Term: paraffin: from crude petroleum; used for candles and for preservative or waterproof coatings
Candidate hypernym: lipid: an oily organic compound insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents; essential structural component of living cells (along with proteins and carbohydrates) → 1
Candidate hypernym: division: an army unit large enough to sustain combat → 0
Candidate hypernym: textual criticism: comparison of a particular text with related materials in order to establish authenticity → 0
Candidate hypernym: tights: skintight knit hose covering the body from the waist to the feet worn by acrobats and dancers and as stockings by women and girls → 0
Candidate hypernym: front: (meteorology) the atmospheric phenomenon created at the boundary between two different air masses → 0
Candidate hypernym: cartesian coordinate: one of the coordinates in a system of coordinates that locates a point on a plane or in space by its distance from two lines or three planes respectively; the two lines or the intersections of the three planes are the coordinate axes → 0
Candidate hypernym: mescaline: the hallucinatory alkaloid that is the active agent in mescal buttons → 0
Candidate hypernym: nail pulling: a form of torture in which the fingernails or toenails are removed → 0
Candidate hypernym: caryocaraceae: small genus of tropical South American trees → 0
Candidate hypernym: whip-round: (British) solicitation of money usually for a benevolent purpose → 0
Candidate hypernym: sodium carboxymethyl cellulose: a gummy substance that is a sodium salt of carboxymethyl cellulose; used as a thickening or emulsifying agent → 0