Term: ritualism: the study of religious or magical rites and ceremonies
Candidate hypernym: social anthropology: the branch of anthropology that deals with human culture and society → 1
Candidate hypernym: beagle: a small short-legged smooth-coated breed of hound → 0
Candidate hypernym: british thermal unit: a unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit at one atmosphere pressure; equivalent to 251.997 calories → 0
Candidate hypernym: department of health and human services: the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with health and welfare; created in 1979 → 0
Candidate hypernym: vegetable tallow: a waxy fat obtained from certain plants (e.g. bayberry) and used as tallow → 0
Candidate hypernym: otterhound: hardy British hound having long pendulous ears and a thick coarse shaggy coat with an oily undercoat; bred for hunting otters → 0
Candidate hypernym: delusion: a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea → 0
Candidate hypernym: beastliness: unpleasant nastiness; used especially of nasty weather → 0
Candidate hypernym: terra sigillata: earthenware made from the reddish-brown clay found on the Aegean island of Lemnos → 0
Candidate hypernym: fielder: a member of the cricket team that is fielding rather than batting → 0
Candidate hypernym: wreck: a ship that has been destroyed at sea → 0