Term: albatross: (figurative) something that hinders or handicaps
Candidate hypernym: hindrance: something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress → 1
Candidate hypernym: lochia: substance discharged from the vagina (cellular debris and mucus and blood) that gradually decreases in amount during the weeks following childbirth → 0
Candidate hypernym: proprionamide: the amide of propionic acid (C2H5CONH2) → 0
Candidate hypernym: board of selectmen: a board of officials elected to administer the public business of a New England town → 0
Candidate hypernym: countess: female equivalent of a count or earl → 0
Candidate hypernym: handball: a small rubber ball used in playing the game of handball → 0
Candidate hypernym: kleptomaniac: someone with an irrational urge to steal in the absence of an economic motive → 0
Candidate hypernym: ulna: the inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm → 0
Candidate hypernym: rivina: small genus of erect perennial shrubby herbs; tropical and subtropical America → 0
Candidate hypernym: afterdamp: a toxic mixture of gases (including carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide and nitrogen) after an explosion of firedamp in a mine → 0
Candidate hypernym: ceresin: a white wax extracted from ozokerite → 0