high prices of commodities, high cost of living

burka (female garment that covers the whole body)

bubble (period of intense speculation in a market)

Clipping of ブラジャー (burajā, “brassiere”); a bra

The name of the Latin-script letter V.

(nautical) a buoy

Buy (a town in Kostroma Oblast, Russia)

become blunt / decline in ability or energy, lose one's edge

(historical) Short for 文部省 (Monbu-shō): the Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture

(computing) nibble (a unit of memory equal to half a byte, or four bits)