noun:

• outer join (e.g. in relational database); left outer join - IT term
• external coupling; external linkage

noun:

• risk money; money invested in high-risk, high-return, investments

noun:

• tatami room - polite language ➜ 座敷
• dinner party in a tatami room with a geisha or maiko ➜ 座敷

~する verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:

• to close in on (30 years of age, etc.); to approach; to get close to ➜ 垂んとす

godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:

• to face each other; to be opposite one another ➜ 相対する
• to be in opposition; to conflict

~する verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:

• to face each other; to be opposite one another
• to be in opposition; to conflict

suffix noun:

• keep ...-ing; have been ...-ing; leaving (something) on; leaving (something) still in use - negative nuance, with the state being improper, unpleasant, etc. ➜ っ放し

noun:

• imperfect (Buddhist) training; imperfection in one's (Buddhist) training; incomplete training; poor training - Buddhism term

pronoun:

• I; me - used by Buddhist monks - humble language

noun:

• rock partially submerged in water; rock partially emerging from the water
• pumice stone

expression / godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to fall into someone's hands; to place oneself in someone's power

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to ruin one's reputation in later life; to tarnish one's twilight years

noun / ~する noun:

• failure (in an examination); failing to advance (to the next year) Antonym: 及第
• falling short of the standard; not making the grade

adjectival noun:

• very hungry; starving; famished - onomatopoeia

~と adverb / adverb / ~する noun:

• fawning; bowing and scraping; being obsequious; being servile; kowtowing; bowing repeatedly; cringing - onomatopoeia ➜ ぺこん
• giving in; being dented - onomatopoeia ➜ ぺこん

noun:

• the Four Heavenly Kings (Dhrtarastra, Virudhaka, Virupaksa, and Vaisravana) - Buddhism term
• the big four (i.e. four leaders in a given field)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to weigh one thing against the other; to act in consideration of; to compare and take into consideration

noun:

• ghostleg lottery; ladder lottery; lottery in which participants trace a line across a lattice pattern to determine the winner

noun:

• individually "washing" a partner's fingers or toes in one's vagina (esp. as a service at a soapland) - slang ➜ ソープランド

noun:

• peacock monitor (Varanus auffenbergi, species of carnivorous monitor lizard native to the island of Roti in Indonesia); Auffenberg's monitor

noun:

• Otenmon conspiracy (political incident in 866CE centered around the destruction by fire of the main gate of the imperial palace) - archaism

noun:

• chief financial official (Edo period); commissioner of finance; chief treasurer; paymaster
• chief accountant in a daimyo's service (Muromachi period)

noun / ~する noun:

• attendance (at work); being at work; presence (in the office); going to work; reporting for work ➜ 退勤

noun / ~する noun:

• being elected
• being selected (to win a prize, etc.)
• winning (in a lottery, raffle, etc.) ➜ 当籤

expression / ~の noun:

• the way it was; the way it used be; as of old; in former times

noun:

• washing place (e.g. for laundry or tableware)
• place for washing oneself in a bathroom

noun / ~する noun:

• kun'yomi (native Japanese reading of a kanji)
• reading a Chinese text (kanbun) in Japanese