noun:

• side dish; okazu; side dish (meat, fish, pickles, etc.) accompanying the rice in a typical Japanese meal
• food for thought (esp. in the context of conversation, or material for assisting arousal during masturbation) ［おかず・オカズ］ - sometimes オガズ
• fill; fill-in (drumming)

adjectival noun / ~の noun / noun:

• absorbed in; immersed in; crazy about; obsessed with; devoted to

noun / adjectival noun:

• forgetting oneself; daze; trance; ecstasy; delirium

noun:

• within a dream; while dreaming

expression:

• matter being discussed (e.g. in a private conversation)
• our side of the story (in contrast to another's version)

noun:

• set of problems (e.g. in a textbook) in which previously learned skills are applied to real world situations; practical assessment

noun:

• game in which people sit in a circle taking turns to imitate the previous person's humorous facial expression or gesture

noun / ~する noun:

• unwinding of funds transfer obligations; requesting a bank to return money that was transferred (e.g in error or in excess)

adverb / ~と adverb:

• drop-by-drop; dripping; dribbling; in a trickle - onomatopoeia
• incessantly (esp. speaking, e.g. complaints, compliments); in great profusion - onomatopoeia

noun:

• second in command
• fourth athlete to compete in a 5-on-5 team competition (kendo, judo, etc.) ➜ 先鋒【せんぽう】

expression / interjection:

• time in - said by a referee at the end of a time out - Sports term - From English "no time" ➜ タイム

expression:

• making a move immediately in a timed game (shogi, go, etc.)

noun:

• missing part; broken part; chip (e.g. in a cup)
• short weight
• false eye (in go)

noun:

• Buddhist services in memory of those drowned in a river; offering to suffering spirits at the river - four character idiom

expression:

• Very truly yours (a complimentary close used in a letter written in an old epistolary style) - four character idiom

noun:

• white powder (lead carbonate) used in the past as face pigment and used in paint more recently

noun:

• confection of sweetened beans wrapped in wheat-flour dough (in the shape of a sword guard)

noun / suffix noun:

• fish, meat, vegetables, etc. pickled in kōji and salt; food pickled in malted rice ➜ 麹【こうじ】

noun:

• people who lived in Kyushu in ancient times, and who opposed the state of Yamato

noun:

• tell-all book; revealing book; kiss-and-tell book; scandalous book

noun:

• advantage; point in favor; point in favour

noun / ~の noun:

• in vitro fertilization; in vitro fertilisation

adverb:

• in order; in turn; one by one

expression:

• if so; in that case; in that situation ➜ 為る【する】

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to creep in; to steal in

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to carry in; to bring in

noun:

• asleep (in bed); sick in bed

noun / ~する noun:

• die in battle; die in action - sensitive