academicianship

the position of member of an honorary academy ;

academicism

orthodoxy of a scholastic variety ;

academism

orthodoxy of a scholastic variety ;

academy

a learned establishment for the advancement of knowledge ; a school for special training ; a secondary school (usually private) ; an institution for the advancement of art or science or literature ;

academy award

an annual award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for achievements in motion picture production and performance ;

academy of motion picture arts and sciences

an academy that gives annual awards for achievements in motion picture production and performance ;

academy of television arts and sciences

an academy that gives annual awards for outstanding achievements in television ;

acadia

the French-speaking part of the Canadian Maritime Provinces ;

acadia national park

a national park in Maine showing marine erosion and glaciation; includes seashore and also the highest point on the Atlantic coast ;

acadian

an early French settler in the Maritimes ;

acalypha

a genus of herbs and shrubs belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae ;

acalypha virginica

weedy herb of eastern North America ;

acantha

any sharply pointed projection ;

acanthaceae

widely distributed herbs and shrubs and trees; sometimes placed in the order Scrophulariales ;

acanthion

the craniometric point at the anterior extremity of the intermaxillary suture ;

acanthisitta

a genus of Xenicidae ;

acanthisitta chloris

small green-and-bronze bird ;

acanthisittidae

alternative names for the family comprising the New Zealand wrens ;

acanthocephala

phylum or class of elongated wormlike parasites that live in the intestines of vertebrates: spiny-headed worms ;

acanthocephalan

any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines ;

acanthocereus

mostly trailing cacti having nocturnal white flowers; tropical America and Caribbean region ;

acanthocereus pentagonus

cactus of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico having edible juicy fruit ;

acanthocereus tetragonus

cactus of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico having edible juicy fruit ;

acanthocybium

wahoos ;

acanthocybium solandri

large fast-moving predacious food and game fish; found worldwide ;

acanthocyte

an abnormal red blood cell that has thorny projections of protoplasm ;

acanthocytosis

the presence of acanthocytes in the blood stream (as in abetalipoproteinemia) ;

acantholysis

a breakdown of a cell layer in the epidermis (as in pemphigus) ;

acanthoma

a neoplasm originating in the epidermis ;

acanthophis

Australian elapid snakes ;

acanthophis antarcticus

venomous Australian snake resembling an adder ;

acanthopterygian

a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays ;

acanthopterygii

teleost fishes having fins with sharp bony rays ;

acanthoscelides

a genus of Bruchidae ;

acanthoscelides obtectus

larvae live in and feed on growing or stored beans ;

acanthosis

an abnormal but benign thickening of the prickle-cell layer of the skin (as in psoriasis) ;

acanthosis nigricans

a skin disease characterized by dark wartlike patches in the body folds; can be benign or malignant ;

acanthuridae

surgeonfishes ;

acanthurus

type genus of the Acanthuridae: doctorfishes ;

acanthurus chirurgus

surgeon fish of the West Indies ;