noun:

• overwhelming majority (number of parliamentary seats required in order for the ruling coalition to chair all standing committees and pass bills without the support of other parties)

noun:

• shelving location of books (in a library)

noun:

• Eusteralis yatabeana (species of plant in the mint family)

noun:

• agora (public open space in ancient Greece) - From Ancient Greek
• Agora (programming language) - IT term

noun:

• Lamna (genus of mackerel sharks or white sharks with two living species in the family Lamnidae)

noun:

• Bird Day Fair (held at Otori Shrine on each Day of the Bird in November)

noun:

• organizer (in vertebrate embryology)

noun:

• illegal resident (in a country); illegal alien; illegal overstayer (person who has overstayed their visa)

noun:

• mekuri karuta (card game popular in the late Edo period)
• hanafuda; Japanese playing cards (12 suits of 4 cards, each suit representing a month indicated by a flower) ➜ 花札

noun:

• landing hill (in ski jumping) - From English "landing" or German "bahn"

noun:

• mixture of lime and fermented indigo leaves after the indigo dye has precipitated from the leaves (byproduct in the process of creating indigo dye)

noun:

• latent variable (e.g. in statistics)

noun:

• elixir of life (prepared from cinnabar in ancient China)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to incline one's head to the side (in doubt); to tilt one's head to the side (in confusion); to be puzzled

noun:

• modal shift (esp. changes in freight transport, e.g. from air to sea)

noun:

• stylistic marking (in music, e.g. "dolce", "tranquillo", etc.)

noun:

• corridor connecting an annex to a pond-side building (in traditional palatial-style architecture) ➜ 中門・寝殿造り

noun:

• number of elements (e.g. in a matrix) - IT term

noun:

• politician (or someone otherwise engaged in politics); statesman

noun:

• Denebola (star in the constellation Leo); Beta Leonis - Astronomy term

noun:

• entrance curtain (in noh)

noun:

• rock (in rock, paper, scissors game) ➜ じゃん拳・グー

adverb / noun:

• sound made through constricted throat - onomatopoeia ➜ ぐうの音も出ない
• sound made in suffering or under adversity - onomatopoeia

expression / ichidan verb:

• to give one's life (e.g. in battle); to devote one's life (e.g. to a cause)

noun:

• numerical aperture (in photography)

noun:

• ball girl (as in tennis) ➜ ボールボーイ