Term: curtain lecture: a private lecture to a husband by his wife
Candidate hypernym: lecture: a lengthy rebuke → 1
Candidate hypernym: qualification: an attribute that must be met or complied with and that fits a person for something → 0
Candidate hypernym: upland cotton: native tropical American plant now cultivated in the United States yielding short-staple cotton → 0
Candidate hypernym: zymosis: a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol → 0
Candidate hypernym: rule: any one of a systematic body of regulations defining the way of life of members of a religious order → 0
Candidate hypernym: sloppiness: a lack of order and tidiness; not cared for → 0
Candidate hypernym: patent application: an application for sole rights to an invention → 0
Candidate hypernym: orthoptics: treatment of defects of binocular vision (such as strabismus and amblyopia) by nonsurgical measures (especially by exercises to strengthen the eye muscles) → 0
Candidate hypernym: detention home: an institution where juvenile offenders can be held temporarily (usually under the supervision of a juvenile court) → 0
Candidate hypernym: peculiarity: a distinguishing trait → 0
Candidate hypernym: peter pan: a boyish or immature man; after the boy in Barrie's play who never grows up → 0