Rhymes with category
cat·e·go·ry
C c Two-syllable rhymes
- gory — covered or stained with gore; bloody.
- maury — Matthew Fontaine [fon-teyn,, fon-teyn] /fɒnˈteɪn,, ˈfɒn teɪn/ (Show IPA), 1806–73, U.S. naval officer and scientist.
- sorry — feeling regret, compunction, sympathy, pity, etc.: to be sorry to leave one's friends; to be sorry for a remark; to be sorry for someone in trouble.
- story — a narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader; tale.
- tory — a member of the Conservative Party in Great Britain or Canada.
- classes — a number of persons or things regarded as forming a group by reason of common attributes, characteristics, qualities, or traits; kind; sort: a class of objects used in daily living.
- cory — any of various freshwater catfish belonging to the South American Corydoras genus
- country — A country is one of the political units which the world is divided into, covering a particular area of land.
- forty — a cardinal number, ten times four.
- glory — very great praise, honor, or distinction bestowed by common consent; renown: to win glory on the field of battle.
- gorey — Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
Three-syllable rhymes
- battery — Batteries are small devices that provide the power for electrical items such as radios and children's toys.
- classify — To classify things means to divide them into groups or types so that things with similar characteristics are in the same group.
- factory — a building or group of buildings with facilities for the manufacture of goods.
- family — the children of one person or one couple collectively: We want a large family.
- happily — in a happy manner; with pleasure.
- salary — a fixed compensation periodically paid to a person for regular work or services.
- strategy — Also, strategics. the science or art of combining and employing the means of war in planning and directing large military movements and operations.
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- alimony — Alimony is money that a court of law orders someone to pay regularly to their former wife or husband after they have got divorced. Compare palimony.
- 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
- catastrophe — A catastrophe is an unexpected event that causes great suffering or damage.
- categories — any general or comprehensive division; a class.
- categorize — If you categorize people or things, you divide them into sets or you say which set they belong to.
- categorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- cemetery — A cemetery is a place where dead people's bodies or their ashes are buried.
- fragmentary — consisting of or reduced to fragments; broken; disconnected; incomplete: fragmentary evidence; fragmentary remains.
- inventory — a complete listing of merchandise or stock on hand, work in progress, raw materials, finished goods on hand, etc., made each year by a business concern.
- 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.
- matrimony — the state of being married; marriage: He was married in 1870 and lived in matrimony 12 years.
- oratory — skill or eloquence in public speaking: The evangelist moved thousands to repentance with his oratory.
- ordinary — of no special quality or interest; commonplace; unexceptional: One novel is brilliant, the other is decidedly ordinary; an ordinary person.
- planetary — of, relating to, or resembling a planet or the planets.
- 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.
- salutary — favorable to or promoting health; healthful.
- stationary — standing still; not moving.
- statutory — of, relating to, or of the nature of a statute.
- territory — any tract of land; region or district.
- transitory — not lasting, enduring, permanent, or eternal.
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- categorizing — Present participle of categorize.
- 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.
- historically — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
- 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.