| Subject | English | Latvian |
| comp., MS | scratch area | fragmentu apgabals (The gray or light-blue area that surrounds a page. You can use it to temporarily hold objects that are not currently on the page) |
| comp., MS | scratch directory | fragmentu direktorijs (A temporary directory used by the operating system or some other program to temporarily store data until the current session is terminated) |
| comp., MS | scratch-out gesture | izsvītrošanas žests (A gesture that erases ink. You perform the gesture by moving the tablet pen from side to side several times, covering the ink that you want to erase, without lifting the pen. When you lift the pen, the ink disappears) |