noun:

• (falling into a) continuous decline; being on the wane - four character idiom

noun:

• final four (in a tournament); semifinalists - From English "best four"

noun:

• asterism (pattern of stars which do not form a constellation)

noun:

• interior breadth (of a ship); molded breadth

noun:

• inspection of personal belongings (e.g. before entering a venue)

noun:

• office (government department beneath a bureau under the ritsuryo system) - archaism ➜ 律令制

noun:

• god of harvests and wealth (syncretized with Saraswati, and often taking the form of a heavenly woman, a white snake or a fox) - obscure term ➜ 宇賀神

noun:

• Cretan script (Cretan hieroglyphs, Linear A, Linear B)

noun:

• upstage left pillar (on a noh stage), next to the flute player

noun:

• conjugation (inflection, declension) of nidan verbs (resulting in a stem of either "e" or "u" for every conjugation)

noun:

• short-trimmed mane (of a horse) - obscure term

noun / ~する noun:

• rubbing cheeks together (as a display of affection); pressing cheeks together

noun:

• female bedmate (whose body is likened to a fleshy cushion) - archaism

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to rise (suddenly) in the world (to a higher position)

noun / ~する noun:

• commenting out (a section of source code) - IT term

noun:

• explanation of aim (esp. of a legislative bill); rationalization

noun:

• bacterial virus (i.e. a bacteriophage) ➜ バクテリオファージ

noun / ~する noun:

• public announcement (in a department store, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• patching up (e.g. a failure); covering up (e.g. a mistake); glossing over

noun:

• fountain effect (theory that high sales in the basement of a department store lead to increased sales in the upper levels as well)

noun:

• plain form (of a Japanese verb or adjective); dictionary form; predicative form - Linguistics term

suffix / adjective:

• (after a noun or the stem of an adjective) seeming very... (usu. with a negative connotation)

noun:

• 17C male hairstyle (shaved forehead, chignon, sideburns thinned to the size of a thread)

noun:

• elementary school (esp. the elementary school section of a school that also encompasses other grades); primary school

noun:

• comprehension (of a word)