11-letter words that end in ry
- extenuatory — Tending to extenuate or palliate.
- fairy story — A fairy story is the same as a fairy tale.
- fan tracery — the carved ornamentation on fan vaulting
- farkleberry — a shrub or small tree, Vaccinium arboreum, of the heath family, native to the southern U.S., bearing small, waxy, white flowers and black, many-seeded berries.
- filamentary — pertaining to or of the nature of a filament.
- fire cherry — pin cherry.
- flash harry — a man who likes to dress and behave ostentatiously
- fluorometry — an instrument for measuring fluorescence, often as a means of determining the nature of the substance emitting the fluorescence.
- fly gallery — a narrow platform at the side of a stage from which ropes are manipulated to raise or lower scenery, battens, etc.
- folk memory — the memory of past events as preserved in a community
- fornicatory — Of or pertaining to fornication.
- fragmentary — consisting of or reduced to fragments; broken; disconnected; incomplete: fragmentary evidence; fragmentary remains.
- frame story — a secondary story or stories embedded in the main story.
- freebootery — the practices of a freebooter
- freemasonry — secret or tacit brotherhood; fellowship; fundamental bond or rapport: the freemasonry of those who hunger for knowledge.
- from memory — by heart, without prompts
- fulminatory — Thundering; striking terror.
- functionary — a person who functions in a specified capacity, especially in government service; an official: civil servants, bureaucrats, and other functionaries.
- gallimaufry — a hodgepodge; jumble; confused medley.
- 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.
- gimcrackery — cheap, showy, useless trifles, ornaments, trinkets, etc.
- glastonbury — a borough of SW England, in whose vicinity the ruins of an important Iron Age lake village have been found and to which in folklore both King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathaea have been linked, the latter as the founder of the abbey there.
- goldenberry — the Cape gooseberry
- gopherberry — bush huckleberry.
- gratulatory — (archaic) congratulatory.
- grotesquery — grotesque character.
- haphazardry — haphazard character, state, or order; fortuity.
- head injury — wound to the head
- hebdomadary — Roman Catholic Church. a member of a church or monastery appointed for one week to sing the chapter Mass and lead in the recitation of the breviary.
- heterospory — the production of both microspores and megaspores.
- hobgoblinry — the behaviour or activities of hobgoblins
- holly berry — a bitter, slightly poisonous berry that grows on holly trees or shrubs
- householdry — (archaic) The management and upkeep of a household.
- housewifery — the function or work of a housewife; housekeeping.
- huckleberry — the dark-blue or black edible berry of any of various shrubs belonging to the genus Gaylussacia of the heath family.
- hue and cry — Early English Law. the pursuit of a felon or an offender with loud outcries or clamor to give an alarm.
- hurtleberry — whortleberry.
- hypothecary — of or relating to a hypothec.
- illusionary — of, relating to, or characterized by illusions; deceptive; misleading.
- 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.
- in chancery — (of a suit) pending in a court of equity
- in full cry — When someone is in full cry, they are expressing their views very strongly or are very active.
- in no hurry — If you are in no hurry to do something, you are very unwilling to do it.
- in ordinary — (used esp in titles) in regular service or attendance