noun:

• liquid cosmetic made from loofah extract

expression / ichidan verb:

• to fish; to have a line in the water

noun:

• reel; spinner

noun:

• stretching out a string; stretching out like a string
• silk reeling; silk spinning; filature; silk reeler; silk spinner ➜ 糸取り
• pulling someone's strings
• appearance of strings from a Buddha's fingertips when being prayed to (folk belief)
• menstruation - euphemism

noun:

• 17C male hairstyle (shaved forehead, chignon, sideburns thinned to the size of a thread)

noun:

• person with an itobin hairstyle ➜ 糸鬢

noun:

• trapezium horse conch (Pleuroploca trapezium)

noun:

• lint (as in a clothes dryer or a pocket); waste thread; fibers, such as might wrap around the gears in small mechanisms and cause them to jam; fluff ➜ 綿ぼこり

noun:

• spinneret (of a spider)

noun:

• Itoigawa-Shizuoka Tectonic Line

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to pull (the puppet) strings; to direct things from behind the scenes
• to stretch out (and keep going); to linger on

noun:

• silk or paper with cotton threads

expression / godan ~ぐ verb:

• to spin into yarn

noun:

• fine line
• weight of thread
• slit-eyed - colloquialism - vulgar

noun:

• thread to make seams conspicuous

noun:

• small pondweed (Potamogeton pusillus)

noun:

• glomerular capsule - obscure term ➜ ボーマン嚢

noun:

• glomerulus

noun:

• silk reeling; silk spinning; filature; silk reeler; silk spinner

noun:

• (musical) strings and bamboo

noun:

• glomerulonephritis

noun:

• groove in a shamisen player's fingernail caused by the friction of the string of the instrument
• someone's ability to play the shamisen

noun:

• thin strips of raw fish and squid

noun:

• filaria; heartworm

noun:

• konnyaku cut into fine threads; konjac noodles - Food term