Vocabulary

dress worn by a geisha to a zashiki party

night fishing with nets

C (programming language)

alpha helix

gelatinization

alpha helix

playful; mischievous

comb-shaped

creatinurea; creatinuria

iron salt; ferric salt

Oshima tsumugi weave (type of pongee made in the Amami islands)

gel

rubber bullet

waste cocoon (silk); bad cocoon; damaged cocoon

tsumugi silk yarn; (spun) silk noil yarn

elastomer

gumma

syrup; syrupus

Stefan-Boltzmann law

throwing stone; sling stone; slingshot; pellet; pebble; small rock

sponge

stridor

short flute piece (in kyogen; usu. a lively solo)

yuzen (dyeing method or pattern); silk printed by the yuzen process

surging crowd

Nahuatl (people)

screw type; screw-on; threaded

garment padded with cotton

cotton garment; clothes made out of cotton

panoramic photography

cotton garment; clothes made out of cotton

clothes padded with cotton

panoramic radiography; panoramic x-ray photography

plank used to dry wet clothes or paper

plaything; toy

temple dedicated to Kannon

woodblock printing; woodblock print

uphill path; path or slope that becomes slowly steeper

downhill path

heterozygosis