12-letter words containing ory
- oral history — information of historical or sociological importance obtained usually by tape-recorded interviews with persons whose experiences and memories are representative or whose lives have been of special significance.
- origin story — a backstory, or established background narrative, that informs the identity and motivations of heroes and villains in a comic book or similar fictional work: The superhero’s origin story begins with a tragic accident that left him scarred, but also resulted in his supernatural powers.
- perspiratory — of, relating to, or stimulating perspiration.
- preovulatory — to produce and discharge eggs from an ovary or ovarian follicle.
- preservatory — a preservative
- proof theory — (logic) The branch of logic describing procedures for combining logical statements to show, by a series of truth-preserving transformations, that one statement is a consequence of some other statement or group of statements.
- propitiatory — serving or intended to propitiate.
- protohistory — a branch of study concerned with the transition period between prehistory and the earliest recorded history.
- recuperatory — of or relating to recovery or recuperation
- remuneratory — affording remuneration; profitable: remunerative work.
- renunciatory — an act or instance of relinquishing, abandoning, repudiating, or sacrificing something, as a right, title, person, or ambition: the king's renunciation of the throne.
- rusty memory — (storage, humour) Mass-storage that uses iron-oxide-based magnetic media (especially magnetic tape and the pre-Winchester removable disk packs used in washing machines). Compare donuts.
- satisfactory — giving or affording satisfaction; fulfilling all demands or requirements: a satisfactory solution.
- second-story — of or located on the second story or floor.
- sensory root — a nerve fiber bundle that emerges from either side of the spinal cord and joins with a complementary bundle to form each spinal nerve in the series of spinal nerves: the root at the rear of the spinal cord (dorsal root or sensory root) conveys sensations to the central nervous system, and the root at the front (ventral root or motor root) conveys impulses to the muscles.
- silk factory — plant where silk fabric is produced
- sternutatory — Also, sternutative. causing or tending to cause sneezing.
- story writer — author of prose fiction
- storytelling — the telling or writing of stories.
- subfeudatory — of or relating to subfeu
- supersensory — supersensible.
- supplicatory — to pray humbly; make humble and earnest entreaty or petition.
- theory-laden — (of an expression) capable of being understood only within the context of a specific theory, as for example superego, which requires the apparatus of Freudian theory in explanation
- unobligatory — required as a matter of obligation; mandatory: A reply is desirable but not obligatory.
- vasodilatory — of or relating to the dilation of blood vessels
- victory roll — a roll of an aircraft made by a pilot to announce or celebrate the shooting down of an enemy plane or other cause for celebration
- victory ship — a fast, turbine-powered cargo ship of World War II, having a capacity of about 11,000 dead-weight tons.
- video memory — computer memory used for the processing and displaying of images
- vituperatory — abusive or blaming