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Saxifragaceae
- noun - a large and diverse family of evergreen or deciduous herbs; widely distributed in northern temperate and cold regions; sometimes includes genera of the family Hydrangeaceae
Scalar Matrix
- noun - a diagonal matrix in which all of the diagonal elements are equal
Schizognathae
- - The schizognathous birds.
Schnittlaughs
- noun - perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning
Schoolteacher
- noun - a teacher in a school below the college level
Schutzstaffel
- noun - special police force in Nazi Germany founded as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in 1925; the SS administered the concentration camps
Scintillating
- verb - be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity; "The musical performance sparkled"; "A scintillating conversation"; "his playing coruscated throughout the concert hall"
- brilliantly clever; "scintillating wit"; "a play full of scintillating dialogue"
- emit or reflect light in a flickering manner; "Does a constellation twinkle more brightly than a single star?"
- give off; "the substance scintillated sparks and flashes"
- having brief brilliant points or flashes of light; "bugle beads all aglitter"; "glinting eyes"; "glinting water"; "his glittering eyes were cold and malevolent"; "shop window full of glittering Christmas trees"; "glittery costume jewelry"; "scintillant mica"; "the scintillating stars"; "a dress with sparkly sequins"; "`glistering' is an archaic term"
- marked by high spirits or excitement; "his fertile effervescent mind"; "scintillating personality"; "a row of sparkly cheerleaders"
- physics: fluoresce momentarily when st
Scintillation
- noun - (physics) a flash of light that is produced in a phosphor when it absorbs a photon or ionizing particle
- a brilliant display of wit
- a rapid change in brightness; a brief spark or flash
- the quality of shining with a bright reflected light
- the twinkling of the stars caused when changes in the density of the earth's atmosphere produce uneven refraction of starlight
Scorification
- - The act, process, or result of scorifying, or reducing to a slag; hence, the separation from earthy matter by means of a slag; as, the scorification of ores.