Most common Thai words

nominee; front person or entity

face value

percussion instrument

Indrajit

hairy crape-myrtle tree

unsaturated fat

flight attendant

registry office; registrar's office

academic gown

rower; oarsman (formal)

ta-da! (informal)

drowsiness; grogginess

[to] give one's time; spare time for [sth]

exponent

stoppage time; added time

wind; air (literary)

place; location; whereabouts

comparison; analogy; use of simile

[to] sit cross-legged

[to] change one's story; go back on one's word

passenger van stand

feminine-presenting person with a penis (crude slang)

[to] embrace; cradle (literary)

rushing floodwater

magic; occult arts

sturdiness; solidity; security

pot-bellied

[to] make merit

severe punishment; heavy penalty (formal)

[to] seek; search for

coarse salt

[to] curse indiscriminately

flapping or waving slowly

nest-shaped Thai dessert

food and everyday necessities

free radical

[to] reveal [sb]'s bad character

[to] sweet-talk; flatter; cajole

Buddhist religious site

king cobra (Southern Thai)

smashed to pieces; mangled; utterly ruined

longwave; long radio wave

[to] play dumb; feign ignorance (informal)

delighted; heartened

face mask

[to] go or bring together as a group

paradox

shrine to land guardian spirits

chorus response in traditional singing

Bangkok Mass Transit Authority (BMTA)

bottom or end of a table

line of longitude; meridian

day marking the start of the Buddhist rains retreat (formal)

metaphysics

domination; controlling influence

inferiority; disadvantage

[to] take [sb]'s temperature

[to] have menstrual cramps (formal)

[to] have period cramps (informal)

supersonic

subsonic

strict control; strict enforcement

machine learning

married life; life together as a couple

[to] publicize news widely; hype a story

leniency; flexibility

data buffer

buffer solution

electrocardiogram (ECG)

electrocardiogram (EKG)

master; lord; sir (deferential)

heavy-headed

ladle (traditional)

rhetoric

how-to; practical method; tutorial

[to] have one's knees buckle

flat-bellied; hollow-bellied

polyvinyl chloride; PVC

the four immeasurables (Buddhism)

melodiousness; pleasantness of sound

expert kicker; taekwondo athlete (informal)

showy, newly rich person (idiomatic, derogatory)

long bench

court official in attendance on the monarch (literary)

reproach; scolding

serow

[to] commit everything one has; go all in

Dharma eye; direct insight into Buddhist truth (Buddhism)

laundry room

impulsiveness; rashness

fever-reducing medicine; antipyretic

recounting; retelling

hugely successful; extremely impressive (slang)

[to] fall on hard times; become impoverished

amaryllis

personal conduct; behavior

button mushroom; champignon

carpenter bee

bumblebee

emotional or spiritual anchor