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escapulario: scapular (a short cloak, now often with an embroidered image of a saint); scapular (a devotional object); scapular, scapulary
escapulocoracoide: scapulocoracoid
escaque: a tile of a board to play chess or checkers; chess
escaquea: only used in se escaquea, third-person singular present indicative of escaquearse
escaquear: only used in se ... escaquear, syntactic variant of escaquearse
escaquearse: to sneak out, slip away, slip out; to squirm (to evade a question, an interviewer etc); to skive
escaquee: only used in me escaquee, first-person singular present subjunctive of escaquearse
escaqueemos: only used in nos escaqueemos, first-person plural present subjunctive of escaquearse
escaqueen: only used in se escaqueen, third-person plural present subjunctive of escaquearse
escaques: plural of escaque; chess
escaqueá: only used in te ... escaqueá, syntactic variant of escaqueate, second-person singular voseo imperative of escaquearse
escara: scab; bedsore
escarabajear: to flit around; faff about; to doodle; scribble; to tickle; to have pins and needles; to worry; to bug; to squirm
escarabajo: beetle; Volkswagen Beetle
escarabajo de la patata: potato beetle
escarabajo pelotero: dung beetle
escarabajo rinoceronte: rhinoceros beetle
escarabajo sanjuanero: common cockchafer
escarabeo: scarab (artefact)
escaramujo: rosehip
escaramuza: skirmish (a brief battle between small groups)
escaramuzador: skirmisher
escaramuzar: to skirmish
escarapela: cockade; rosette
escarapelar: to have one's hair stand on end; to get goosebumps; to peel off; to come off; to bicker; to have a cat fight
escarbadientes: toothpick
escarbador: scraper
escarbador: scraping
escarbar: to paw, scratch, scrape, dig (the ground); to clean, pick (one's teeth, ears, nose); to poke (a fire); to dig about; poke about
escarcela: a type of pouch; a hunter's netted bag or sack; thighplate
escarceo: hook up, rambling, love affair
escarcha: frost; hoarfrost, rime
escarchar: to frost
escarda: weeding; small garden hoe
escardar: to weed; to weed out
escardilla: hoe
escardillo: small hoe
escarfe: scarf
escariador: reamer
escariar: to ream
escarificación: scarification
escarificador: harrow, scarifier
escarificar: to harrow
escarioso: scarious
escarlata: scarlet (color)
escarlata: scarlet (color)
escarlatina: scarlet fever
escarmenar: to comb (wool); to punish
escarmentar: to punish severely, reprimand, rebuke; to learn a lesson
escarmiento: punishment; warning, lesson
escarnecedor: derisive (expressing or characterized by derision; mocking)
escarnecer: to mock; to deride; to laugh at
escarnio: jibe, taunt
escarola: endive; any of various wild plants of the genus Lactuca
escarpa: escarpment; sidewalk
escarpado: steep; craggy
escarpadura: escarpment
escarpar: to escarp
escarpe: A sabaton, a piece of medieval armour that covers the foot.
escarpelo: scalpellum