9-letter words containing ory
- in theory — in principle
- incensory — Thurible, censer.
- 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.
- ivory nut — the seed of a low, South American palm, Phytelephas macrocarpa, yielding vegetable ivory.
- ivorybill — The ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis).
- ivorytype — an antiquated photoprinting technique in which two prints are made of the same image, and the weaker one, made transparent with varnish and colored on the back, is laid over the stronger one.
- ivorywood — the yellowish-white wood of an Australian tree, Siphonodon australe, used for engraving, inlaying, and turnery
- john dory — any fish of the family Zeidae, especially Zeus faber, of European seas, having a vertically compressed body and long spines in the dorsal fin.
- laudatory — containing or expressing praise: overwhelmed by the speaker's laudatory remarks.
- libratory — oscillatory.
- mandatory — authoritatively ordered; obligatory; compulsory: It is mandatory that all students take two years of math.
- mediatory — pertaining to mediation.
- migratory — migrating.
- narratory — acting to narrate; narrative
- objectory — (programming) An object-oriented methodology mostly created by Ivar Jacobson.
- offertory — (sometimes initial capital letter) the offering of the unconsecrated elements that is made to God by the celebrant in a Eucharistic service.
- old glory — the national flag of the U.S., consisting of 13 horizontal stripes that are alternately red and white, representing the original states, and of a blue field containing 50 white stars, representing the present states.
- olfactory — of or relating to the sense of smell: olfactory organs.
- operatory — a room or other area with special equipment and facilities, as for dental surgery, scientific experiments, or the like.
- ostensory — monstrance.
- overstory — the uppermost layer of foliage in a forest, forming the canopy.
- ovulatory — to produce and discharge eggs from an ovary or ovarian follicle.
- palpatory — to examine by touch, especially for the purpose of diagnosing disease or illness.
- pellitory — any of various urticaceous plants of the S and W European genus Parietaria, esp P. diffusa (pellitory-of-the-wall or wall pellitory), that grow in crevices and have long narrow leaves and small pink flowers
- phonatory — rapid, periodic opening and closing of the glottis through separation and apposition of the vocal cords that, accompanied by breath under lung pressure, constitutes a source of vocal sound.
- piscatory — of or relating to fishermen or fishing: a piscatory treaty.
- placatory — serving, tending, or intended to placate: a placatory reply.
- placitory — of or relating to pleas made to support a claim or a defence
- polyamory — the practice or condition of participating simultaneously in more than one serious romantic or sexual relationship with the knowledge and consent of all partners.
- 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.
- prelusory — introductory.
- proditory — traitorous
- prolusory — serving for prolusion.
- provisory — containing a proviso or condition; conditional.
- 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
- reclusory — a recluse's dwelling or cell
- refectory — a dining hall in a religious house, a college, or other institution.
- remissory — tending to gain remission
- 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.
- seigniory — the power or authority of a seignior.
- signatory — having signed, or joined in signing, a document: the signatory powers to a treaty.
- sob story — an excessively sentimental human-interest story.