noun:

• taking turns on duty (esp. daimyo's retainers on duty in Edo)

noun:

• Pseudotriakis (genus of ground shark in the family Pseudotriakidae whose sole member is the false catshark)

noun:

• friends who sleep next to each other (without engaging in sexual activities)

noun:

• boom (e.g. in stock prices)

noun:

• pattra (palmyra leaves used in Ancient India for writing upon) - obscure term ➜ 貝多羅葉

noun:

• friends who sleep next to each other (without engaging in sexual activities) - abbreviation ➜ 添い寝フレンド

noun:

• principal agent (in a medicine) - Medicine term

noun / ~する noun:

• presenting a hand-copied sutra to a temple (or money, etc. in its place) ➜ 写経

noun:

• couvade (custom in which a male acts out the physical process of his own child being born) - obscure term

noun:

• favourable position (esp. in horse racing, e.g. in 3rd to 5th place during a race) - abbreviation ➜ 好位置

noun:

• period play (esp. set in the Edo period); period drama ➜ 丁髷

noun:

• court ladies' residence (in the inner Heian Palace) ➜ 五舎

noun:

• teacher's license (licence) (required to teach in preschool, elementary or secondary schools)

noun:

• Hadar (star in the constellation Centaurus); Beta Centauri - Astronomy term

noun:

• classical form of i-adjective inflection (easily recognized by its attributive form ending in "shiki" and predicative form ending in "shi")

noun:

• yellow cave goby (Trimma taylori, species found in Indo-Pacific waters); cave dwarfgoby; yellow-speckled pygmy-goby

noun:

• Chlamydoselachus (genus containing only the frilled shark and the Southern African frilled shark in the family Chlamydoselachidae)

noun:

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

noun:

• breaking up a match (on the decision of the referee, in boxing, etc.) - From English "referee stop"

noun:

• general interpellation (in the Diet)

noun:

• dish of simmered salmon head, soybeans, vegetables, and leftovers (popular in Tochigi Prefecture and surrounds) ➜ 酢憤り

noun:

• upper pool (e.g. in onsen); upper bath - mainly used in names

noun:

• consecration ritual for the conferral of the status of Acharya (in esoteric Buddhism) - Buddhism term ➜ 阿闍梨

noun / ~の noun:

• left (esp. in vertical Japanese writing); the following

noun:

• opponent (in combat) ➜ 相手【あいて】