noun:

• fire truck (specifically one equipped with a pump); pumper

noun:

• bell-ringing (at a temple)

noun / ~の noun:

• initiative taken by politicians (in the formulation of a policy or bill) (rather than by bureaucrats) - four character idiom

noun:

• waste-water port (of a dam, sewer, etc.); freeing port (on a ship)
• water hose outlet (for firefighting)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to go wherever one has to go (to get a matter settled, e.g. the court)

noun:

• (the many peaks of a) mountain range

noun:

• vault (a poetic term for clear skies)
• dome

noun:

• stinger (of a bee, etc.)
• needle covered with poison - only どくばり

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be cut out for (e.g. a job); to be suited (to)

noun:

• confection of sweetened beans wrapped in wheat-flour dough (in the shape of a sword guard) - abbreviation ➜ 金鍔焼き
• metal sword guard; polearm - archaism

noun:

• halter (for restraining a horse, etc.) - archaism

expression / noun:

• being outnumbered (e.g. in a military context)

expression:

• people may bring about their demise for love (like a deer coming forth when it hears a hunter's whistle in mating season); it is easy to have one's weak points taken advantage of - obscure term

noun:

• thin green spring onion shoots (esp. minced as a condiment) - Food term

noun:

• distribution (e.g. of products to a retailer)

noun:

• darling (only of a woman); dear; honey; my betrothed - archaism - familiar language
• one's sister - archaism
• friend - archaism - familiar language - female language

noun:

• gravity well (e.g. of a planet) - Astronomy term

noun:

• concert band (as a school activity); wind ensemble

noun / ~する noun:

• being lowered (of a fever) ➜ 解熱

noun:

• Dodompa (a rumba-like Japanese musical genre popular in the 1960s)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to lift (a person) in one's arms; to help (a person) sit up

noun:

• local card game (usu. a local version of hanafuda or kabufuda) ➜ 花札【はなふだ】・株札【かぶふだ】

noun / ~する noun:

• friend request (e.g. on a social network)

noun:

• burglary (carried out while a house is temporarily vacated)

godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:

• to break on the shore and retreat (of a wave)