expression:

• yours sincerely (used to sign off on letters); respectfully yours - female language

noun:

• (belief in) spiritual power possessed by sisters to protect their brothers (in the Ryukyu Islands)

noun:

• (decision to) censure (as issued by the upper house of parliament)

noun:

• pre-Kumarajiva Chinese translation (i.e. before the 5th century) - Buddhism term

noun:

• aureole (of a Buddhist statue; surrounding the body but not the head); aureola

noun / ~する noun:

• eating everything (on one's plate, etc.)

noun:

• Hokke Shinto (Shinto doctrines based on Nichiren Buddhism) ➜ 法華宗

noun / ~する noun:

• icing (on an aircraft, ship, etc.); ice accretion
• landing (a jump in ice skating) - Sports term

noun:

• Scaphopoda (class of molluscs comprising the tooth shells)

noun:

• ringworm (of the body); tinea corporis

noun:

• (the) insurance business

noun:

• Ganges shark (Glyphis gangeticus, rare species of fresh water requiem shark that dwells in the rivers of India)

noun:

• Gaultheria adenothrix (alpine shrublet in the Ericaceae family)

noun:

• (on the) bridge

noun:

• rice cakes cut into rectangles (esp. eaten on New Year's Day) - Food term

noun:

• thresher shark (esp. the common thresher shark, Alopias vulpinus)

noun:

• valve (of the heart and the veins) - Anatomy term

noun:

• bruise (on fruit, etc.)

noun:

• honorary white (non-white person, including the Japanese, that were given certain privileges during the apartheid regime of South Africa); honorary whites

noun:

• Chinese "Turtle Beak" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) ➜ 觜【し】

noun:

• carnivores (i.e. animals of the order Carnivora)

noun:

• silkworm (in the first or second instar)

noun:

• torture (in the Edo-period)

noun:

• (the) defense

noun:

• State Council (of the People's Republic of China)