Vocabulary Browser

sound-level meter

Horsehead Nebula

polite Japanese as used by young part-time employees in restaurants, etc.

circular needle (knitting)

basal body

target (e.g. of a marketing campaign)

Arctic Circle (latitude)

eldest sister

the present (esp. as a privileged moment in eternity)

pleasant feeling

to blow off (strongly)

the thirty guardian deities (one for each day of the lunar month)

person who goes to greet someone (e.g. at the airport)

Poaceae (family comprising the true grasses)

Peyronie's disease

consumer sovereignty

to compare (e.g. in a competition)

localization (of software, etc.)

physiotherapy

kitchener stitch (knitting)

withers (height from ground to shoulder blades in animals)

design specifications (for public tender)

flat-bottomed wooden bowl for preparing sushi rice

passive sentence

to able to enter the New Year (i.e. have work finished, debts paid, etc.)

stand for tea bowls (tea ceremony)

large utensil stand (tea ceremony)

being fat

rhinology

coordinated intervention