Anagrams of: SALUTATORIANS

• a graduating student with the second highest academic rank; may deliver the opening address at graduation exercises

• an orgiastic festival in ancient Rome in honor of Saturn

• a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity

• an advocate of the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms

• a biologist knowledgeable about natural history (especially botany and zoology)

• an act of honor or courteous recognition

• (usually plural) an acknowledgment or expression of good will (especially on meeting)

• word of greeting used to begin a letter

• the process of totally saturating something with a substance

• the act of soaking thoroughly with a liquid

• a condition in which a quantity no longer responds to some external influence

• chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue

• a person trained to travel in a spacecraft

• an act of honor or courteous recognition

• (usually plural) an acknowledgment or expression of good will (especially on meeting)

• word of greeting used to begin a letter

• an advocate of the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms

• a biologist knowledgeable about natural history (especially botany and zoology)