Term: killer: someone who causes the death of a person or animal
Candidate hypernym: person: a human being → 1
Candidate hypernym: socialist: a political advocate of socialism → 0
Candidate hypernym: pezizales: order of mostly saprophytic fungi having cup-shaped ascocarps → 0
Candidate hypernym: scission: the act of dividing by cutting or splitting → 0
Candidate hypernym: lockdown: the act of confining prisoners to their cells (usually to regain control during a riot) → 0
Candidate hypernym: conium: small genus of highly toxic biennials: hemlock → 0
Candidate hypernym: open-hearth furnace: a furnace for making steel in which the steel is placed on a shallow hearth and flames of burning gas and hot air play over it → 0
Candidate hypernym: sphaerocarpus: type genus of Sphaerocarpaceae; liverworts with small many-lobed usually orbicular thallus → 0
Candidate hypernym: white snakeroot: American herb having flat-topped clusters of small white flower heads; reputedly a cause of trembles and milk sickness; sometimes placed in genus Eupatorium → 0
Candidate hypernym: navaho: the Athapaskan language spoken by the Navaho → 0
Candidate hypernym: end: (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage → 0