noun:

• brace (in construction); angle brace

noun:

• Coming of Age Day (second Monday in January. Prior to 2000 was Jan 15); Adult's Day

noun:

• pressing the top of a pickle vat by hanging a weight on a staff, used as a lever (in Kyoto suguki pickle making) - obscure term

noun:

• sitting on the floor grasping one's knees (as in a gym class) ➜ 体育座り【たいいくずわり】

noun:

• boulder (esp. in free climbing)

noun:

• user needs (generally in market research and IT)

noun:

• temple (in a loom); tenter

noun:

• hakama without gussets (worn by female students and later male students in the Meiji period); hakama without gores - archaism

noun:

• error (in the operation of a machine, vehicle, etc.); operation mistake; operational error

noun:

• Weigela hortensis (species of deciduous shrub in the honeysuckle family)

prefix:

• august (in ref. to the emperor or the gods); imperial; divine - honorific language

noun:

• lingering heat (in autumn)
• remaining flame

noun:

• provincial governorate (beginning in the late Heian period)

noun:

• human vegetable (i.e. someone in a vegetative state) - sensitive - four character idiom

noun:

• muddy track (in horse racing); dead track

noun:

• ringing one's chopsticks against a dish (in order to request seconds, etc.) (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• juvenile Japanese sea perch (usu. 2-3 years in age and 40-60 cm in length) ➜ 鱸

noun:

• making from scratch (esp. in model-making and information systems); full scratch building - From English "full scratch"

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• sudden and unexpected (as in a person's death)

noun:

• single yarn (in spinning)

noun:

• substrate (i.e. in biochemistry)
• matrix (i.e. in biology); stroma

noun:

• dispel (esp. magic or potion used to return one's character to normal status in an RPG, etc.)

noun:

• scaling (e.g. in computer graphics) - IT term

noun:

• second blooming (in a season); reflowering; reflorescence ➜ 返り咲き【かえりざき】
• return to working by a prostitute, kabuki actor, etc. - archaism

noun:

• 007 (James Bond's code in the books and films); double-oh-seven