noun:

• Chinese "Dipper" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - obscure term ➜ 斗宿

noun:

• University Entrance Qualification Examination (establishes the equivalent of high-school graduation prior to 2005) - abbreviation ➜ 大学入学資格検定

noun:

• high tension (as in electronics, etc.)
• excited; enthusiastic

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to bind (with rope, etc.)

noun:

• Panama spadefish (Parapsettus panamensis, species of Eastern Pacific spadefish found from the Gulf of California to Peru)

noun:

• favorable condition (for entering the priesthood) - Buddhism term
• dying in order (from oldest to youngest)

noun:

• secularism (in Turkey); laïcité - From Turkish "laiklik"

noun:

• transfer fee (e.g. in football) - Sports term ➜ 移籍【いせき】

noun:

• Gion Festival (in Kyoto during the month of July, with high point on the 17th) ➜ 祇園祭

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• heavy (esp. in oil, chemstry, etc.) ➜ 重質油【じゅうしつゆ】

noun:

• Oversight Department (division of the daijokan responsible for controlling central and provincial governmental offices) ➜ 太政官

noun:

• red poetry ribbon card (in hanafuda) ➜ 花札
• the three red poetry ribbon cards (high-scoring combination in hanafuda)

noun:

• Northeast Passage (sea route along the north coast of Russia)

noun:

• red-masked and black-masked gods (folk belief of the Yaeyama Islands); harvest festival celebrating these gods (held in the 6th lunar month)

noun:

• waza-ari (in judo, a half-point awarded for good but incomplete execution) - Martial Arts term

noun:

• formal paragraph (in opposition to a logical paragraph); paragraph as defined by its formal elements (e.g. line break and initial indentation) ➜ 意味段落

noun:

• steered wheel (e.g. at the front of a car); steering wheel

noun:

• exchange zone (in a relay race) - From English "baton zone"

noun:

• scissors maneuver (in wrestling, judo, etc.); scissors manoeuvre
• belt; waistband

noun:

• southwest Japan (southwest of the Itoigawa-Shizuoka Tectonic Line) ➜ 東北日本

noun:

• diagonal move (in the game of go)

noun:

• vagabond butterflyfish (Chaetodon vagabundus, species of the Indo-Pacific)

noun:

• briefly-boiled chicken breast (served cold and mostly raw as sashimi with wasabi-seasoned shoyu)

noun:

• brownbanded bambooshark (Chiloscyllium punctatum, species from the Indo-West Pacific)

noun:

• Phalaenopsis (the moth orchid genus) - From Latin ➜ 胡蝶蘭