| 降伏 | こうふく | capitulation, surrender, submission |
| 起伏 | きふく | undulation; ups and downs, highs and lows |
| 伏線 | ふくせん | preparation, foreshadowing, underplot (in a novel), precautionary measures |
| 伏兵 | ふくへい | ambush, troops in ambush |
| 潜伏 | せんぷく | concealment, hiding, ambush, incubation |
| 山伏 | やまぶし | mountain priest, itinerant Buddhist monk |
| 伏流 | ふくりゅう | subterranean stream |
| 待ち伏せ | まちぶせ | performing an ambush |
| 伏する | ふくする | to crouch, to stoop, to bend down, to prostrate oneself, to lie down; to yield, to submit, to surrender; to hide, to conceal oneself |
| 伏して | ふして | bowing down, humbly, respectfully |
