noun:

• christie turn (in skiing); christy turn; christiania turn - From German "Kristiania"

noun:

• sizzle (usu. in advertising); dazzle; (a) kicker

noun / ~の noun:

• what if (as in "what if" stories)

expression:

• Very truly yours (a complimentary close used in a letter written in an old epistolary style) - four character idiom

suffix:

• first doing of ... (ever, in one's life, in the new year, etc.) - after the -masu stem of a verb

noun:

• Eucharist (in Catholicism); Holy Communion

noun:

• human chain (chain of people holding hands, usually in protest)

noun:

• layering (e.g. in gardening)

noun:

• four realms (in Tendai Buddhism or Yogacara) - Buddhism term

noun:

• lek (communal ground used by birds in mating season); lekking

noun:

• opinion (in legal context); indication

~する noun:

• to hold that (in legal context); to judge that

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be wide-eyed (in surprise); to open one's eyes wide (in wonder); to be amazed (at, by)

noun:

• mashed rice pressed on a cryptomeria skewer and toasted (used as dumplings in soups)

noun:

• Sirius (star in the constellation Canis Major); Alpha Canis Majoris; the Dog Star - Astronomy term ➜ シリウス

noun:

• three-act structure (in screenwriting: setup, confrontation, resolution)

noun / ~する noun:

• arrival on location (esp. used in transport industries, police, etc.) - abbreviation ➜ 現地到着

noun:

• Ymir (giant in Norse mythology)

noun:

• record highest (in number); most on record

noun:

• ink sac (in cephalopods)

noun:

• Regulus (star in the constellation Leo); Alpha Leonis - Astronomy term - From Latin

noun:

• double corner approach (tactic in the game of go)

noun:

• hostess (in a hostess bar) ➜ キャバクラ

noun:

• Sanno Shinto (branch of Shinto formed in the Tendai school of Buddhism)

noun:

• rising tone (in Chinese)
• (of a Japanese accent) having a high, flat tone

noun:

• Chaetodon (genus of tropical butterflyfish in the family Chaetodontidae)