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Scumbag Steve
Scumbag Steve (Blake Boston) is a 2011 advice-animal meme from a 2006 MySpace photo of a teenager in a fur-collared coat and backwards fitted cap, captioned as an archetype of selfish behavior.
SCUMM
SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion) is a game engine and scripting system developed by Ron Gilbert and Aric Wilmunder at Lucasfilm Games in 1987 for Maniac Mansion.
Scump
Scump (Seth Abner, born 1995), nicknamed The King, is a retired American Call of Duty pro, 2017 world champion with OpTic Gaming, 30 LAN wins, $1.19 million in prizes, now an OpTic streamer.
Scunthorpe
Scunthorpe is the largest town in North Lincolnshire, England (about 80,000 people), an industrial town built on iron and steel since 1864 and home to British Steel's works, the UK's last blast furnaces making virgin steel, nationalized in 2026.
Scunthorpe problem
Scunthorpe problem: false positives in profanity and spam filters that block innocent text containing obscene substrings, named after the 1996 AOL block of Scunthorpe, England residents; mitigated by word-boundary matching, whitelists, and human review.
Scunthorpe United F.C.
Scunthorpe United F.C., "The Iron", English football club founded 1899 in Scunthorpe; 72 EFL seasons 1950-2022, two Championship spells, relegated to National League North 2023, promoted back 2025; plays at the Attis Arena.
Scuppernong
Scuppernong is a bronze-fruited muscadine grape cultivar selected from the wild along North Carolina's Scuppernong River in the 18th century; the first native American grape cultivated, it dominated muscadine growing until 1947.
Scurvy
Scurvy is a disease caused by prolonged vitamin C deficiency, causing bleeding gums, skin hemorrhages, and fatigue; once the scourge of sailors, it is now rare but rising in restricted diets.
Scutellaria
Scutellaria (skullcaps), a cosmopolitan Lamiaceae genus of roughly 360-485 species, defined by the scutellum calyx appendage; medicinal species S. baicalensis, S. barbata, S. lateriflora yield flavonoids baicalein, baicalin, wogonin.
Scutellaria baicalensis
Scutellaria baicalensis (Huangqin, Chinese or Baikal skullcap), a Lamiaceae perennial herb of Siberia to Vietnam; its dried root, rich in baicalin and baicalein, is a major traditional Chinese medicine with limited human clinical evidence.
Scutelleridae
Scutelleridae, jewel bugs or shield bugs, a family of phytophagous true bugs (Pentatomoidea) with an enlarged scutellum covering the abdomen; 400–531 species, Early Cretaceous origin, includes sunn pests (Eurygaster).
Scutellum
Scutellum (synonyms Brontes, Bronteus) is a cosmopolitan scutelluid trilobite genus, Pusch 1833, type species S. costatum, Silurian Rhuddanian to Devonian Famennian, with a flat seven-ribbed pygidium and very short axis.
Scutigera coleoptrata
Scutigera coleoptrata, the house centipede, a Mediterranean-native scutigeromorph centipede now across Europe, Asia, and North America; 15 leg pairs, three dark stripes, fast indoor predator of cockroaches and silverfish, bite like a bee sting.
Scutigerella immaculata
Scutigerella immaculata, the garden symphylan or garden centipede, is a small white soil-dwelling myriapod that feeds on roots and damages more than 100 crop species.
Scutigeromorpha
Scutigeromorpha (house centipedes; synonym Scutigerida) is the basal centipede order, subclass Notostigmophora, with seven dorsal spiracles, hemocyanin blood, compound eyes, 15 leg pairs, and about 100 species in three families.
Scuttling
Scuttling is the deliberate sinking of a ship or boat by its own crew, owner, or government, by opening seacocks, flooding compartments, or cutting holes in the hull.
Scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow
The scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow (der Große Scuttle): on 21 June 1919 Rear Admiral Ludwig von Reuter ordered the interned High Seas Fleet sunk; 52 of 74 ships went down, the largest single loss of warships in history.
Scutum–Centaurus Arm
The Scutum–Centaurus Arm is one of the two major spiral arms of the Milky Way, attached to an end of the central bar and traced by dense young and old stars.
SCVC
SCVC, the trading name of Science Creates Ventures LLP, is a Bristol-based venture capital firm founded in 2020 by Harry Destecroix and Jon Craton that invests in UK deep-tech startups.
Scylax of Caryanda
Scylax of Caryanda (Σκύλαξ ὁ Καρυανδεύς) was a Carian mariner in the service of Darius I who sailed from the Indus River to the Red Sea around 515 BC.
Scylding
Scyldings (Scyldingas, Old Norse Skjoldungar, Danish Skjoldunger): legendary Danish royal dynasty descended from King Skjold/Scyld Scefing, known from Beowulf, the lost Skjoldunga saga, Saxo, and the West Saxon royal genealogy.
Scyliorhinus canicula
Scyliorhinus canicula, the small-spotted catshark or lesser spotted dogfish, a small (to 100 cm) oviparous demersal catshark of the NE Atlantic and Mediterranean; IUCN Least Concern, sold as rock salmon or huss.
Scylla (site)
Scylla is a promontory at Scilla, Calabria, on the Strait of Messina, known in antiquity as Scyllaeum and identified as the home of Homer's monster Scylla.
Scylla (Σκύλλα)
Scylla (Σκύλλα) is a Greek sea monster from mythology. She is known for her twelve dangling feet, six long necks, and her unique status as an undefeated creature.
Scylla Scopulus
Scylla Scopulus is an irregular escarpment (scopulus) in Mars' southern highlands, IAU-named in 1985 for the mythological Scylla; it faces Charybdis Scopulus across a graben about 75 km wide and 1 km deep.
Scylla serrata
Scylla serrata, the giant mud crab or mangrove crab, is a large Indo-West Pacific portunid crab of estuaries and mangroves; one of four Scylla species, it supports valuable fisheries and aquaculture exceeding 230,000 t annually.
Scyphozoa
Scyphozoa (true jellyfish) is a class of phylum Cnidaria, about 200 exclusively marine species with polyp and medusa stages, strobilation, ephyrae, rhopalia, and blooms affecting fisheries and power plants.
Scytalopus
Scytalopus, tapaculos (Rhinocryptidae), a genus of small drab South and Central American birds from Costa Rica to Argentina; species limits set by voice and DNA, rising from 10 to 44+ recognized species.
Scythe
Scythe: two-handed mowing tool with a long, slightly curved blade on a snath, invented about 500 BC; cuts grain three to four times faster than a sickle but needs more skill; Grim Reaper's tool.
Scythe (novel)
Scythe (2016) by Neal Shusterman opens the Arc of a Scythe YA dystopian trilogy: in a deathless world run by the Thunderhead AI, teen apprentices Citra and Rowan train under scythes Faraday, Curie, and Goddard.