| BACKSCATTER | • backscatter n. (Physics) The deflection of particles and/or radiation through angles greater than 90 degrees to the… • backscatter n. The particles and/or radiation deflected in this manner. • backscatter n. (Military) A portion of the energy of electromagnetic radiation such as a laser or radio waves that… |
| BALLICATTER | • ballicatter n. Alternative form of ballicater. • BALLICATTER n. in Newfoundland, ice that forms along a shore from waves and freezing spray. |
| BESCATTERED | • bescattered v. Simple past tense and past participle of bescatter. • BESCATTER v. (archaic) to scatter over. |
| SCATTERABLE | • scatterable adj. Of land mines: designed to be dispersed from a height, as from a helicopter. • SCATTERABLE adj. that can be scattered. |
| SCATTEREDLY | • scatteredly adv. In a scattered manner. • SCATTERED adv. SCATTER, to disperse in all directions. |
| SCATTERGOOD | • scattergood n. One who wastes; a spendthrift. • Scattergood prop.n. A surname. • SCATTERGOOD n. a spendthrift. |
| SCATTERGRAM | • scattergram n. Scatter plot. • SCATTERGRAM n. a scatter diagram, a graph plotting two variables, with axes at right angles to one another. |
| SCATTERGUNS | • scatterguns n. Plural of scattergun. • scatter-guns n. Plural of scatter-gun. • scatter␣guns n. Plural of scatter gun. |
| SCATTERIEST | • SCATTERY adj. dispersed; sparse. |
| SCATTERINGS | • scatterings n. Plural of scattering. • SCATTERING n. dispersion; that which is scattered. |
| SCATTERLING | • scatterling n. (Obsolete) One who has no fixed residence; a vagabond. • SCATTERLING n. (archaic) a vagrant. |
| SCATTERSHOT | • scattershot adj. Covering a broad range in a random and unsystematic way. • SCATTERSHOT adj. random, indiscriminate, wide-ranging, as is shot from a gun. |
| WILDCATTERS | • wildcatters n. Plural of wildcatter. • WILDCATTER n. one that drills wells in the hope of finding oil in territory not known to be an oil field. |