Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| abiturient | a pupil leaving school for university. |
| absit | (Lat.) a student's leave to pass one night away from college. |
| academe | the academic life or world. |
| academia | (Lat.) the academic life or world. |
| academic | relating to learning (noun) a college student or teacher |
| academical | related to learning (noun) a college student or teacher |
| academically | (Adv.) ACADEMIC, related to learning. |
| advisorate | the body of advisors appointed by an education authority. |
| aegrotat | (Arch.) an unclassified degree granted a university student prevented by illness from attending the final examinations. |
| agregation | (Fr.) the examination for post of agrege, a French student who has passed a teaching examination. |
| agrege | (Fr.) a French student who has passed a teaching examination. |
| agro | a student of agricultural studies. |
| alternance | alternation, change or variation; training by alternate periods of theoretical and practical work. |
| alumna | (Lat.) a female alumnus. |
| alumnus | (Lat.) an ex-student of a college. |
| artsman | one who studies arts subjects. |
| aspro | (Aust. sl.) an associate professor. |
| autodidact | a self-taught person. |
| autodidactic | self-taught. |
| autodidacticism | the state of being autodidactic. |
| bac | (Short for) baccalaureate. |
| baccalaureate | a set of examinations intended to qualify successful candidates for higher education in any of several countries. |
| booklore | book-learning. |
| bookman | a scholar, a student. |
| boursier | (Fr.) a foundation-scholar; a speculator on the Stock Exchange. |
| chalkface | as in the phrase at the chalkface, i.e. in the classroom, as the centre of a teacher's activities. |
| chautauqua | an outdoor meeting of an educational type popular in the US in the 19C. |
| classman | a person who has gained honours of a certain class at the Oxford examinations (as opposed to passman). |
| classwork | work done in class. |
| coacher | a person who coaches; a coach-horse. |
| coed | a girl student at a coeducational institution. |
| colleger | a member of a college. |
| collegian | a member or inhabitant of a college. |
| collegianer | a member of a college, a student. |
| coursework | work done for an educational course. |
| crammer | a person who or an institution which crams pupils for an examination etc. |
| curricular | relating to a curriculum. |
| curriculum | (Lat.) a program of educational resources etc. |
| dayboy | a boy who attends a boarding school daily but returns home each evening. |
| daygirl | a girl who attends a boarding-school daily but returns home in the evening. |
| demyship | a kind of scholarship at Magdalen College, Oxford. |
| deschool | to free children from the constraints of traditional learning. |
| deschooler | one who deschools, frees children from the constraints of traditional learning. |
| didactic | designed or intended to teach. |
| didactical | designed or intended to teach. |
| didactically | (Adv.) DIDACTICAL, designed or intended to teach. |
| didactics | the art or science of teaching. |
| didascalic | didactic; pertaining to education or teaching. |
| diplomate | someone who holds a diploma; (verb, obs.) to invest with a degree or title by diploma. |
| disciple | a follower; (verb, Spenser) to make a disciple of. |
| discipular | like a disciple. |
| docent | (Ger.) a college or university teacher or lecturer; a person who leads guided tours esp through a museum or art gallery. |
| docentship | the office of docent. |
| docible | (Obs.) easily taught. |
| doctoral | of or pertaining to (the holder of) a doctorate. |
| doctorand | a candidate for a doctorate. |
| doctorate | the academic degree of doctor; (verb) to take a doctorate. |
| doctorial | of or pertaining to (the holder of) a doctorate. |
| doctorship | a doctorate. |
| dominie | a schoolmaster, a tutor. |
| donnish | like a don. |
| donnishly | (Adv.) DONNISH, like a don. |
| donnishness | the state of being donnish. |
| educable | able to be educated; (noun) someone able to be educated. |
| educatable | that can be educated. |
| educate | to teach. |
| education | bringing up or training esp of a child. |
| educationalist | a person skilled in methods of educating or teaching. |
| educative | relating to education. |
| educator | one who educates. |
| educatory | relating to education. |
| elhi | (US) pertaining to school grades 1 to 12. No -S. |
| examinee | one who is examined. |
| exhibitioner | a university student who has been awarded an exhibition at a university. |
| expiscate | to learn through laborious investigation; literally, to fish out. |
| expiscation | the act of expiscating. |
