Term: denial: (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts
Candidate hypernym: defense mechanism: (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires → 1
Candidate hypernym: bessemer converter: a refractory-lined furnace used to convert pig iron into steel by the Bessemer process → 0
Candidate hypernym: yellow clintonia: common woodland herb of temperate North America having yellow nodding flowers and small round blue fruits → 0
Candidate hypernym: rice rat: hardy agile rat of grassy marshes of Mexico and the southeastern United States → 0
Candidate hypernym: ischigualastia: early reptile found in Argentina → 0
Candidate hypernym: symbolism: the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning → 0
Candidate hypernym: satin weave: a weave in which the filling and warp threads intersect in such a way as to give a smooth compact surface with no distinguishable twill line → 0
Candidate hypernym: arm: a human limb; technically the part of the superior limb between the shoulder and the elbow but commonly used to refer to the whole superior limb → 0
Candidate hypernym: book: a number of sheets (ticket or stamps etc.) bound together on one edge → 0
Candidate hypernym: saki: small arboreal monkey of tropical South America with long hair and bushy nonprehensile tail → 0
Candidate hypernym: pleading: (law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding → 0