Vocabulary

natural cultivation (without artificial fertilizers or pesticides)

artificial light culture; cultivation using artificial lighting

organized crime group specializing in fraud (esp. bank transfer scams)

downturn (as a reaction to some event); decline

white asparagus

last man (Nietzsche's archetypal passive nihilist)

flower shop; florist's (shop)

protective colloid

molecular colloid

dispersion colloid

lyophilic colloid

eucolloid

association colloid

reversible colloid

lyophobic colloid

liquid-phase reaction

definitive stamp

liquidus

Meiji-period postal stamp featuring a large oval in its design

imprint (on the bottom edge of a sheet of stamps); manufacturer's name

fully remote (of a job); all-remote

colonial city (of ancient Greece or Rome)

Received Pronunciation; RP

acetonic acid; acetone acid

acetone sugar

acetone body

starlight scope (night-vision device)

acetylacetone

triacetonamine

hydroxyacetone

diacetone alcohol

Codd-neck bottle; Codd bottle

to get (someone's) help; to enlist the help (of); to ask for (someone's) help

dual-income household

after-hours child care

kawara soba (soba dish served on top of a roof tile)

self-employed person (esp. in the construction industry)

at the critical moment; when the time comes; when it's most important; when necessary; in an emergency; when push comes to shove

callgirl working in hotel prostitution

Sayama tea