12-letter words that end in ary
- penitentiary — a place for imprisonment, reformatory discipline, or punishment, especially a prison maintained in the U.S. by a state or the federal government for serious offenders.
- pepys' diary — a diary kept by Samuel Pepys from January 1, 1660 to May 31, 1669, in which are recorded his impressions of contemporary London life, the life of the court, and the administration of the navy.
- post-primary — first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life.
- postcoronary — of, relating to, or occurring after a heart attack
- postliminary — of or relating to postliminy
- premaxillary — one of a pair of bones of the upper jaw of vertebrates, situated in front of and between the maxillary bones.
- previsionary — having foresight
- pro-military — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
- probationary — the act of testing.
- prothonotary — a chief clerk or official in certain courts of law.
- provisionary — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
- recessionary — of, relating to, or causing recession, especially economic recession: recessionary market pressures.
- reflationary — economy: relating to reflation
- residentiary — residing; resident.
- reversionary — of, relating to, or involving a reversion.
- rockumentary — a documentary about rock music.
- sacramentary — a sacramentarian
- sexcentenary — pertaining to 600 or a period of 600 years; marking the completion of 600 years.
- subjudiciary — the judicial branch of government.
- submaxillary — of or relating to the lower jaw or lower jawbone.
- subsecretary — a secretary subordinate to another secretary
- superciliary — of or relating to the eyebrow.
- tercentenary — commemoration of 300 years
- testamentary — of, relating to, or of the nature of a testament or will.
- the military — the armed services (esp the army)
- the tertiary — the Tertiary period or rock system, divided into Palaeocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, and Pliocene epochs or series
- travel-weary — tired or exhausted as a result of travelling
- tricentenary — of or relating to a period of 300 years
- typhoid mary — Mary ("Typhoid Mary") 1869?–1938, U.S. cook, born in Ireland: known immune carrier of typhoid fever who infected many with the disease, institutionalized in 1914.
- unstationary — standing still; not moving.
- usufructuary — of, relating to, or of the nature of usufruct.
- valetudinary — valetudinarian.
- vestimentary — of or relating to clothes or dress
- x-ray binary — a binary star that is an intense source of X-rays and is composed of a normal star in close orbit with a white dwarf, neutron star, or black hole