(your) words; what you say; what you have said; a few words (of welcome, advice, etc.)
password; watchword; motto; slogan
language of flowers (e.g. the use of red roses to signify love); floriography
as stated; verbatim; literally
speech; expression; wording; language
words of praise; eulogy; compliment
alluring words; endearing words; sugared words; sweet words; honeyed words; flattery
word ending; way of ending one's words; slip of the tongue; verbal mistake
word game; wordplay; playing with words
Word of God; God's Word; sword of the Spirit; Logos (i.e. the Trinity incarnate in Jesus Christ)
skillful words; deceitful words; glibness
lack of words; being tongue-tied; suppressing what you want to say
pillow word; decorative word used prefixally in classical Japanese literature; preface; introduction
number of words; vocality
speech; expression; wording; language
men's language; male language
spoken language; colloquial expression
women's language; word used by women
I can't find the words to thank you; I can never thank you enough
baby talk; baby language; babbling
fighting words; inflammatory words; provocative remark
prefatory modifying statement (of a waka, etc.)
retort (to an insult, jeer, etc.)
words used by young people; slang
Kyoto dialect; Kyoto accent
sociolect emphasizing the femininity of the speaker (esp. used by homosexual men)
kakekotoba; pivot word; play on words (esp. in poetry); pun
common word; common phrase; everyday expression; jargon; lingo; argot
taboo word; euphemism (used in place of a taboo word)
word of Japanese origin; native Japanese word
local dialect; vernacular; provincialism
provincial dialect; rural dialect
words read by the priest in a Shinto purification rite
large number of words; (lit.) sea of words
dropping the "ra" in the potential form of verbs formed with "-rareru"
norito read at a great purification event
stinging (barbed) words; harsh language
word said backwards; word of opposite meaning
working-class dialect of the Shitamachi area of Tokyo
buzzword; popular expression; vogue word or phrase
word mainly used in tanka; poetical word
meaningless words added (to a traditional Japanese song) for rhythmical effect; words or utterances added to modulate the cadence of a song; non-lexical vocables
local dialect; vernacular; provincialism; national language
secret language of court ladies (Muromachi period)
spoken language; spoken words; language
polite language used by women
four-letter word (esp. in English)
In the beginning was the Word
vernacular; local dialect
filler word; filler phrase
word created by retaining the first syllable (or two) of a word and suffixing it with the word "moji"
bureaucratic jargon; officialese; gobbledygook
repeated word or phrase; redundant wording; succession of words of similar meaning; pleonasm
samurai words and phrases
refined speech of the uptown residents of Tokyo
sociolect used by prostitutes in the Yoshiwara red light district during the Edo period
filled pause (e.g. um, er); filler word
island language; island dialect
sa-added word (i.e. causative forms with an extra 'sa' like 'ikasaseru' for 'iku')
countryside dialect; sociolect or secret language used by prostitutes in red-light districts during the Edo period
Ecclesiastes (book of the Bible); (lit.) words of Qohelet
samurai words and phrases
euphemisms used by hunters, lumberjacks, etc. when in the wild; (lit.) mountain language
language used when writing letters
word to soften awkward topics (esp. refusal in business conversation, e.g. "I am afraid that ...")
language game in which extra syllables are added to words
language game in which extra syllables are added to words
euphemisms used by superstitious sailors (e.g. calling sardines "sundries", whales "Ebisu", etc.)
word consisting of (two) repeated syllables
words betray one's character
teyo-dawa speech; mid-Meiji period schoolgirl slang in which sentence-end particles "teyo" and "dawa" were used prominently
typed language (as opposed to spoken language or formal written language); language used in digital written communication (characterized by abbreviations, emoticons, etc.)
adding a superfluous "re" to the potential form of a godan verb
word choice; choice of words
abusive language; expletive; swear word; curse word
low-class language; vulgar words
sociolect or secret language used by prostitutes in red-light districts (Edo period); vulgar words used by prostitutes (Edo period)