Vocabulary

soapless soap (i.e. synthetic detergent)

dielectric constant; relative permittivity; specific inductive capacity

reciprocity failure

black hair that has been dyed blond after the roots begin to grow in at the top giving an appearance much like custard pudding; pudding head

end; limit; extremity

bum; slacker; good-for-nothing; loser

putting oneself into something; exerting oneself

twenty foot equivalent unit (container); TEU

vignetting (darkening of the perimeter of a photographic image)

qin and se (two different kinds of Chinese zither)

aeration

chief warrant officer

rehabilitation; social readjustment; aftercare; parole

god; deity; divinity; spirit; kami

chicken leg

river rafting

defecating outdoors; faeces lying on the ground (feces)

gather (e.g. in cloth)

International Criminal Court; ICC

militia; paramilitary group

United Nations Security Council

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

cowardly, good-for-nothing samurai from the countryside

snowballing (phenomenon, effect)

porphyria

folie à deux

mass hysteria

high quality soba

Asclepios shiranui (species of pond skater)

granule

pronotum

femur (in entomology)

kip-up (acrobatics)

forward handspring (gymnastics)

back handspring (gymnastics)

half interchange (an interchange that lacks an exit or an entrance in either or both directions)

full interchange (an interchange that has exits and entrances in both directions)

flexibility; bend-tolerance

systematics

strong reprimand; rebuke