2. a workplace for the conduct of scientific research

3. a branch of knowledge

5. a doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation; the highest degree awarded graduate study

8. one of the highest earned academic degrees conferred by a university

12. the science of matter and energy and their interactions

1. the science that studies living organisms

4. the United States federal department that promotes and administers domestic and foreign trade (including management of the census and the patent office); created in 1913

6. a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement

7. assign a rank or rating to

9. the discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems

10. any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles

11. the procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods