noun:

• Nile monitor (Varanus niloticus, species of carnivorous monitor lizard native to sub-Saharan Africa); water leguaan ➜ ナイルモニター

noun:

• long kiseru (type of tobacco pipe) ➜ 煙管【キセル】

noun:

• Ornithischia (order of herbacious dinosaurs with bird-like pelvic structures)

noun:

• transit (of a planet) over the sun

noun:

• Anadara kagoshimensis (species of ark clam)

noun:

• setting off the night before one normally would have departed, travelling in a different direction, spending the night there, and leaving for one's destination in the morning (done to avoid travelling in an unlucky direction; a common practice during the Heian period) - archaism ➜ 方塞がり・方違へ所

noun:

• gall midge (any insect of family Cecidomyiidae)

noun:

• scapulimancy (divination using the cracks in the heated shoulder blade of a deer); scapulomancy; spatulamancy; armomancy - archaism

noun:

• (act of) licking ➜ ぺろりと

noun:

• four administrative positions (of the ritsuryo system: kami, suke, jou, sakan) ➜ 律令制

noun:

• folkloristics (formal study of folklore)

noun:

• Chakaman (brand-name of rechargeable lighter) ➜ 着火

noun:

• recital (i.e. of music, by a pupil)
• presentation (e.g. product launch)

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• half-year (sometimes esp. as an Edo-period duration of employment) ➜ 一季
• half of a season

noun:

• Min Nan (dialect of Chinese, incl. Taiwanese)

noun:

• (Federal Islamic Republic of the) Comoros

noun:

• flower charcoal (whereby a flower, seed, branch, or other item of flora is carbonized as is, retaining its form)

noun:

• vase used to hold flower offerings (often made of gilded copper) - Buddhism term

noun:

• Sugata (the well-gone; epithet of Buddha)

noun:

• backbone (of a fish)

noun:

• Sanron sect (of Buddhism)

noun:

• original poster (of a web-forum thread); OP ➜ トピ

noun:

• Pinna bicolor (species of pen shell)

noun:

• opening (of a bottle); broaching
• beginning; opening; commencement (e.g. of sales); first sale

noun:

• (a cup of) water

adjectival noun:

• racy; titillating; sexy; suggestive