Term: backscratcher: someone who is willing to trade favors or services for mutual advantage
Candidate hypernym: opportunist: a person who places expediency above principle → 1
Candidate hypernym: outskirts: outlying areas (as of a city or town) → 0
Candidate hypernym: hepaticopsida: liverworts: comprises orders Anthocerotales; Jungermanniales; Marchantiales; Sphaerocarpales → 0
Candidate hypernym: naval equipment: equipment for a navy → 0
Candidate hypernym: introjection: (psychology) unconscious internalization of aspects of the world (especially aspects of persons) within the self in such a way that the internalized representation takes over the psychological functions of the external objects → 0
Candidate hypernym: elves: an acronym for emissions of light and very low frequency perturbations due to electromagnetic pulse sources; extremely bright extremely short (less than a msec) electrical flashes forming a huge ring (up to 400 km diameter) in the ionosphere → 0
Candidate hypernym: bank commissioner: a commissioner appointed to supervise banks; a state superintendent of banks → 0
Candidate hypernym: pressure cooker: autoclave for cooking at temperatures above the boiling point of water → 0
Candidate hypernym: kendall test: any of several nonparametric measures of correlation (used when the assumptions of standard correlational analysis are not met) → 0
Candidate hypernym: bitchery: aggressive remarks and behavior like that of a spiteful malicious woman → 0
Candidate hypernym: oregano: aromatic Eurasian perennial → 0