- 効果【こうか】 - effect, effectiveness, efficacy, result, effects (e.g. sound effects, visual effects, special effects) 
- 効く【きく】 - to be effective, to take effect, to be good (for), to work, to function well, to be possible (to do, use, etc.), to be able to, to taste (alcohol), to try 
- 無効【むこう】 - invalid, void, ineffective, unavailable 
- 有効【ゆうこう】 - valid, effective, yuko (judo) 
- 効果的【こうかてき】 - effective, successful 
- 効率【こうりつ】 - efficiency 
- 時効【じこう】 - statute of limitations, lapse of rights after a period of time, prescription (including acquisitive and extinctive prescription), becoming invalid or void after a set time, ageing, aging 
- 効力【こうりょく】 - effect, efficacy, validity, potency 
- 逆効果【ぎゃくこうか】 - opposite effect, adverse effect, backfiring 
- 効き目【ききめ】 - effect, virtue, efficacy, impression, one's dominant eye 
- 実効【じっこう】 - practical effect, efficacy, efficiency 
- 発効【はっこう】 - coming into effect 
- 効率的【こうりつてき】 - efficient 
- 効用【こうよう】 - use, utility, effect, benefit 
- 即効【そっこう】 - immediate effect, instant effect 
- 特効薬【とっこうやく】 - specific medicine, wonder drug, silver bullet 
- 効能【こうのう】 - effect, effectiveness, efficacy, virtue, benefit 
- 薬効【やっこう】 - medical efficacy, effect of a medicine 
- 失効【しっこう】 - lapse, abatement, invalidation, expiration, expiry, becoming void 
- 音響効果【おんきょうこうか】 - sound effects, acoustics