List: word usually written using kana alone

usually written using kana alone  food, cooking  noun  noun (generic) 

• ishiru, ishiri, fish sauce made of salted and fermented sardines, mackerel, or squid; specialty of the Noto Peninsula

usually written using kana alone  adverb 

• sooner or later, in due time, in due course

usually written using kana alone  noun  noun (generic) 

• snail

usually written using kana alone  noun  noun (generic) 

• three-lips (freshwater fish of the minnow family, Opsariichthys uncirostris)

usually written using kana alone  noun  noun (generic)  archaic 

• flying fish roe
• travelling male homosexual prostitute

usually written using kana alone  noun  noun (generic) 

• triumphant star turban (species of turban shell, Guildfordia triumphans)

ateji  rarely used kanji form  historical term  usually written using kana alone  noun  noun (generic) 

• Gupta (dynasty of India; approx. 320-600 CE)

usually written using kana alone  expression  godan verb  godan verb (archaic)  verb (generic) 

• to be ready to cry, to be on the point of tears

slang  usually written using kana alone  い adjective  adjective (generic) 

• dear (old), fondly remembered, beloved, missed, nostalgic

usually written using kana alone  noun  noun (generic) 

• beach vitex (Vitex rotundifolia), round-leaf vitex