noun:

• ghost runner; placeholder used when fewer than 9 members are present on a team - Baseball term

noun:

• sexual activity (at a brothel) involving body lotion and an air mattress - From English "mat play"

noun:

• family crest based on a japonica flower - archaism
• style of jōruri narrative used for kabuki dances - archaism ➜ 常磐津【ときわず】

noun:

• karuta game in which players race to grab cards associated with a given reading ➜ カルタ・読み札・取り札

noun:

• coarse tea in which a pinch of salt is added (said to help dissipate alcoholic intoxication)

expression / noun:

• person who has lost something they used to rely on; a monkey fallen from the tree [literal] - idiom

expression / noun:

• fish in a pot about to be boiled; "person who is blissfully unaware of deadly danger" [figurative]

noun:

• singularity (climate); day in the calendar when a particular weather phenomenon is statistically likely to occur

noun:

• dragon's den
• auspicious place for a temple, town, etc. to be built (feng shui)

noun:

• sport that requires a strong willpower and hunger for success (esp. boxing) - From English "hungry sports"

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to stick; to get stuck; to get caught; to get jammed; to clog
• to be unavailable; to be busy; to be occupied; to be full
• to be piled up (e.g. of work)
• to halt (in one's speech); to stumble (over one's words); to stutter; to stammer
• to feel blocked (of one's chest or throat, due to grief, anxiety, illness, etc.); to feel pressure; to feel pain ➜ 痞える【つかえる】

adjective:

• fat; thick
• deep (of a voice); thick; sonorous
• daring; shameless; brazen; audacious

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• operation (of a machine, etc.); operating; running; run
• driving
• working (capital, etc.)

noun:

• cheese ➜ 乾酪
• tee (piping); T-joint

interjection:

• cheese (expression used when taking a photograph) - usu. as はい、チーズ

adverb:

• quite; really; very; extremely
• nothing; not a bit; not at all - with neg. verb

noun:

• combination; assortment; set
• matching (in a contest); pairing
• combination - Mathematics term

noun / ~の noun:

• division (of a larger group); branch; field; class (subclass); group; category; department

noun / ~する noun:

• dramatization (e.g. of a novel); dramatisation; adaptation
• dramatization; embellishment; exaggeration; embroidery

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to stop by; to drop in for a short visit

noun:

• large building; building with a long roof

suffix / counter:

• counter for buildings, apartments, etc.

noun:

• company employee
• member of a corporation; company stockholder (esp. in legal contexts)

noun:

• piece (in shogi, chess, etc.)
• horse; foal - archaism
• bridge (of a violin, etc.)

noun:

• ridge (of roof) - often むな as a prefix
• back of a sword ➜ 刀背

suffix / counter:

• counter for buildings, apartments, etc.

noun:

• rakugo; traditional Japanese comic storytelling; comic story (told by a professional storyteller)

noun:

• Japanese writing paper (lined with a square grid, one square per character)