noun / ~する noun:

• sitting on the floor grasping one's knees (as in a gym class) - Kansai dialect ➜ 体育座り

noun:

• long interlude (in folk songs or koto music)
• wiles (e.g. used by a prostitute to lure customers); finesse; trick

noun:

• TV listings (e.g. in newspaper); TV guide; TV schedules

~の noun / adjectival noun:

• high (e.g. ball in baseball); highish; on the high side
• on the expensive side; comparatively expensive ➜ 安め【やすめ】

noun:

• wait tile which produces a winning hand with a higher score - Mahjong term

noun:

• convulsions (in a child); nervousness; short-temperedness
• bug thought to cause children's diseases

noun:

• adulthood (i.e. age 20 in Japan); one's majority

noun:

• temporary manifestation by a buddha (in order to save people); manifested form (often a Shinto deity) - Buddhism term ➜ 本地

noun:

• flanking image (e.g. in a Buddha triad) - Buddhism term ➜ 三尊【さんぞん】・中尊【ちゅうぞん】

noun:

• bundling up (in layers of clothes)

noun:

• Neoglyphidodon (genus of damselfish in the family Pomacentridae)

noun:

• contention (e.g. in LANs) - IT term

noun:

• human (in Ainu); one's fellow man; kin; comrade - From Ainu
• self-referential term used by the Ainu about their people ➜ アイヌ

noun:

• strongly pronounced consonant (esp. in Korean); tenseness - Linguistics term

noun / ~する noun:

• normalization (e.g. in floating-point representation system); normalisation; standardization; standardisation

noun:

• clay bed-warmer (cylindrical with holes in the sides, containing a brazier)

noun:

• (in hanafuda) a collection of the rain and three non-rain light cards ➜ 花札

noun:

• double marriage (in the same family); intermarriage

noun:

• square framing (in a house, temple, screen, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• using every trick (in the book)

noun:

• doline (sinkhole, in karst topography) - From German "Doline"

noun / ~する noun:

• ducking (e.g. in boxing)

noun:

• processing trade (importing all or part of raw and auxiliary materials, parts, components, accessories, and packaging materials in bond from a foreign company, and re-exporting the finished products after processing or assembly for distribution and sale by that foreign company)

noun:

• deciding match (in a competition for a cup (pennant))

noun:

• middle dot (typographical symbol used between parallel terms, names in katakana, etc.); full-stop mark at mid- character height; interpoint (interword separation)

noun:

• tawny nurse shark (Nebrius ferrugineus, species found in the Indo-Pacific)