13-letter words containing rin
- principalness — the quality or position of being principal
- principalship — first or highest in rank, importance, value, etc.; chief; foremost.
- print spooler — a program that sequences printing jobs by temporarily storing data in a buffer and processing the jobs sequentially.
- print-through — the unwanted transfer of a recorded magnetic field pattern from one turn of magnetic tape to the preceding or succeeding turn on a reel, causing distortion
- printer's ink — a type of quick-drying ink used in printing
- purse strings — hold the purse strings, to have the power to determine how money shall be spent.
- quadringenary — a 400th anniversary
- reconfiguring — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
- reconnoitring — the activity of obtaining information about the geographical features of a place or about the size and position of an army there
- release print — Movies. print (def 31).
- restructuring — to change, alter, or restore the structure of: to restructure a broken nose.
- ring compound — a compound whose structural formula contains a closed chain or ring of atoms; a cyclic compound. Compare cyclic (def 3).
- ring exercise — any sequence of gymnastic movements carried out by a gymnast holding two rings suspended from the ceiling
- ring spinning — a process of spinning in which the yarn is twisted and drawn while passing through a small metal device traveling rapidly around a ring in the operation of winding the yarn onto a bobbin.
- ring the bell — a hollow instrument of cast metal, typically cup-shaped with a flaring mouth, suspended from the vertex and rung by the strokes of a clapper, hammer, or the like.
- ring topology — ring network
- ring-a-lievio — a game played usually between two teams in which the members of one team attempt to find, capture, and imprison the members of the other, who can be freed only by a teammate not yet captured.
- ring-streaked — having streaks or bands of color around the body.
- ringed plover — any of several cosmopolitan plovers of the genus Charadrius, especially C. hiaticula, brownish above and white below with a black band around the breast.
- rose mandarin — (in the Chinese Empire) a member of any of the nine ranks of public officials, each distinguished by a particular kind of button worn on the cap.
- round herring — any of several herringlike fishes of the family Dussumieriidae having a rounded abdomen, living chiefly in tropical marine waters.
- royal marines — a corps of soldiers specially trained in amphibious warfare
- scouring rush — any of certain horsetails, especially Equisetum hyemale, used for scouring and polishing.
- seafaring man — a sailor
- second string — Sports. the squad of players available either individually or as a team to replace or relieve those who start a game.
- sedentariness — characterized by or requiring a sitting posture: a sedentary occupation.
- self-catering — holiday accommodation not including meals
- self-steering — maintaining a course without constant human action
- sensorineural — related to or affecting a sensory nerve or a sensory mechanism together with its neural circuitry.
- shearing gang — a group of itinerant workers who contract to shear, class, and bale a farmer's wool clip
- shearing shed — a farm building equipped with power machinery for sheepshearing and equipment for baling wool
- sheepshearing — an act or instance of shearing sheep.
- shivering owl — screech owl.
- silver spring — a town in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
- soul-stirring — arousing excitement and enthusiasm; uplifting
- spinning ring — ring1 (def 20).
- spiral spring — a form of spring consisting of a wire coiled in a helix.
- splutteringly — in a spluttering manner
- spring a leak — to develop a leak
- spring beauty — any American spring plant belonging to the genus Claytonia, of the purslane family, especially C. virginica, having an elongated cluster of white flowers tinged with pink.
- spring binder — a loose-leaf binder in which a single, long, clamplike spring, forming the spine, holds the leaves.
- spring greens — Young cabbages are sometimes referred to as spring greens.
- spring peeper — a tree frog, Hyla crucifer, having an X -shaped mark on the back and voicing a shrill call commonly heard near ponds and swamps of eastern North America in the early spring.
- spring squill — a European liliaceous plant Scilla verna, having small blue or purple flowers
- spring valley — a city in SW California, near San Diego.
- spring-loaded — (of a machine part) kept normally in a certain position by a spring: a spring-loaded safety valve.
- springboarded — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
- sprint finish — the end of a long race in which competitors speed up as they approach the finish line
- sprint medley — a medley relay in which the first member of a team runs 440 yards, the second and third members run 220 yards each, and the fourth member runs 880 yards.
- squanderingly — in a squandering manner