noun / ~の noun:

• ill-preparedness; insufficient preparation; lack of preparation

noun:

• asexuality; nonsexuality; lack of sexual attraction or orientation
• non-sexual love

noun / ~の noun:

• irregularity; unevenness; asymmetry; lack of uniformity

noun / adjectival noun:

• inelegance; want of artistic taste; lack of poetic sense ➜ 無風流

noun / ~する noun:

• otherworldliness; detachment from the real world; lack of worldly sense - usu. used adjectivally as 浮世離れした

adjectival noun:

• unrecognized; unrecognised; lack of recognition

adjectival noun / noun:

• unevenness; irregularity; lack of uniformity

noun / adjectival noun:

• frivolity; superficiality; fickleness; lack of substance - four character idiom - obscure term ➜ 軽佻浮薄

noun:

• solar pond (salty pond in which energy from solar energy accumulates in the lower layers, due to lack of convection)

expression:

• don't feed autumn eggplant to your wife (because they're too delicious, because they'll give her the chills, or because their lack of seeds will reduce her fertility) - proverb

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to be quiet (due to lack of activity); to be in a slump (of a business) - idiom ➜ 閑古鳥

noun:

• someone unable to fulfil their shopping needs (esp. in areas of depopulation or due to lack of transport); people who have been cut off from the retail sector; shopping refugee [literal]

noun:

• hypoxic encephalopathy (brain damage from lack of oxygen)

adjectival noun / noun:

• ignorance; (lack of) enlightenment or civilization (civilisation); unenlightened; uncivilized; uncivilised

noun / ~する noun:

• cancelling a meeting; adjournment of a meeting (due to lack of attendance)

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to make up (an insufficiency); to ease (a lack) ➜ 足しになる

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to swell; to become swollen; to become puffy (e.g. face from lack of sleep); to become bloated (esp. from fluid retention)

noun:

• empty air; sky
• shunyata; emptiness; the lack of an immutable intrinsic nature within any phenomenon - Buddhism term
• air force - abbreviation ➜ 空軍

noun / adjectival noun:

• fruitlessness; meaninglessness
• void (one of the five elements) ➜ 五大

~の noun:

• empty (e.g. set) - Mathematics term

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to rot; to go bad; to decay; to spoil; to fester; to decompose; to turn sour (e.g. milk)
• to corrode; to weather; to crumble
• to become useless; to blunt; to weaken (from lack of practice)
• to become depraved; to be degenerate; to be morally bankrupt; to be corrupt
• to be depressed; to be dispirited; to feel discouraged; to feel down ➜ 気が腐る【きがくさる】

auxiliary verb / godan ~る verb:

• to have the audacity to; to be bastard enough to - after the -masu stem of a verb; indicates scorn or disdain for another's action - usually written using kana alone - Kansai dialect ➜ やがる

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to lose a bet - archaism
• to be drenched; to become sopping wet - archaism

godan ~ぶ verb / intransitive verb:

• to fly (with great force); to blast (e.g. into the sky)
• to lack common sense
• to be extremely surprised (by) - colloquialism

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to become damp; to become moist; to become wet
• to lack energy; to be in a slump; to be in low spirits; to feel depressed ［しめる］ - often as 湿って or 湿った

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to chip; to nick; to break; to crack
• to lack

noun:

• not holding on; not using the hands; letting go one's hold
• lack of reserve (in expressing one's emotions); lack of restraint; openly (saying)

noun:

• disappearance of snow (i.e. due to melting) - obscure term
• lack of snow (i.e. snow not falling) - obscure term

adjectival noun / noun:

• ugliness; homeliness
• lack of ability; incompetence