Vocabulary Browser
Browse and learn Japanese words organized by JLPT level
standard datum of geographic coordinates
thickened eyebrows
tortoiseshell sauce
to get one's breath back
Tao Te Ching (classic Chinese text by Lao Tzu)
see-through sensation (for clothing)
hangman's noose
doing mundane things properly and thoroughly
toilet device that plays a melody or flushing sound
improvisation (usu. musical)
mass extinction
elasticity
contamination (esp. foreign bodies in food)
upskirting
military chaplain
elementary school (in Japan; 1886-1941)
New Democracy (concept devised by Mao Zedong)
geomagnetic reversal
to claim victims
A Song of Ice and Fire (series of fantasy novels by George R. R. Martin)
standing rigging
mislabelling of food (e.g. expiry date, country of origin, etc.)
mechanism of action (e.g. drug)
(drawn) line
obsession with radiation effects (esp. after the 2011 tsunami and Fukushima reactor problems)
preservation of machinery or vehicles for display purposes (i.e. no longer operational)
situation of one's own doing
preservation of obsolete machinery in a functional condition (e.g. train engines)
umwelt
large monster (Japanese film genre)