Phrase Hound found 31 phrases and 12 compound words that contain principal. The most common are listed below. Open principal in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 31
- principal investigatorlead researcher on a grant-funded project
- Principal amount
- principal partAny of the forms of a word which contain its stem(s) in the simplest form, or such a form that, when taken with all the other principal parts (showing various inflections), allows the entire paradigm to be derived.
- School Principal
- vice-principalAn assistant principal or deputy headteacher.
- Principal Place
- principal photographyThe phase of film production during which the film is actually shot, as distinct from pre-production and post-production.
- principal investigatorsplural of principal investigator: lead researcher on a grant-funded project
- principal rootA complex number which, when raised to the power of n, yields the radicand of its nth degree radical, and which has the greatest real part among all such numbers, and positive imaginary part in case of equality of the real parts.
- security principalAn entity capable of being authenticated by a computer system or network.
- principal boyThe young male protagonist of a pantomime, traditionally played by a female.
- principal citiesplural of principal city: Synonym of central city (“the main city of a metropolitan area; particularly one containing multiple cities”).
- principal citySynonym of central city (“the main city of a metropolitan area; particularly one containing multiple cities”).
- principal partsplural of principal part: Any of the forms of a word which contain its stem(s) in the simplest form, or such a form that, when taken with all the other principal parts (showing various inflections), allows the entire paradigm to be derived.
- principal idealAn ideal I in an algebraic object R (which could be a ring, algebra, semigroup or lattice) that is generated by a given single element a ∈ R; the smallest ideal that contains a.
- principal recordA record in which an individual is the main subject.
- principal square rootThe positive square root of a number; the positive number which, when squared, yields another number
- principal-agent problemThe problem that a person or entity serving as an agent for another, and able to make decisions on the other's behalf, may be motivated instead to make decisions that benefit themselves.
- principal-agent problemsplural of principal-agent problem: The problem that a person or entity serving as an agent for another, and able to make decisions on the other's behalf, may be motivated instead to make decisions that benefit themselves.
- principal ideal domainAn integral domain in which every ideal is a principal ideal.
- principal ideal ringA commutative ring in which every ideal is a principal ideal.
- principal quantum numberThe quantum number (of an atomic orbital) that specifies the energy of an electron in an atom and, hence, which shell it occupies
- principal quantum numbersplural of principal quantum number: The quantum number (of an atomic orbital) that specifies the energy of an electron in an atom and, hence, which shell it occupies
- principal boysplural of principal boy: The young male protagonist of a pantomime, traditionally played by a female.
- principal ultrafilterAn ultrafilter such that every set belonging to it is the superset of some fixed singleton set.
Compound words 12
- principalityA region or sovereign nation headed by a prince or princess.
- principalshipThe condition, rank or office of a principal
- coprincipalOne of a group of people who act jointly as principals (in various senses).
- principalistA radical conservative.
- subprincipal(mathematics)
- nonprincipalOne who is not a principal.
- principalismAlternative form of principlism: A system of ethics based on the four moral principles of autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice.
- principalnessThe quality of being principal; principality.
- unprincipalNot principal.
- principalitiesplural of principality: A region or sovereign nation headed by a prince or princess.