noun:

• general election (of all members of a local government body) ➜ 地方公共団体

noun:

• promotional model (e.g. at a trade show); booth babe - abbreviation ➜ イベントコンパニオン

noun:

• taste (of a liquid, esp. alcoholic beverages) - usu. のみくち
• someone who enjoys alcohol
• place one's lips touch on the rim of a cup
• shape of one's mouth when drinking
• tap; faucet; spigot - usu. のみぐち

noun:

• withdrawal of loan credit (e.g. by a bank); retraction of credit; insistence on repayment

expression / ~くる verb (spec.):

• to get (a joke or explanation); to strike home; to click; to know intuitively ➜ ピンと

~の noun:

• (a) few; some; several

noun:

• register book (for a ship)

noun:

• (at a) snail's pace; inch by (painful) inch - often adverbially as ～に... - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• switching or shunting (of a rail car)

noun:

• front (of a piece of traditional Japanese clothing)

noun / ~する noun:

• (engaging in a round of) mutual criticism; repeated attacks on each other - four character idiom

noun:

• Heian-period boarding school (for children of a specific noble clan) established near the former central university of Kyoto ➜ 大学寮・七大私学

noun / ~する noun:

• skimming (a book, etc.)

noun:

• third string (of a shamisen, etc.)

noun:

• woman's hairstyle (Edo period) (made popular by a Yoshiwara prostitute called Katsuyama)

noun:

• back (of a chair)

noun:

• violent scene (in a movie, etc.)

noun:

• halation (i.e. in photography, a halo-effect when additional light leaks out around the subject)

noun:

• pivot (of a folding fan)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to water (a plant, a flower etc.)

pre-noun adjectival:

• such (about something or someone distant from both speaker and listener, or about a situation unfamiliar to both speaker and listener); so; that; sort of - Hiroshima dialect ➜ あんな

noun:

• one's wife (when speaking with a close friend)
• your wife (when speaking with a junior)

godan ~す verb:

• to be into something (e.g. a hobby)

noun:

• index fossil (fossil which suggests a date of the formation of a rock stratum); key fossil; leading fossil

noun:

• masculine face (on a woman)