noun:

• beautiful white-skinned lady (usu. wrt to freckle removal and skin whitening products)

noun:

• former capital region (i.e. Kyoto and its environs)

noun:

• tigon (offspring of a male tiger and a female lion); tiglon ➜ ライガー

expression / noun:

• too-good-to-be-true offers (e.g. scams and frauds); too-good-to-be-true stories

noun:

• campfire (usually large, and for gathering and singing, etc. around)

noun:

• sirenian (any aquatic mammal of order Sirenia, incl. manatees, and dugongs); sea cow

noun:

• dictionary of seasonal words (for haiku and haikai) ➜ 歳時記

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:

• Chinese fancy mouse (usu. all-white with red eyes)

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