15-letter words containing rin
- offset printing — offset (def 6).
- on a shoestring — If you do something or make something on a shoestring, you do it using very little money.
- optical printer — a film printer used in making optical effects, consisting basically of a camera that photographs the image with special lenses to enlarge, reduce, distort, etc., and a projector that transfers the image to the print stock, as distinguished from a contact printer.
- organochlorines — Plural form of organochlorine.
- overbearingness — Quality of being overbearing.
- paedophile ring — a group of people who take part in illegal sexual activity involving children
- perfunctoriness — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
- peter principle — any of several satirical “laws” concerning organizational structure, especially one that holds that people tend to be promoted until they reach their level of incompetence.
- phrasemongering — the act of coining memorable phrases
- polychlorinated — having multiple chlorine atoms
- polynomial ring — the set of all polynomials in an indeterminate variable with coefficients that are elements of a given ring.
- pre-engineering — the art or science of making practical application of the knowledge of pure sciences, as physics or chemistry, as in the construction of engines, bridges, buildings, mines, ships, and chemical plants.
- prima ballerina — the principal ballerina in a ballet company.
- prince charming — (sometimes lowercase) a man who embodies a woman's romantic ideal.
- prince of peace — Jesus Christ, regarded by Christians as the Messiah. Isa. 9:6.
- prince of wales — Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall ("The Black Prince") 1330–76, English military leader (son of Edward III).
- prince's island — former name of Príncipe.
- princess regent — a princess who is regent of a country.
- principal focus — focal point (def 1).
- principal ideal — the smallest ideal containing a given element in a ring; an ideal in a ring with a multiplicative identity, obtained by multiplying each element of the ring by one specified element.
- principal parts — a set of inflected forms of a form class from which all the other inflected forms can be derived, as sing, sang, sung; smoke, smoked.
- principal plane — a plane that is perpendicular to the axis of a lens, mirror, or other optical system and at which rays diverging from a focal point are deviated parallel to the axis or at which rays parallel to the axis are deviated to converge to a focal point.
- principal point — the point where a principal plane intersects the axis.
- principal value — a value selected at a point in the domain of a multiple-valued function, chosen so that the function has a single value at the point.
- printed circuit — a circuit in which the interconnecting conductors and some of the circuit components have been printed, etched, etc., onto a sheet or board of dielectric material (PC board, printed-circuit board)
- printer's devil — devil (def 5).
- printer's error — an error introduced into typeset copy by the compositor, so that the printer cannot charge for correcting it. Abbreviation: P.E., p.e.
- printing office — a shop or factory in which printing is done.
- private hearing — a formal or official trial that is not open to the public
- propylhexedrine — a colorless, adrenergic, water-soluble liquid, C 1 0 H 2 N, used by inhalation as a nasal decongestant.
- pseudoephedrine — a dextrorotatory, isomeric compound, C 1 0 H 1 5 NO, used as a nasal decongestant.
- public offering — a sale of a new issue of securities to the general public through a managing underwriter (opposed to private placement): required to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
- relief-printing — prominence, distinctness, or vividness due to contrast.
- rendering plant — a factory where waste products and livestock carcasses are converted into industrial fats and oils (such as tallow, used to make soap) and other products (such as fertilizer)
- rendering works — (used with a singular verb) a factory or plant that renders and processes livestock carcasses into tallow, hides, fertilizer, etc.
- resist printing — a fabric-printing method in which a dye-resistant substance is applied to certain specified areas of the material prior to immersion in a dye bath and subsequently removed so as to permit the original hue to act as a pattern against the colored ground.
- revenue sharing — the system of disbursing part of federal tax revenues to state and local governments for their use.
- ringtail monkey — a Central and South American monkey, Cebus capucinus, having a prehensile tail and hair on the head resembling a cowl.
- roaring forties — the stormy oceanic areas between 40° and 50° south latitude
- rolling bearing — any bearing in which the antifriction action depends on the rolling action of balls or rollers
- rollmop herring — a herring fillet rolled, usually around onion slices, and pickled in spiced vinegar
- rudimentariness — the state or quality of being rudimentary
- schone mullerin — a song cycle (1823), by Franz Schubert, consisting of 20 songs set to poems by Wilhelm Müller.
- screen-printing — a print made by the silkscreen process.
- self-flattering — praise and exaggeration of one's own achievements coupled with a denial or glossing over of one's faults or failings; self-congratulation.
- self-monitoring — (especially formerly) a student appointed to assist in the conduct of a class or school, as to help take attendance or keep order.
- sharing economy — a system in which people rent, borrow, or share commodities, services, and resources owned by individuals, usually with the aid of online technology, in an effort to save money, cut costs, and reduce waste.
- shearing strain — a coefficient of elasticity of a substance, expressing the ratio between the force per unit area (shearing stress) that laterally deforms the substance and the shear (shearing strain) that is produced by this force.
- shearing stress — a force causing two contacting parts or layers to slide upon each other, in opposite directions parallel to the plane of their contact
- shearing-stress — a coefficient of elasticity of a substance, expressing the ratio between the force per unit area (shearing stress) that laterally deforms the substance and the shear (shearing strain) that is produced by this force.