Words using 寺

• 寺 てら — temple (Buddhist)
• 寺院 じいん — Buddhist temple
• 禅寺 ぜんでら — Zen temple
• 国分寺 こくぶんじ — state-supported provincial temple (Nara period)
• 山寺 やまでら — mountain temple
• 末寺 まつじ — branch temple
• 古寺 こじ — old temple
• 寺社 じしゃ — temples and shrines
• 社寺 しゃじ — shrines and temples
• 寺子屋 てらこや — temple elementary school (Edo period)
• 菩提寺 ぼだいじ — one's family temple
• 駆け込み寺 かけこみでら — (women's) refuge
• 古社寺 こしゃじ — old shrines and temples
• 僧寺 そうじ — Buddhist priest
• 大寺院 だいじいん — large temple
• 尼寺 あまでら — nunnery
• 仏寺 ぶつじ — Buddhist temple
• 寺参り てらまいり — ritual visits to a temple
• 回教寺院 かいきょうじいん — mosque
• 縁切り寺 えんきりでら — (historic) a temple in which women seeking release from marriage could take refuge
• 氏寺 うじでら — shrine built to a guardian deity
• 檀那寺 だんなでら — one's family temple
• 勅願寺 ちょくがんじ — temple built at the order of the emperor
• 寺男 てらおとこ — male temple employee (esp. one who does odd jobs)
• テラ銭 てらせん — fee charged by a gambling house
• 寺格 じかく — status of a Buddhist temple
• 八百八寺 はっぴゃくやでら — the large number of temples in Kyoto
• 寺内 じない — inside a temple
• 入寺 にゅうじ — entering a temple
• 敵は本能寺にあり てきはほんのうじにあり — his true objective lies elsewhere
• 寺号 じごう — temple's name
• 寺域 じいき — temple grounds
• 官寺 かんじ — state-sponsored temples, particularly those favored and protected by the shogunate during the Kamakura period
• 大覚寺統 だいかくじとう — imperial lineage starting with Emperor Kameyama
• 脇寺 わきでら — sub-temple
• 寺中 じちゅう — in a temple
• 寺社奉行 じしゃぶぎょう — governmental position of the shogunate, responsible for the management of temples and shrines
• 寺預け てらあずけ — incarcerating a criminal in a temple as a form of punishment (popular during the latter Muromachi and Azuchi-Momoyama periods)
• 寺入り てらいり — enrolling in a temple school
• 南都七大寺 なんとしちだいじ — the seven great temples of Nara (Daian-ji, Gango-ji, Horyu-ji, Kofuku-ji, Saidai-ji, Todai-ji, Yakushi-ji)