| term | pronunciation | English |
|---|
| 一流 | いちりゅう | first class, top grade, foremost, top-notch |
| 交流 | こうりゅう | alternating current, intercourse |
| 合流 | ごうりゅう | confluence, union, linking up, merge |
| 流域 | りゅういき | (river) basin |
| 直流 | ちょくりゅう | direct current |
| 流石 | さすが | clever, adept, good, expectations |
| 流行 | りゅうこう | fashion; fad; vogue; craze |
| 流行る | はやる | to flourish, to thrive, to be popular |
| 電流 | でんりゅう | electric current |
| 主流 | しゅりゅう | main current (stream), mainline, mainstream |
| 亜流 | ありゅう | bad second, epigone, adherent, follower, imitator |
| 伏流 | ふくりゅう | subterranean stream |
| 垂れ流し | たれながし | incontinence, soiling one's pants |
| 奔流 | ほんりゅう | torrent, violently rushing stream, tumbling (water) |
| 嫡流 | ちゃくりゅう | lineage of eldest son |
| 底流 | ていりゅう | bottom current, undercurrent |
| 暖流 | だんりゅう | warm current |
| 流し網 | ながしあみ | drift net |
| 流れ | ながれ | stream, current, flow |
| 流儀 | りゅうぎ | style, fashion |
| 流動 | りゅうどう | flow |
| 流暢 | りゅうちょう | fluent (language skill), flowing |
| 流氷 | りゅうひょう | drift ice, ice floe |
| 流浪 | るろう | vagrancy, wandering, nomadism |
| 流血 | りゅうけつ | bloodshed |
| 流行性感冒 | りゅうこうせいかんぼう | influenza, flu |
| 流麗 | りゅうれい | fluent, flowing, elegant |
| 清流 | せいりゅう | clear stream |
| 渓流 | けいりゅう | mountain stream |
| 渓流釣り | けいりゅうづり | mountain stream fishing |
| 渦流 | かりゅう | swirling current |
| 漂流 | ひょうりゅう | drifting, drift |
| 漂流木 | ひょうりゅうぼく | driftwood |
| 潮流 | ちょうりゅう | tide, tidal current, trend |
| 濁流 | だくりゅう | muddy stream |
| 火砕流 | かさいりゅう | pyroclastic flow (type of volcanic eruption), stone wind |
| 石に漱ぎ流れに枕す | いしにくちすすぎながれにまくらす | refusing to admit being wrong and adhering to the far-fetched argument |
| 自己流 | じこりゅう | one's own style, self-taught manner |
| 還流 | かんりゅう | return current, convection, reflux |