noun:

• Achilles tang (Acanthurus achilles, species of surgeonfish found from the Western Pacific to the East Central Pacific)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to get off; to abandon (a ship or vehicle)

noun:

• preventing a ship from passing or from leaving port

noun:

• leader of a rebel army or band of rebels

noun:

• spot application; dispensing a drop or spot of something

noun / ~する noun:

• snow melting (usu. a system or device); snow removal

noun:

• adopter; adopting parent or parents; adoptive parent or parents; foster parent or parents

noun:

• country; state
• region
• national government; central government
• home (i.e. hometown, home country)
• province (of Japan) - archaism ➜ 国郡里制
• land; earth - archaism

adverb:

• somehow or other; for some reason or another; without knowing why

noun:

• local warriors, or provincial or district officials, who developed paddy field lands

noun / ~する noun:

• intermission during a performance (e.g. variety show, play, sumo, etc.)
• temporary departure of an actor (between the first and second halves of a noh or kyogen performance, during which time they change costumes, etc.)

adverb / ~の noun:

• reasonably; fairly; all right; moderate - onomatopoeia

adverb:

• hurriedly; in a rush; having barely finished - in the form もそこそこに - onomatopoeia

suffix:

• approximately; about; or so

noun:

• long thin strip of dried sea-ear or paper attached to a gift

noun:

• minor or untalented actor (relegated to roles such as the legs of a stage horse)

noun / ~する noun:

• lack of registration (in the census register)
• buying a geisha or prostitute her contractual freedom ➜ 身請け

noun:

• dried sardines (held together by a bamboo skewer or string piercing the eye sockets)

noun:

• order; ordering
• beginning; start
• foreword; preface; introduction ➜ 序詞
• opening of a song (in gagaku or noh) ➜ 序破急

noun:

• food covered in a thick starchy sauce (usu. made of kuzu or katakuriko flour) - Food term ➜ 餡

expression:

• indication that a page or site may be linked without restriction - From English "link free"

noun:

• (of a website) being delisted or censored by the Google search engine

noun:

• off-flavor; bitterness or other unpleasant taste that detracts from the flavour of a drink

noun:

• (railway, bus, highway) route designed or designated to meet a specific problem
• countermeasure program (policy)

noun:

• locomotor ataxia; difficulty walking or speaking (due to alcoholism, a stroke, etc.); someone with this problem - colloquialism - sensitive

noun / ~する noun:

• popping bubble-wrap (e.g. for fun or as a stress relief technique) ➜ ぷちぷち

noun / suffix noun:

• nature (of a person or thing)
• that which does not change according to external influences - Buddhism term