- 練習【れんしゅう】 - practice, training, drill, (an) exercise, workout 
- 訓練【くんれん】 - training, drill, practice, discipline 
- 試練【しれん】 - test, trial, ordeal, tribulation 
- 練る【ねる】 - to knead, to thicken into a paste (stirring over a flame), to polish (a plan, etc.), to refine, to elaborate, to work out, to train, to drill, to exercise, to gloss (silk), to soften, to degum, to tan (leather), to temper (steel), to walk in procession, to parade, to march 
- 未練【みれん】 - lingering attachment, lingering affection, regret, reluctance, ruefulness 
- 洗練【せんれん】 - polish, refinement 
- 修練【しゅうれん】 - training, drill, practice, practising, discipline 
- 練り【ねり】 - kneading, gloss, tempering, paste (e.g. bean paste, mustard paste), parading of portable shrines and floats at festivals 
- 熟練【じゅくれん】 - skill, dexterity, proficiency 
- 老練【ろうれん】 - experienced, veteran, skilled, expert 
- 練り上げる【ねりあげる】 - to knead well, to polish, to refine 
- 練り直す【ねりなおす】 - to knead again, to rework, to revise, to polish 
- 練達【れんたつ】 - expert(ise), skill, dexterity 
- 手練手管【てれんてくだ】 - wiles, art of coaxing 
- 練り製品【ねりせいひん】 - boiled fish-paste products