Term: semiconductor: 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
Broader: conductor: a substance that readily conducts e.g. electricity and heat | Unrelated: clutch: a tense critical situation
Broader: conductor: a substance that readily conducts e.g. electricity and heat | Unrelated: mourning dove: wild dove of the United States having a mournful call
Broader: conductor: a substance that readily conducts e.g. electricity and heat | Unrelated: good continuation: a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive a line as continuing its established direction
Broader: conductor: a substance that readily conducts e.g. electricity and heat | Unrelated: rope-a-dope: a boxing tactic: pretending to be trapped against the ropes while your opponent wears himself out throwing punches
Broader: conductor: a substance that readily conducts e.g. electricity and heat | Unrelated: trautvetteria: small genus of perennial herbs: false bugbane
Broader: conductor: a substance that readily conducts e.g. electricity and heat | Unrelated: cyprinodontidae: large family of small soft-finned fishes; killifishes; flagfishes; swordtails; guppies
Broader: conductor: a substance that readily conducts e.g. electricity and heat | Unrelated: field sparrow: common North American finch of brushy pasturelands
Broader: conductor: a substance that readily conducts e.g. electricity and heat | Unrelated: clorox: a commercial bleaching agent
Broader: conductor: a substance that readily conducts e.g. electricity and heat | Unrelated: catechism: an elementary book summarizing the principles of a Christian religion; written as questions and answers
Broader: conductor: a substance that readily conducts e.g. electricity and heat | Unrelated: nineties: the decade from 1890 to 1899