noun:

• bow (and arrow)
• unit of distance to an archery target (approx. six feet)
• unit of distance for land surveying (approx. eight feet)

noun:

• MMR vaccine (for measles, mumps and rubella)

noun:

• small double-reed wind instrument used in gagaku (made of bamboo, with 7 holes on top and 2 below) ➜ 雅楽【ががく】

noun:

• Konaki Jijii (a ghost in Japanese folklore with the shape of a small old man and having a baby's cry)

noun:

• thick toast with honey (and often with fruit, icecream, etc.) - sometimes ハニ塔 - abbreviation ➜ ハニートースト

noun:

• portable incense burner (ball-shaped and carried in one's clothes)

noun:

• Spanish-Japanese (gen. for translations and dictionaries)

noun:

• Tsuchimikado Shinto (synthesis of Shinto and Onmyōdō formulated by Yasutomi Tsuchimikado in the mid-Edo period) ➜ 陰陽道

noun:

• shelling (e.g. of eggs, nuts, crabs and such)

noun:

• Chiloscyllium (genus of carpet sharks or bamboo sharks in the family Hemiscylliidae with long snouts and subterminal nostrils)

noun:

• blue-tailed monitor (Varanus doreanus, species of carnivorous monitor lizard found in Australia, New Guinea, and the Bismarck Archipelago); Kalabeck's monitor

noun:

• tangible side of things (such as equipment and facilities; as opposed to the abstract side) ➜ ソフト面

noun:

• travelling inspector of the provincial governments (Nara- and Heian-period position)

noun:

• foreign ship (esp. of Spanish and Portuguese ships arriving from the south prior to the Edo period)

noun:

• the five oceans (Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and Arctic)

noun:

• water supply pipe inlet/outlet (esp. on standpipes and dry risers)

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• inflection of words (e.g. declension of nouns and conjugation of verbs) - Linguistics term

noun:

• style of polite speech in Japanese (with sentences ending in "desu" and verbs ending in "masu")

noun:

• annihilation (of particle and anti-particle) - Physics term

noun:

• Cod Wars (conflicts between the United Kingdom and Iceland regarding fishing rights (1958, 1971, 1975))

noun:

• euphonic change wherein some mora ('ku', 'gu', 'hi', 'bi' and 'mi') are pronounced 'u' - Linguistics term

noun:

• Assumption (of the body and soul of Mary into heaven) ➜ 聖母マリア

noun:

• moquette (thick velvety synthetic fabric used for carpets and soft upholstery)

noun:

• four grave prohibitions (killing, theft, adultery, and deceit) - Buddhism term

noun / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• bright white (esp. for snow and ice); brilliant white