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four orders of Buddhist followers (monks, nuns, male lay devotees and female lay devotees)

urea cycle

Nash equilibrium

autosome (non-sex chromosome)

Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold and Silver Rays

ichikotsu mode (one of the six main gagaku modes)

pinky swear (i.e. linking little fingers to confirm a promise)

hunter wasp (i.e. potter wasp, sand wasp, etc.)

socialist realism

breathalyser

bhikkhuni (fully ordained Buddhist nun)

Tourette syndrome

meiosis

Act on the Protection of Personal Information

Indian song and dance (introduced to Japan by the Chams in approx. 736 CE)

anhemitonic pentatonic scale (pentatonic scale containing no semitones)

London Underground mosquito (Culex pipiens f. molestus)

daughter cell

10th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. B)

bimodal

integrated set of schools that offers education from one stage to the next without taking entrance exams en route

Luvarus (genus of perciform fish whose only member is the luvar)

seven orders of Buddhist disciples (monks, nuns, probationary nuns, male novices, female novices, male lay devotees, female lay devotees)

five ranks of nobility (in Japan; 1869-1947)

Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale (corresponding to: so, la, ti, do, re, mi, fa), similar to Mixolydian mode

phylogeny

apologetics

wives and tatami mats are best when new

chytridiomycosis (fatal infectious disease of amphibians)

inconspicuous