acrylonitrile vs cyanide

acrylonitrile and cyanide both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
acrylonitrile	Yes	No	No	No
cyanide	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, cyanide is a hypernym of acrylonitrile; that is, cyanide is a word with a broader meaning than acrylonitrile:

acrylonitrile: a colorless liquid unsaturated nitrile made from propene
cyanide: any of a class of organic compounds containing the cyano radical -CN

Other hypernyms of acrylonitrile include nitril, nitrile.

acrylonitrile (noun)	cyanide (noun)
a colorless liquid unsaturated nitrile made from propene	an extremely poisonous salt of hydrocyanic acid
	any of a class of organic compounds containing the cyano radical -CN