adjective:

• frightening (of the future); worrying; scary; ominous; portentous

noun:

• Sui (dynasty of China, 581-619 CE)

noun:

• makings (of); aptitude (for)
• groundwork; foundation

noun:

• polypore (bracket fungus, esp. of family Polyporaceae)

noun:

• grounds (of tea and coffee)

noun:

• mass outbreak (of a disease)

noun:

• regular kanbun (following the rules of classical Chinese grammar)

noun:

• left hand drive (of cars, etc.)

noun:

• Ginkgoales (order of plants)

noun:

• Dravidian (family of languages)

noun:

• official interpretation or construction (e.g. of a law)

noun:

• chief abbot (of a Buddhist temple)

noun:

• ladies' pavilion (of the inner Heian Palace) ➜ 七殿・十七殿

noun:

• foreign ship (originally only of Dutch ships, but later referring to all foreign ships) - archaism - colloquialism

noun:

• Hokkaido squirrel (subspecies of red squirrel, Sciurus vulgaris orientis)

noun / adverb:

• flushness (esp. of wheels and fenders on an automobile); tsuraichi

noun:

• Gentiana thunbergii (species of gentian)

noun:

• heat (of a thing)

noun:

• boomslang (species of venomous snake, Dispholidus typus)

noun:

• Stegostoma (genus of one species of Indo-Pacific carpet shark in the family Stegostomatidae)

noun:

• women working in military brothels (esp. those forced into prostitution as a form of sexual slavery by the Japanese military during WWII); (campaign) comfort women [literal] - euphemism

noun:

• yellow-head monitor (Varanus melinus, species of carnivorous monitor lizard native to Indonesia); quince monitor

noun:

• Negaprion (genus of requiem sharks in the family Carcharhinidae containing the two extant species of lemon sharks)

noun:

• herbes de Provence (mixture of dry herbs) - Food term - From French

noun:

• bluelined surgeonfish (Acanthurus nigroris, species of Indo-Pacific tang)