expression:

• (have the honor, honour) to write

noun:

• question time (in the Japanese Diet) ➜ クエスチョンタイム

noun:

• Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale (corresponding to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do, i.e. the Dorian mode) ➜ 呂旋

noun:

• twelve devas (esp. of the Shingon sect)

noun:

• supersonic airliner (i.e. the Concorde)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to shake (e.g. the world); to shock

noun:

• ringworm (of the groin); jock itch; tinea cruris

noun:

• rival in (the game of) go

noun:

• rematch (e.g. in sumo when the match is too close to decide)

noun:

• Feudal period (characterized by the rule of the shogunate as opposed to emperor, 1185-1867 CE) ➜ 王朝時代

noun:

• Hemitriakis complicofasciata (species of houndshark found in the Ryukyu Islands and Taiwan)

noun:

• fingerspelling (in sign language for the deaf); finger alphabet

noun:

• National People's Congress (of the People's Republic of China); NPC

noun:

• Chinese "Legs" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿・白虎【びゃっこ】

noun:

• solar pond (salty pond in which energy from solar energy accumulates in the lower layers, due to lack of convection)

noun:

• nine ministers (of the ancient Chinese government) - archaism
• nobility ➜ 公卿【くぎょう】

noun:

• any duck with white specula (bright patches on the wings) - obscure term ➜ 羽白

noun:

• holy shroud (i.e. the Shroud of Turin)

noun:

• ambulatory evening vendor of noodles (or the noodles themselves)

noun:

• independents (in the context of art) - From French

noun:

• Yoshino period (Japan's Northern and Southern Courts period, esp. from the viewpoint of the legitimacy of the Southern Court, 1336-1392 CE) - obscure term ➜ 南北朝時代

noun:

• smallfin catshark (Apristurus parvipinnis, species of the western Atlantic)

noun:

• albumen (of a seed, esp. the endosperm)

noun:

• argument from morality (for the existence of God) ➜ 神の存在証明

noun:

• ringworm (of the scalp); tinea capitis - Medicine term