| Japanese stranglehold | a wrestling hold in which the opponent's arms are crossed in front of his own neck to exert pressure on his windpipe |
moviemaking
movie making
film making | the production of movies |
Chino-Japanese War
Sino-Japanese War | a war between China and Japan ( and ) over the control of the Korean Peninsula, China was overwhelmingly defeated at Port Arthur |
| Russo-Japanese War | Japanese victory in the war with Russia (-) gave Japan power over Korea and Manchuria |
monster
teras | (medicine) a grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus |
Gila monster
Heloderma suspectum | large orange and black lizard of southwestern United States, not dangerous unless molested |
Japanese oyster
Ostrea gigas | a large oyster native to Japan and introduced along the Pacific coast of the United States, a candidate for introduction in Chesapeake Bay |
| Japanese spaniel | breed of toy dogs originating in Japan having a silky black-and-white or red-and-white coat |
Japanese beetle
Popillia japonica | small metallic green and brown beetle native to eastern Asia, serious plant pest in North America |
Japanese deer
sika
Cervus nipon
Cervus sika | small deer of Japan with slightly forked antlers |
cinema
movie theater
movie theatre
movie house
picture palace | a theater where films are shown |
motion-picture camera
movie camera
cineamera | a camera that takes a sequence of photographs that can give the illusion of motion when viewed in rapid succession |
motion-picture film
movie film
cine-film | photographic film several hundred feet long and wound on a spool, to be used in a movie camera |
movie projector
cine projector
film projector | projects successive frames from a reel of film to create moving pictures |
a movie
film picture moving picture
moving-picture show
motion picture
motion-picture show
picture show
pic
flick | a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement, they went to a movie every Saturday night, the film was shot on location |
| home movie | a film made at home by an amateur photographer |
silent movie
silent picture
silents | a movie without a soundtrack |
| Japanese | the language (usually considered to be Altaic) spoken by the Japanese |
jealousy
green-eyed monster | a feeling of jealous envy (especially of a rival) |
loquat
Japanese plum | yellow olive-sized semitropical fruit with a large free stone and relatively little flesh, used for jellies |
| Japanese crab | crabmeat usually canned, from Japan |
Japanese Red Army
JRA
Anti-Imperialist International Brigade | a terrorist group organized into overthrow the Japanese government and monarchy and to foment world revolution, is said to have close ties with Palestinian terrorists, in the Japanese Red Army was responsible for a massacre at an airport in Israel |
film industry
movie industry | the entertainment industries involved in producing and distributing movies |
Japan Japanese Islands
Japanese Archipelago | a string of more than , islands to the east of Asia extending , miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean |
Tokyo
Tokio
Yeddo
Yedo
Edo
Japanese capital
capital of Japan | the capital and largest city of Japan, the economic and cultural center of Japan |
Loch Ness monster
Nessie | a large aquatic animal supposed to resemble a serpent or plesiosaur of Loch Ness in Scotland |
| monster | an imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts |
mythical monster
mythical creature | a monster renowned in folklore and myth |
| Japanese deity | a deity worshipped by the Japanese |
| Frankenstein Frankenstein's monster | the monster created by Frankenstein in a gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (the creator's name is commonly used to refer to his creation) |
Japanese
Nipponese | a native or inhabitant of Japan |
film maker
filmmaker
film producer
movie maker | a producer of motion pictures |
film star
movie star | a star who plays leading roles in the cinema |
freak
monster monstrosity
lusus naturae | a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed |
giant
goliath behemoth
monster colossus | someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful |
monster
fiend
devil demon ogre | a cruel wicked and inhuman person |
screen actor
movie actor | an actor who plays a role in a film |
Japanese red pine
Japanese table pine
Pinus densiflora | pine native to Japan and Korea having a wide-spreading irregular crown when mature, grown as an ornamental |
Japanese black pine
black pine Pinus thunbergii | large Japanese ornamental having long needles in bunches of , widely planted in United States because of its resistance to salt and smog |
Japanese cedar
Japan cedar
sugi
Cryptomeria japonica | tall evergreen of Japan and China yielding valuable soft wood |
Japanese umbrella pine
Sciadopitys verticillata | tall evergreen having a symmetrical spreading crown and needles growing in whorls that resemble umbrellas at ends of twigs |
Japanese yew
Taxus cuspidata | shrubby hardy evergreen of China and Japan having lustrous dark green foliage, cultivated in the eastern United States |
Japanese barberry
Berberis thunbergii | compact deciduous shrub having persistent red berries, widespread in cultivation especially for hedges |
Japan allspice
Japanese allspice
winter sweet Chimonanthus praecox | deciduous Japanese shrub cultivated for its fragrant yellow flowers |
Chinese evergreen
Japanese leaf
Aglaonema modestum | erect or partially climbing herb having large green or variegated leaves |
Japanese angelica tree
Aralia elata | deciduous clump-forming Asian shrub or small tree, adventive in the eastern United States |
Japanese pink
Dianthus chinensis heddewigii | a flowering variety of China pink distinguished by jagged-edged petals |
radish daikon
Japanese radish
Raphanus sativus longipinnatus | radish of Japan with a long hard durable root eaten raw or cooked |
Japanese brome
Japanese chess
Bromus japonicus | grass of Mediterranean and temperate Asia |
Japanese millet
billion-dollar grass
Japanese barnyard millet
sanwa millet
Echinochloa frumentacea | coarse annual grass cultivated in Japan and southeastern Asia for its edible seeds and for forage, important wildlife food in United States |