Term: cryptography: act of writing in code or cipher
Candidate hypernym: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples → 1
Candidate hypernym: quicksand: a pit filled with loose wet sand into which objects are sucked down → 0
Candidate hypernym: stymie: a situation in golf where an opponent's ball blocks the line between your ball and the hole → 0
Candidate hypernym: glass: glassware collectively → 0
Candidate hypernym: cathaya: Chinese evergreen conifer discovered in 1955; not yet cultivated elsewhere → 0
Candidate hypernym: security system: (computing) a system that enforces boundaries between computer networks → 0
Candidate hypernym: restrainer: a chemical that is added to a photographic developer in order to retard development and reduce the amount of fog on a film → 0
Candidate hypernym: elver: young eel → 0
Candidate hypernym: exogenous depression: an inappropriate state of depression that is precipitated by events in the person's life (to be distinguished from normal grief) → 0
Candidate hypernym: salinometer: a hydrometer that determines the concentration of salt solutions by measuring their density → 0
Candidate hypernym: sawdust: fine particles of wood made by sawing wood → 0