noun:

• doubles (e.g. in tennis)

noun:

• paper (in rock, paper, scissors game) ➜ パー・じゃん拳

noun / adjectival noun:

• disappearing completely; coming to nought; becoming worthless
• foolishness; stupidity

noun:

• cramschool (for boys and girls who wish to go on to the next stage of education)

noun:

• auxiliary actions (in Jodo: recitation, observation, worship, praise & offering) - Buddhism term ➜ 浄土宗

noun:

• Uighur (Turkic people and language in China); Uygur

noun:

• centre line (usu. in buildings, joinery, etc.); center line

noun:

• critical experiment (in nucleonics)

noun:

• swellshark (Cephaloscyllium ventriosum, species of catshark in the Eastern Pacific)

noun:

• combined competition (usu. in skiing)

noun:

• Dascyllus (genus of damselfish in the family Pomacentridae)

noun / ~の noun:

• silk gauze (esp. used in light clothing for high summer)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to run through one's fortune (in idleness)

noun:

• big crunch (theoretical reversal of the big bang resulting in the demise of the universe)

noun:

• Burgess fauna (animal fossils found in the Burgess Shale)

noun:

• national rural police (established in 1947, abolished in 1954)

noun:

• rain symbol (e.g. in a weather forecast)

noun / ~の noun:

• not wearing a mask (in kendo, noh, etc.)
• sober face ➜ 素面【しらふ】
• sobriety ➜ 素面【しらふ】

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• face with no make-up; unpainted face - archaism ➜ 素顔【すがお】

noun:

• the five brights (high-scoring combination in hanafuda); the five light cards; the five hikari cards ➜ 花札

noun:

• fighting spirit (in sport); tenacity - from スポーツ根性 - abbreviation

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to search (esp. a home in a police search) - obscure term - slang

noun:

• lead tree (lead or zinc in a solution of acetate of lead)

noun:

• high-grade Japanese fresh confections (usu. colorful sculpted mochi in seasonal designs around bean paste)

noun:

• ura-nage (in judo, an over-the-head throw performed by rolling backwards) - Martial Arts term

noun:

• publicly predicting the future developments of a creative work (making it difficult for the creator to use those ideas) - slang ➜ ねた

noun:

• apocryphal sutra (composed in China or Japan)