(guided) missile destroyer
count; counting; count of balls and strikes; count (after a knock-down); count (of radioactivity)
variable wing (of an aircraft)
Tomcat (fighter aircraft); F-14
all aircraft; all machines; workings of all things; all activity
handstand; headstand; being upside down; being in reverse
landing on an aircraft carrier; deck-landing; reaching a warship; arrival of a warship (at a port)
dry weight (of a vehicle, food, etc.)
ring; circle; hoop; wheel; circle (e.g. of friends); planetary ring
December; twelfth month of the lunar calendar
Attack on Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941)
right of control; supremacy; sovereignty
revival; reconstruction; restoration; rebuilding; recovery; renaissance
substitution; alternative; substitute
lack of policy; having no measures; lacking means
to write down; to make a note of; to put on record; to chronicle
to gush forth (e.g. water from a spring); to flow (out); to well up (of tears, emotions, etc.); to flow out (of tears); to emerge; to suddenly appear
protuberance; projection; prominence; protrusion; bump; boss
valley; ravine; gorge; canyon
to get between; to be caught in
to be left in the dust (of); to be outdone (by); to be subordinate (to); to play second fiddle (to); to take second billing (to)
fine weather (i.e. little or no clouds); fair weather; clear weather; clear sky; fair skies
off the top of one's head; from thin air; from memory
bipolarization; bipolarisation
black ships; Western ships that came to Japan between the 16th and 19th centuries, esp. those of the Perry Expedition in 1853; foreign disruptor (of the Japanese market); product, person, etc. arriving from the West and disturbing the Japanese market
seller; selling side; method of selling; art of selling
order (esp. to a number of people); command; ritual of bowing at start and end of school class