expression / adjective:

• being dealt a bad hand (in mahjong, card games, etc.) - idiom
• poor (handwriting) - idiom
• unscrupulous - idiom

noun:

• fulcrum peg (fitted into the cavity in an oar as part of a traditional oarlock) - obscure term ➜ 櫓杭

expression:

• warming of water (in spring)

noun:

• township and village enterprises (in China); TVE

noun:

• first-to-file system (e.g. in patent law)

noun:

• closed circle (of suspects, in mystery fiction)

noun:

• chief nurse (in the army)

noun:

• competition (rivalry) to first (e.g. rider in a charge)

expression / godan ~る verb (irregular):

• to have an interest (in something); to feel inclined (toward doing something)

noun:

• spotted surgeonfish (Ctenochaetus strigosus, species of bristletooth tang found in Hawaii, Johnston Island, and Australia); goldring surgeonfish; goldring bristletooth

noun / ~する noun:

• photo projective method (esp. in psych.) - obscure term

noun:

• Washington Convention (i.e. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) ➜ ＣＩＴＥＳ

noun:

• Polaris (star in the constellation Ursa Minor); Alpha Ursae Minoris; the North Star - obscure term - Astronomy term ➜ ポラリス

godan ~む verb:

• to use (in cooking); to mix (in)

noun:

• old stock (in a firm)

noun:

• pusher (in a mine) ➜ 先山

noun:

• crested bullhead shark (Heterodontus galeatus, found in eastern Australia)

noun:

• Ayurveda (traditional system of medicine practiced in India)

noun:

• fifty-three stations on the Tōkaidō (Edo-Kyoto highway in Edo-period Japan)

noun:

• air-damper (e.g. in chimney)
• wind door; door through which wind blows, e.g. to cool a room - archaism

noun:

• consonant (in the Siddham script) ➜ 悉曇

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to make something pass through (esp. in cooking); to dip something (into) ➜ 潜る【くぐる】

noun:

• groove (in welding)

noun:

• blue poetry ribbon card (in hanafuda)
• the three blue poetry ribbon cards (high-scoring combination in hanafuda) ➜ 花札

noun:

• pavilion housing the emperor's bathing quarters and dressing chamber (in Heian Palace) ➜ 十七殿