noun:

• hilt (of a sword); haft (of a dagger); handgrip

noun:

• lucky tea (var. of tea made from sea tangle, black soybeans, pepper, pickled plums, etc. and drunk on festive occasions); New Year tea

noun:

• stepper (device used in the manufacture of integrated circuits)

noun:

• concealment (e.g. of facts); nondisclosure

noun:

• arborio (Italian variety of rice)

noun:

• System V (variety of Unix); System 5 - IT term

noun:

• Northwest Passage (sea route along the north coast of Canada)

noun:

• (knowledge of) first-aid

noun:

• standard (for weights and measures)

noun:

• government official (esp. one of low to medium rank); public servant - archaism

noun:

• Purple Forbidden Enclosure (group of constellations in the northern sky associated with the emperor)

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to have to wait (for the realization of something hoped for); to be forced to postpone

noun:

• Lakshmi (consort of Vishnu in Hinduism) ➜ 吉祥天

noun:

• Pallava Dynasty (of India, 7th to 9th century CE)

noun:

• upaya (skillful means, methods of teaching) - honorific language - Buddhism term ➜ 方便
• convenience; suitability; availability

noun:

• Konami Code (for the video games Gradius, Contra, etc.)

noun:

• oud (lute-like instrument of Arabic origin) - From Arabic "ud"

noun:

• tathata (the ultimate nature of all things) - Buddhism term ➜ 真如

adverb:

• bang bang (sound of a hammer or gunfire) - onomatopoeia
• doing something at a mad pace (spend money, work)

noun:

• clinical condition (of a patient's illness)

noun:

• satyrid (any butterfly of subfamily Satyrinae, esp. the dryad, Minois dryas); grayling

noun:

• Fujita scale (of tornado intensity); F-scale

noun:

• mantidfly (any insect of the family Mantispidae)

noun:

• inner practice hall (for Buddhism; on the imperial palace grounds)

noun:

• lingering cold (even after the beginning of spring); lingering winter