noun:

• new normal (state of new economic or financial conditions)

noun:

• side house (to the east, west, or north of a main residence; home to women, children and servants) ➜ 寝殿造

noun:

• padding (clothing or bedding); insulation; cotton wadding; stuffing (furniture)

noun:

• (eating or drinking) party

noun:

• silkworm (in the first or second instar)

adjectival noun:

• creamy (in flavor or texture)

noun:

• shaoxingjiu (Chinese alcohol made from rice or glutinous millet) - From Chinese

noun:

• anutpattika-dharma-ksanti (recognition that nothing really arises or perishes) - Buddhism term

noun / ~の noun:

• those (indicating something distant from both speaker and listener, or something understood without naming it directly) ➜ 彼【あれ】
• they (of people) - used to refer to one's equals or inferiors - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• rationalization (modifying part of an irrational expression, esp. denominators, to exclude roots or irrational numbers) - Mathematics term

noun:

• immersion quenching (hardening by dropping heated metal into water or oil)

noun:

• from the area (e.g. person or goods)
• local trader; local merchant
• street tough; hoodlum controlling a territory (e.g. red light district, amusement area)

noun:

• intelligent design (theory that life or the universe must have been designed by an intelligent being)

noun:

• lighted lamp (or candle, etc.) provided as a religious offering; votive light ➜ 御明かし【みあかし】

noun:

• (act or crime of) pollution

noun:

• employee of an association, society, etc. (but not of government or a corporation)

noun:

• biwa (4 or 5-stringed Oriental lute) - archaism ➜ 琵琶

noun:

• defenestration (throwing something or somebody out the window)

noun / ~する noun:

• concentration (of light, e.g. with lens or mirror); condensation; condensing

noun:

• draft of magazine's content (a table showing the allocation of each page)

noun:

• dupion (double cocoon formed jointly by two or more silkworms); dupioni
• cocoon

noun:

• merguez (beef or lamb sausage with chilli) - From Arabic "mirqaz"

noun:

• pung (or kong) of west tiles when west is both the round wind and one's seat wind (yaku) - Mahjong term ➜ 連風牌

noun / ~の noun:

• piece of junk (esp. dismantled or broken down car); worn-out article

noun:

• hitting (with fist); striking

noun:

• authentic text (as opposed to a copy or duplicate) ➜ 正文【せいぶん】