noun:

• base support (e.g. for a party in an election); substrate; load bearing layer; supporting layer

noun:

• hitting the maximum value of a numeric counter (in a video game) - From English "counter stop" ➜ カンスト

noun:

• type of lettering consisting of thick vertical and horizontal lines which is often used in seals

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• keeping calm and collected at times of disappoinment; maintaining a serene state of mind in adversity - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• subprime lending in housing mortage market; housing loans to low-income, high-risk consumers

noun:

• round coin with a (square) hole in the center - colloquialism
• coin made of non-precious materials
• money

noun:

• coin (esp. an east Asian coin, many of which have a hole in the center)

noun:

• weaverbird; weaver (any of a number of birds in family Ploceidae that weave elaborate nests)

noun:

• message butting in (to a conversation between two other people on a BBS, etc.) - slang

noun:

• par save (in golf, number of shots above par for that hole)

noun:

• the five elements (in Japanese philosophy: earth, water, fire, wind and void) - Buddhism term ➜ 五行【ごぎょう】
• five great wisdom kings - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 五大明王

noun:

• (in Japan) 4th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. F) - archaism ➜ 十二律・夾鐘

noun / ~する noun:

• excellence (of scenery, etc.) - usu. しょうぜつ

noun:

• river in which worshippers wash their hands (and rinse their mouth) prior to entering a shrine

noun:

• stream of water cascading onto one's back (in an onsen); pelting water; waterfall shower

noun:

• bianzhong (ancient Chinese musical instrument; bronze bells set in a wooden frame, played with a mallet) ➜ 鐘

noun:

• large ball; giant ball (e.g. as pushed by competing teams in a school sports day)

noun:

• full interchange (an interchange that has exits and entrances in both directions)

noun:

• haggis (traditional Scottish dish made from a sheep's offal cooked in the animal's stomach)

noun:

• Stegostoma (genus of one species of Indo-Pacific carpet shark in the family Stegostomatidae)

noun:

• Megachasma (sole genus of the rare deep water megamouth shark in the family Megachasmidae)

noun:

• Loxodon (genus containing the sliteye shark as its only member in the family Carcharhinidae)

noun:

• Hexanchus; genus of sixgill sharks in the family Hexanchidae comprised of 2 extant species

noun:

• Desert monitor (Varanus griseus, species of carnivorous monitor lizard found in North Africa and western Asia)

noun:

• Mertens' water monitor (Varanus mertensi, species of carnivorous monitor lizard found in northern Australia)

noun:

• first half of the Lotus Sutra, in which the Buddha appears as a spatiotemporally restricted being ➜ 本門