- skewTo form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
- esquireA lawyer.
- scuttleA container like an open bucket (usually to hold and carry coal).
- escutcheonThe shield on which a coat of arms is displayed, or, by extension, the coat of arms itself.
- scutumAn oblong shield made of boards or wickerwork covered with leather, with sometimes an iron rim; carried chiefly by the heavily armed infantry of the Roman army.
- scuteA horny, chitinous, or bony external plate or scale, as on the shell of a turtle, the skin of crocodiles, or the feet and legs of birds.
- scudoA silver coin and unit of currency of various Italian states from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
- scutellumA rounded apothecium having an elevated rim formed of the proper thallus, the fructification of certain lichens.
- alloscutumthe flexible part of the dorsal body wall behind the rigid scutum in a hard tick, particularly a female — the alloscutum is the part of the body wall that must stretch to accommodate the blood that the tick swallows when it engorges in preparation for laying eggs.
- scutageA tax, paid in lieu of military service, that was a significant source of revenue in England in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
- scutiferousHaving a scute.
- scutiformHaving the shape of a shield; scutate.