Vocabulary Browser
Browse and learn Japanese words organized by JLPT level
Iran-Contra affair (1984-1986)
electric wheelchair
Cod Wars (UK-Iceland confrontations over fishing rights; 1958, 1971, 1975)
loss of equilibrium
(second) Boer War (1899-1902)
care for patients with bedpans, urinary bottles, etc.
cryptid (animal whose existence is unsubstantiated, e.g. the yeti)
Watergate scandal (1972-1975)
moa (extinct, flightless bird formerly found in New Zealand)
leafbird
walk
Euphorbiaceae (family of flowering plants)
Portuguese man-of-war (Physalia physalis)
telepathic communication
to stop midway
birth parents
coming to Japan (of a non-Japanese person)
to affix
The Five (circle of Russian composers: Balakirev, Cui, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Borodin)
alternating current
sports club (e.g. at school)
red terror
to make a lovely picture
prolate spheroid
pink film
far point (farthest point at which an object can be brought into focus by the eye)
experience is the best teacher
near point (closest point at which an object can be brought into focus by the eye)
it's always darkest before the dawn
bending moment