18-letter words containing rin
- pleasure principle — an automatic mental drive or instinct seeking to avoid pain and to obtain pleasure.
- point-bearing pile — a pile depending on the soil or rock beneath its foot for support.
- pre-filled syringe — A pre-filled syringe is a disposable syringe that is supplied already loaded with the substance to be injected.
- prince of darkness — Satan.
- principal argument — the radian measure of the argument between −π and π of a complex number. Compare argument (def 8c).
- principal diagonal — a diagonal line or plane.
- principal meridian — a meridian line accurately laid out to serve as the reference meridian in land survey
- procrustean string — (programming) A fixed-length string. If a string value is too long for the allocated space, it is truncated to fit; and if it is shorter, the empty space is padded, usually with space characters. This is an allusion to Procrustes, a legendary robber of ancient Attica. He bound his victims to a bed, and if they were shorter than the bed, he stretched their limbs until they would fit; if their limbs were longer, he lopped them off.
- projection printer — enlarger.
- provincetown print — a print made from a woodblock incised with grooves that serve to separate the colors being used and to leave white lines highlighting the design.
- quinacrine mustard — a nitrogen mustard derived from mepacrine and used as a stain for chromosomes
- reentering polygon — a polygon having one or more reentering angles.
- school of motoring — a centre where people pay for lessons to learn to drive
- secondary offering — the sale of a large block of outstanding stock off the floor of an exchange, usually by a major stockholder.
- ski-mountaineering — a combination of the sports of skiing and mountaineering, for example by climbing up a mountain then skiing down it
- social engineering — the application of the findings of social science to the solution of actual social problems.
- steering committee — a committee, especially of a deliberative or legislative body, charged with preparing the agenda of a session.
- submarine sandwich — a sandwich made with a long cylindrical bread roll
- superstring theory — any supersymmetric string theory in which each type of elementary particle is treated as a vibration of a single fundamental string (superstring) at a particular frequency.
- sympathetic string — a thin wire string, as in various obsolete musical instruments, designed to vibrate sympathetically with the bowed or plucked strings to reinforce the sound.
- to a grinding halt — If you describe a bad situation as grinding, you mean it never gets better, changes, or ends.
- uriniferous tubule — a urine-bearing tubule in a nephron of a kidney.
- veterinary surgeon — Chiefly British. a veterinarian.
- vigoureux printing — a printing method in which worsted fibers are printed with the desired color while in sliver form and then processed into yarn, producing a mixed color in the spun yarn and woven fabric.
- wandering minstrel — travelling performer
- whispering gallery — a space or gallery beneath a dome or broad arch in which low sounds produced at any of certain points are clearly audible at certain other distant points.