Vocabulary Browser

indirect bragging (esp. on social media; by casually showing off something bragworthy as if it were unintended)

to leave in the dark

full-time trade union official

to commit a crime

polycythemia

long-term substitute teacher (filling in for someone on maternity or long-term sick leave)

in the confusion of the moment

lone criminal

to sing someone's praises

stickiness

rapid transit (in Taiwan)

reduction (of an allowance, limit, quota, etc.)

abuse of elderly people

dish of the same ingredient prepared two different ways, stewed together (esp. tofu, specialty of Kyoto)

Dutch East Indies

bubble bath with very small bubbles (giving the water a whitish appearance)

hyperthermophile

incorrect assignment (e.g. entering against the wrong account, delivering to the wrong location)

aspiration pneumonia

looking back (at the past)

identity operator

mucilaginous material used to make washi

radar lock-on

(catalytic) promoter

mercilessly

good fences make good neighbors

optic axis (of a crystal)

carrier-borne attack aircraft

androphobia

mutarotation