Term: speculation: a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence)
Candidate hypernym: hypothesis: a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena → 1
Candidate hypernym: van der waal's forces: relatively weak attraction between neutral atoms and molecules arising from polarization induced in each particle by the presence of other particles → 0
Candidate hypernym: light time: distance measured in terms of the speed of light (or radio waves) → 0
Candidate hypernym: dictaphone: a tape recorder that records and reproduces dictation → 0
Candidate hypernym: franchise: a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote) → 0
Candidate hypernym: doctor of divinity: a doctor's degree in religion → 0
Candidate hypernym: succinic acid: a dicarboxylic acid (C4H6O4) active in metabolic processes → 0
Candidate hypernym: pinkroot: a fungal disease of onions → 0
Candidate hypernym: machine politician: a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends → 0
Candidate hypernym: theaceae: a family of trees and shrubs of the order Parietales → 0
Candidate hypernym: valvulitis: inflammation of a valve (especially of a cardiac valve as a consequence of rheumatic fever) → 0