| expiscatory | serving to expiscate. |
| extramural | outside the walls or fortifications; outside, but under the aegis of eg a university. |
| extramurally | (Adv.) EXTRAMURAL, outside, but under the aegis of eg a university. |
| flunk | to fail (an exam). |
| foreteach | to teach beforehand. |
| freshmanship | the state of being a freshman. |
| governess | a woman entrusted with the care and education of a child or children (verb) to act as a governess |
| governessy | like a governess. |
| gownboy | a school foundationer (as of Charterhouse) wearing a gown. |
| graduand | one who is about to graduate. |
| graduateship | the state of being a graduate. |
| grantsman | a specialist in grantsmanship, the art of obtaining grants for research. |
| gymnasiarch | the head of a gymnasium. |
| gymnasiast | a pupil in a gymnasium. |
| gymnasic | relating to a gymnasium. |
| headmaster | a man heading the staff of a school. |
| headmasterly | like a headmaster. |
| headmastership | the office of headmaster. |
| headmistress | a woman heading the staff of a private school. |
| hebdomadar | in Scottish universities, a senior member appointed weekly for the supervision of student discipline. |
| hebdomader | in Scottish universities, a senior member appointed weekly for the supervision of student discipline. |
| homeschool | to teach school subjects to one's children at home. |
| homeschooler | one that homeschools. |
| honorand | a person receiving an honour, esp an honorary degree. |
| hornbook | an ancient child's schoolbook comprising alphabet, digits, etc. on parchment covered with sheet of horn. |
| housemaster | a master in charge of a house in a boy's boarding school. |
| housemistress | the female head of a (boarding-)house, esp in connection with a public school. |
| indocile | not docile. |
| indocility | the quality of being indocile. |
| instruct | to supply with knowledge. |
| juniorate | a course of high school or college study for candidates for the priesthood. |
| keyworker | a worker such as a teacher or health worker. |
| kinder | (Short for) a kindergarten, a nursery school. |
| kindergartener | a teacher at a kindergarten. |
| kindergartner | a teacher at a kindergarten. |
| lare | lore; learning. |
| larn | (Dial.) to learn. |
| lear | (Scots) to teach. |
| leare | (Scots) to teach. |
| learn | to gain knowledge by experience, instruction, or study. |
| learnable | such as can be learned. |
| learned | having learning; knowledgeable. |
| learnedly | (Adv.) LEARNED, having learning; knowledgeable. |
| learnedness | the state of being learned. |
| learner | one that learns. |
| lecturer | one that lectures. |
| lectureship | the office of lecturer. |
| lehrjahre | (Ger.) an apprenticeship. No -S. |
| leir | (Scots) to teach. |
| lere | (Scots) to teach. |
| lesson | a teaching; (verb, arch.) to teach a lesson to. |
| loring | (Spenser) learning. |
| lowerclassman | a freshman or sophomore. |
| magisterial | in the manner of a teacher or magistrate. |
| magisterially | (Adv.) MAGISTERIAL, in the manner of a teacher or magistrate. |
| magistrand | a university student in fourth year. |
| malam | (Hausa) a man learned in Koranic studies, used as title. |
| mallam | (Hausa) an African scribe or teacher. |
| masterate | the status or dignity of a person holding a master's degree. |
| matric | (Short for) matriculation. |
| matriculant | one who is matriculating. |
| matriculator | one who matriculates. |
| middler | one of a middle or intermediate class in some schools and seminaries. |
| minor | lesser, inferior; (verb) to study a subject as a minor. |
| miseducate | to educate in a wrong manner. |
| miseducation | wrong or faulty education. |
| mwalimu | (Swahili) a teacher. |
| nightclass | a class at night school. |
| niner | a student in the ninth grade. |
| nonacademic | not academic; (noun) one who is not academic. |
| nondegree | of a course of study, that does not lead to a degree. |
| nongraduate | one who is not a graduate. |
| nonmajor | a student who is not majoring in a specific subject. |
| nonschool | not related to school. |
| nonteaching | that do not teach, eg members of staff. |
| ologist | one who studies an ology. |
| ology | a science whose name ends in -ology. |
| opsimath | one who learns late in life. |
| opsimathy | education late in life. |
| optional | not compulsory (noun) an elective course of study |
| optionally | (Adv.) OPTIONAL, not compulsory. |
| oralism | the use of oral methods of teaching the deaf. |
| oralist | one who practises oralism, the use of oral methods of teaching the deaf. |
| outpupil | a student sent to a different school from the one he or she would normally attend. |
| outstudy | to surpass in study. |
