academic | (noun) an educator who works at a college or university | Synonyms: academician, faculty member |
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academician | (noun) an educator who works at a college or university | Synonyms: academic, faculty member |
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(noun) a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation | Synonyms: schoolman |
(noun) someone elected to honorary membership in an academy | - |
academicianship | (noun) the position of member of an honorary academy | - |
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academicism | (noun) orthodoxy of a scholastic variety | Synonyms: academism, scholasticism |
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(noun) Purely speculative thoughts and attitudes. | - |
(noun) a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art. | Synonyms: academic art, academism |
chemical | (noun) material produced by or used in a reaction involving changes in atoms or molecules | Synonyms: chemical substance |
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endemic | (noun) a plant or animal that is native to a certain limited area | - |
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(noun) a disease that is constantly present to a greater or lesser degree in people of a certain class or in people living in a particular location | Synonyms: endemic disease |
epidemic | (noun) a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time | - |
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hemicrania | (noun) a severe recurring vascular headache; occurs more frequently in women than men | Synonyms: megrim, migraine, sick headache |
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hemicycle | (noun) a plane figure with the shape of half a circle | Synonyms: semicircle |
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morphophonemics | (noun) the study of the phonological realization of the allomorphs of the morphemes of a language | - |
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neurochemical | (noun) any organic substance that occurs in neural activity | - |
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pandemic | (noun) an epidemic that is geographically widespread; occurring throughout a region or even throughout the world | - |
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pemican | (noun) lean dried meat pounded fine and mixed with melted fat; used especially by North American Indians | Synonyms: pemmican |
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petrochemical | (noun) any compound obtained from petroleum or natural gas | - |
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phonemics | (noun) the study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes | Synonyms: phonology |
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phytochemical | (noun) a chemical substance obtained from plants that is biologically active but not nutritive | - |
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polemic | (noun) a controversy (especially over a belief or dogma) | - |
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(noun) a writer who argues in opposition to others (especially in theology) | Synonyms: polemicist, polemist |
polemicist | (noun) a writer who argues in opposition to others (especially in theology) | Synonyms: polemic, polemist |
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polemics | (noun) the branch of Christian theology devoted to the refutation of errors | - |
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proxemics | (noun) the study of spatial distances between individuals in different cultures and situations | - |
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semicentenary | (noun) the 50th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: semicentennial |
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semicentennial | (noun) the 50th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: semicentenary |
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semicircle | (noun) a plane figure with the shape of half a circle | Synonyms: hemicycle |
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semicoke | (noun) Semicoke is a solid residue obtained by carbonization of coal at a relatively low temperature (below 700° C). | - |
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semicolon | (noun) a punctuation mark (;) used to connect independent clauses; indicates a closer relation than does a period | - |
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semicoma | (noun) a mild comatose state; a coma from which the person can be roused by appropriate stimuli | - |
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semiconductor | (noun) a conductor made with semiconducting material | Synonyms: semiconductor device, semiconductor unit |
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(noun) a substance as germanium or silicon whose electrical conductivity is intermediate between that of a metal and an insulator; its conductivity increases with temperature and in the presence of impurities | Synonyms: semiconducting material |
semiconsciousness | (noun) marginal consciousness | Synonyms: grogginess, stupefaction, stupor |
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