12-letter words that end in ry
- inflationary — of, pertaining to, reflective of, or causing inflation: inflationary prices.
- inframammary — (anatomy) Below the breast.
- intercessory — having the function of interceding: an intercessory prayer.
- intercountry — a state or nation: What European countries have you visited?
- interdictory — of, relating to, or noting interdiction.
- interjectory — characterized by interjection; interjectional.
- interlibrary — a place set apart to contain books, periodicals, and other material for reading, viewing, listening, study, or reference, as a room, set of rooms, or building where books may be read or borrowed.
- intermammary — (anatomy) Between the mammae.
- intermediary — an intermediate agent or agency; a go-between or mediator.
- 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.
- iron foundry — ironworks, forgery
- isoperimetry — the study of isoperimeters.
- junk jewelry — cheap costume jewelry.
- k/t boundary — Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary: the time zone comprising the end of the Cretaceous and the beginning of the Tertiary periods
- karlovy vary — a city in W Czech Republic: mineral springs; Carlsbad Decrees (1819).
- 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-.
- lieutenantry — the post or commission of a lieutenant
- 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
- long gallery — a large gallery, found especially in the uppermost stories of Elizabethan and Jacobean manor houses, used as a family room and as a promenade.
- magnetometry — (physics) The measurement of magnetic fields (strength and direction etc).
- 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.
- microbrewery — a brewery producing less than 15,000 barrels per year and usually concentrating on exotic or high quality beer.
- microcentury — One CS professor used to characterise the standard length of his lectures as a microcentury - that is, about 52.6 minutes (see also attoparsec, nanoacre, and especially microfortnight).
- microsurgery — any of various surgical procedures performed under magnification and with small specialized instruments, permitting very delicate operations, as the reconnection of severed blood vessels and nerves.
- milman parry — Milman, 1902–35, U.S. classical scholar and philologist.
- mis-delivery — the carrying and turning over of letters, goods, etc., to a designated recipient or recipients.
- mockumentary — a movie or television show depicting fictional events but presented as a documentary.
- 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
- nephelometry — Bacteriology. an apparatus containing a series of barium chloride standards used to determine the number of bacteria in a suspension.
- neurosensory — of or relating to the sensory role of the nervous system.
- neurosurgery — surgery of the brain or other nerve tissue.
- non-industry — the aggregate of manufacturing or technically productive enterprises in a particular field, often named after its principal product: the automobile industry; the steel industry.
- non-literary — pertaining to or of the nature of books and writings, especially those classed as literature: literary history.
- non-military — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
- non-monetary — of or relating to the coinage or currency of a country.
- nonarbitrary — decided by a judge or arbiter rather than by a law or statute.
- nonformulary — Not formulary.
- nonmandatory — Not mandatory.
- nonmigratory — Not migratory; that does not migrate.
- nonolfactory — of or relating to the sense of smell: olfactory organs.