Term: bill of attainder: a legislative act finding a person guilty of treason or felony without a trial
Candidate hypernym: bill: a statute in draft before it becomes law → 1
Candidate hypernym: cert: an absolute certainty → 0
Candidate hypernym: hydraulic press: press in which a force applied by a piston to a small area is transmitted through water to another piston having a large area → 0
Candidate hypernym: boom: a state of economic prosperity → 0
Candidate hypernym: camelidae: camels and llamas and vicunas → 0
Candidate hypernym: time constant: (electronics) the time required for the current or voltage in a circuit to rise or fall exponentially through approximately 63 per cent of its amplitude → 0
Candidate hypernym: chip: the act of chipping something → 0
Candidate hypernym: wonder: something that causes feelings of wonder → 0
Candidate hypernym: copra: the dried meat of the coconut from which oil is extracted → 0
Candidate hypernym: debit side: account of payments owed; usually the left side of a financial statement → 0
Candidate hypernym: jet: atmospheric discharges (lasting 10 msec) bursting from the tops of giant storm clouds in blue cones that widen as they flash upward → 0