noun:

• gender preselection; selection of the sex of offspring

expression / ~よい adjective:

• helpful (in terms of taking care of people)

noun:

• basilosaurus (member of a genus of early whales)

noun:

• declination; angle of deviation
• argument (of complex number) - Mathematics term

noun:

• character traits of the people of a prefecture

expression / noun:

• shout of joy; cry of pleasure; jubilant comments

noun:

• inner part; inside; interior; depths (e.g. of a forest); back (of a house, drawer, etc.); bottom (e.g. of one's heart); recesses; heart

noun:

• draft; draught; cold air entering through the crack of a door or window
• cooling off of a relationship; draft of cold air between two persons

noun:

• warrior from the eastern parts of Japan - derogatory term - archaism - Kantō dialect
• eastern barbarians; people east of China (from the perspective of China) ［とうい］

noun:

• male and female (animals); the two sexes
• victory and defeat; strengths and weaknesses

noun:

• (something having its) merits and demerits; advantages and disadvantages; good points and shortcomings - four character idiom

noun / suffix noun:

• kneading; gloss; tempering

noun or verb acting prenominally / noun:

• paste (e.g. bean paste, mustard paste)

noun:

• parading of portable shrines and floats at festivals - orig. 邌り, usu. お練り - Shintō term ➜ 練り歩く【ねりあるく】・お練り【おねり】

noun:

• essential part; indispensable part; unavoidable part; accompaniment; appendage; accessory
• front and back matter (of a book, magazine, etc.)

noun:

• incarcerating a criminal in a temple as a form of punishment (popular during the latter Muromachi and Azuchi-Momoyama periods) - obscure term ➜ 寺入り

noun:

• reversal; return
• return gift; return favour (favor) ➜ お返し
• barb (on a fishing hook)
• mixture of soy sauce, sugar and mirin

noun:

• Argus monitor (Varanus panoptes, species of carnivorous monitor lizard found in northern Australia and southern New Guinea); yellow-spotted monitor

noun / ~する noun:

• appreciation of the yen; strong yen; strengthening of the yen; high-valued yen; exchange in favor of the yen (favour)

noun:

• black-lacquered headgear (made of silk, cloth or paper) originally worn by court nobles in ancient Japan, and afterwards spreading to the common people

noun:

• jitte; short truncheon with a hook made of metal or wood (used by policemen and private thief-takers in Edo Japan)

noun:

• (young) man adhering to a masculine version of gyaru fashion (usually marked by hair dyed brown or blond, gaudy clothes and accessories) ➜ ギャル

expression:

• something that cannot be done no matter how hard one tries (and is slightly frustrating because of this); eye drops from the second floor [literal] - idiom

noun:

• namahage; folklore demons of the Oga Peninsula (villagers dress up as them on New Year's Eve and frighten children)

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• thundering; purring; grumbling (e.g. stomach) - onomatopoeia
• something large and heavy starting to roll - onomatopoeia
• scattered about; common; commonplace; all over - onomatopoeia
• idleness; idling about - onomatopoeia
• having a foreign substance in (e.g. one's eye or stomach) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• thunder - children's language - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• association (of ideas); being reminded (of something); suggestion

noun:

• district of a town; city block (of irregular size)