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Scottish Renaissance
The Scottish Renaissance was an interwar flowering of Scottish literature and culture in the 1920s and 1930s, centered on Hugh MacDiarmid and the revival of Scots.
Scottish Rite
The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite is a Masonic degree system (4°–32°, honorary 33°) governed by Supreme Councils, originating in France despite its name, with Southern (1801) and Northern (1813) US jurisdictions.
Scottish Socialist Party
Scottish Socialist Party (SSP), registered 1999, founded 1998 from the Scottish Socialist Alliance by Tommy Sheridan and Alan McCombes; campaigns for an independent socialist Scotland; peaked with six MSPs at the 2003 Holyrood election.
Scottish Terrier
Scottish Terrier (Scottie, "the Diehard"): small short-legged Scottish vermin-hunting terrier, about 10 inches tall, 18-22 lb, wiry black, wheaten, or brindle coat; eight Westminster and eight Crufts Best in Show wins; UK registrations at record lows.
Scottish Water
Scottish Water is the publicly owned water and wastewater utility of Scotland, created in 2002, supplying drinking water and treating wastewater for over 5.2 million people.
Scottish wildcat
Scottish wildcat, Felis silvestris, the only native British felid, a Critically Endangered Scottish population of the European wildcat, nearly lost to hybridisation with domestic cats and now restored through the Saving Wildcats breeding-for-release programme in the Cairngorms.
Scottish Women's Premier League
Scottish Women's Premier League (SWPL), Scotland's top women's football competition: two 10-team divisions run by the SPFL since 2022, founded by SWF in 2002, 160 professional players, record 2.4m TV viewers in 2024/25, Hearts the 2025/26 champions.
ScottishPower
ScottishPower, also known as Scottish Power plc, is a UK energy utility owned by Spain's Iberdrola, formed in 1990 and combining generation, networks, and retail supply.
Scottland F.C.
Scottland F.C. is a Zimbabwean professional football club based in Mabvuku, Harare, founded in 2023, which won the Premier Soccer League title in its debut top-flight season in 2025.
Scottrade
Scottrade was a St. Louis discount brokerage firm founded by Rodger Riney in 1980, with 3 million accounts and nearly 500 branches when sold to TD Ameritrade.
Scotts Bluff National Monument
Scotts Bluff National Monument is a 3,003-acre National Park Service unit near Gering, Nebraska, established December 12, 1919 by Woodrow Wilson, preserving an 800-foot bluff, Mitchell Pass Oregon Trail ruts, New Deal-era buildings, and the largest William Henry Jackson watercolor collection.
Scotts Valley, California
Scotts Valley is a general law city in Santa Cruz County, California, incorporated August 2, 1966 after a contested 1964 vote. Population about 12,000; home to Seagate's origins, a 1,220-unit RHNA obligation, and a planned 58-acre Town Center.
Scottsboro Boys
The Scottsboro Boys: nine Black teenagers falsely accused of raping two white women on an Alabama freight train in 1931; eight death sentences, Powell v. Alabama, Norris v. Alabama, recantations, paroles, and 2013 posthumous pardons.
Scottsdale, Arizona
Scottsdale, Arizona: Sonoran Desert city northeast of Phoenix founded by Winfield Scott in 1888, incorporated 1951; about 243,000-246,000 residents, 184.5 square miles, $3.7 billion tourism economy, CAP water supply, and Old Town arts district.
Scotty (Star Trek)
Montgomery "Scotty" Scott, Star Trek's chief engineer of the USS Enterprise, originated by James Doohan in The Original Series and later played by Simon Pegg and Martin Quinn.
Scotty 2 Hotty
Scotty 2 Hotty is the ring name of Scott Garland, WWE wrestler (Scott Taylor 1991–1999, Scotty 2 Hotty 1999–2007) of tag team Too Cool, known for The Worm, and later a WWE Performance Center trainer.
Scotty Beckett
Scotty Beckett (Scott Hastings Beckett, 1929–1968), American child actor in Hal Roach's Our Gang shorts as Spanky's sidekick, later young Al Jolson in The Jolson Story; career ended with arrests and an undetermined 1968 death.
Scotty Bowers
Scotty Bowers, also known as George Albert Bowers, was an American former U.S. Marine and Hollywood gas station attendant who arranged liaisons for stars from the 1940s.
Scotty Bowman
Scotty Bowman (William Scott Bowman) is a Canadian former NHL coach who won a record nine Stanley Cups with Montreal, Pittsburgh, and Detroit before retiring in 2002.
Scotty Cameron
Scotty Cameron, American putter designer; founded Cameron Golf International (1992), partnered with Titleist/Acushnet in 1994; his milled putters, including Newport and Phantom lines and Circle T tour models, have won 45+ majors.
Scotty Doesn't Know
"Scotty Doesn't Know" is a pop-punk song by the Boston band Lustra, written for the 2004 comedy EuroTrip, in which Matt Damon lip-syncs it; it later went Gold in 2021.
Scotty James
Scotty James (born 1994, Melbourne) is an Australian snowboard halfpipe rider, five-time Olympian, and Australia's most decorated Winter Olympian: bronze 2018, silver 2022, silver 2026, plus four world titles and eight X Games golds.
Scotty McCreery
Scotty McCreery, American country singer born 1993 in Garner, North Carolina; won American Idol season 10 in 2011; debut Clear as Day hit Billboard 200 No. 1; seven country No. 1 singles; Grand Ole Opry member since 2024.
Scotty Moore
Scotty Moore (Winfield Scott Moore III, 1931–2016), American guitarist and engineer, Elvis Presley's Sun Records guitarist and first manager; pioneer of rockabilly guitar, Rock Hall's first sideman inductee (2000).
Scotty Pippen Jr.
Scotty Pippen Jr., Memphis Grizzlies point guard and son of Scottie Pippen; undrafted 2022, Vanderbilt SEC scoring leader (736-point school record), two-way deals to a four-year NBA contract, 2024-25 triple-double.
Scotty's Castle
Scotty's Castle (Death Valley Ranch), a 1920s Spanish Revival estate in Grapevine Canyon, Death Valley National Park, built by Albert Johnson and named for con man Walter "Death Valley Scotty" Scott; closed since the 2015 flood, with limited tours and full reopening eyed for November 2028.
Scoubidou
Scoubidou: a French craft of braiding colorful plastic cords into key chains and bracelets, started in the late 1950s and named after Sacha Distel's 1958 song; also called gimp or boondoggle, revived in the 2000s.
Scour protection
Scour protection is the set of engineering measures that prevent or limit erosion of sediment around structures founded in water, most commonly around offshore wind turbine foundations and bridge piers.
Scourge
Scourge: a multi-thonged whip (Latin flagrum, flagellum) used for flogging as Roman punishment, religious self-mortification, judicial whipping, and colonial discipline; still legal in dozens of countries today.
Scouse
Scouse is the English dialect of Liverpool and Merseyside, also called Liverpool English or Liverpudlian. Formed mainly in the 19th century through new-dialect formation amid massive migration, it is marked mainly by phonological features such as lenition and is often ranked low in accent prestige surveys.