noun:

• American (and-or Canadian) wood

noun:

• advanced standing (in school or college); credit for prior studies

noun:

• rank-deciding competitions (e.g. in go or shogi)

noun:

• (shrine or temple) donation register; subscription book; subscription list

noun:

• polymastia (having more than one pair of mammae or breasts); pleomastia; hypermastia

noun:

• mashed sweet potatoes (incl. sweetened chestnuts or beans) - obscure term ➜ 金団

noun:

• crab shell (often ground or crushed and used as fertilizer); crab shell meal

noun:

• defensive opening for shogi ("badger" or "anaguma" castle)

noun:

• senior (at work or school); superior; elder; older graduate; progenitor; old-timer - slang ➜ 先輩【せんぱい】

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to shuffle (on one's bottom or knees); to crawl
• to shift position (of an object)

noun:

• boundary mark (on land or water)

noun:

• cherry (tree; esp. sweet cherry or Nanking cherry) ➜ 西洋実桜・梅桃

noun:

• ambulatory evening vendor of noodles (or the noodles themselves)

pronoun:

• you (primarily used by males when addressing their male equals or inferiors)

expression:

• you cannot win against someone who doesn't listen to reason (e.g. a crying child or a violent lord); you can't fight City Hall - idiom ➜ 泣く子と地頭には勝てない【なくことじとうにはかてない】

noun:

• word created by retaining the first syllable (or two) of a word and suffixing it with the word "moji" ➜ 女房詞

noun:

• New Year party where greetings (or business cards, etc.) are exchanged

~の noun / adjectival noun / noun:

• wrong (guess or estimate); misdirected ➜ 見当違い

noun / ~する noun:

• honestly describing (i.e. without sentiment or conjecture)

noun:

• addendum (to a treaty or contract); annex; annexure; appendix; subsidiary clause
• subordinate clause - Linguistics term

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to differ a little (esp. of two or several versions)

noun / ~する noun:

• parents' ability (or inability) to let go of their children

noun:

• divination (esp. one carried out with divination rods or sticks) ➜ 占い
• diviner

numeric:

• 10^52 (or 10^56)

noun:

• innumerable

adjectival noun:

• discursive (i.e. proceeding by argument or reasoning rather than intuition)