noun:

• betta (esp. the Siamese fighting fish, Betta splendens)

noun:

• continuity (esp. in film-making); script; storyboard - abbreviation ➜ コンティニュイティ
• Conté sticks; Conté crayons - From French
• Comté (cheese) - From French

~する noun:

• to block (e.g. the way)

noun:

• block (lump of something (usu. square), area of town, etc.)
• bloc

noun / ~する noun:

• block; physical record (e.g. on magnetic tape) - IT term

noun:

• round (esp. in sports, negotiations, etc.); rounds (e.g. nurse, security guard, etc.)

noun:

• jab (esp. in boxing)

noun:

• patron (of the arts, an artist, etc.); patroness; financial supporter
• sugar daddy; man who provides for a woman (e.g. a geisha) ➜ 芸者・旦那
• patron; master; manager; boss

noun:

• nut (as in nut and bolt)
• natural unit of information content; nat

noun:

• top star (esp. male lead role in the all-female Takarazuka musical theater troupe); major celebrity

noun:

• stroke (of a racket, in swimming, etc.)

noun:

• column (e.g. in newspaper); stand-alone feature article framed by a box

noun:

• dragon (as depicted in Western myths) ➜ 竜

noun:

• fresco (technique of blending wet plaster with water based paint) - usu. フレスコ - From Italian or Spanish
• flask - usu. フラスコ - From Portuguese "frasco"

noun:

• main street (esp. in a capital); main thoroughfare ➜ 小路【こうじ】
• most important of the three classes of highway (ritsuryo period) ［たいろ］ - archaism

noun:

• preceptor or high priest (esp. in Zen or Pure Land Buddhism) ［おしょう］ - honorific language
• preceptor or high priest (in Tendai or Kegon Buddhism) ［かしょう］ - honorific language
• preceptor or high priest (in Shingon, Hosso, Ritsu or Shin Buddhism) ［わじょう］ - usu. 和上 - honorific language
• second highest priestly rank in Buddhism ➜ 法眼
• monk (esp. the head monk of a temple) ［おしょう・かしょう］
• master (of one's art, trade, etc.)

noun:

• southern barbarians (formerly used by the Chinese to refer to non-ethnic Chinese to the south) - archaism - derogatory term
• South-East Asia - archaism
• Western Europe (esp. Spain and Portugal, their South-East Asian colonies, and their goods and people arriving in Japan via the colonies) - archaism ➜ 紅毛

prefix:

• exotic (esp. Western European or South-East Asian style)

noun:

• (in dance, puppetry, etc.) thrusting the right foot and right arm forward at the same time (or left foot and left arm) - usu.ナンバ
• food prepared using chili peppers or Welsh onions - abbreviation ➜ 南蛮煮【なんばんに】

noun:

• bibliography (i.e. the study of books)
• bibliology (i.e. the study of books, booklore and bibliography)

noun:

• first day of spring (according to the traditional lunisolar calendar, approx. Feb. 4) ➜ 二十四節気

noun:

• artificial hill (in a garden)

noun:

• humanity and justice (esp. in Confucianism); virtue
• duty
• formal greeting (between gamblers) - perhaps derived from 辞儀 ➜ 辞儀【じんぎ】・仁義を切る
• (gang's) moral code

noun:

• ninja (persons in feudal Japan who used ninjutsu for the purposes of espionage, assassination, sabotage, etc.) ➜ 忍術

noun:

• divine wind (esp. a typhoon thought to have protected Japan from a Mongolian invasion in the 13th century)
• kamikaze ［かみかぜ］

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to flutter (in the wind); to wave; to flap; to fly
• to turn over; to flip over
• to suddenly change (attitude, opinion, etc.); to suddenly switch; to alter; to flip

noun:

• immortal mountain wizard (in Taoism); mountain man (esp. a hermit)
• one not bound by earthly desires or the thoughts of normal men

noun:

• offering (e.g. to the gods); votive offering

noun:

• ridge (in field); row of raised earth when planting crops
• rib (cloth, mountains, sea); cord (e.g. corduroy)