noun:

• group delay (in fibre optics, fiber optics)

noun:

• spring staple shortage (before the harvest of rice, wheat, barley, etc.)

noun:

• kuruma prawn (esp. a small one, i.e. less than 10 cm in length) ➜ 車海老

noun:

• treehopper (any insect of family Membracidae, esp. the species Orthobelus flavipes)

noun:

• lace monitor (Varanus varius, species of carnivorous monitor lizard found in eastern Australia); lace goanna ➜ レースモニター

noun:

• health care (e.g. for the aged); health management; health maintenance

noun:

• General Headquarters (office of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers); GHQ ➜ ＧＨＱ

noun:

• string instrument (esp. in gagaku); stringed instrument ➜ 雅楽

noun:

• idea (in Platonic thought) - From Greek

noun:

• Micah (book of the Bible)

noun / ~する noun:

• defeat (in battle)

noun:

• sanpaku eyes (eyes with visible white between the iris and the lower eyelid)

noun:

• Keien period (between the end of the Russo-Japanese War and the Taisho Political Crisis, approx. 1905-1912 CE)

noun:

• ash box (used in tea ceremony)

noun:

• system tray (e.g. in Microsoft Windows) - IT term

noun:

• brown bear (esp. the Ussuri brown bear, Ursus arctos lasiotus) ➜ 羆

noun:

• Patriotic War (Russian name for the war with Napoleon in 1812)

noun:

• Golden Week (early-May holiday season in Japan)

noun:

• Shitoku era (of the Northern Court) (1384.2.27-1387.8.23)

noun:

• major festal song (subgenre of the Shi Jing) ➜ 雅【が】

expression / noun:

• complete ignorance (usu. in reference to feigning); lack of knowledge

noun:

• hill size (in ski jumping); HS - Sports term

noun:

• poor who do not (or are unable to) seek help (from relatives or the authorities, etc.) - From English "silent poor"

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to cut through (with a road, tunnel, or canal)

noun:

• ground squirrel (esp. the Daurian ground squirrel, Spermophilus dauricus)