academe /a-kə-dēmˈ or akˈə-dēm/ (formal or literary)

1. The world of scholars
2. Academic life
3. An academic, esp if pedantic
4. An academy (poetic)

• drearinesses
• drearing
• drearings
• drearisome
• dreary
• dreck
• dreckier
• dreckiest
• drecks
• drecky
• dredge
• dredge-box
• dredged
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• dredgers
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• dredge up
• dredging
• dredging-box
• dree
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• dreeing
• dree one's weird
• drees
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