Meanings

drug czar

compensating for one's shortcomings by incorporating others' strong points

plesiosaur

longitudinal direction

long-term memory

slugging percentage

(high) growth business

rapid economic growth (esp. that of Japan in the post-WWII period)

period of rapid growth (especially Japan's period of rapid economic growth after WWII)

(full-length) novel

chief engineer

anonymous scholarship system for orphans whose parents have been killed in traffic accidents

plagioclase feldspar

albite

Yanbaru long-armed scarab beetle (Cheirotonus jambar)

very low frequency wave

deputy director

freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium spp., esp. the Oriental river prawn, Macrobrachium nipponense)

master of the rice field

lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)