Vocabulary

home builder

vinyl wallpaper; vinyl-coated wallpaper

interior finish material

exterior finish material; exterior wall material

shellac varnish

registered architect with a first-class license

registered architect with a second-class license

registered architect with a license for wood construction

air vent

air supply port; vent

executive suite

executive floor; club floor

club floor; executive floor

room cleaning; hotel housekeeping

online booking; online reservation

night roost (animal behaviour); night roosting

American scum

cockroach

original poster (of an Internet thread); OP; thread starter

woman one wants to have sex with at first sight

person who argues that everything is better abroad (esp. football); self-hating Japanese

Mary Sue novel; wish-fulfillment story

DNA test; genetic test; genetic testing

overseas assignment; overseas posting

Doolittle raid

police radio

hotelier; hotelkeeper; hotel manager

Swedish gymnastics

country code top-level domain; ccTLD

day on which a park (or kindergarten, zoo, etc.) is closed

end credits (of a film, TV show, etc.); closing credits

standing while holding onto something (of an infant or toddler)

Panama disease (type of Fusarium wilt that affects bananas)

Fusarium wilt

Cavendish (banana)

Eumycetes; true fungi

cryptosporidiosis

company employee working full-time as a union official

full-time trade union official

social philosophy