dry-gulching vs slaying

dry-gulching and slaying both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
dry-gulching	Yes	No	No	No
slaying	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, slaying is a hypernym of dry-gulching; that is, slaying is a word with a broader meaning than dry-gulching:

Other hypernyms of dry-gulching include execution, murder, ambuscade, ambush, lying in wait, trap.

dry-gulching (noun)	slaying (noun)
the act of killing from ambush	unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being