Vocabulary

rice boiled with adzuki beans

bewitched sword; magical sword; demon sword

skilled penman

lingua franca; vehicular language; bridge language; intermediary language

car wash (esp. hand car wash)

Mother Nature

utsuro-bune; hollow ship; unidentified craft said to have washed ashore in Ibaraki Prefecture in 1803, sometimes alleged to have been a UFO

empty boat

isosurface

monk; member of religious order

number of revolutions (i.e. as an engine speed); number of rotations; speed of revolution; speed of rotation

business suit

ventral

pain threshold

respect

capstone in a cist; dolmen burial chamber

dolmen; portal tomb

burial urn (often two-storey); funerary urn

secondary grave (usu. for disinterred and washed bones); reburial grave

rim of bowl or vessel

plastic surgery; plastic operation

factory closure; factory shutdown

boneless rib (esp. of pork or beef); boned rib

fried mixture of minced pork, miso, mirin, etc. (Okinawan dish)

proactive

proactive

proactive inhibition

retroactive inhibition

flavour enhancer (e.g. monosodium glutamate); flavor enhancer

offering; sacrifice

time

consecration ritual for the conferral of the status of Acharya (in esoteric Buddhism)

precepts given to an adherent prior to being consecrated as an Acharya (in esoteric Buddhism)

to have become worn

to smoke (tobacco)

step-sister (younger); stepsister

step-sister (elder); stepsister

Tonghak (19th century Korean religious movement)

reliable; authentic

thrust bearing; thrust block