Vocabulary Browser

postal life insurance

anisotropic

Act on the Protection of Personal Information Held by Incorporated Administrative Agencies, etc.

Asian countries with alleged strong anti-Japanese sentiment (i.e. China, South Korea, and North Korea)

don't feed autumn eggplant to your wife (because they're too delicious, because they'll give her the chills, or because their lack of seeds will reduce her fertility)

X-ray (photography)

government-managed health insurance

Sumatra-Andaman earthquake (2004, resulting in the Indian Ocean tsunami)

tongue worm (any worm of phylum Pentastomida)

Nandikesvara (Ganesh in the Buddhist pantheon)

hemichordate (any worm of phylum Hemichordata)

voir dire (hearing to determine the admissibility of evidence, or the competency of a witness or juror)

flat-topped burial mound

auspicious bird (e.g. crane, Chinese phoenix, Vermilion Bird)

pentastomid (any worm of phylum Pentastomida)

seashore false bindweed (Calystegia soldanella)

eight-headed, eight-tailed serpent (in Japanese mythology)

to marry (of a woman)

the five skandhas (matter, sensation, perception, mental formations and consciousness)

small water spring

midsummer greetings

Monoplacophora (polyphyletic class of mollusks)

Festival of Emperor Jimmu (formerly held annually on April 3, the supposed day of his death)

excipient (inactive ingredient added to a drug)

five dhyani buddhas

undisputedly

kanji reading and meaning

Aryavalokitesvara (manifestation of Avalokitesvara)

forged card (e.g. cash card, credit card)

old gentleman