• 消火しょうか

  extinguishing a fire, fire fighting

• 消印けしいん

  postmark, (postal) cancellation mark

• 消費しょうひ

  consumption, expenditure, spending

• 消毒しょうどく

  disinfection, sterilization, sterilisation

• 消灯しょうとう

  putting out the lights, turning off the lights

• 消防しょうぼう

  fire fighting

• 消極しょうきょく

  passive, negative, conservative

• 消耗しょうもう

  exhaustion, consumption, using up, dissipation, waste

• 消去しょうきょ

  erasure, deletion, elimination, clearing

• 消息しょうそく

  news (from someone), letter, contact

• 消滅しょうめつ

  extinction, extinguishment, disappearance, vanishing, termination, lapse

• 消化しょうか

  digestion (of food)

• 消すけす

  to erase, to rub out, to rub off, to cross out, to delete

• 抹消まっしょう

  erasure, striking off, crossing out, cancellation, deletion

• 解消かいしょう

  cancellation, liquidation, resolution, reduction (e.g. of stress)

• 消防署しょうぼうしょ

  fire station

• 消化器しょうかき

  digestive organ

• 消費財しょうひざい

  consumer goods

• 消火器しょうかき

  fire extinguisher

• 消耗品しょうもうひん

  consumable goods

• 消防車しょうぼうしゃ

  fire engine, fire truck

• 消息筋しょうそくすじ

  informed circles

• 消防庁しょうぼうちょう

  Fire and Disaster Management Agency

• 消極的しょうきょくてき

  negative, passive, half-hearted, unmotivated

• 消費税しょうひぜい

  consumption tax (incl. sales tax, VAT, excise duty, etc.)

• 消費者しょうひしゃ

  consumer (of a product, service, etc.), customer, (end) user, buyer

• 消えるきえる

  to disappear, to vanish, to go out of sight, to go away, to become lost

• 帳消しちょうけし

  writing off (a debt), cancellation, balancing the books

• 消しゴムけしゴム

  eraser, rubber

• 打ち消すうちけす

  to deny, to contradict

• 立ち消えたちぎえ

  going out (before burning completely), dying out

• 取り消しとりけし

  cancellation, withdrawal, abolition, revocation, cancel, CAN

• 打ち消しうちけし

  negation, denial, negative

• 取り消すとりけす

  to cancel, to withdraw, to retract, to take back (words, etc.), to revoke

• 消閑しょうかん

  killing time

• 消臭しょうしゅう

  deodorization

• 消点しょうてん

  vanishing point

• 消夏しょうか

  summering, spending the summer

• 消磨しょうま

  abrasion, wearing out

• 消散しょうさん

  evaporation, dispersion, dissipation

• 消磁しょうじ

  demagnetization, demagnetisation, degaussing

• 消沈しょうちん

  depression, low spirits, dejection

• 消退しょうたい

  disappearance (e.g. of a symptom)

• 消却しょうきゃく

  erasure, effacement

• 消音しょうおん

  silencing (a machine, gun, etc.), muffling, muting (e.g. a TV)

• 消雪しょうせつ

  snow melting (usu. a system or device), snow removal

• 消除しょうじょ

  deletion, removal, elimination, erasure, cancellation, revocation

• 消失しょうしつ

  disappearance, vanishing, loss, dying away, wearing off

• 消光しょうこう

  passing one's time

• 消渇しょうかち

  diabetes (in traditional Chinese medicine)