| Word | Reading | Meaning |
| 削減 | さくげん | cut, reduction, curtailment |
| 掘削 | くっさく | digging out, excavation |
| 削る | けずる | to shave (wood or leather), to sharpen, to plane, to whittle, to pare, to scrape off; to cross out, to reduce, to curtail, to remove, to erase, to delete |
| 削除 | さくじょ | elimination, cancellation, deletion, erasure, DEL (key) |
| 削り節 | けずりぶし | flaked bonito |
| 粗削り | あらけずり | still in the process of being formed |
| 添削 | てんさく | correction |
| 削 | さく | plane, sharpen, whittle, pare, shave (leather), scrape off, crossout, reduce, curtail |
| 削り取る | けずりとる | to shave off, to scrape off |
| 削ぐ | そぐ | to chip, to slice off, to sharpen; to thin down, to reduce, to weaken |