to call, contact, or communicate with the spirits of the dead, to act as a medium

(algebra) descending powers

demotion

to demote

salary reduction

to reduce salary

gutter, waterspout

a heavy rain that occurs around the fifth lunar month; an early summer rain / (figuratively) that which repeats over and over without lasting long

a Shiratsuyu-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II (see Japanese destroyer Samidare (1935) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia) / a place name

a heavy rain that occurs around the fifth lunar month; an early summer rain.