noun:

• platinum black (black powdered platinum, often used as a catalyst)

noun:

• dilation (of a sound wave in acoustics)

noun:

• flowing west (e.g. of a river)

noun:

• original author (of a work)

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to break by hand (e.g. a flower); to break off (a twig); to pluck (a flower, a bud)
• to make a young woman one's own thing

noun:

• unique visitor (to a website) - IT term ➜ ユニークユーザー

noun:

• shed skin (of a snake, insect, etc); ecdysis

expression / adjective:

• tall (of a person) Antonym: 背が低い ➜ 背の高い

noun:

• place (to run a business, e.g. street stall)

noun:

• halo (of a Buddhist statue); nimbus ➜ 光輪

noun:

• abnormal termination (e.g. of a program); ABnormal END; ABEND

noun:

• upright-floating tea stalk (considered a lucky omen)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to interrupt (a story, etc.) ➜ 話の腰を折る
• to bend at the waist

noun:

• vital point (critical place to make a move in the game of Go)

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• crisp (like a pickle); crunchy - onomatopoeia
• firm (musculature) - onomatopoeia
• stiff (shoulders, neck, etc.) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• raked gravel waves (in a rock garden) - Architecture term
• ripple mark - Geology term ➜ 風紋

noun / ~する noun:

• kowtow (bow made from a kneeling position wherein the forehead touches the ground)

noun:

• mouth (of a river); spout

noun / suffix:

• general affairs department (e.g. in a company); operations department

noun:

• tight sleeve (of a kimono or dress)

noun:

• using two different chopsticks together (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• skeleton (of a vertebrate, ship, building, etc.)
• transparency (revealing the inner workings of a device); translucency; see-through body
• skeleton (sport)
• skeleton (code) - IT term

noun:

• young mother (i.e. early twenties or younger, sometimes previously a juvenile delinquent) - ヤン is from ヤンキー or ヤング ➜ ヤンキー・ヤング

noun:

• member (of a research project)

noun:

• closing argument and sentencing recommendation (of a prosecutor)