Term: speculation: a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence)
Broader: hypothesis: a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena | Unrelated: van der waal's forces: relatively weak attraction between neutral atoms and molecules arising from polarization induced in each particle by the presence of other particles
Broader: hypothesis: a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena | Unrelated: light time: distance measured in terms of the speed of light (or radio waves)
Broader: hypothesis: a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena | Unrelated: dictaphone: a tape recorder that records and reproduces dictation
Broader: hypothesis: a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena | Unrelated: franchise: a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote)
Broader: hypothesis: a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena | Unrelated: doctor of divinity: a doctor's degree in religion
Broader: hypothesis: a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena | Unrelated: succinic acid: a dicarboxylic acid (C4H6O4) active in metabolic processes
Broader: hypothesis: a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena | Unrelated: pinkroot: a fungal disease of onions
Broader: hypothesis: a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena | Unrelated: machine politician: a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
Broader: hypothesis: a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena | Unrelated: theaceae: a family of trees and shrubs of the order Parietales
Broader: hypothesis: a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena | Unrelated: valvulitis: inflammation of a valve (especially of a cardiac valve as a consequence of rheumatic fever)