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9-letter words that end in ry

  • fructuary — a person who enjoys the fruits or rewards (of something)
  • gallantry — dashing courage; heroic bravery; noble-minded behavior.
  • gallberry — either of two North American shrubs, Ilex glabra, the inkberry, or I. coriacea, having glossy leaves and white flowers.
  • garlandry — a collection of garlands
  • garnishry — an adornment or decoration
  • gasometry — the measurement of gases.
  • gimmickry — the use of gimmicks.
  • glengarry — a Scottish cap with straight sides, a crease along the top, and sometimes short ribbon streamers at the back, worn by Highlanders as part of military dress.
  • go hungry — If people go hungry, they do not have enough food to eat.
  • gossamery — a fine, filmy cobweb seen on grass or bushes or floating in the air in calm weather, especially in autumn.
  • gradatory — (architecture) A series of steps from a cloister into a church.
  • granulary — granular
  • gustatory — of or relating to taste or tasting.
  • hackberry — any of several trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Celtis, of the elm family, bearing cherrylike fruit.
  • hail mary — Ave Maria.
  • handcarry — to carry or deliver by hand, as for security reasons: The ambassador hand-carried a message from the president.
  • hansberryLorraine, 1930–65, U.S. playwright.
  • heathenry — The state of being heathen.
  • hemihedry — the quality or state of a crystal having hemihedral shape
  • herbivory — The eating of plants, especially ones that are still living.
  • hindberry — a raspberry
  • hippiatry — the treatment of disease in horses
  • holohedry — The condition of a crystal whose point group is identical to that of its lattice.
  • holy mary — Christianity: mother of Jesus
  • homeomery — the condition of being made up of similar parts
  • homiliary — a collection of homilies.
  • homospory — the production of a single kind of spore, neither microspore nor megaspore.
  • honourary — Misspelling of honorary.
  • horometry — The art or practice of measuring time by hours and subordinate divisions.
  • hortatory — urging to some course of conduct or action; exhorting; encouraging: a hortatory speech.
  • huckstery — the business of a huckster
  • hung jury — a jury that cannot agree on a verdict.
  • husbandry — the cultivation and production of edible crops or of animals for food; agriculture; farming.
  • idiolatry — Autolatry, or self worship.
  • idolatory — Misspelling of idolatry.
  • imaginary — existing only in the imagination or fancy; not real; fancied: an imaginary illness; the imaginary animals in the stories of Dr. Seuss.
  • imbracery — embracery.
  • in a fury — very angry
  • in theory — in principle
  • incensory — Thurible, censer.
  • infirmary — a place for the care of the infirm, sick, or injured; hospital or facility serving as a hospital: a school infirmary.
  • insectary — a laboratory for the study of live insects, their life histories, effects on plants, reaction to insecticides, etc.
  • 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.
  • iodimetry — iodometry.
  • iodometry — a volumetric analytical procedure for determining iodine or materials that will liberate iodine or react with iodine.
  • itinerary — a detailed plan for a journey, especially a list of places to visit; plan of travel.
  • janissary — (often initial capital letter) a member of an elite military unit of the Turkish army organized in the 14th century and abolished in 1826 after it revolted against the Sultan.
  • jewellery — articles of gold, silver, precious stones, etc., for personal adornment.
  • 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.
  • judiciary — the judicial branch of government.
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