11-letter words containing ory
- deglutitory — of or relating to swallowing
- degustatory — tasty; having a pleasant flavour
- dehortatory — intended to dissuade from a course of action
- delineatory — That delineates; descriptive; drawing the outline; delineating.
- denigratory — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
- deprecatory — expressing disapproval; protesting
- depredatory — Tending or designed to depredate.
- designatory — to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.
- disrotatory — (organic chemistry) Describing an electrocyclic reaction in which the substituents at the interacting termini of the conjugated system rotate in opposite senses.
- divulgatory — to make publicly known; publish.
- edificatory — intended or serving to edify.
- ejaculatory — Of or pertaining to ejaculation.
- elaboratory — (obsolete) A laboratory.
- eliminatory — Tending to eliminate.
- elucidatory — Serving to elucidate.
- exclamatory — Of or relating to a sudden cry or remark, especially one expressing surprise, anger, or pain.
- exculpatory — Excusing or clearing of any wrongdoing.
- exhortatory — Serving to exhort.
- expatiatory — Expansive; diffusive.
- expiscatory — acting to expiscate; tending to expiscate
- explanatory — Serving to explain something.
- explicatory — Explanatory; serving to explain logically or in detail.
- exploratory — Relating to or involving exploration or investigation.
- expurgatory — Serving to expurgate.
- extenuatory — Tending to extenuate or palliate.
- factorylike — Resembling a factory in any of various respects.
- fairy story — A fairy story is the same as a fairy tale.
- folk memory — the memory of past events as preserved in a community
- fornicatory — Of or pertaining to fornication.
- frame story — a secondary story or stories embedded in the main story.
- from memory — by heart, without prompts
- fulminatory — Thundering; striking terror.
- game theory — a mathematical theory that deals with strategies for maximizing gains and minimizing losses within prescribed constraints, as the rules of a card game: widely applied in the solution of various decision-making problems, as those of military strategy and business policy.
- gate theory — a theory proposing that neural stimulation beyond a certain threshold level, as by application of an electric current, can overwhelm the ability of the nerve center to sense pain.
- germ theory — Pathology. the theory that infectious diseases are due to the agency of germs or microorganisms.
- ghost story — a tale in which such elements as ghostly visitations and supernatural intervention are used to further the plot and a chilling, suspenseful atmosphere.
- glory years — very great praise, honor, or distinction bestowed by common consent; renown: to win glory on the field of battle.
- gratulatory — (archaic) congratulatory.
- gregory iii — Saint, died a.d. 741, pope 731–741.
- gregory vii — Saint (Hildebrand) c1020–85, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1073–85.
- gregory xii — (Angelo Correr, Corrario or Corraro) c1327–1417, Italian ecclesiastic: installed as pope in 1406 and resigned office in 1415.
- gregory xiv — (Niccolò Sfandrati) 1535–91, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1590–91.
- gregory xvi — (Bartolommeo Alberto Cappellari) 1765–1846, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1831–46.
- heterospory — the production of both microspores and megaspores.
- historyless — Lacking history.
- impetratory — to obtain by entreaty.
- implicatory — implicative.
- imploratory — to beg urgently or piteously, as for aid or mercy; beseech; entreat: They implored him to go.
- imprecatory — to invoke or call down (evil or curses), as upon a person.
- incantatory — the chanting or uttering of words purporting to have magical power.