noun:

• very common way of tying a woman's kimono sash - abbreviation ➜ 御太鼓結び

noun:

• (gen. of a woman) loving two or more partners without favour - four character idiom

noun:

• texture (e.g. chewiness, hardness, crispiness, crunchiness, etc.) of food

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• chatter; prattle - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

• lapping (up); slurping - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• sound of juicy food being bitten into - onomatopoeia

noun:

• Ajase complex (feelings of guilt towards one's mother)

noun:

• question time (section of proceedings in parliament)

noun:

• Oomoto (religious sect founded in 1892 as an offshoot of Shinto)

noun:

• request to arrest a member of parliament while still in session ➜ 不逮捕特権

noun:

• pre-cut (e.g. of timber before taken to building site)

noun:

• reading (of a word) that has become accepted through popular usage

noun:

• (of clerical script) horizontal lines ending in a noticeable triangular tail ➜ 八分【はっぷん】

noun:

• reservation of Japanese nationality (procedure used with children born outside Japan)

noun:

• cupronickel (alloy of approximately 80% copper and 20% nickel) ➜ 白銅

noun:

• poor and careless way of living - archaism - male language
• self deprecating first person pronoun

noun:

• thin, dried strips of daikon soaked in vinegar and other flavorings ➜ はりはり漬け

noun:

• tongues (i.e. utterances or "languages" spoken during instances of glossolalia)

noun:

• spangle (species of black swallowtail butterfly, Papilio protenor)

noun:

• common hornwort (Ceratophyllum demersum)
• Analipus japonicus (species of brown alga)

noun:

• Kounin-Jougan period (of Japanese art history, approx. 794-894 CE)

noun:

• Spring and Autumn period (of Chinese history, approx. 770-403 BCE)

noun:

• foot pocket portion of a diving fin

noun:

• O-ring; loop of elastomer used as a gasket

noun:

• chironomid; nonbiting midge (any insect of family Chironomidae)

noun:

• biting midge; no-see-um (any insect of family Ceratopogonidae)

noun:

• Brazilian elodea (species of aquatic plant, Egeria densa)