noun:

• rice gruel traditionally eaten on the 7th day of the new year containing the seven plants of spring

expression / adverb:

• in short; in a word; to sum up; to put it simply; to make a long story short; after all

noun / ~する noun:

• secluding oneself in the mountains; undertaking ascetic practices at a mountain temple
• retreat; off-site meeting

noun:

• spotted ratfish (Hydrolagus colliei, a shortnose chimaera found in the Eastern Pacific)

noun:

• (finger) ring

noun / ~の noun:

• annulation; ring-forming

adjectival noun / noun:

• circle; ring; torus

noun:

• teething ring; pacifier; dummy

noun:

• quoits; ring toss

noun / ~の noun:

• ring-shaped; annular

noun / ~の noun:

• ring-shaped; circular

noun:

• circlip; snap ring

noun:

• silver ring; bicycle

noun:

• distinctive ring tones

noun:

• carabiner; snap ring - From German "Karabiner"

noun:

• ring network; loop - IT term

noun:

• signet ring cell

noun:

• anchor ring; torus

~の noun:

• macrocyclic; large ring - Chemistry term

noun:

• ash glaze (type of fundamental glaze used in ancient times made from the ashes of raw materials such as unhulled rice, straw, oak and pine)

noun:

• sitz bath; sitting bath; bath for the lower half of the body
• lower pool (e.g. in an onsen); lower bath

noun / suffix noun:

• earth; ground; land; soil
• place
• territory
• bottom (of a package, book, etc.) ➜ 天地無用
• earth (one of the five elements) ➜ 五大・土【ど】

expression:

• missing important things here and there; full of gaps; as if the teeth of a comb were missing [literal]

noun:

• honeyeater (any of a number of long-tongued Australasian songbirds, esp. the cardinal honeyeater, Myzomela cardinalis)

noun / ~する noun:

• bowing respectfully with one's hands clasped in front of one's chest - obscure term
• abdication of an emperor to a successor (China) - archaism