noun:

• Murphy's Law ("Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong")

noun:

• flour made from parched rice or barley (can be mixed in hot water and drunk)

noun:

• Panamax (maximum size of ship that can pass through the Panama Canal)

noun:

• chlamydospore (thick-walled spore that can survive harsh conditions)

noun:

• parched flour, esp. barley (can be drunk in hot water with sugar) - Food term ➜ 麦こがし・香煎

noun:

• road-rail vehicle (vehicle which can travel both on railroad tracks and normal roads)

noun:

• ekayana (doctrine that only one teaching, usu. the Lotus Sutra, can lead to enlightenment) - Buddhism term

noun:

• four-color theorem (colour) (theorem stating that any map can be colored such that no two adjacent segments have the same color, if only four colors are used)

noun / ~する noun:

• drinking directly (from bottle, can, flask, canteen, etc.)

noun:

• inflatable (in the sense of "can be inflated") ➜ 膨張式

suffix / counter:

• counter for loads (that can be carried on one's shoulders)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to push (a thing) out; to jut out (can have a negative nuance); to protrude
• to rise out the trap door (on stage)

noun:

• jinx; omen (can be a good omen)

noun:

• negative question; question asked in the negative (e.g. "Can't you read Japanese?") - Linguistics term

expression / ichidan verb:

• to want something desperately; to want something (so badly one can taste it)

noun / ~する noun:

• grabbing; taking (as much as one can hold) by the hand

noun:

• Roche limit; Roche's limit (closest that a natural satellite can come to the center of a planet without disintegrating due to tidal forces)

noun:

• lesson learned from someone's else mistake; object lesson; food for thought; stones from other mountains (can be used to polish one's own gems) [literal] - idiom ➜ 他山の石以て玉を攻むべし

noun:

• aim; object; purpose; end
• expectations; prospects; hopes
• something that can be relied upon
• snack served with alcoholic drink - Kansai dialect

suffix noun:

• pad; guard

suffix noun / prefix noun:

• blow; strike

suffix:

• addressed to ［宛・宛て］
• per - also written as 充て - usually written using kana alone

~よい adjective:

• good; excellent; fine; nice; pleasant; agreeable - also written 良い ➜ 良い【よい】
• sufficient (can be used to turn down an offer); ready; prepared ➜ 良い【よい】
• profitable (e.g. deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial ➜ 良い【よい】
• OK ➜ 良い【よい】

adjective:

• good; excellent; fine; nice; pleasant; agreeable - also いい (all senses) ➜ いい
• sufficient (can be used to turn down an offer); ready; prepared ➜ いい
• profitable (e.g. deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial ➜ いい
• OK ➜ いい

noun / ~する noun:

• call; summons; paging; curtain call ➜ 呼び出す【よびだす】

noun:

• usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc. - Sumo term
• telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached - abbreviation ➜ 呼び出し電話
• box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse) - archaism ➜ 陸湯
• high-ranking prostitute in the Yoshiwara district (Edo period) - archaism
• unlicensed prostitute in the Fukagawa red-light district (Edo period) - archaism

expression:

• small bag and young woman [literal]
• like a small bag seems to be able to contain few items yet can be stuffed with many, a young woman seems inexpensive to bring up yet can end up costing a lot
• a young woman and a small bag are both fragile and great care must be taken with both of them

noun:

• area of the field one is supposed to (or able to) defend - Sports term
• (one's) field; (one's) scope; area of expertise; range of topics one can converse about; breadth of one's interests and knowledge
• one's type; kind of person one is attracted to

~の noun:

• collared; having a collar

noun:

• lifestyle; circumstances; what can be observed about one's wealth by looking at one's collar - archaism
• one's collar when wearing multiple kimonos - obscure term ➜ 襟元