Term: eminence grise: (French) a person who exercises power or influence in certain areas without holding an official position
Candidate hypernym: important person: a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events → 1
Candidate hypernym: overhead: a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head → 0
Candidate hypernym: job's tears: hard pearly seeds of an Asiatic grass; often used as beads → 0
Candidate hypernym: quadratic equation: an equation in which the highest power of an unknown quantity is a square → 0
Candidate hypernym: social anthropologist: an anthropologist who studies such cultural phenomena as kinship systems → 0
Candidate hypernym: expansion bit: a bit with a cutting blade that can be adjusted to different sizes → 0
Candidate hypernym: o: the 15th letter of the Roman alphabet → 0
Candidate hypernym: scutigera: a genus of Scutigeridae → 0
Candidate hypernym: rima: a narrow elongated opening or fissure between two symmetrical parts → 0
Candidate hypernym: magnetic declination: the angle (at a particular location) between magnetic north and true north → 0
Candidate hypernym: pellaea: genus of chiefly small rock-loving ferns; in some classification systems it is placed in the family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae → 0