noun:

• Desert monitor (Varanus griseus, species of carnivorous monitor lizard found in North Africa and western Asia)

noun:

• land-tax rate during the Edo period (the government took 60 percent of the year's rice crop and the farmers kept 40 percent) - four character idiom

noun:

• legless lizard (esp. Anguidae spp., incl. glass lizards and slow worms)

noun:

• large seal script (dating from China's Spring and Autumn period onward) ➜ 大篆

expression:

• being fast asleep (and totally unaware of what is going on around one) - four character idiom
• know-it-all manner

expression / noun:

• point where two ocean currents meet (e.g. a warm current and a cold current) ➜ 潮目
• attractive glance - archaism

noun:

• three-color printing (red and yellow and blue); three-colour printing

noun:

• unsettled (fine and cloudy) weather

~と adverb / ~する noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• soft (and fluffy) (e.g. bed, bread, baked potato) - onomatopoeia

~と adverb / ~する noun:

• absent-mindedly - onomatopoeia

noun:

• glue (usu. from animal and fish bone, skin, etc.)

noun:

• spotted unicornfish (Naso maculatus, species of Pacific tang found from Japan and Lord Howe Island to Hawaii)

noun:

• fifth of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Saturn and central) ➜ 九星

noun:

• traditional Japanese alcohol (primarily sake, but also shochu and fruit wine) ➜ 日本酒

noun:

• Percoidei (suborder of perch and perch-like fish) ➜ 鱸

noun:

• ridged wooden bench used in SM practices (and in the Edo period for torturing female prisoners)

noun:

• redbelly tilapia (Tilapia zillii, fish of the family Cichlidae found in Africa and Eurasia)

noun:

• Fifteen Years' War (starting with the Manchurian Incident in 1931 and ending with the Japanese surrender in 1945)

noun:

• scoophead (Sphyrna media, species of little-known hammerhead shark found in tropical waters of the western Atlantic and eastern Pacific)

noun / ~する noun:

• male-to-female genderswap (in fan art and fan fiction) - slang ➜ 男体化

noun:

• Wotan (god in German and Anglo-Saxon mythology); Wodan ➜ オーディン

noun:

• homely woman (esp. one with a small low nose, high flat forehead, and bulging cheeks); plain woman - derogatory term ➜ お多福・ひょっとこ
• soba in soup with slices of boiled fish paste, shiitake mushrooms, greens, seaweed, etc. - abbreviation ➜ お亀蕎麦

noun:

• Avici hell (the eighth and most painful of the eight hells) - Buddhism term

noun:

• Sunna (collection of recorded words and actions of the prophet Muhammad); Sunnah - From Arabic "sunna"

noun:

• young man (between 15 and 25 years old) - Kagoshima dialect

noun:

• Egyptian script (i.e. hieroglyphs, hieratic, and demotic)