the executive and legislative and judicial branches of the federal government of the United States | a master's degree in science |
North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776 | a state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate States during the American Civil War |
| a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers |