(film, audio or video recording) special effects

(Japanese phonology) a mora that is variously dubbed in English "special mora" (literal translation), "non-syllabic mora" (by Kubozono Haruo), "non-head mora", or "deficient mora" (by Laurence Labrune), and that is unique in that it cannot form a 音節 (onsetsu, “syllable”) on its own, that it never occurs at the beginning of a word, and that is incapable of acting as an アクセント核 (akusento-kaku, “accent kernel”); morae like these include the 促音 (sokuon, “moraic obstruent”), the 撥音 (hatsuon, “moraic nasal”), the second half of a 長音 (chōon, “long vowel”), and the second half of a 二重母音 (nijū boin, “diphthong”)

special forces

distinctiveness, particularity

Ash Wednesday (a Christian day of penitence)

blood cockle, blood clam (an Asian species of bivalve resembling the cockle) (Tegillarca granosa)

(chemistry) soda ash (sodium carbonate)

Same as above.

covered with ashes

Alternative form of ハイカラ