The word found after unscrambling degree means that a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality, a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process, an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study, a measure for arcs and angles, the highest power of a term or variable, a unit of temperature on a specified scale, the seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime), .