slaughter vs murder

slaughter and murder both are nouns.

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

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

Other hypernyms of slaughter include execution, slaying.

slaughter (noun)	murder (noun)
the killing of animals (as for food)	unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being
the savage and excessive killing of many people
a sound defeat

slaughter (verb)	murder (verb)
kill a large number of people indiscriminately	alter so as to make unrecognizable
kill (animals) usually for food consumption	kill intentionally and with premeditation