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Scouse (food)
Scouse (from lobscouse) is Liverpool's traditional beef or lamb stew with potatoes, carrots, and onions, first recorded in a 1797 Liverpool poorhouse report; it gave Scousers their nickname and has a meatless variant, blind scouse.
Scout (rocket family)
Scout was an American small orbital launch vehicle flown for NASA from 1960 to 1994, and in February 1961 it became the first entirely solid-propellant rocket to reach orbit.
Scout (sport)
Scout (sport): a person who observes and evaluates athletes for recruitment and talent identification, using technical, tactical, physical, and psychological criteria, increasingly aided by data analytics and AI tools.
Scout Motto
Scout Motto: "Be Prepared," the motto of the Scout Movement defined by Robert Baden-Powell in Scouting for Boys as readiness in mind and body to do one's duty; used since 1907, shared by WAGGGS, translated into dozens of languages.
Scout sign and salute
Scout sign and salute: three-finger right-hand gestures of the Scout movement recalling the three Promise points; used for the Promise, greetings, and flag ceremonies; variants include the two-finger Cub Scout sign, half and full salutes, and the left-hand handshake.
Scout Taylor-Compton
Scout Taylor-Compton (born Desariee Starr Compton, 1989) is an American actress known for playing Laurie Strode in Rob Zombie's Halloween (2007) and Halloween II (2009).
Scout Terra
The Scout Terra is a full-size electric pickup from Scout Motors, unveiled in 2024 with up to 350 miles of range and production targeted for 2027.
SCOUT trial (NCT02637687)
SCOUT (NCT02637687, LOXO-TRK-15003) is Bayer/Loxo's phase 1/2 trial of larotrectinib in children up to 21 years with advanced solid or primary CNS tumors; phase 1 showed 93% response in NTRK fusion-positive tumors.
scoutbee
scoutbee is a German AI supplier discovery and procurement intelligence startup founded in 2015 by Gregor Stühler, based in Berlin and acquired by Coupa in 2025.
Scouting
Scouting: global non-formal educational youth movement founded by Robert Baden-Powell (Brownsea Island camp, 1907; Scouting for Boys, 1908), now about 60 million members via WOSM (176 NSOs) and WAGGGS; distinct from talent scouting in sports.
Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse is a 2015 American horror comedy film directed by Christopher Landon. It follows three teenage Boy Scouts and a cocktail waitress fighting a zombie outbreak.
Scoville scale
Scoville scale: measures chili pepper pungency in Scoville Heat Units (SHU), devised by Wilbur Scoville in 1912 as a dilution taste test, now determined by HPLC under ASTA 21.3 and AOAC 995.03, from 0 SHU bell pepper to 16,000,000 SHU pure capsaicin.
Scowl
Scowl is an American hardcore band formed in 2019 in Santa Cruz, California, fronted by vocalist Kat Moss and known for the 2023 EP Psychic Dance Routine.
SCP – Containment Breach
SCP – Containment Breach (SCP:CB) is a free first-person survival horror game by Joonas Rikkonen (Regalis), Undertow Games, written in Blitz3D, set in an SCP Foundation facility during a breach; features SCP-173, a blinking mechanic, procedural maps, CC BY-SA 3.0, and a February 2026 Steam release.
SCP Foundation
The SCP Foundation is a collaborative fiction wiki about a fictional secret organization containing anomalies; began with SCP-173 on 4chan's /x/ in 2007, moved to Wikidot in 2008, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0.
SCP Venture Fund I, L.P.
SCP Venture Fund I, L.P., formerly Stamos & Johnson Fund I, L.P., is a Menlo Park, California pooled venture capital fund managed by Stamos Capital Partners that has raised about $140 million since 2014.
SCP-173
SCP-173, "The Sculpture" by Moto42, is the first SCP Wiki entry, posted on 4chan's /x/ board on 22 June 2007; a hostile concrete statue that cannot move while observed, it seeded the SCP Foundation collaborative fiction project.
SCP: Secret Laboratory
SCP: Secret Laboratory (SCP:SL), free-to-play multiplayer horror game by Northwood Studios, released 29 Dec 2017 on Steam; round-based SCP Foundation containment breach at Site-02 with six teams, proximity chat, and four round endings.
SCP2 sterol-binding domain
SCP2 sterol-binding domain (IPR003033), a conserved ~13 kDa lipid-binding domain in SCP-2, SCP-x, and bacterial enzymes; α/β fold with hydrophobic channel; binds sterols and fatty acyl-CoAs; insecticidal target.
Scrabble
Scrabble, the Alfred Butts word game (Criss-Cross Words), a 100-tile board game sold by Hasbro (US/Canada) and Mattel elsewhere; 187 total tile points, 50-point bingo, CSW24 lexicon of 279,073 words.
Scrabble letter distributions
Scrabble letter distributions: the per-letter tile counts in Scrabble, set by Alfred Mosher Butts from New York Times letter counts. English sets hold 100 tiles, 12 E's, one Q, four S's, 187 face-value points.
Scram
A scram, also called a reactor trip, is the emergency shutdown of a nuclear reactor in which all control rods are rapidly inserted to stop the fission chain reaction.
Scramblase
Scramblases are ATP-independent membrane proteins that bidirectionally move phospholipids between bilayer leaflets, exposing phosphatidylserine. Key families: TMEM16 (Ca2+-activated, e.g. TMEM16F) and XKR (caspase-activated, e.g. XKR8).
Scramble for Africa
The Scramble for Africa: the 1880–1914 European partition of the continent, Berlin Conference of 1884–85, effective occupation rule, and the colonial empires of Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Portugal, Italy, and Spain.
Scrambled (film)
Scrambled (2024) is Leah McKendrick's directorial debut comedy about Nellie Robinson, a 34-year-old who freezes her eggs; SXSW 2023 premiere, Lionsgate release, 94% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Scrambled eggs
Scrambled eggs (œufs brouillés, huevos revueltos): beaten eggs stirred in a pan until set into soft curds. Cooked to 160°F for safety; styles range from French custardy to American diner curds.
Scrambler therapy
Scrambler therapy, also known as Calmare therapy, is a noninvasive electro-analgesia treatment using skin electrodes to replace pain signals, used mainly for chronic neuropathic and cancer pain.
Scrambling
Scrambling, also called alpine scrambling, is hands-on mountain travel between hiking and rock climbing. Graded UK Grade 1-3 (Ashton system) or YDS Class 2-4; typically unroped, no-fall terrain.
Scrambling time
Scrambling time is the timescale over which a black hole spreads localized quantum information across all its degrees of freedom, concealing it from any small subsystem.
Scramjet
A scramjet (supersonic combustion ramjet) is an airbreathing jet engine that burns fuel in supersonic airflow, pursued since the 1950s for hypersonic flight up to at least Mach 15.