bloodshed vs slaughter

bloodshed and slaughter both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
bloodshed	Yes	No	No	No
slaughter	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, slaughter is a hypernym of bloodshed; that is, slaughter is a word with a broader meaning than bloodshed:

Other hypernyms of bloodshed include butchery, carnage, mass murder, massacre.

bloodshed (noun)	slaughter (noun)
indiscriminate slaughter	the killing of animals (as for food)
the shedding of blood resulting in murder	the savage and excessive killing of many people
	a sound defeat

bloodshed (verb)	slaughter (verb)
	kill a large number of people indiscriminately
	kill (animals) usually for food consumption