| overlearn | to continue to study or practice after attaining proficiency. |
| overstudy | to study to excess. |
| paedagogic | like a paedagogue. |
| paedagogue | one who teaches; by extension, a pedant. |
| paedeutic | relating to educational method or theory. |
| paedeutics | educational method or theory. |
| paedotribe | in ancient Greece, a gymnastic teacher. |
| paideutic | relating to paideutics, the science or art of teaching. |
| paideutics | educational method or theory. |
| pedagog | one who teaches; by extension, a pedant. |
| pedagogic | like a pedagogue. |
| pedagogics | the science and principles of teaching. |
| pedagogism | the spirit or system of pedagogues. |
| pedagogue | one who teaches; by extension, a pedant; (verb) to teach. |
| pedagoguery | schoolmastering, teaching. |
| pedagoguish | in the manner of a pedagogue. |
| pedagoguishness | the state of being pedagoguish. |
| pedagogy | the art or science of teaching. |
| pennal | (Ger.) a freshman at a German university. |
| pennalism | a system of fagging in use at a German university. |
| pettily | (Adv.) PETTY, small-minded. |
| petty | small-minded (noun) a junior schoolboy |
| physed | (Short for) physical education. |
| pindown | a technique for controlling disruptive children in institutions. |
| playleader | one who organises play. |
| pollman | at Cambridge, a student with a pass degree. |
| polymathy | the knowledge of many arts and sciences. |
| portionist | a postmaster of Merton College; one of two or more incumbents sharing a benefice. |
| postdoc | one engaged in postdoctoral study. |
| postgrad | (Short for) a postgraduate. |
| postgraduate | a student continuing formal education after graduation from high school or college. |
| posttest | a test given after a course of instruction. |
| practicum | (Lat.) a course of practical work undertaken to implement academic studies. |
| praelect | to lecture. |
| praepostor | (Lat.) the name used for a prefect in some English public schools. |
| preceptor | a teacher. |
| preceptoral | like a preceptor. |
| preceptorship | the office of preceptor. |
| preceptress | a female preceptor. |
| prelector | a reader of lectures or discourses. |
| prelim | a preliminary or entrance examination. |
| prepositor | (Lat.) the name used for a prefect in some English public schools. |
| prepostor | (Lat.) the name used for a prefect in some English public schools. |
| preppie | one who preps, attends a preparatory school. |
| principal | chief (noun) the head of a college or university |
| principalship | the office of principal. |
| privatdocent | in German universities, a recognized teacher who is not a member of the salaried staff. |
| privatdozent | in German universities, a recognized teacher who is not a member of the salaried staff. |
| prof | (Short for) professor. |
| professor | a university or college teacher of the highest grade. |
| professoress | a female professor. |
| professoriat | the body of college and university teachers at an institution or in society. |
| professoriate | the body of college and university teachers at an institution or in society. |
| professorship | the office of professor. |
| promotor | a person who presents candidates for graduation at a Scottish universities. |
| proproctor | a assistant proctor. |
| prorector | an officer who presides over the academic senate of a German university. |
| proseminar | a course of study like a graduate seminar but often open to advanced students. |
| provost | the head of certain universities and colleges. |
| provostry | the office of provost, the head of certain universities and colleges. |
| pupilage | the state of being a pupil or under age. |
| pupilary | relating to a pupil or ward. |
| pupillage | the state of being a pupil or under age. |
| pupillary | relating to a pupil or ward. |
| pupilship | the state of being a pupil. |
| readership | the office or position of a reader. |
| realia | (Lat.) real things; objects used as teaching aids to relate classroom work to real life. |
| reeducate | to educate again. |
| regius | (Lat.) royal, as in regius professor, one holding a professorship founded by royalty. |
| reteach | to teach again. |
| rushee | a college student seeking admission to a fraternity or sorority. |
| scholar | a learned person. |
| scholarch | the head of a school. |
| scholarly | learned, like a scholar. |
| schoolboy | a boy who attends school. |
| schoolboyish | of or like a schoolboy. |
| schoolchild | a child attending school. |
| schooler | a student attending a school of the specified kind or being educated in the specified way. |
| schoolery | (Arch.) something taught; precepts. |
| schoolgirl | a girl attending school. |
| schoolie | (Aust. sl.) a schoolteacher or high-school student. |
