noun:

• teacher's license (licence) (required to teach in preschool, elementary or secondary schools)

noun:

• cheese with holes in it (e.g. Swiss, Emmenthal)

noun:

• drink; drinking - abbreviation
• spigot; tap (in a cask, etc.)
• stock market bucketing
• bookmaking

noun:

• candidates (in an election) who have won or are projected to be elected - from 当選及び当選確実

noun:

• crushed sesame seeds boiled in water and chilled like tofu

noun:

• soup of soumen noodles and various ingredients in a soy sauce broth

noun:

• 33 sacred places in the Kanto Region (which was previously known as Bandou) ➜ 三十三所

noun:

• literary form imparting a formal written nuance (with sentences ending in "de aru") ➜ だ体

expression / ~する noun:

• passing (e.g. in football) without looking - From English "no look pass"

noun:

• Pele's hair (threads of volcanic glass formed in mid-air)

noun:

• hereditary title (used in ancient Japan to denote rank and political standing)
• clan - archaism

noun:

• favorable condition (for entering the priesthood) - Buddhism term
• dying in order (from oldest to youngest)

noun:

• spermaceti (waxy substance found in the head cavities of sperm whales)

noun:

• (in Japan) 2nd note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. D sharp) ➜ 十二律・大呂

noun:

• three lords (highest ranking officials in the old Imperial Chinese or Japanese governments)

noun:

• kuruma prawn (esp. a small one, i.e. less than 10 cm in length) ➜ 車海老

noun:

• summer greeting card; inquiry after someone's health in the hot season ➜ 暑中見舞い

noun:

• group of buzzards (etc.) rising in an updraft (before the southward autumn migration)

noun:

• peng (in Chinese mythology, giant bird said to transform from a fish) - archaism ➜ 鯤

noun:

• klesha (polluting thoughts such as greed, hatred and delusion, which result in suffering) - Buddhism term ➜ 煩悩

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to hold in one's mouth (without biting, before chewing or swallowing, etc.)

interjection:

• exclamation used to scold practitioners (in Zen)

noun:

• scolding or threatening with a shout

noun:

• ornamental doorway (in the raised area of a shoin-style reception suite) ➜ 書院造り

noun:

• Portuguese card game popular in Japan during the late 16th century ➜ ウンスンカルタ

noun:

• machine for making (white) lines (in sport fields, etc.) - From English "line car"