noun:

• painful reproach (like a needle stuck in one's scalp)

noun:

• (in gagaku) scale similar to Dorian mode on B

noun:

• Polaris (star in the constellation Ursa Minor); Alpha Ursae Minoris; the North Star - Astronomy term ➜ ポラリス

noun:

• dwelling unit (esp. in apartment block, etc.)

noun:

• three bonds (in Confucianism: master & servant, father & son, husband & wife)

noun:

• waiting list (waiting for someone to cancel) - abbreviation - slang ➜ キャンセル待ち

godan ~す verb:

• to factor out (e.g. in algebra); to pull out common elements

noun:

• form (in Aristotelian philosophy) - From Greek "eidos"
• idea (in Platonic philosophy)

noun:

• Konkokyo (Shinto sect founded in 1859)

expression / ~の noun:

• not included (in a compilation, album, etc.)

noun:

• beast (esp. one used for its meat, such as a boar or a deer) - archaism
• hunting (of animals such as boar, deer, etc.) - abbreviation ➜ 獣狩り

noun:

• dispute over the distribution of water into paddies during the summer (in rural areas) ➜ 水争い

noun:

• television air time cost (for commercials); broadcast fee

noun:

• Izumo dialect (spoken mostly in eastern Shimane prefecture)

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to open one's eyes wide (as in fear or anger) ➜ 白目【しろめ】
• to faint

noun:

• Eviota masudai (species of pygmy goby found in Japanese waters)

noun:

• christie turn (in skiing); christy turn; christiania turn - From German "Kristiania"

noun:

• sizzle (usu. in advertising); dazzle; (a) kicker

noun / ~の noun:

• what if (as in "what if" stories)

expression:

• Very truly yours (a complimentary close used in a letter written in an old epistolary style) - four character idiom

suffix:

• first doing of ... (ever, in one's life, in the new year, etc.) - after the -masu stem of a verb

noun:

• Eucharist (in Catholicism); Holy Communion

noun:

• living god (honorific term for the emperor) - archaism ➜ 現つ神

noun:

• human chain (chain of people holding hands, usually in protest)

noun:

• layering (e.g. in gardening)