noun:

• ball hit over the center fielder - Baseball term - From English "center over"

noun:

• Cetartiodactyla; order comprising the even-toed ungulates and whales

noun:

• Malus; genus comprising the orchard apple, crabapples, etc.

expression / ichidan verb:

• to remove obstacles in the way of one's objective - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• taking pictures (for a wedding, etc.) prior to the event

noun:

• Persea; genus of evergreen trees, including the avocado

noun:

• woman one dates only with the purpose of having sex - slang

noun:

• entrance to a daimyo's mansion
• glans (of the penis)

expression / adjective:

• wet behind the ears; inexperienced; immature

noun:

• yellow soil; loess ➜ 黄土【おうど】
• Hades; hell; underworld; world of the dead - archaism ➜ 黄泉【こうせん】

noun:

• school bag (usu. handheld or hung from the shoulder); schoolbag

noun:

• chief puppeteer (bunraku); manipulates the head and right arm ➜ 三人遣い

expression / adjective:

• fledgling; young and inexperienced; green; wet behind the ears

noun:

• Decapoda (the order of crustaceans including shrimp and crabs)

noun:

• Stephanoberyciformes; Cetomimiformes; order of fishes containing the whalefishes

noun:

• mochi added to rice gruel (15th of the first month) - obscure term

noun:

• breaking and removing frozen snow to expose the ground - obscure term

noun:

• schadenfreude; pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others - From German ➜ メシウマ

noun / ~する noun:

• leaving water in the bathtub (to use later for laundry)

noun:

• the Five Home Provinces (Yamato, Yamashiro, Settsu, Kawachi, and Izumi) - abbreviation ➜ 五畿内

noun:

• the five home provinces and seven districts of ancient Japan ➜ 五畿・七道

noun:

• United States Military Government of the Ryukyu Islands (1945-1950)

noun:

• United States Military Government of the Ryukyu Islands (1945-1950) ➜ 琉球列島米国軍政府

noun:

• rank and social status (e.g. in the imperial family)

noun:

• threshold (lacking the grooves needed for a sliding door); sill - Architecture term ➜ 目草【まぐさ】