A type of personal armour constructed as series of metallic rings sewn to a fabric or leather foundation, assumed by the Victorians to have been used in the Middle Ages, but now generally thought not to have existed historically.

ringmakingnoun

The manufacture of rings (type of jewellery).

ringmannoun

A male entertainer who works in the ring of a circus.

ringmasternoun

The person who manages the performers in a circus ring.

ringmasterlyadj

Characteristic of a ringmaster.

ringmastershipnoun

The role or status of ringmaster.

ringmistressnoun

A female ringmaster.

ringnecknoun

Any of several unrelated birds that have a ringed neck.

Ringnutnoun

A fan of the opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen by Richard Wagner.

Ringoname

A male given name.

ringoalnoun

A game for two players in which one uses two sticks to launch a hoop, the opponent attempting to catch it.

ringoidnoun

A ring-like algebraic structure.

Ringoismnoun

A term to describe accidental, unusual, or poetic malapropisms, especially those said by Beatle Ringo Starr.

Ringoldname

A surname from German.

ringolevionoun

A children's game, a variation of tag, where each side has a designated "jail" to hold captured players from the other team.

ringpiecenoun

The anal sphincter

ringpostnoun

Any of the posts that surround the ring.

ringsnoun

plural of ring

ringsailnoun

A light sail set abaft and beyond the leech of a boom-and-gaff sail.

ringshinenoun

Sunlight that is reflected from the ring around a planet (such as the one around Saturn), visible on the night side of the planet.

ringsideadj

Beside the ring, especially a boxing ring.

ringside seatnoun

A seat in the front row of a boxing or wrestling match.

ringsidernoun

A person occupying a ringside seat

ringspotnoun

A symptom of various viral infections in plants, taking the form of rings or spots of damaged tissue.

ringspunadj

Manufactured by ring spinning.

ringstemnoun

Any of the flowering species of the genus Anulocaulis.

ringsternoun

Member of a (political or economic) ring

ringstonenoun

A carved, contoured, donut-shaped stone object in early Indian art.

ringstrakedadj

striped with differently colored rings

ringtailnoun

A ring-tailed animal, notably:

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