子

diffraction grating

semiperishable sweets; half-dry confectionery

Organization name

Notre Dame Seishin University

Computing

assignment operator; substitution operator

genetic determinism

Computing

declarator

Biology

spermatogenesis; sperm maturation

Food, cooking

cod roe; cod milt

Proverb

like begets like; the apple doesn't fall far from the tree; eggplants don't grow on gourd vines

Colloquial

lion tamarin

Company name

Matsushita Electronics Industry Corporation

Word usually written using kana alone

coconut crab (Birgus latro)

ヤシガニ only; Slang

horribly drawn animated TV-show

Archaic

thief

mouse

cyclops (any minute crustacean of genus Cyclops)

dipole

middle child

Physics

tauon; tau particle; tau lepton

Japanese confectionery store (orig. one of high standing, supplying the imperial court, etc.); Japanese confectionery maker

fishing for young anchovy, sardines, etc.

group (of atoms)

crystal lattice

Proverb

even an eccentric head of family must be obeyed

molecular theory

swallowtail butterfly larva (a pest of citrus plants)