times vs time period

times and time period both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
times	Yes	No	No	No
time period	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, time period is a hypernym of times; that is, time period is a word with a broader meaning than times:

Other hypernyms of times include period, period of time.

times (noun)	time period (noun)
an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of division; the product of two numbers is computed	an amount of time
a more or less definite period of time now or previously present