baccalaureate | (noun) an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies | Synonyms: bachelor's degree |
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(noun) a farewell sermon to a graduating class at their commencement ceremonies | - |
bureau | (noun) furniture with drawers for keeping clothes | Synonyms: chest, chest of drawers, dresser |
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(noun) an administrative unit of government | Synonyms: agency, authority, federal agency, government agency, office |
bureaucracy | (noun) nonelective government officials | Synonyms: bureaucratism |
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(noun) a government that is administered primarily by bureaus that are staffed with nonelective officials | - |
(noun) any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape | - |
bureaucrat | (noun) an official of a bureaucracy | Synonyms: administrative official |
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bureaucratism | (noun) nonelective government officials | Synonyms: bureaucracy |
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diethylmalonylurea | (noun) a barbiturate used as a hypnotic | Synonyms: barbital, barbitone, diethylbarbituric acid, veronal |
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epicurean | (noun) a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink) | Synonyms: bon vivant, epicure, foodie, gastronome, gourmet |
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epicureanism | (noun) a doctrine of hedonism that was defended by several ancient Greek philosophers | - |
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laureate | (noun) someone honored for great achievements; figuratively someone crowned with a laurel wreath | - |
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malonylurea | (noun) a white crystalline acid derived from pyrimidine; used in preparing barbiturate drugs | Synonyms: barbituric acid |
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sulfonylurea | (noun) antidiabetic consisting of any of several drugs that reduce the level of glucose in the blood; used to treat diabetes mellitus | - |
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urea | (noun) the chief solid component of mammalian urine; synthesized from ammonia and carbon dioxide and used as fertilizer and in animal feed and in plastics | Synonyms: carbamide |
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urease | (noun) an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of urea into carbon dioxide and ammonia; is present in intestinal bacteria | - |
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