Term: department of education: the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with education (including federal aid to educational institutions and students); created 1979
Broader: department: a specialized division of a large organization | Unrelated: claustrophobia: a morbid fear of being closed in a confined space
Broader: department: a specialized division of a large organization | Unrelated: swoop: (music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale
Broader: department: a specialized division of a large organization | Unrelated: survey mile: a U.S. unit of measure equal to 1609.347 meters; derived from the use of 39.37 inches as the conversion for one meter
Broader: department: a specialized division of a large organization | Unrelated: parcellation: the division into parcels
Broader: department: a specialized division of a large organization | Unrelated: bismuth: a heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically); usually recovered as a by-product from ores of other metals
Broader: department: a specialized division of a large organization | Unrelated: periodic table: (chemistry) a tabular arrangement of the chemical elements according to atomic number as based on the periodic law
Broader: department: a specialized division of a large organization | Unrelated: poetry: literature in metrical form
Broader: department: a specialized division of a large organization | Unrelated: anatropous ovule: a completely inverted ovule turned back 180 degrees on its stalk
Broader: department: a specialized division of a large organization | Unrelated: scrim: a firm open-weave fabric used for a curtain in the theater
Broader: department: a specialized division of a large organization | Unrelated: chain reaction: a series of chemical reactions in which the product of one is a reactant in the next