| schoolkid | a child who attends school. |
| schoolmaid | a schoolgirl. |
| schoolman | a philosopher or theologian of medieval scholasticism. |
| schoolmarm | a woman who is a schoolteacher esp in a rural or smalltown school. |
| schoolmarmish | like a schoolmarm, prim, severe. |
| schoolmaster | a male schoolteacher or head of a school (verb) to act as a schoolmaster to |
| schoolmasterish | like a schoolmaster. |
| schoolmasterly | like a schoolmaster. |
| schoolmistress | a female schoolmaster. |
| schoolmistressy | like a schoolmistress, prim. |
| schoolteacher | one who teaches school. |
| schoolteaching | teaching as a profession. |
| schoolwork | lessons done in class or assigned to be done at home. |
| sciential | relating to or producing knowledge or science. |
| sciolism | (Lat.) a superficial show of learning. |
| sciolistic | of or pertaining to sciolism. |
| scouter | an adult working with instructors etc. in the Scout Association. |
| semie | at Scottish universities, a second-year student. |
| seminar | (Lat.) a conference of specialists; a short intensive course of study on a specified topic. |
| sizar | a student at Cambridge and Dublin, who, having passed a certain examination, is exempted from paying college fees and charges. |
| sizarship | the position or standing of a sizar. |
| sizer | a student at Cambridge and Dublin, who, having passed a certain examination, is exempted from paying college fees and charges. |
| sloid | (Swedish) a Swedish system of manual training by woodwork. |
| slojd | (Swedish) a Swedish system of manual training by woodwork. |
| sloyd | (Swedish) a Swedish system of manual training by woodwork. |
| soph | (Short for) a sophomore, one belonging to the second of the four classes in an American college. |
| sophomore | a second year student in an American college. |
| student | a person formally engaged in learning. |
| studentry | a body of students. |
| studentship | a grant for university study. |
| studenty | like or in the manner of a student. |
| studier | one who studies. |
| subdeanery | the office or rank of subdean. |
| subprincipal | an assistant principal, as of a school. |
| superteacher | an exceptional teacher. |
| surmaster | (Arch.) the second master or deputy head in a school. |
| surmistress | a female surmaster, the second master or deputy head in a school. |
| syllabus | (Lat.) a prescribed course of study. |
| symposiac | pertaining to a symposium, a conference; (noun) a symposium. |
| symposial | pertaining to a symposium, a conference. |
| symposium | (Lat.) a conference; a collection of views on one topic. |
| taberdar | a scholar of Queen's College, Oxford, named for the gown they wore. |
| taught | (PaP.) TEACH, to impart knowledge or skill to. |
| teach | to impart knowledge or skill to. |
| teachability | the quality of being teachable. |
| teachable | capable of being taught. |
| teachableness | the state of being teachable. |
| teachably | (Adv.) TEACHABLE, capable of being taught. |
| teacher | one that teaches. |
| teacherless | without a teacher. |
| teacherly | like a teacher. |
| teachership | the office of teacher. |
| teachless | not teachable. |
| technics | the doctrine of arts in general; such branches of learning as respect the arts. |
| tenurable | of a university post, giving tenure. |
| testamur | (Lat.) a certificate of having passed an examination. |
| thematics | a body of subjects or topics of discussion or study. |
| tosher | (Coll.) a non-collegiate student. |
| trayne | (Spenser) to train, to undergo instruction. |
| tripos | (Greek) a final honors examination at Cambridge university, orig in Mathematics. |
| truancy | an act of truanting. |
| tuition | a fee for instruction. |
| tuitional | relating to tuition. |
| tuitionary | of or pertaining to tuition. |
| tutee | a person who is tutored. |
| tutelage | the state of being under a guardian or tutor. |
| tutor | a college officer who has supervision of an undergraduate; (verb) to instruct. |
| tutorage | the office or occupation of a tutor. |
| tutoress | (Arch.) a female tutor. |
| tutorial | relating to a tutor (noun) a session with a tutor |
| tutorially | (Adv.) TUTORIAL, relating to a tutor. |
| tutorise | to teach, instruct. |
| tutorism | tutorship. |
| tutorize | to teach, instruct. |
| tutorship | the position of tutor. |
| tutress | (Arch.) a female tutor. |
| tutrix | (Obs.) a female tutor. |
| undergrad | an undergraduate. |
| undergraduette | a female undergraduate. |
| unscholarlike | not like a scholar. |
| untaught | (PaP.) UNTEACH, to undo the teaching of. |
| unteach | to undo the teaching of. |
| untutored | not tutored. |
| uptrain | (Obs.) to train up, educate. |
| varsity | (Coll.) university. |