9-letter words that end in tory
- placatory — serving, tending, or intended to placate: a placatory reply.
- placitory — of or relating to pleas made to support a claim or a defence
- precatory — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or expressing entreaty or supplication: precatory overtures.
- predatory — Zoology. preying upon other organisms for food.
- prefatory — of, relating to, or of the nature of a preface: prefatory explanations.
- proditory — traitorous
- pulsatory — pulsating or throbbing.
- purgatory — (in the belief of Roman Catholics and others) a condition or place in which the souls of those dying penitent are purified from venial sins, or undergo the temporal punishment that, after the guilt of mortal sin has been remitted, still remains to be endured by the sinner.
- raspatory — a surgical instrument for abrading; surgeon's rasp
- refectory — a dining hall in a religious house, a college, or other institution.
- repertory — a type of theatrical presentation in which a company presents several works regularly or in alternate sequence in one season.
- saltatory — pertaining to or adapted for saltation.
- salvatory — a place for storing something safely
- scriptory — of or relating to writing
- secretory — pertaining to secretion.
- signatory — having signed, or joined in signing, a document: the signatory powers to a treaty.
- sob story — an excessively sentimental human-interest story.
- statutory — of, relating to, or of the nature of a statute.
- territory — any tract of land; region or district.
- top story — headline news item
- vibratory — capable of or producing vibration.
- war story — an account or anecdote concerning one's personal experiences, especially in military combat, during a war.