Term: defective pleading: any pleading that fails to conform in form or substance to minimum standards of accuracy or sufficiency
Candidate hypernym: pleading: (law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding → 1
Candidate hypernym: figure of merit: a numerical expression representing the efficiency of a given system, material, or procedure → 0
Candidate hypernym: shaker: a container in which something can be shaken → 0
Candidate hypernym: quango: a quasi nongovernmental organization; an organization that is financed by the government yet acts independently of the government → 0
Candidate hypernym: usufructuary: someone who holds property by usufruct → 0
Candidate hypernym: skin cell: any of the cells making up the skin → 0
Candidate hypernym: bessemer process: an industrial process for making steel using a Bessemer converter to blast air through molten iron and thus burning the excess carbon and impurities; the first successful method of making steel in quantity at low cost → 0
Candidate hypernym: signalization: a conspicuous indication → 0
Candidate hypernym: calycanthus: a magnoliid dicot genus of the family Calycanthaceae including: allspice → 0
Candidate hypernym: almandine: a purple variety of the ruby spinel → 0
Candidate hypernym: escheat: a reversion to the state (as the ultimate owner of property) in the absence of legal heirs → 0