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Schicklichkeit

(uncountable) Appropriate social behavior.

Schicksal

(countable, archaic) What befalls or happens to a person; their lot or fate.

schicksalhaft

Momentous, significant, setting or sealing one’s fate.

Schicksalsschlag

(countable) An event in one's life that causes sadness.

schicksalsschwer

Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant.

Schiebedach

(automotive) A fixed or operable opening in a vehicle roof (car or truck) which allows fresh air and/or light to enter the passenger compartment. A sunroof may include a transparent or opaque panel and may be manually operated or power driven.

Schiebeflügel

The opening part of a window, usually containing the glass panes; either hinged to the jamb, or sliding up and down as in a sash window. [circa 1680]

schieben

(transitive) To lift or push from behind (one who is endeavoring to climb); to push up.

Schieber

A pan used for urination and defecation while in bed, now usually for reasons of medical necessity or convenience.

Schieberahmen

The opening part of a window, usually containing the glass panes; either hinged to the jamb, or sliding up and down as in a sash window. [circa 1680]

Schieberegler

A device used to raise and lower sound volume.

Schiebung

An act of deception, fraud, trickery, imposture, imposition or infidelity.

Schiedsfrau

A person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them; an arbitrator.

Schiedsmann

A person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them; an arbitrator.

Schiedsrichter

One who adjudicates.

Schiedsrichterin

One who adjudicates.

schiedsrichtern

(sports, intransitive) To act as an umpire in a game.

Schiedsspruch

The act or process of arbitrating.

schief

Sideways; obliquely.

Schiefer

(uncountable, geology) A fine-grained homogeneous sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash which has been metamorphosed so that it cleaves easily into thin layers.

Schieferdecker

One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.

Schiefergestein

(geology) A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.

schiefergrau

Having the bluish-grey/gray colour of slate.

schiefern

(transitive) To throw an object so it bounces on water.

Schieferplatte

(uncountable, geology) A fine-grained homogeneous sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash which has been metamorphosed so that it cleaves easily into thin layers.

Schieferstein

(uncountable, geology) A fine-grained homogeneous sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash which has been metamorphosed so that it cleaves easily into thin layers.

Schiefertafel

(countable) A chalkboard, sheet of slate for writing on with chalk or with a thin rod of slate (a slate pencil) formerly commonly used by both students and teachers in schools.

Schieferton

(geology) A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.

Schieferung

(mineralogy) The tendency of a crystal to split along specific planes; schistosity. [from 19th c.]

schiefgehen

(intransitive, especially, UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, idiomatic) To go awry; to go wrong. [from 1980s]

Schiefzehe

(pathology) A bump or bulge on the first joint of the big toe caused by the swelling of a sac of fluid under the skin.

schielen

(intransitive) To look sideways or obliquely; now especially with sexual desire or malicious intent.

Schienbein

The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone: w:Shinbone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Schienbeinschoner

(historical) A piece of armour that protects the leg, especially the shin, and occasionally the tops of the feet.

Schienbeinschutz

(historical) A piece of armour that protects the leg, especially the shin, and occasionally the tops of the feet.

Schienbeinschützer

(historical) A piece of armour that protects the leg, especially the shin, and occasionally the tops of the feet.

Schiene

That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.

Schienenbus

(rail) A self-propelled railway vehicle for passengers, similar to a bus.

Schienenräumer

(rail transport, principally, _, US) A plough-shaped device affixed to the front of a locomotive (or other large vehicle), usually wedge or V-shaped so as to push or deflect objects on the tracks out of the way, to clear out the train's path and prevent the risk of derailment or major damage to it.

schier

(US, humorous) Without pizza crust; without pizza bones

Schierling

Any of the poisonous umbelliferous plants, of the genera

Schierlingstanne

Any of several coniferous trees, of the genus Tsuga, that grow in North America; the wood of such trees. [from 1670]

schiessen

(intransitive) To move quickly or in an uncontrolled manner.

Schießer

(slang) A firearm.

Schießerei

(countable) an instance of shooting with a gun or other weapon

Schießerin

(slang) A firearm.

Schießkunst

The ability to shoot accurately at a target.

Schießpulver

An explosive mixture of saltpetre (potassium nitrate), charcoal and sulfur; formerly used in gunnery but now mostly used in fireworks.

Schießscharte

A slit, as in a castle wall, through which arrows can be fired.

Schießscheibe

The point intended to be hit, or object intended to be attained or affected.

Schießstand

An area for practicing shooting at targets.

Schifahren

(sports) A group of sports using skis as primary equipment.

Schifahrer

One who skis.

Schifahrerin

One who skis.

Schiff

(architecture) The middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances.

