noun:

• human vegetable (i.e. someone in a vegetative state) - sensitive - four character idiom

noun:

• muddy track (in horse racing); dead track

noun:

• cheyletid (any mite of the family Cheyletidae)

noun:

• waiting (e.g. at the stage door) for performers or celebrities to arrive - slang ➜ 出待ち

noun:

• orangespot surgeonfish (Acanthurus olivaceus, species of tang found from the eastern Indian Ocean to the Pacific); orangeband surgeonfish

noun:

• motor cortex (area of the brain just anterior to the central sulcus responsible for controlling voluntary muscle activity)

noun:

• slender smooth-hound (Gollum attenuatus, species of finback catshark from the Southwest Pacific)

noun:

• ringing one's chopsticks against a dish (in order to request seconds, etc.) (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• juvenile Japanese sea perch (usu. 2-3 years in age and 40-60 cm in length) ➜ 鱸

noun:

• making from scratch (esp. in model-making and information systems); full scratch building - From English "full scratch"

noun:

• li (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: fire, south)

noun:

• swallowtail butterfly (esp. the citrus swallowtail butterfly, Papilio xuthus)

noun:

• deep-fried Chinese pastry (sweetened with jiaogulan)

noun:

• blowing (e.g. of the wind)

noun / suffix noun:

• playing (a wind instrument); player (e.g. clarinet)

noun:

• (pair of) bellows ➜ 吹子
• casting; founding; melting

noun:

• Cuon (genus containing the dhole)

noun / ~する noun:

• raising (the standard)

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• sudden and unexpected (as in a person's death)

noun:

• single yarn (in spinning)

noun:

• kingfisher (esp. the common kingfisher, Alcedo atthis)
• jade (gem) ［ひすい］ ➜ 硬玉・軟玉・ジェイド・翡翠色
• beautiful lustrous colour similar to that of the kingfisher's feathers ［ひすい］

noun:

• substrate (i.e. in biochemistry)
• matrix (i.e. in biology); stroma

noun / ~する noun:

• beheading (as the ending to a seppuku)
• assistance; help

noun:

• dispel (esp. magic or potion used to return one's character to normal status in an RPG, etc.)

noun:

• scaling (e.g. in computer graphics) - IT term

noun:

• second blooming (in a season); reflowering; reflorescence ➜ 返り咲き【かえりざき】
• return to working by a prostitute, kabuki actor, etc. - archaism

noun:

• 007 (James Bond's code in the books and films); double-oh-seven