noun:

• unemployed person with a PhD - From English "over doctor"
• postdoctoral fellow; postdoc

noun:

• good time to take a picture; photo opportunity - From English "shutter chance"

noun:

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

noun:

• ballast; crushed stone, gravel, etc. used on a roadbed or railway track - abbreviation ➜ バラスト

noun:

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

expression:

• sweet words only please a fool; flattery works on puppets and fools - proverb

noun:

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

noun / ~する noun:

• pelvic examination
• consultation at an office (as opposed to a house call) ➜ 宅診

noun / ~する noun:

• pumping up water (e.g. to a high place for energy storage)

adverb:

• from afar; over a great distance; all the way

noun / ~する noun:

• experience; being accustomed (to something); poise in a critical situation

noun:

• tiqin (2 or 4-stringed Chinese instrument played with a bow)
• violin ➜ バイオリン

noun / ~する noun:

• instructions sent in response to a question (from an embassy, consulate, etc.)

noun:

• (gymnastics) pulling oneself upward with a forward, circling movement; back hip circle

noun:

• unbuttoning a collar
• opening up (one's heart)
• open-necked shirt - abbreviation ➜ 開襟シャツ

noun:

• (in Chinese mythology) beast which descends from the sky with a thunderbolt

noun:

• scale (i.e. hard water coating in a kettle, etc.); fur

expression:

• utterly ignorant; not knowing; having no idea; (being a) blithering idiot

noun:

• purification rite (esp. one held prior to a Shinto event)

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to make a circle (e.g. draw, paint, describe, walk, drive, etc.)

noun:

• activist (in a political movement); crusader (e.g. for women's rights)

noun:

• site (e.g. room, building) especially prepared for a meeting (event, etc.)

noun:

• two operating systems on a computer; double-boot - IT term

noun:

• final cut severing a wrestler's top-knot in his retirement ceremony - Sumo term

noun:

• clothes a wrestler wears when he has his belt on - Sumo term