noun:

• K-T boundary (between the Cretaceous Period and the Tertiary Period)

noun:

• southern Tohoku (usually Miyagi, Yamagata and Fukushima prefectures)

noun:

• fish served whole (complete with head and tail)

noun:

• combined school (e.g. junior high and high school) ➜ 中高一貫校【ちゅうこういっかんこう】

noun:

• Carcharodon (genus containing the extant great white shark and the extinct megalodon shark in the mackerel or white shark family Lamnidae)

noun:

• northern Tohoku (usually Aomori, Iwate and Akita prefectures)

noun:

• glutinous millet (for making mochi and certain types of alcohol)

noun:

• heated stone (wrapped in cloth and kept next to the body for warmth)

noun:

• heloderm (any venomous lizard of genus Heloderma, incl. the gila monster and the beaded lizard)

noun / ~する noun:

• studying together (esp. of males and females); coeducation

noun / ~する noun:

• eating into (esp. insects and larvae eating into fruit, etc.)

noun:

• university of applied science (e.g. the Dutch "Hogeschool" and the German "Fachhochschule" institutes of higher education)

noun:

• double election (e.g. of the lower and higher chambers)

noun:

• Hemiscyllium (genus of longtail carpet sharks in the family Hemiscylliidae with short snouts, nostrils at the tip, and elevated eyes and supraorbital ridges)

noun:

• Edo-period mouth harp (with a hairpin-like frame and a long straight tongue)

noun:

• weather of the four seasons (warmth of spring, heat of summer, cool of autumn, and cold of winter)

expression:

• cute, white, oval face (appearing as if someone glued eyes and a nose on an egg) - obscure term

noun:

• emergency braking procedure (e.g. during driver training and testing)

noun:

• goldlined spinefoot (Siganus guttatus, species of Eastern Indian Ocean and Western Pacific rabbitfish); orange-spotted spinefoot

noun:

• cap worn by masked dancer (cap covers hair and nape and reaches to the shoulders)

noun:

• Sorbus (genus of trees and shrubs comprising whitebeam, rowan, service tree, and mountain ash)

noun:

• (tools and) equipment

noun:

• first print (run)

counter:

• counter for people (usu. seating, reservations and such) - honorific language

noun:

• first name

prefix:

• famous; great ➜ 名探偵

suffix:

• name ➜ コード名・学校名

noun:

• noun - part of speech tag used in dictionaries - abbreviation ➜ 名詞

noun:

• blogosphere (the world of blogs and bloggers)