because ...; for ...; the reason being ...; as for ...; when it comes to ...; regarding ...
emergency; extraordinary; unusual
serious; important; significant; grave; weighty
reverse; opposite; converse (of a hypothesis, etc.); inverse (function)
that is to say; that is; in short; in brief; clogging; obstruction; shrinkage
recuperation; medical treatment
existing (at the present moment); alright; acceptable; to be (usu. of inanimate objects); to have
waste of time; killing time
beginning and end; doing something from beginning to end; being unchanged from beginning to end; from beginning to end; the whole time
at first; in the beginning; originally
custom; practice; said; aforementioned; instance; example
how should I put it?; what shall I say?; well, you know; like
sex life; sexual activities
to differ; to vary; to disagree
this; this one; this person; now; this point (in time); here; used to stress the subject of a sentence
as a child; when one was a child; childhood
domination; rule; direction; management; control (e.g. over one's emotions); determining (e.g. one's fate)
sometimes; at intervals; occasionally; on occasion; from time to time
slap (sound of a flat object continuously striking something); splash
to hit (e.g. to have a car hit someone); to run into; to reject; to deny; to eliminate; to exclude; to flip
from out of nowhere; from who knows where
corner; edge; (street) corner; turning; rough edges (of one's character, words, etc.); abrasiveness
merman; half man-half fish
to hold one's breath; to bate one's breath
feeling; sense; impression
tuna (edible fish, Thunnus spp.); tunny; Pacific bluefin tuna (edible fish, Thunnus orientalis); dead lay; starfish
group; crowd; flock; herd; bevy; school
(swimming) pool; pool (billiards); pool (together)
sturgeon (esp. the green sturgeon, Acipenser medirostris)
to go upstream; to go back (in time, to origin); to date back to; to trace back to
lump of meat; piece of flesh; human body
to bite; to sink one's teeth into; to nip
electricity; (electric) light
eel (esp. the Japanese eel, Anguilla japonica)
to be stingy; to be tightfisted
miniature light bulb; midget lamp
dots; spots; bit by bit; little by little; here and there; scattered
to light (a candle, lamp, etc.); to turn on (a light)
innumerable; countless; numberless
scale (of fish, snake, etc.); serif (on kana or kanji (e.g. in Mincho font))