Rhymes with contractionary
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- allegory — An allegory is a story, poem, or painting in which the characters and events are symbols of something else. Allegories are often moral, religious, or political.
- ancillary — The ancillary workers in an institution are the people such as cleaners and cooks whose work supports the main work of the institution.
- capillary — Capillaries are tiny blood vessels in your body.
- cassowary — any large flightless bird of the genus Casuarius, inhabiting forests in NE Australia, New Guinea, and adjacent islands, having a horny head crest, black plumage, and brightly coloured neck and wattles: order Casuariiformes
- category — If people or things are divided into categories, they are divided into groups in such a way that the members of each group are similar to each other in some way.
- fragmentary — consisting of or reduced to fragments; broken; disconnected; incomplete: fragmentary evidence; fragmentary remains.
- lapidary — Also, lapidist [lap-i-dist] /ˈlæp ɪ dɪst/ (Show IPA). a worker who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones.
- lavatory — a room fitted with equipment for washing the hands and face and usually with flush toilet facilities.
- mandatory — authoritatively ordered; obligatory; compulsory: It is mandatory that all students take two years of math.
- planetary — of, relating to, or resembling a planet or the planets.
- salutary — favorable to or promoting health; healthful.
- statutory — of, relating to, or of the nature of a statute.
- transitory — not lasting, enduring, permanent, or eternal.
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- constabulary — In Britain and some other countries, a constabulary is the police force of a particular area.
- defamatory — Speech or writing that is defamatory is likely to damage someone's good reputation by saying something bad and untrue about them.
- imaginary — existing only in the imagination or fancy; not real; fancied: an imaginary illness; the imaginary animals in the stories of Dr. Seuss.
- incantatory — the chanting or uttering of words purporting to have magical power.
- inflammatory — tending to arouse anger, hostility, passion, etc.: inflammatory speeches.
- laboratory — a building, part of a building, or other place equipped to conduct scientific experiments, tests, investigations, etc., or to manufacture chemicals, medicines, or the like.
- reactionary — of, pertaining to, marked by, or favoring reaction, especially extreme conservatism or rightism in politics; opposing political or social change.
- unsanitary — not sanitary; unhealthy or unhealthful; tending to harbor or spread disease: unsanitary living conditions.
- vocabulary — the stock of words used by or known to a particular people or group of persons: His French vocabulary is rather limited. The scientific vocabulary is constantly growing.
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- interplanetary — being or occurring between the planets or between a planet and the sun.
- retaliatory — to return like for like, especially evil for evil: to retaliate for an injury.