extensive knowledge; erudition; learned; erudite; well-informed
brood; stud; stock; breeding
huff!; yo-heave-ho!; yoisho! (word shouted by the spectators during a yokozuna's ritual stomps); yoisho (filler word in folk music, etc.); flattery; buttering up (someone)
counting one's chickens before they're hatched; (lit.) counting raccoon dog skins before they have been caught
pulsation; pulsatory motion
young bird; chick; fledgling; hina doll; doll displayed during the Girls' Festival
taking something into consideration; making allowances; discounting
going into a frenzy; flying into a rage
have no relation to; have no luck with; not be fated to
picking out; choosing; picking (someone) up (in a vehicle); pickup (in a record player); (phono) cartridge; pickup (truck)
salt pan (used for boiling seawater to make salt); cooking a fish inside a salt crust; candy made with a wrapping of sweetened rice flour (looking like a salt crust)
making a person, pet, etc. wait (before being permitted to do something); postponement; putting on hold
to have to wait (for the realization of something hoped for); to be forced to postpone
intelligence; intellect; brains
herbivorous; plant-eating; graminivorous
omnivore; omnivorous animal
to tame (an animal); to domesticate
nervous; highly strung; sensitive; fussy; worried about petty things
custom; practice; convention; precedent
mislabelling of food (e.g. expiry date, country of origin, etc.); food fraud
suggestion; proposition; proposal; submission (of a bill); motion; proposal
to cling to; to embrace; to throw one's arms around
red rice (beans and mochi) for auspicious occasions
gushingly; copiously; profusely; in a steady stream
annotation; explanatory note; comment
shell (e.g. electron shell)
inside; interior; inner part
shrill voice (esp. of women and children)
very short and stout; small but quite wide around
fluffy; lumpy (e.g. clothing); uneven; bulging (e.g. muscles)