Term: national aeronautics and space administration: an independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight
Candidate hypernym: independent agency: an agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments → 1
Candidate hypernym: plate glass: glass formed into large thin sheets → 0
Candidate hypernym: seborrhea: a condition in which overactivity of the sebaceous glands causes the skin to become oily → 0
Candidate hypernym: mod: a British teenager or young adult in the 1960s; noted for their clothes consciousness and opposition to the rockers → 0
Candidate hypernym: skydiving: performing acrobatics in free fall before pulling the ripcord of a parachute → 0
Candidate hypernym: christianity: a monotheistic system of beliefs and practices based on the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus as embodied in the New Testament and emphasizing the role of Jesus as savior → 0
Candidate hypernym: drawing: the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams → 0
Candidate hypernym: sea snake: any of numerous venomous aquatic viviparous snakes having a fin-like tail; of warm littoral seas; feed on fish which they immobilize with quick-acting venom → 0
Candidate hypernym: cephalometry: measurement of human heads → 0
Candidate hypernym: emergent evolution: the appearance of entirely new properties at certain critical stages in the course of evolution → 0
Candidate hypernym: hypogonadism: incompetence of the gonads (especially in the male with low testosterone); results in deficient development of secondary sex characteristics and (in prepubertal males) a body with long legs and a short trunk → 0