Vocabulary Browser

to be at a loss for words

morin khuur (stringed musical instrument of Mongolian origin)

Minister of Defense

Japanese oak silkmoth (Antheraea yamamai)

Nihon Ryōiki (Heian-period collection of Buddhist stories)

to be (too) late getting married

anatomist

gene duplication

system of equations

abandoned castle

uncle

clerk of court

(crime of) assembling with dangerous weapons

tolerability (e.g. of a drug dose)

Tsugaru dialect

to have a good eye (from having seen fine art, etc.)

to straighten up one's back (e.g. stand up straight, sit up straight)

deep slumber (as if under a spell)

(proof of) confirmation

to drive mad

plane tree (esp. the Oriental plane, Platanus orientalis)

white-bellied woodpecker (Dryocopus javensis)

unconfined compression test

finite element method

Oversight Department of the Left (overseeing the Ministries of Central Affairs, Ceremonies, Civil Administration and Popular Affairs; ritsuryō system)

opening a door for a moment (esp. on the train, when someone's foot is stuck, etc.)

black woodpecker (Dryocopus martius)

boy

evolute

Shōwa Day (national holiday; April 29)