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14-letter words that end in ory

  • antiregulatory — opposed to regulation
  • circumgyratory — characterized by circumgyration
  • circumlocutory — a roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea.
  • circumnutatory — relating to circumnutation
  • circumrotatory — Turning, rolling, or whirling round.
  • classificatory — the act of classifying.
  • congratulatory — A congratulatory message expresses congratulations.
  • constabulatory — (obsolete) A constabulary.
  • credit history — a record of how promptly a person pays back loans, credits, etc, over time
  • crowning glory — the greatest achievement
  • dextrorotatory — turning or circling to the right, in a clockwise direction
  • disapprobatory — Containing disapprobation; serving to disapprove.
  • discriminatory — characterized by or showing prejudicial treatment, especially as an indication of bias related to age, color, national origin, religion, sex, etc.: discriminatory practices in housing; a discriminatory tax.
  • disintegratory — Causing or relating to disintegration.
  • electrosensory — Of or pertaining to the ability of a biological organism to perceive electrical impulses.
  • fair territory — the area beginning with and including home plate and extending between and including foul lines into which a batter must bat the ball as a prerequisite for a safe hit.
  • in one's glory — at one's best, happiest, etc.
  • intermediatory — to act as an intermediary; intervene; mediate.
  • kinetic theory — the theory that the minute particles of all matter are in constant motion and that the temperature of a substance is dependent on the velocity of this motion, increased motion being accompanied by increased temperature: according to the kinetic theory of gases, the elasticity, diffusion, pressure, and other physical properties of a gas are due to the rapid motion in straight lines of its molecules, to their impacts against each other and the walls of the container, to weak cohesive forces between molecules, etc.
  • living history — any of various activities involving the re-enactment of historical events or the recreation of living conditions of the past
  • neurosecretory — participating in or causal of neurosecretion; pertaining to neurosecretion
  • non-ambulatory — of, relating to, or capable of walking: an ambulatory exploration of the countryside.
  • non-depository — a place where something is deposited or stored, as for safekeeping: the night depository of a bank.
  • non-derogatory — tending to lessen the merit or reputation of a person or thing; disparaging; depreciatory: a derogatory remark.
  • non-regulatory — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
  • nonexplanatory — not explanatory
  • nonsupervisory — not supervisory
  • osmoregulatory — Of or pertaining to osmoregulation.
  • plastic memory — the tendency of certain plastics after being deformed to resume their original form when heated
  • postcopulatory — of or relating to the period of time following copulation
  • predesignatory — in the terminology of Sir William Hamilton, (of a sign) affixed to a proposition or term to indicate quantity
  • psycho-history — history or the writing of history employing the techniques of psychoanalysis to explore motivations, explain actions, etc.
  • quantum theory — any theory predating quantum mechanics that encompassed Planck's radiation formula and a scheme for obtaining discrete energy states for atoms, as Bohr theory.
  • queuing theory — a theory that deals with providing a service on a waiting line, or queue, especially when the demand for it is irregular and describable by probability distributions, as processing phone calls arriving at a telephone exchange or collecting highway tolls from drivers at tollbooths.
  • recommendatory — serving to recommend; recommending.
  • recompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
  • reconciliatory — tending to reconcile.
  • root directory — (file system)   The topmost node of a hierarchical file system.
  • sacred history — history that is retold with the aim of instilling religious faith and which may or may not be founded on fact
  • secret history — a version of historical events which differs from the official or commonly accepted record and purports to be the true version
  • self-laudatory — containing or expressing praise: overwhelmed by the speaker's laudatory remarks.
  • social history — a view of historical events seen in terms of social trends
  • subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
  • supererogatory — going beyond the requirements of duty.
  • systems theory — an approach to industrial relations which likens the enterprise to an organism with interdependent parts, each with its own specific function and interrelated responsibilities
  • take inventory — count stock or belongings
  • tergiversatory — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
  • unconciliatory — tending to conciliate: a conciliatory manner; conciliatory comments.
  • unsatisfactory — not satisfactory; not satisfying or meeting one's demands; inadequate.
  • vasoinhibitory — an agent, as a drug, that inhibits the action of the vasomotor nerves.

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