12-letter words containing ory
- factory acts — laws relating to factories
- factory farm — a farm in which animals are bred and fattened using modern industrial methods
- factory ship — a whaling ship equipped to process killed whales and to transport the oil and by-products.
- factory work — work in a factory
- field theory — a detailed mathematical description of the distribution and movement of matter under the influence of one or more fields.
- fish factory — a factory where fish is processed
- flagellatory — relating to flagellation
- flash memory — Computers. a type of reprogrammable memory that retains information even with the power turned off.
- gauge theory — a type of theory of elementary particles designed to explain the strong, weak, and electromagnetic interactions in terms of exchange of virtual particles
- graph theory — the branch of mathematics dealing with linear graphs.
- gregory viii — (Alberto de MoraorAlberto di Morra) died 1187, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1187.
- gregory xiii — (Ugo Buoncompagni) 1502–85, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1572–85, educator and innovator of the modern calendar.
- group theory — the branch of mathematics that deals with the structure of mathematical groups and mappings between them.
- hickory pine — bristlecone pine.
- horror story — a story, movie, etc., that entertains or fascinates by shocking or frightening, especially by an emphasis on bloodshed or supernatural forces.
- illuminatory — Increasing informative qualities; explanatory.
- illustratory — Serving to illustrate.
- in memory of — to commemorate
- inauguratory — Inaugural; being the first instance.
- inflammatory — tending to arouse anger, hostility, passion, etc.: inflammatory speeches.
- intercessory — having the function of interceding: an intercessory prayer.
- interdictory — of, relating to, or noting interdiction.
- interjectory — characterized by interjection; interjectional.
- intersensory — of or relating to the senses or sensation.
- intimidatory — to make timid; fill with fear.
- introductory — serving or used to introduce; preliminary; beginning: an introductory course; an introductory paragraph.
- inventorying — Present participle of inventory.
- lachrymatory — of, relating to, or causing the shedding of tears.
- legal memory — a period of time, now usually established by statute, during which custom, conduct, or a state of affairs must have existed or continued in order for it to have taken on the force of law or to establish a legal right or title not otherwise provable.
- levorotatory — turning to the left, as the rotation to the left of the plane of polarization of light in certain crystals and compounds. Symbol: l-.
- life history — the series of living phenomena exhibited by an organism in the course of its development from inception to death.
- likely story — dubious account
- make history — do sth of great significance
- manipulatory — to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner: to manipulate people's feelings.
- masturbatory — the stimulation or manipulation of one's own genitals, especially to orgasm; sexual self-gratification.
- memory farts — (jargon, humour) The flatulent sounds that some MS-DOS box BIOSes (most notably AMI's) make when checking memory at boot time.
- memory smash — (jargon) A Xerox PARC term for writing to the location addressed by a dangling pointer.
- memory stick — computing: flashcard, dongle
- memory trace — engram.
- memory verse — a verse or passage from the Bible to be memorized, especially by members of a Sunday school.
- model theory — the branch of logic that deals with the properties of models; the semantic study of formal systems
- modificatory — modifying.
- multisensory — of or relating to the senses or sensation.
- myrmecochory — the dispersal of fruits and seeds by ants
- neurosensory — of or relating to the sensory role of the nervous system.
- nonmandatory — Not mandatory.
- nonmigratory — Not migratory; that does not migrate.
- nonolfactory — of or relating to the sense of smell: olfactory organs.
- nonsecretory — not secretory
- nonstatutory — of, relating to, or of the nature of a statute.