Term: hiss: a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval)
Candidate hypernym: noise: sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound) → 1
Candidate hypernym: bootlegger: someone who makes or sells illegal liquor → 0
Candidate hypernym: haddock: important food fish on both sides of the Atlantic; related to cod but usually smaller → 0
Candidate hypernym: bryales: category used in some classification systems for mosses having the spore case separated from the capsule wall by a hollow intercellular space → 0
Candidate hypernym: gironde: the French moderate political party that was in power (1791-1793) during the French Revolution → 0
Candidate hypernym: law of diminishing returns: a law affirming that to continue after a certain level of performance has been reached will result in a decline in effectiveness → 0
Candidate hypernym: telephone wire: the wire that carries telegraph and telephone signals → 0
Candidate hypernym: spodoptera: moths whose larvae are armyworms → 0
Candidate hypernym: common facial vein: vein formed by union of facial vein and the retromandibular vein and emptying into the jugular vein → 0
Candidate hypernym: herpes simplex: a herpes virus that affects the skin and nervous system → 0
Candidate hypernym: oedogonium: type genus of Oedogoniaceae; freshwater green algae having long unbranched filaments; usually free-floating when mature → 0