Term: trial and error: experimenting until a solution is found
Candidate hypernym: work: activity directed toward making or doing something → 1
Candidate hypernym: privilege of the floor: the right to be admitted onto the floor of a legislative assembly while it is in session → 0
Candidate hypernym: food stamp: a government-issued stamp that can be used in exchange for food → 0
Candidate hypernym: powder keg: keg (usually made of metal) for gunpowder or blasting powder → 0
Candidate hypernym: contrivance: the faculty of contriving; inventive skill → 0
Candidate hypernym: hernaria: low-growing Old World herbs with minute bright green leaves → 0
Candidate hypernym: incense cedar: any of several attractive trees of southwestern South America and New Zealand and New Caledonia having glossy evergreen leaves and scented wood → 0
Candidate hypernym: molter: an animal (especially birds and arthropods and reptiles) that periodically shed their outer layer (feathers or cuticle or skin or hair) → 0
Candidate hypernym: free state: any state prohibiting slavery prior to the American Civil War → 0
Candidate hypernym: mrs: a form of address for a married woman → 0
Candidate hypernym: sand leek: European leek cultivated and used like leeks → 0