Schiffbauer

A person who builds vessels such as ships and boats.

Schiffbruch

A ship that has sunk or run aground so that it is no longer seaworthy; a ruined vessel or its remains.

schiffbrüchig

(nautical) A shipwrecked sailor.

Schiffbrüchiger

(nautical) A shipwrecked sailor.

Schiffe versenken

A guessing game played on grid paper; see Battleship (game).

Schiffer

(nautical) The master of a ship.

Schifferklavier

A box-shaped musical instrument played by compressing or expanding its bellows while pressing its buttons or its keys, causing pallets to open, which allow air to flow across strips of brass or steel (reeds).

Schifffahrt

(uncountable) Traffic or travel by vessel, especially commercial shipping.

Schiffsboden

(nautical) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.

Schiffschraube

A mechanical device with evenly-shaped blades that turn on a shaft to push against air or water, especially one used to propel an aircraft or boat.

Schiffsgeländer

(especially, nautical) Any rail or device that prevents items from sliding off a table, stove, etc. in rough water.

Schiffshebewerk

(mechanical engineering) A mechanism used for raising and lowering boats on a canal vertically from one water level to another, while keeping them afloat.

Schiffshinterteil

(nautical) The rear part (after end) of a ship or other vessel.

Schiffskapitän

(nautical) The master of a ship.

Schiffskiel

(constellation) A summer constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble the keel of a ship. It contains the star Canopus, the second brightest star in the night sky. Until 1763, it was part of a larger constellation, Argo Navis.

Schiffskoffer

A box or chest usually covered with leather, metal, or cloth, or sometimes made of leather, hide, or metal, for holding or transporting clothes or other goods.

Schiffsraum

(nautical) A hold on a ship (including the forehold and stern hold), used to store cargo during a voyage.

Schiffsrumpf

The middle portion of the hull of a ship or the fuselage of an aircraft.

Schiffsschraube

(nautical) A ship's propeller.

Schiffstagebuch

(nautical) A book in which measurements from the ship's log are recorded, along with other salient details of the voyage.

Schiffswrack

A ship that has sunk or run aground so that it is no longer seaworthy; a ruined vessel or its remains.

Schiffszwieback

(nautical) A large, hard biscuit made from unleavened flour and water; formerly used as a long-term staple food aboard ships.

Schikane

An act of intimidating a person to do something, especially such repeated coercion.

Schikaneur

A person who is intentionally physically or emotionally cruel to others, especially to those whom they perceive as being vulnerable or of less power or privilege. [from late 17th c.]

schikanieren

(transitive) To intimidate (someone) as a bully.

Schild

(constellation) A small autumn constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a shield. It lies between the constellations of Aquila, Sagittarius, and the tail of Serpens.

Schilderbrücke

A framework of steel bars resting on side supports to bridge over or around something.

schildern

To describe or depict with words or gestures.

Schilderung

(countable) A faint sketch; a brief representation, an outline.

Schildfuß

(heraldry) The lowest third of a shield (or field), or an ordinary occupying this space, the champagne. (Compare terrace.)

Schildhalter

(heraldry) An animal or figure that supports a shield in a coat of arms.

Schildhaupt

(sometimes, ironic) An informal term of address.

Schildknappe

(obsolete) A shield-bearer, but also applied to other attendants.

Schildknecht

A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.

Schildkröte

Any of various land-dwelling reptiles, of the family Testudinidae (chiefly, North America) or the order Testudines (chiefly, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, India) , whose body is enclosed in a shell (carapace plus plastron). The animal can withdraw its head and four legs partially into the shell, providing some protection from predators.

Schildwache

A guard, particularly on duty at the entrance to a military base.

Schilf

Phragmites australis, a monoculture reed grass.

Schilfrohr

(countable) The hollow stem of these plants.

Schill

A European freshwater fish in the family Percidae, closely related to the perch, Sander lucioperca.

Schiller

A surname from German.

Schillern in Regenbogenfarben

The condition or state of being iridescent; exhibition of colors like those of the rainbow; a prismatic play of color.

schillernd

(not comparable) Producing a display of lustrous, rainbow-like colors; prismatic.

Schilling

The old currency of Austria, divided into 100 groschen.

Schimäre

(figurative) A foolish, incongruous, or vain thought or product of the imagination.

Schimmel

(plant disease) A growth of minute powdery or webby fungi, whitish or of different colors, found on various diseased or decaying substances.

Schimmer

(countable) An appearance of light, especially one which is indistinct or small, or short-lived.

schimmern

To shine, especially in an indistinct or intermittent manner; to glisten, to glitter.

schimmlig

Covered with mould.

Schimpanse