Rhymes with mandatory
man·da·to·ry
M m Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- salutary — favorable to or promoting health; healthful.
- secretary — a person, usually an official, who is in charge of the records, correspondence, minutes of meetings, and related affairs of an organization, company, association, etc.: the secretary of the Linguistic Society of America.
- 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.
- voluntary — done, made, brought about, undertaken, etc., of one's own accord or by free choice: a voluntary contribution.
- 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
- category — If people or things are divided into categories, they are divided into groups in such a way that the members of each group are similar to each other in some way.
- 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.
- military — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
- necessary — being essential, indispensable, or requisite: a necessary part of the motor.
- necessity — something necessary or indispensable: food, shelter, and other necessities of life.
- oratory — skill or eloquence in public speaking: The evangelist moved thousands to repentance with his oratory.
- planetary — of, relating to, or resembling a planet or the planets.
- predatory — Zoology. preying upon other organisms for food.
- priority — the state or quality of being earlier in time, occurrence, etc.
- 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.
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- celebratory — A celebratory meal, drink, or other activity takes place to celebrate something such as a birthday, anniversary, or victory.
- 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.
- explanatory — Serving to explain something.
- exploratory — Relating to or involving exploration or investigation.
- extraordinary — Very unusual or remarkable.
- 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.
- obligatory — required as a matter of obligation; mandatory: A reply is desirable but not obligatory.
- 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.
- 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.
Two-syllable rhymes
- corey — the penis
- cory — any of various freshwater catfish belonging to the South American Corydoras genus
- glory — very great praise, honor, or distinction bestowed by common consent; renown: to win glory on the field of battle.
- gory — covered or stained with gore; bloody.
- lorry — Chiefly British. a motor truck, especially a large one.
- mandate — a command or authorization to act in a particular way on a public issue given by the electorate to its representative: The president had a clear mandate to end the war.
- rory — a male given name.
- 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.
- tori — plural of torus.
- tory — a member of the Conservative Party in Great Britain or Canada.
Three-syllable rhymes
- factory — a building or group of buildings with facilities for the manufacture of goods.
- janitor — a person employed in an apartment house, office building, school, etc., to clean the public areas, remove garbage, and do minor repairs; caretaker.
- migratory — migrating.
- standardize — to bring to or make of an established standard size, weight, quality, strength, or the like: to standardize manufactured parts.