noun:

• sty (on the eyelid); stye - めばちこ is Osaka dialect

noun:

• Metal Age (i.e. the Bronze Age and the Iron Age)

noun:

• iteration mark (used to represent repetition of the previous character) ➜ 踊り字

noun:

• Budget Committee (of the Diet) - abbreviation ➜ 予算委員会

noun:

• spiracle (respiratory pores in the body of insects)

noun:

• recruit (former rank in the JSDF) - obsolete term

noun:

• Kōryaku era (of the Northern Court) (1379.3.22-1381.2.24)

~と adverb / adverb:

• lapping (e.g. of waves against the shore) - onomatopoeia
• steadily (advancing); gradually (approaching) - onomatopoeia

~の noun / adjectival noun:

• sufficient (of the amount of liquid needed to cover a submerged object); just enough - often used adverbially as ひたひたに - onomatopoeia

~と adverb / adverb:

• speedily; promptly; quickly; smoothly - onomatopoeia - archaism
• closely; exactly - onomatopoeia - archaism

noun:

• Eptatretus (genus of hagfish in the family Myxinidae)

noun:

• buying club (e.g. fruit-of-the-month)

noun:

• Parmaturus (genus containing 9 species of catshark in the family Scyliorhinidae)

noun:

• great hammerhead (Sphyrna mokarran, the largest species of hammerhead shark) ➜ グレートハンマーヘッド

noun:

• Country of Na (a country that existed within Japan during the Yayoi period)

noun / ~の noun:

• eponym (word derived from the name of a place or person)

noun:

• annual New Year's poetry reading (held at the Imperial Court)

noun:

• distinguished professor (unofficial title awarded by the institution itself)

noun:

• years (since the start of an era)

noun:

• New World (esp. the Americas, but also Australasia) ➜ 旧大陸

noun / ~の noun:

• Apocrypha (i.e. as opposed to the Biblical canon) ➜ 正典
• non-Buddhist writings (esp. Confucian writings) - usu. げてん - Buddhism term ➜ 内典

noun:

• headrest (esp. on a car seat)

godan ~く verb:

• to have a facial tattoo (esp. one around the eye, one form of punishment in ancient Japan) - was v4k - archaism - obscure term

noun:

• Agent Orange (dioxin-laden defoliant used during the Vietnam War) ➜ 枯葉剤

noun:

• silkworm (in the first or second instar) ➜ 毛蚕

noun:

• coming late or leaving early time (e.g. on a pay slip) - abbreviation ➜ 早退・遅刻

noun:

• Shorinji Kempo (modern Japanese martial art based on Shaolin kung fu) ➜ 少林拳