noun:

• tag-question (e.g. questions like 'He is, isn't he?') - Linguistics term

noun:

• Chromis (genus containing most damselfish of the family Pomacentridae)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to deceive somebody into believing (e.g. that black is white); to cajole; to talk into; to explain away (e.g. unpleasant evidence); to argue away; to wheedle

noun:

• derived unit (i.e. metre per second, cubic metre, etc.) - obscure term ➜ 組立単位

noun:

• Arrow War (the second Opium War, 1856-1860) ➜ アヘン戦争【アヘンせんそう】

noun:

• (something that is) available for use at any time; (someone who is) at one's beck and call; (something over which) one has complete mastery - four character idiom

noun:

• burglary (carried out while a house is temporarily vacated)

noun:

• MIPS (million instructions per second) - IT term

noun:

• peak oil (date when the peak of the world's petroleum production rate is reached)

noun:

• (baby which is) unhappy unless held

noun:

• irrumatio (fellatio wherein the majority of movement is performed by the fellatee); face-fucking - vulgar - slang - From Latin ➜ フェラチオ

noun:

• "limit of heat" solar term (approx. Aug. 23, when the weather is said to start cooling down) ➜ 二十四節気

noun:

• man (esp. one who is well-respected)
• samurai ➜ 侍

suffix noun:

• person (in a certain profession, esp. licensed); member

noun:

• Nasolamia (genus of requiem shark in the family Carcharhinidae whose only member is the whitenose shark)

expression / godan ~る verb (irregular):

• to be (in contrast to something that is not the case) - である with は ➜ である

noun:

• kanji reading that has not been approved by the government (and is not to be taught in public schools)

noun:

• safe day (one on which conception is unlikely to occur)

noun:

• Eviota abax (species of pygmy goby ranging from Southern Japan to Hainan Is.)

noun:

• first visit of a child to the shrine of its tutelary deity (usu. when the child is about 30 days old) ➜ 宮参り

noun:

• part alternation mark (symbol indicating the following words are taken from a song or that the person saying the words is singing); Unicode U+303D symbol

noun:

• marriage-oriented society (in which most people are married, usu. at a young age)

noun:

• identity or background check (often to see if someone is a burakumin) - colloquialism

noun:

• Islamic state (state where shari'a law is enforced); Islamic country

noun:

• dangerous day (one on which conception is likely to occur) ➜ 安全日

noun:

• Shoku Nihongi (second of the six classical Japanese history texts) ➜ 六国史