Term: retardant: any agent that retards or delays or hinders
Candidate hypernym: agent: an active and efficient cause; capable of producing a certain effect → 1
Candidate hypernym: aphorism: a short pithy instructive saying → 0
Candidate hypernym: megalomaniac: a pathological egotist → 0
Candidate hypernym: clawback: finding a way to take money back from people that they were given in another way → 0
Candidate hypernym: leftovers: food remaining from a previous meal → 0
Candidate hypernym: arm: a human limb; technically the part of the superior limb between the shoulder and the elbow but commonly used to refer to the whole superior limb → 0
Candidate hypernym: basalt: the commonest type of solidified lava; a dense dark grey fine-grained igneous rock that is composed chiefly of plagioclase feldspar and pyroxene → 0
Candidate hypernym: buttocks: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on → 0
Candidate hypernym: missionary: someone who attempts to convert others to a particular doctrine or program → 0
Candidate hypernym: primacy: the state of being first in importance → 0
Candidate hypernym: hydrobatidae: storm petrels → 0