- 手伝う【てつだう】 - to help, to assist, to aid, to contribute to, to be a factor in 
- 伝言【でんごん】 - verbal message, word (from someone) 
- 手伝い【てつだい】 - helper, assistant, help, assistance 
- 宣伝【せんでん】 - publicity, advertisement, advertising, propaganda 
- 伝言【つてこと】 - verbal message, word (from someone), rumour, rumor 
- 遺伝子【いでんし】 - gene, genetic 
- お手伝い【おてつだい】 - maid, helper, help, assistance 
- 遺伝【いでん】 - heredity, (genetic) inheritance 
- 駅伝【えきでん】 - long-distance relay race, stagecoach, post horse 
- 自叙伝【じじょでん】 - autobiography 
- 自伝【じでん】 - autobiography 
- 評伝【ひょうでん】 - critical biography 
- 言い伝え【いいつたえ】 - tradition, legend 
- 遺伝病【いでんびょう】 - hereditary (genetic) disease 
- 遺伝学【いでんがく】 - genetics, study of heredity 
- 遺伝子工学【いでんしこうがく】 - genetic engineering 
- 以心伝心【いしんでんしん】 - telepathy, tacit understanding, thought transference, communion of mind with mind, non-verbal Zen Buddhist transmission to a disciple of the central tenets of Buddhism 
- 外伝【がいでん】 - supplementary biography, anecdote, side story, spin-off 
- 水滸伝【すいこでん】 - The Water Margin (classic of Chinese literature), Outlaws of the Marsh, All Men are Brothers 
- 秘伝【ひでん】 - secret (recipe, medicine, etc.), mysteries (e.g. of an art)