- 期待【きたい】 - expectation, anticipation, hope, promising, rising, up-and-coming 
- 時期【じき】 - time, season, period, phase, stage 
- 期間【きかん】 - period, term, interval 
- 延期【えんき】 - postponement, deferment, adjournment 
- 最期【さいご】 - one's last moment, one's death, one's end 
- 期限【きげん】 - term, period, time frame, time limit, deadline, cutoff (date) 
- 初期【しょき】 - early days, early years, early stages, initial stages, beginning 
- 早期【そうき】 - early stage 
- 長期【ちょうき】 - long-term 
- 定期【ていき】 - fixed period, fixed term, regular, periodic, periodical, fixed-term commuter pass, fixed-term deposit, futures contracts 
- 任期【にんき】 - term of office 
- 同期【どうき】 - same period, corresponding period, same year (of graduation, entering a company, etc.), contemporary, classmate, synchronization, synchronism 
- 短期【たんき】 - short-term 
- 前期【ぜんき】 - first term, first half-year, preceding period, early period 
- 末期【まっき】 - last years, closing years, last days, closing days, end, last stage, final stages, terminal stage (of a disease) 
- 後期【こうき】 - latter period, second half, late stage, third trimester, second semester 
- 期日【きじつ】 - fixed date, appointed date, set date, deadline, due date 
- 画期的【かっきてき】 - ground-breaking, revolutionary, unprecedented, epoch-making 
- 無期限【むきげん】 - indefinite 
- 周期【しゅうき】 - cycle, period