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Word Unit: scrib-, script-, -scribe, -scription, -scriptive + (Latin: write, record).

Related "writing" units: glypto-; gram-; graph-.

Word Unit: Scriptophobia: Personal Testimonies (messages from sufferers of this phobia).

Word Unit: scroful-, scrofulo- + (Latin: breeding sow).

Word Unit: scroto-, scrot- + (Latin: the pouch that holds the testes; a purse; probably a variant of scortum, "a skin, hide"; or of scrautum, "a leather bag for holding arrows"; akin to scrupus, "a sharp stone").

Word Unit: scrut- (Latin: search, investigation).

Word Unit: scut-, scute- (Latin: shield).

Word Unit: se- (Latin: aside, apart from, without, by itself; used as a prefix).

Word Unit: season- (Latin: borrowed from Old French saison, seison, "a sowing, planting", from Latin sationem, "a sowing"; in Vulgar Latin, "time of sowing, seeding time").

Word Unit: sebo-, seb-, sebi- + (Latin: tallow, suet, fat, fatty; grease; by extension, "pertaining to a suetlike secretion of the body").

Related fat-word units: adipo-; lard; lipo-; obeso-; oleo-; omento-; pimelo-; pio-; steato-.

Cross references directly, or indirectly, involving the "skin": callus-; chorio-; cicatri- (scar); cori-; cuti-; hymen-; lepido- (scab, scale); papulo- (pimple); psoro- (itch, mange); pustu- (blister, pimple); rhytid- (wrinkle); scabio- (mange, itchy).

Word Unit: sec-, seg-, -sect, -section, -sectional (Latin: to cut).

Related cutting-word units: castrat-; -cise, -cide; -ectomy; put-; temno-; -tomy; trunc-.

Word Unit: second-, secund-, secundi- (Latin: second, following).

Word Unit: secul- + (Latin: from Old French seculer; from Late Latin sæcularis, worldly, living in the world, not belonging to a religious order; from saecularis, pertaining to a generation or age; from saeculum, saeclum, period of a man's life, generation; period of a hundred years).

Word Unit: sed-, sedat-, -sid, -sess + (Latin: sit, sitting).

Word Unit: Seismic Imaging (advances in seismic-imaging computers are finding more energy sources).

Word Unit: seismo-, seism-, -seism, -seisms, -seisma, -seismically, -seismical, -seismal, -seismic + (Greek: to move back and forth; to shake, to move violently; earthquake).

Related "move, motion" word units: cine-; kine-; mobil-; mot-, mov-; oscillo-; vibro-.

Word Unit: seleno-, selen- + (Greek: moon).

A cross reference of word units that are related, directly or indirectly, to the: "moon": Calendar, Moon Facts; Chemical Element: selenium; Gods and Goddesses; luna, luni-; Luna, the earth moon; menisc-; meno-; Planets in Motion; plano-.

Word Unit: semeio-, sema-, semato-, semat-, semasio-, semio-, -semic, -semia (Greek: signal, signals; sign, signs; mark, marks; symbol, symbols).

Word Unit: semen, semin- (Latin: seed).

Word Unit: semi- (Latin: half, partly, twice; used as a prefix).

Word Unit: semper (Latin: always, ever, at all times, on each occasion).

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