Term: department of justice: the United States federal department responsible for enforcing federal laws (including the enforcement of all civil rights legislation); created in 1870
Candidate hypernym: social group: people sharing some social relation → 1
Candidate hypernym: rarity: a rarified quality → 0
Candidate hypernym: court of saint james's: the British royal court → 0
Candidate hypernym: bacteria: (microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important as pathogens and for biochemical properties; taxonomy is difficult; often considered to be plants → 0
Candidate hypernym: bed and breakfast: an overnight boardinghouse with breakfast → 0
Candidate hypernym: assimilation: the state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family → 0
Candidate hypernym: giant reed: large rhizomatous perennial grasses found by riversides and in ditches having jointed stems and large grey-white feathery panicles → 0
Candidate hypernym: bacillus anthracis: a species of bacillus that causes anthrax in humans and in animals (cattle and swine and sheep and rabbits and mice and guinea pigs); can be used a bioweapon → 0
Candidate hypernym: soap dish: a bathroom or kitchen fixture for holding a bar of soap → 0
Candidate hypernym: sequence: serial arrangement in which things follow in logical order or a recurrent pattern → 0
Candidate hypernym: scanner: an electronic device that generates a digital representation of an image for data input to a computer → 0