11-letter words that end in ory
- malefactory — villainous
- mancipatory — relating to mancipation
- manducatory — Pertaining to, or employed in, chewing.
- manufactory — a factory.
- masticatory — of, relating to, or used in or for mastication.
- mob oratory — oratory designed to appeal to and inflame the emotions of a crowd, as for example Hitler's oratory
- negotiatory — Of or pertaining to negotiation.
- nonauditory — not auditory, not related to hearing or its functions
- nuncupatory — Nuncupative; oral rather than written.
- obfuscatory — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- objurgatory — to reproach or denounce vehemently; upbraid harshly; berate sharply.
- observatory — a place or building equipped and used for making observations of astronomical, meteorological, or other natural phenomena, especially a place equipped with a powerful telescope for observing the planets and stars.
- obsignatory — (obsolete) Ratifying; confirming by sealing.
- old hickory — Jackson1
- oscillatory — characterized by or involving oscillation.
- parasensory — extrasensory.
- perfunctory — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
- persecutory — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
- photo story — photo essay.
- polyhistory — the quality of a polyhistor
- postulatory — of or relating to a postulate or assumption
- predicatory — of or relating to preaching.
- premonitory — giving premonition; serving to warn beforehand.
- preparatory — serving or designed to prepare: preparatory arrangements.
- procuratory — Roman History. any of various imperial officials with fiscal or administrative powers.
- profanatory — tending to desecrate; profaning.
- prohibitory — prohibitive.
- propagatory — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
- prosecutory — of, relating to, or concerned with prosecution.
- provocatory — tending to provoke
- redhibitory — the nullification of a sale because of a defect in the article sold of such nature as to make it totally or virtually unusable or as to have prevented the purchase if known to the buyer.
- reformatory — serving or designed to reform: reformatory lectures; reformatory punishments.
- repudiatory — the act of repudiating.
- requisitory — a demand, usually in writing, made by a prosecutor that a sentence be passed against an accused party, and stating reasons for the demand
- reservatory — any place where reserves or stores are kept, esp of food and/or water; esp, a reservoir
- respiratory — pertaining to or serving for respiration: respiratory disease.
- restitutory — reparation made by giving an equivalent or compensation for loss, damage, or injury caused; indemnification.
- retaliatory — to return like for like, especially evil for evil: to retaliate for an injury.
- retributory — characterized by or involving retribution: retributive justice.
- scare story — A scare story is something that is said or written to make people feel frightened and think that a situation is much more unpleasant or dangerous than it really is.
- short story — a piece of prose fiction, usually under 10,000 words.
- speculatory — a place suitable for observation
- subcategory — a subordinate category or a division of a category.
- supervisory — of, relating to, or having supervision.
- suppository — a solid, conical mass of medicinal substance that melts upon insertion into the rectum or vagina.
- terminatory — pertaining to or forming the extremity or boundary; terminal; terminating.
- trepidatory — characterized by trepidation
- unmandatory — authoritatively ordered; obligatory; compulsory: It is mandatory that all students take two years of math.
- vaccinatory — used for or relating to vaccination
- vacillatory — marked by or displaying vacillation: a vacillatory policy of action.