1. conforming with the principles or methods used in science

3. intense aversion

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

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

8. 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

9. a workplace for the conduct of scientific research

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

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

4. a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process

5. a deliberately false or improbable account

10. education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge

12. set up or lay the groundwork for