noun:

• Large Hadron Collider; LHC

noun:

• older lady - archaism - honorific language

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• big talk; boasting; bragging - four character idiom ➜ 大言・壮語

noun:

• mansion

noun:

• thighbone; femur

noun:

• judicial decision made with human kindness and warmth in a fair manner (from the decisions of Ōoka Tadasuke, a jurist in 17th century Japan)

noun:

• the Great Saigo

noun:

• Okuninushi; deity of magic and medicine later viewed as equivalent to Daikokuten and celebrated at Izumo Grand Shrine ➜ 大黒天

expression:

• first verse of a nursery rhyme sung by children on cold days (similar to "It's Raining, It's Pouring")

noun:

• lady of the house

expression / noun:

• shape of the "dai" kanji (esp. person with arms and legs outstretched); sprawling; lying spread-eagled

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to raise one's voice; to shout ➜ 大声を出す

noun:

• Ogosho period (between the Kansei Reforms and the Tempo Reforms, approx. 1787-1843)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to become grown-up; to age; to mature

noun:

• big science (particle accelerators, space telescopes, etc.)

noun:

• roundup; wholesale arrest

noun:

• leading company; major firm

noun:

• great demon; ghostly giant

noun:

• heavy drinking

noun:

• Intercontinental Ballistic Missile; ICBM

noun:

• violent earthquake; severe earthquake

noun:

• heavy machinery; large machinery; plant

noun:

• big news

noun:

• large deer
• moose; elk; red deer

noun:

• Japan - archaism ➜ 大八洲