saponifiableadjective (a.) Capable of conversion into soap; as, a saponifiable substance.

saponitenoun (n.) A hydrous silicate of magnesia and alumina. It occurs in soft, soapy, amorphous masses, filling veins in serpentine and cavities in trap rock.

sapparenoun (n.) Kyanite.

sapphirenoun (n.) Native alumina or aluminium sesquioxide, Al2O3; corundum; esp., the blue transparent variety of corundum, highly prized as a gem.
 noun (n.) The color of the gem; bright blue.
 noun (n.) Any humming bird of the genus Hylocharis, native of South America. The throat and breast are usually bright blue.
 adjective (a.) Of or resembling sapphire; sapphirine; blue.

sapphirinenoun (n.) Resembling sapphire; made of sapphire; having the color, or any quality of sapphire.

saprophytenoun (n.) Any plant growing on decayed animal or vegetable matter, as most fungi and some flowering plants with no green color, as the Indian pipe.

sarabaitenoun (n.) One of certain vagrant or heretical Oriental monks in the early church.

sarcellenoun (n.) The old squaw, or long-tailed duck.

sarcocelenoun (n.) Any solid tumor of the testicle.

sarcodenoun (n.) A name applied by Dujardin in 1835 to the gelatinous material forming the bodies of the lowest animals; protoplasm.

sarcolineadjective (a.) Flesh-colored.

sarcophilenoun (n.) A flesh-eating animal, especially any one of the carnivorous marsupials.

sardachatenoun (n.) A variety of agate containing sard.

sardinenoun (n.) Any one of several small species of herring which are commonly preserved in olive oil for food, especially the pilchard, or European sardine (Clupea pilchardus). The California sardine (Clupea sagax) is similar. The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the common herring and of the menhaden.
 noun (n.) See Sardius.

sareenoun (n.) The principal garment of a Hindoo woman. It consists of a long piece of cloth, which is wrapped round the middle of the body, a portion being arranged to hang down in front, and the remainder passed across the bosom over the left shoulder.

sariguenoun (n.) A small South American opossum (Didelphys opossum), having four white spots on the face.