sphere; counter for balls
fireball; bolide; fireball
baseball club (at a university, corporation, etc.); baseball team
straight ball (pitch); direct (e.g. question); blunt
Ryukyu; chain of southwestern Japanese islands comprising Okinawa Prefecture
school inter-class ball-game competition
globular shape; spherical shape
baseball stadium; ballpark
shape of a globe; globe shape; spherical
pitching; throwing a ball; bowling (in cricket); pitched ball
breaking ball (pitch); curve ball; screwball
ball game (e.g. baseball, tennis, soccer)
hitting (a ball with a bat, racket, golf club, etc.); batting; batted ball; struck ball
leukocyte; leucocyte; white blood cell
red blood cell; erythrocyte
using all of one's strength (to); giving (it) everything one has got; going full-out; throwing a ball as hard as one can
baseball player; ballplayer
celestial sphere; the heavens
baseball ground; baseball stadium
white ball (baseball, golf ball, etc.)
miniature light bulb; midget lamp
table tennis club; ping-pong club
extraterrestrial life; ET
table tennis table; ping-pong table
straightforward approach; playing it straight; fair deal
return toss (e.g. from a catcher to a pitcher)
pitcher's first pitch (to batter)
hard ball; regulation ball
throwing a ball; handball
celestial globe; armillary sphere
yakyūken; strip version of rock, paper, scissors (similar to strip poker)
speed of a pitched ball; (pitcher's) pace
high-school baseball player
football (incl. soccer, rugby, American football, etc.; esp. used for soccer)
four balls; base on balls; a walk
combination of (varied) pitches, serves, etc.
baseball-playing teenager; high-school baseball player
light bulb; incandescent light bulb
eosinophil; eosinophile; acidophil; acidophile; eosinophilic leukocyte; acidophilic leukocyte
good pitch (to hit); easy pitch
pickoff attempt; throw to check a runner
terrestrial planet; telluric planet; rocky planet
pneumococcus (Streptococcus pneumoniae)
umpire-in-chief; plate umpire
earth orbit; geocentric orbit
western hemisphere; the Occident
neutrophil; neutrophilic leukocyte
miniature light bulb; midget lamp
golden staph (Staphylococcus aureus)
earth-friendly; ecological; sustainable
ball park; field for ball games
small ball; globule; spherule; pellet
pro baseball team; professional baseball team
baseball tournament between non-professional teams sponsored by corporations
Ryukyuan food; Ryukyuan cuisine
pitch that hits the batter
batting eye; ability to judge whether a pitch will be called a ball or a strike
putting one's heart and soul into each pitch
weather balloon; sounding balloon; observation balloon; espionage balloon; trial balloon
Ryukyu Islands; southern chain of the Nansei Islands comprising Okinawa Prefecture
Japanese version of baseball played with a hard rubber ball
eastern hemisphere; the Orient
regulation baseball (as opposed to the variety played with a rubber ball)
fast, heavy ball; fastball
hard ball to hit; bad pitch
erythroblast (immature nucleate erythrocyte)
head (of cabbage, lettuce, etc.); forming a head; coming to a head
earth science; geoscience
pre-ejaculate; Cowper's fluid; pre-cum
global citizen; citizen of the earth
failing to catch a ball; dropping a ball; flubbing a catch
earth station (for a satellite)
global environment problems; global environmental issues
prevention of global warming
ball which is hard to hit or catch
Okinawan kobudo; traditional martial arts of the Ryukyu Islands
oculolinctus; worming; eyeball-licking fetishism
bases on balls and pitches striking the batsmen
Invasion of Ryukyu (1609)
Japan's National High School Baseball Tournament (Koshien)
infectious mononucleosis; mono; glandular fever
night-light bulb; (lit.) jujube bulb
global environment conservation; global environment preservation
methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus; MRSA
Streptococcus pyogenes (bacterium that causes group A streptococcal infections)
wet and dry-bulb thermometer
earth observation satellite
Okinawan scale (hemitonic pentatonic scale: do, mi, fa, so, ti)
leukocytosis; hyperleukocytosis
sickle cell anemia (anaemia); sickle cell disease
tungsten lamp; tungsten bulb
characteristics of a (thrown) ball (light, heavy, etc.)
Little League elbow; pitcher's elbow; baseball elbow
sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas); potato (Solanum tuberosum)
waiting for a good hit at a pitch
Disposition of Ryukyu; forced assimilation of Okinawa into Japan, ending its tributary relations with China and abolishing the Ryukyu Kingdom (1872-1879)
global positioning system; GPS
earth observation (satellite, platform, etc.)
bulbous bow (on a ship to reduce drag)
bulbus glandis; knot (of a canid penis)
human leukocyte antigen; HLA
nystagmus (rapid involuntary eye movements)
polycythaemia; polycythemia; hypercythaemia; hypercythemia; erythrocytosis
sickle cell disease; sickle cell anemia (anaemia)
baseball fever; enthusiasm for baseball
olfactory bulb; bulbus olfactorius
vestibular bulb; bulb of the vestibule
think globally, act locally; think global, act local
National Invitational High-School Baseball Tournament; Spring Koshien
global problem; global issue
bulb with reservoir; double balloon
agranulocytosis (not enough white blood cells)
global positioning (system, satellite, etc.)
climate engineering; geo-engineering
Global Change Observation Mission; GCOM
Global Earth Observation System of Systems; GEOSS
Conference of Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
Earth Similarity Index; ESI
red globular shape; red ball signal shape (marine safety context)
Earth light (illumination of the moon by light reflected from the Earth); earthshine
Council of Ministers for Global Environment Conservation
earth mass (astronomical unit of mass)
erythrocyte sedimentation rate; ESR
aspherical surface; aspherical
small round structured virus; SRSV
wet-bulb globe temperature; WBGT
(satellite) earth station
polymorphonuclear leukocyte; polymorphonuclear leucocyte
streptococcal throat infection; strep throat
ball-and-ring method; ring-and-ball test
polymorphonuclear leukocyte; polymorphonuclear leucocyte
zona glomerulosa; glomerular zone
haemagglutination; hemagglutination
sideroblastic anemia; sideroblastic anaemia
vancomycin resistant enterococci; VRE
sickle cell anemia (anaemia); sickle cell disease
United States Military Government of the Ryukyu Islands (1945-1950)
bulbourethral gland; Cowper's gland
United States Civil Administration of the Ryukyu Islands (1950-1972); USCAR
pyococcus; coccoid bacterium that forms pus
association football; soccer
history of the Ryukyu Kingdom, written in 1743-1745; Ryukyu islands
spotlight bulb (e.g. in interior lighting)
erythroblastosis (abnormal presence of erythroblasts in the blood)
disk-flicking game; crokinole; carrom; pitchnut
wheat bulb; wheat grain light bulb
jankyū; combination of Japanese pinball and mahjong
Government of the Ryukyu Islands (1952-1972)
bulb (of an animal's hoof)
pneumococcus (Streptococcus pneumoniae)
streptococcus; lactococcus
luchu pine (Pinus luchuensis); Okinawa pine
Assam indigo (Strobilanthes cusia)
whitetail dascyllus (Dascyllus aruanus); humbug dascyllus; banded dascyllus; white-tailed damselfish
Habenaria longitentaculata (species of bog orchid)
Pacific swallow (Hirundo tahitica)
Ryukyu sweetfish (Plecoglossus altivelis ryukyuensis)
Kandelia obovata (species of mangrove)