noun / ~する noun:

• overswelling (of a blood vessel); engorgement; bulging
• squaring one's shoulders; flexing one's muscles

noun / ~する noun:

• increase; raising (e.g. embankment, levee); padding or inflation (e.g. of a bill)

noun / ~する noun:

• please accept (this); used to refer to another's acceptance of one's present - humble language ➜ つまらない物ですが・笑納

noun:

• introduction, development, turn and conclusion (quadripartite structure of certain Chinese poetry) - four character idiom
• story composition and development

noun:

• Gleichenia japonica (species of fern with white-backed leaves)
• white underside; white bottom; white inner - orig. meaning

noun:

• type of double weave that produces a tube-shaped cloth; hollow weaving; double weaving

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to explain away; to talk one's way out of; to excuse oneself; to evade

expression / ichidan verb:

• to add to one's circle of friends (or colleagues, etc.); to take in; to accept

noun:

• futomaki; thick roll of makizushi
• rolling something thickly; something rolled thickly (a cigar, etc.) ➜ 細巻き【ほそまき】

noun:

• Galilean moons (four largest moons of Jupiter); Galilean satellites - Astronomy term ➜ イオ・エウロパ・ガニメデ・カリスト

noun:

• welcome (beneficial) rain in a drought; realization of something eagerly looked for; a welcome relief - four character idiom

noun:

• welcome (beneficial) rain in a drought; realization of something eagerly looked for; a welcome relief

expression:

• super-low (description of a small truck with a low tray)

noun:

• shadow cast by Mount Fuji; image of Mount Fuji as reflected in a lake, etc.

noun:

• a member of one's "in group" (e.g. one's family, employees, etc.)

noun:

• affiliate program (of Internet advertising) - IT term

noun:

• Japanese marten (Martes melampus)
• marten (any arboreal weasel-like mammal of genus Martes)

noun:

• bush clover; Japanese clover (any flowering plant of genus Lespedeza) - obscure term ➜ 萩
• Japanese fiber banana (Musa basjoo) ➜ 芭蕉

noun:

• soft tennis (using soft rubber balls instead of hard yellow balls) ➜ 硬式テニス

noun:

• logical paragraph (as opposed to a formal paragraph); segment of text expressing a single meaning ➜ 形式段落

noun:

• strong impression conveyed by one's eyes; eyes that convey a strong sense of purpose

noun / ~の noun:

• very stormy weather (at sea)

noun:

• very poor catch of fish (due to stormy seas)

expression:

• What's New (esp. on webpages, programs, or newsletters); announcements of new arrivals or events

noun:

• self-sown seed; self-sown seedling
• illegitimate child (e.g. of one's servant)

noun / ~する noun:

• input of kana alone (i.e. without conversion into kanji); input in no-conversion-mode - IT term