chandlery vs taper

chandlery and taper both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
chandlery	Yes	No	No	No
taper	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, taper is a hypernym of chandlery; that is, taper is a word with a broader meaning than chandlery:

Other hypernyms of chandlery include candle, wax light.

chandlery (noun)	taper (noun)
a storeroom where candles are kept	stick of wax with a wick in the middle
candles and other commodities sold by a chandler	a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame
	the property possessed by a shape that narrows toward a point (as a wedge or cone)
	a convex shape that narrows toward a point

chandlery (verb)	taper (verb)
	give a point to
	diminish gradually