to contract

a female given name

Synonym of 軟口蓋 (nankōgai, “soft palate; palatine velum”)

non-straight hair

Obsolete spelling of サイパン (“Saipan (an island, the capital of the Northern Mariana Islands)”)

(surgery) plication

not always, not necessarily / not completely / not exactly, not strictly speaking, not technically

stiffen / for a person to freeze, for one's expression to freeze

ferromagnetism

strong shaking