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carapace

armoring

thyroid (gland)

deck (of a ship)

Koshien Stadium (baseball park in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture)

value in doing something

result (that makes an act worthwhile)

shell (of a crab, tortoise, etc.)

high-pitched

back of the hand

Wood Horse (31st term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1954, 2014, 2074)

cold northerly winter wind from the Rokko Mountains

covering for the back of the hand and wrist

Wood Rat (1st term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1924, 1984, 2044)

all-A (student)

Kōshin region

Kōfu (city in Yamanashi)

Konan University

Kōshin (region)

(feet) with a high instep

Rokkou Cable Line

armour (e.g. tank)

Gapsin Coup (of Korea; 1884)

top of the foot

dome shape

Gapsin Coup (failed reformist coup d'état in Korea; 1884)

crust-like shell

Wood Monkey (21st term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1944, 2004, 2064)

sharp high voice

henna

main deck

weapons and armour

arms

Koshien University

Konan Women's University

first division of the night (approx. 7pm to 9pm)

plectrum

passing the physical examination as a Grade One conscript (in the former Japanese military)

deck hand

main deck

thyroid cancer

goitered gazelle (Gazella subgutturosa)

thyroid hormone

Donghak Peasant Revolution (Korea; 1894-1895)

armored unit

putting on armor and helmet

upper deck

afterdeck

shrill

to make a shrill sound

Kōshin'etsu region (including Yamanashi, Nagano and Niigata prefectures)

tortoiseshell sauce

tortoiseshell (of the hawksbill turtle)

cuttlebone

armoured vehicle

parathyroid (glands)

parathyroid hormone

armored recovery vehicle

Coleoptera (the order of insects containing beetles)

armor

iron armor (armour)

carapace

armored warrior

short metal body armor (early Kofun to early Heian periods)

Sanko Museum

oracle bone script

armored corps

chief trader (of the Dutch trading post at Dejima)

flight deck

deck chair

free on board

iron-reinforced warships built by Oda Nobunaga

armor plate

carapace

60th birthday

the older, the wiser

thyroiditis

sternum

arrow with feathers that curve to the left (the first of two arrows to be fired)

rhinoceros beetle (esp. the Japanese rhinoceros beetle, Trypoxylus dichotomus)

unbecoming

scapular

armored cruiser

tortoiseshell pattern

brassard (armor)

shoulder girdle

armored personnel carrier

Kyoto Sangyo University, Kindai University, Konan University and Ryukoku University (group of similarly ranked private universities in the Kansai region)

thyroid-stimulating hormone

promenade deck

gauntlet

good-for-nothing

one's age

thyroid cartilage

nasal concha

armor piercing ammunition

beetles

armored personnel carrier

worth mentioning

shoulder blade

gun deck (ship)

hexagonal pattern

tortoise shell

being good-for-nothing

resourcefulness

kisslip cuttlefish (Sepia lycidas)

to accumulate years of experience

pteraspids (extinct armoured jawless fishes)

hypothyroidism

pangolin

Wood Dragon (41st term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1964, 2024, 2084)

worth in speaking (to someone)

armored ship

worthless

chronic thyroiditis

armored warship

the former and the latter

difficult to say which of the two is better

armorer

goiter

true friendship

dark sleeper (species of sleeper goby, Odontobutis obscura)

hypoparathyroidism

Wood Dog (11th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1934, 1994, 2054)

Kōshū (grape variety)

nail plate

bright red table grape, a cross between a Flame Tokay and a Neo Muscat

article of tortoise shell

shellfish allergy

crustacean

Chinese pangolin (Manis pentadactyla)

scapular spine

hyperthyroidism

Wood Tiger (51st term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1914, 1974, 2034)

worth doing

carapace

one man's meat is another man's poison

armored cruiser

oracle bone script

Crustacea

reliability

hyperparathyroidism

to bask in the sun lying flat on one's stomach

basking (of animals with a shell or carapace, esp. turtles)

to be worth the effort

armored fish

Kai Ken (Japanese dog breed)

value in doing something

worthlessness

to be effective