noun / ~する noun:

• email - abbreviation ➜ 電子メール

noun:

• mail (usu. in compound words); post ➜ 郵便
• male ➜ 男性・雄【おす】

noun:

• student who performs housework in exchange for meals and-or lodging
• houseboy

adjectival noun / noun:

• rough-hewn; incomplete; unrefined; still in the process of being formed

noun:

• spare umbrella kept (at work) in the event of a sudden shower

noun:

• occupying forces (esp. of the Allies in Japan after World War II)

noun:

• inflated price (assigned in anticipation of being haggled down); overcharging
• exaggeration

noun:

• getting information (esp. by interviewing witnesses, etc. in a police investigation)

noun:

• O-back; skirt with peek-a-boo hole in rump

noun:

• clean room (e.g. in semiconductor manufacturing); cleanroom

noun:

• active substance from plants used in manufacture of soap, detergents and medication - From German "Saponin"

noun:

• sales clerk in a fancy boutique clothing store - From English "house mannequin"

noun:

• piroshki (Russian pierogi; meat and eggs, etc. baked in bread) - From Russian "pirozhki"

noun / ~する noun:

• groping in the dark; exploring new avenues without having any clues - four character idiom

noun:

• long metal chopsticks (for handling charcoal, esp. in a brazier); fire tongs

noun:

• breaks and pauses (in a sentence)
• punctuation - abbreviation ➜ 句読点
• way of reading (esp. kanbun)

noun / ~の noun:

• between-season wear; clothes worn in spring or autumn (fall)

noun:

• the three most important cities (esp. in ref. to Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya)

noun:

• tacking (in needlework); basting
• planting (esp. rice seedlings)
• discipline; training; teaching manners ➜ 躾

noun:

• (a) study (e.g. in music, art, sculpture, etc.); etude; practice piece

noun:

• flair; flash
• insight
• waving (e.g. of a flag in the wind)

adverb:

• earlier than usual; ahead of time; in good season

noun:

• man from eastern Japan (esp. Edo or elsewhere in the Kanto region)

noun:

• dictionary tag indicating colloquialism, slang or vulgarity of American origin (in English)

~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• (sound) lingering in the air; trailing notes (of a bell, etc.) - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• scarabaeid beetle grub
• any insect (or worm, etc.) that lives in soil