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All Japanese words, A–Z

ーガー
Used to make the names of hamburgers served in buns with the addition of the specified foodstuff, or with that foodstuff used in place of the usual meat. · gā
ABC順
The sequence of a collection of items (such as words in a dictionary) arranged in order by position in the alphabet.
adj.1 + れば + adj.1 程 + adj.2
With a comparative or with more and a verb phrase, establishes a correlation with one or more other such comparatives.
ATM
(banking) Initialism of automated teller machine or automatic teller machine.
AV
(countable, informal, chiefly, in the plural) A pornographic work.
BDSM
Sexual or non-sexual practices or activities involving bondage, discipline, sadism, masochism, or acts of domination and submission.
B級品
(usually, in the plural) A manufactured item that, though still usable, fails to meet quality control standards. · bīkyuuhin
CIS
Initialism of Commonwealth of Independent States.
clams
To dig for clams.
CM
(marketing) A commercial solicitation designed to sell some commodity, service or similar.
CPU
(computer hardware) Initialism of central processing unit.
DNA
(biochemistry, genetics) Initialism of deoxyribonucleic acid (“a nucleic acid found in all living things (and some non-living things such as certain viruses) which consists of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix; encoded in its structure are genetic instructions for development, functioning, growth, and reproduction”). · dī・enu・ē
DP
(fandom slang) Initialism of w:Pokémon Diamond and Pearl.
EDT
(software) An editor on the VMS operating system.
GL
(especially, Japanese fiction) A narrative or visual work featuring a romance or sexual relationship between two or more women.
hogehoge
(programming) A metasyntactic variable name, a place holder for words; compare foo, bar.
HTML
Initialism of Hypertext Markup Language.
ICU
(medical) Initialism of intensive care unit.
IKEA
An international, originally Swedish home products retailer that sells modern, utilitarian design furniture, much of which is assembled by the consumer.
iPod
(by extension) Any portable personal MP3 player or similar device.
IPアドレス
(Internet) A number assigned to each computer's or other device's network interface, which are active on a network. supporting the Internet Protocol, in order to distinguish each network interface, and hence each networked device) from every other network interface anywhere on the network. · IPadoresu
IQ
Initialism of intelligence quotient.
ISIS
A Salafist group mainly active in Iraq and Syria, where it has proclaimed itself as a (unrecognized) state and later caliphate. [from 2013]
IT
(informatics) Initialism of information technology.
LAN
(networking) Acronym of local area network.
LED
Initialism of light-emitting diode.
LGBT
Being lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, or relating to these groups as a collective.
M
Meekly obedient or passive; obsequious.
MP3
(audio, _, file format) MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, an audio data compression format.
MP4
(file format) Abbreviation of MPEG-4 Part 14, a file format for playing music and videos.
NASA
Acronym of National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
NATO
Acronym of North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NG
(informal) A blunder, an error.
NGO
Initialism of non-governmental organization.
No.
Abbreviation of number.
NOR
A binary operator composite of NOT OR; negation of OR function.
NOT
(mathematics, logic) A unary operation on logical values that changes true to false, and false to true.
OK
All right, acceptable, permitted.
OL
Abbreviation of office lady (Japanese wasei eigo).
Pascal
(programming language) An imperative procedural programming language intended to encourage good programming practices through the use of structure.
PC
Initialism of personal computer.
PDA
(computing theory) Initialism of pushdown automaton.
PIN
Acronym of personal identification number.
PIN番号
Acronym of personal identification number.
PTA
Initialism of parent-teacher association.
Python
(computing) An interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language invented by Guido van Rossum.
RAM
(electronics, computing) Acronym of random-access memory.
ROMる
(Internet slang) To read an Internet forum without posting comments or making one's presence apparent. · ROMru
RPG
(games) Initialism of roleplaying game.
RS
(fandom slang) Initialism of Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire.
S
Overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian.
san
The digit/figure 3.
SMS
(countable) A text message sent using the short message service. · esu・emu・esu
SNS
(uncountable) Applications or websites allowing users to share content and communicate with one another through the Internet.
SQL
(computer language, databases) Initialism of Structured Query Language.
tel
Abbreviation of telephone number.
UFO
Initialism of unidentified flying object; (loosely) an alien spacecraft. [from 20th c.]
UN
Initialism of United Nations.
UNICEF
An agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide.
UNO
A card game similar to crazy eights, played with specially printed cards that have colours instead of suits.
USA
Initialism of the United States: a country in North America.
V.I.P.
Initialism of very important person.
VPN
(computing) Initialism of virtual private network.
VTR
A motion picture stored on VHS or some other format.
w
(Internet slang, text messaging) Lots of laughs. (occasionally used)
Wii
(video games) A video game system released worldwide by Nintendo in 2006, noted for its unique motion-based control system.
www
(Internet slang, text messaging) Lots of laughs. (occasionally used)
Xジェンダー
(neologism, informal) Pronunciation spelling of NB (“a non-binary person; a person whose gender identity is not strictly female or male; one who is outside of the gender binary”). [from 9/10/2013] · Xjendā
XでもなくYでもない
Not either (used with nor). · XdemonakuYdemonai
XもYも…ない
Not either (used with nor). · XmoYmo…nai
Yuri
A en given name.
ג׳רונימו
A prominent leader and medicine man from the Bedonkohe band of the Chiricahua Apache tribe (1829–1909).
An expression of relief, relaxation, comfort, confusion, understanding, wonder, awe, etc. according to uttered inflection. · a
アーガー
An honorific for high officials used in Turkey and certain Muslim countries. · āgā
アーカイブ
A place for storing earlier, and often historical, material. An archive usually contains documents (letters, records, newspapers, etc.) or other types of media kept for historical interest. · ākaibu
アーカイブに格納する
(transitive) To place (something) into an archive.
アーガイル
a sock having this pattern · āgairu
アーカンソー州
A state in the South Central region of the United States. Capital and largest city: Little Rock.
アーキビスト
One who is in charge of, or performs the task of creating, collecting, cataloguing and organising archives. · ākibisuto
アーク
(electrics) A flow of current across an insulating medium; especially a hot, luminous discharge either between two electrodes or as lightning. [from 19th c.] · āku

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