16-letter words that end in ry
- electrochemistry — The branch of chemistry that deals with the relations between electrical and chemical phenomena.
- ending inventory — An ending inventory is all of the goods, services, or materials that a business has available for use or sale at the end of an accounting period.
- fashion industry — the industry that deals with the world of fashion
- fishing industry — the industry of catching fish
- flashbulb memory — the clear recollections that a person may have of the circumstances associated with a dramatic event
- forward delivery — delivery at a future date.
- french directory — the body of five directors in power in France from 1795 until their overthrow by Napoleon in 1799
- galvanic battery — battery (def 1a).
- general delivery — a postal service that delivers mail to a specific post office where it is held for pickup by the addressee.
- hamstring injury — an instance of physical damage to a person's hamstring
- harleian library — a large library of manuscripts collected by the British statesman Robert Harley and his son and now housed in the British Museum.
- immunomodulatory — (medical) Having the ability to alter or regulate immune functions.
- immunoregulatory — Of or pertaining to immunoregulation.
- in living memory — If you say that something is, for example, the best, worst, or first thing of its kind in living memory, you are emphasizing that it is the only thing of that kind that people can remember.
- in utero surgery — surgery performed on a fetus while it is in the womb.
- indian territory — a former territory of the U.S.: now in E Oklahoma. About 31,000 sq. mi. (80,000 sq. km).
- indirect primary — a primary in which members of a party elect delegates to a party convention that in turn elects the party's candidates.
- inter-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.
- jerusalem cherry — an Old World plant, Solanum pseudocapsicum, of the nightshade family, having white flowers and bearing cherrylike scarlet or yellow fruits, cultivated as an ornamental.
- judicial inquiry — a formal legal investigation conducted into a matter of public concern by a judge, appointed by the government
- ladies auxiliary — an association whose members are usually the wives of members of an association with which it is affiliated.
- lay intermediary — a layperson who is interposed between a lawyer and client to prevent the existence of a direct relationship between them.
- legal dictionary — a specialized dictionary covering terms used in the various branches of the legal profession, as civil law, criminal law, and corporate law. A comprehensive legal dictionary adds to its body of standard English entries many words and phrases that have made their way into modern legal practice from law French and Latin and are rarely found in a general English monolingual dictionary. Such a specialized dictionary is useful not only for law students and for attorneys themselves, but for members of the lay public who require legal services. Legal dictionaries published in print follow the normal practice of sorting entry terms alphabetically, while electronic dictionaries, such as the online Dictionary of Law on Dictionary.com, allow direct, immediate access to a search term.
- lick observatory — the astronomical observatory of the University of California, situated on Mount Hamilton, near San Jose, California, and having a 120-inch (3-meter) reflecting telescope and a 36-inch (91-cm) refracting telescope.
- long-term memory — information stored in the brain and retrievable over a long period of time, often over the entire life span of the individual (contrasted with short-term memory).
- lord proprietary — (in Colonial America) an owner, governor, or grantee of a proprietary colony
- lose your memory — If you lose your memory, you forget things that you used to know.
- magnetochemistry — the study of magnetic and chemical phenomena in their relation to one another.
- malchus-porphyry — (Malchus) a.d. c233–c304, Greek philosopher.
- mechanochemistry — the field of chemistry that deals with the direct conversion of chemical into mechanical energy.
- medal of bravery — a Canadian award for courage
- medieval history — the branch of history dealing with the Middle Ages
- medium artillery — guns and howitzers of more than 105mm and less than 155mm caliber, sometimes including the 155mm howitzers. Compare heavy artillery (def 2), light artillery (def 2).
- minstrel gallery — a gallery in a building meant for use by musicians playing to provide background music or entertainment at a feast or other event
- minute secretary — the person responsible for noting the minutes of a meeting
- national gallery — a major art gallery in London, in Trafalgar Square. Founded in 1824, it contains the largest collection of paintings in Britain
- national library — a library established and funded by a national government with the designation national, to serve the needs of this government, often to function as a library of record for the nation's publishing output, and in some cases to act as a central agency for library and bibliographic development in the nation.
- national lottery — the largest UK lottery organization
- non-conciliatory — tending to conciliate: a conciliatory manner; conciliatory comments.
- non-confirmatory — serving to confirm; corroborative.
- non-contemporary — existing, occurring, or living at the same time; belonging to the same time: Newton's discovery of the calculus was contemporary with that of Leibniz.
- non-inflammatory — tending to arouse anger, hostility, passion, etc.: inflammatory speeches.
- nondiscretionary — subject or left to one's own discretion.
- nuclear industry — the industry involving nuclear weapons, nuclear power stations, etc
- ordnance factory — a factory that makes military weapons and ammunition
- overcompensatory — a pronounced striving to neutralize and conceal a strong but unacceptable character trait by substituting for it an opposite trait.
- pocket secretary — a long, narrow walletlike case, usually of leather and containing pockets for credit and business cards, paper money, etc., and sometimes a notepad and pencil.
- portrait gallery — a gallery where pictures are displayed
- postcode lottery — a situation in which the standard of medical care, education, etc, received by the public varies from area to area, depending on the funding policies of various health boards, local authorities, etc
- pragmatic theory — the theory of truth that the truth of a statement consists in its practical consequences, especially in its agreement with subsequent experience.