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Chemistry

water activity

selling one's personal effects in order to live (like peeling the layers of a bamboo shoot one by one)

life free from worldly cares

Grammar

classical form of adjectival noun inflection formed by contraction of the particle "to" with the classical verb "ari" ("aru")

matchmaking party; matchmaking event

government-recommended lifestyle adjustments for the long daylight hours during summertime

to print (on a press)

developing a way or means

national life; civic life

hermit life

inactive window

stage career

activated sludge

cell activities (esp. by a left-wing party)

igneous activity

activated alumina

activation energy

parasite

Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering; FATF

antismoking activist

merger activity

international peace activity

paramedic

finding a way out of a potentially fatal situation; seeking a way out of a desperate situation