Term: albatross: (figurative) something that hinders or handicaps
Broader: hindrance: something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Unrelated: lochia: substance discharged from the vagina (cellular debris and mucus and blood) that gradually decreases in amount during the weeks following childbirth
Broader: hindrance: something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Unrelated: proprionamide: the amide of propionic acid (C2H5CONH2)
Broader: hindrance: something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Unrelated: board of selectmen: a board of officials elected to administer the public business of a New England town
Broader: hindrance: something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Unrelated: countess: female equivalent of a count or earl
Broader: hindrance: something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Unrelated: handball: a small rubber ball used in playing the game of handball
Broader: hindrance: something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Unrelated: kleptomaniac: someone with an irrational urge to steal in the absence of an economic motive
Broader: hindrance: something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Unrelated: ulna: the inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm
Broader: hindrance: something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Unrelated: rivina: small genus of erect perennial shrubby herbs; tropical and subtropical America
Broader: hindrance: something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Unrelated: afterdamp: a toxic mixture of gases (including carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide and nitrogen) after an explosion of firedamp in a mine
Broader: hindrance: something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Unrelated: ceresin: a white wax extracted from ozokerite