Word origins

• scathandHarmful; scathing.
• scatheDamage, harm, hurt, injury.
• scathefulCausing harm or mischief; destructive, injurious.
• scathelessWithout scathe or harm; without mischief, injury, or damage; unharmed.
• scathelyHarmful; scatheful.
• scathyMischievous; vicious; dangerous.
• scavageA tax on non-resident merchant goods by city officials for resident merchant advantage, similar to a tariff.
• scawA wood or forest; a shaw.
• schoolmanA medieval writer, scholar or teacher of the subjects taught at early European universities (such as theology, metaphysics and logic); a scholastic.
• schynbaldA piece of plate armor (from the 1200s to the 1400s) for the lower leg (shin): a metal plate, often strapped over mail or padding, now especially one which did not completely enclose the lower leg like a greave might.
• scornerOne who mocks or scoffs; a mocker.
• scot-freeWithout consequences or penalties, free without payment.
• scourerA tool used to scour, usually used to clean cookware.
• scoutwatchA scout or spy.
• scrabTo scrape or scratch.
• scrikeTo shriek; to screech.
• scrowscroll
• scutA hare; (hunting, also figuratively) a hare as the game in a hunt.
• scutageA tax, paid in lieu of military service, that was a significant source of revenue in England in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
• scutchTo beat or whip; to drub.
• scuttlefulEnough to fill a scuttle.
• -seForms verbs from adjectives or nouns. When attached to certain adjectives, it forms a transitive verb whose meaning is, to make (adjective). The same construction could also be done to certain (fewer) nouns, as, bless, in which case the verb means roughly, to make bloody/sanctify.
• seabankA bank or mole to defend against the sea.
• sea calfSynonym of common seal (Phoca vitulina).
• seafareTo travel or voyage by sea
• sea fishAny fish found in salt waters.
• seafowlAny bird that spends most of its time in coastal waters or over the oceans.
• sea horseAny of the small fish of the genus Hippocampus that have a horselike head and swim upright.
• seamewThe common gull (Larus canus).
• seamsterA person who sews clothes professionally.
• searceA sieve; a strainer.
• seasandSand of the sea floor or seashore.
• sea snailAny saltwater snail; a marine gastropod mollusk with a shell (contrasted with sea slug).
• seasnailThe snailfish (family Liparidae).
• sea stackA pillar of rock that rises from the ocean, formed by surrounding softer ground eroding away.
• secular armThe lay or temporal authority of a secular court to pronounce punishment (particularly capital punishment) of an offender tried by an ecclesiastical court.
• secularlyIn a secular fashion.
• seductorOne who seduces.
• seechLancashire, West Country, and possibly other dialects' form of seek.
• seedtimeThe time to sow seeds.
• seek outTo try to locate; to search for.
• seemliheadThe condition of being seemly; seemliness.
• seemlihoodThe state, condition, or quality of being seemly; seemliness.
• seemlinessThe property of being seemly, appropriateness of conduct or behavior.
• seigniorA feudal lord; a nobleman who held his lands by feudal grant; any lord (holder) of a manor.
• seignioryThe estate of a feudal lord.
• seiseTo vest ownership of an estate in land (to someone).
• seisinAn entitlement to a freehold estate with a right to immediate possession.
• selcouthStrange, unusual, rare; unfamiliar; marvellous, wondrous.
• seldA seat, throne.
• seldseenseldom seen, rare, uncommon
• seldshewnSynonym of seldseen.
• -selfUsed in forming intensive and reflexive forms of the singular personal pronouns.
• self-of, by, in or with oneself or itself
• selfdomselfhood.
• selfhealA small, herbaceous European plant with blue-violet flowers from any species of genus Prunella.
• selflyOf or pertaining to self or one's own self, personal.
• self-murderSuicide.
• self-willThe quality of being willful and ignoring opposition.
• self-willedObstinate; strong-minded; unyielding to the desires, concern or opinions of others.
• self-willednessThe quality of being self-willed.
• semidiameterThe apparent radius of a star etc, when viewed from Earth.
• semimaturePartially mature
• sendableCapable of being sent.
• send forthTo emit; to produce; to let out
• SenescallA surname originating as an occupation.
• sengreenThe houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum), a common plant of Europe.
• sennightSynonym of week in its various senses, a period of seven consecutive days and nights.
• senvyThe mustard plant or its seed.
• septenaryConsisting of or containing seven.
• septentrionThe north or northern regions.
• sepultureThe act of sepulchring, committing the remains of a deceased person to the grave or sepulchre.
• serelyseparately; differently; severally; distinctly.
• sergeancyThe role, rank or office of a sergeant; sergeantship.
• sergeantessA female sergeant.
• serjeantyA land tenure in which a tenant provided his liege with some kind of personal service, as opposed to nonpersonal service, such as paying tax (socage)
• sermoningThe act of discoursing; instruction; preaching.
• sermountainA plant of the genus Laserpitium.
• servageServitude, bondage.
• servantessA female servant
• service treeEither of two rare Old World deciduous trees, Sorbus domestica or Sorbus torminalis.
• servingmanA male servant.
• servingwomanA female servant.
• serviousservile; obsequious
• SetterfieldA surname.
• seven deadly sinsThe cardinal sins enumerated by medieval philosophers and theologians: pride (or vanity, vainglory), envy, gluttony, greed (or avarice), lust, sloth (or acedia), and wrath (or anger).
• severaltyThe sole ownership of property by someone.
• sewsterA seamstress; a sewer (someone who sews).
• sextarySynonym of sextarius, an ancient Roman unit of volume
• sextryA sacristy; vestry; a room for holy objects.
• shaftmentAn obsolete unit of length defined as 6 inches, which equals 2 palms or ²⁄₃ span; today 6 inches equals exactly 15.24 cm. (Before the 12th century, a shaftment was defined as 6+¹⁄₂ inches.)
• shalkA servant.
• shamefacednessThe characteristic of being shamefaced.
• shamefastBashful, modest; shy.
• shamefastlyIn a shamefast manner.
• shamefastnessThe condition or state of being shamefast.
• shamefulnessThe property of being shameful.
• shapesterA seamstress; dressmaker; tailor
• shawmA mediaeval double-reed wind instrument with a conical wooden body.
• shealA shell or pod.