9-letter words that end in ry
- provostry — the office of a (secular, ecclesiastical, or scholastic) provost
- pulmonary — of or relating to the lungs.
- pulsatory — pulsating or throbbing.
- pupillary — pertaining to the pupil of the eye.
- purgatory — (in the belief of Roman Catholics and others) a condition or place in which the souls of those dying penitent are purified from venial sins, or undergo the temporal punishment that, after the guilt of mortal sin has been remitted, still remains to be endured by the sinner.
- pyrolatry — the worship of fire
- pyrometry — an apparatus for measuring high temperatures that uses the radiation emitted by a hot body as a basis for measurement.
- raspatory — a surgical instrument for abrading; surgeon's rasp
- raspberry — the fruit of any of several shrubs belonging to the genus Rubus, of the rose family, consisting of small and juicy red, black, or pale yellow drupelets forming a detachable cap about a convex receptacle.
- razzberry — raspberry (def 4).
- re-injury — harm or damage that is done or sustained: to escape without injury.
- reclusory — a recluse's dwelling or cell
- refectory — a dining hall in a religious house, a college, or other institution.
- reliquary — a repository or receptacle for relics.
- remissory — tending to gain remission
- repertory — a type of theatrical presentation in which a company presents several works regularly or in alternate sequence in one season.
- residuary — entitled to the residue of an estate: a residuary legatee.
- rheometry — an instrument for measuring the flow of fluids, especially blood.
- rip entry — an entry into the water with little splashing.
- rough-dry — to dry (laundry) after washing, without smoothing, ironing, etc.
- sagittary — a centaur with a bow, as Chiron.
- sainsbury — David John, Baron. born 1940, British businessman and politician, chief executive of the Sainsbury supermarket chain (1992–98); science minister (1998–2006)
- salisbury — Harrison, 1908–93, U.S. journalist and writer.
- saltatory — pertaining to or adapted for saltation.
- salvatory — a place for storing something safely
- sanctuary — a sacred or holy place.
- scapulary — scapular1 .
- schoolery — something that is taught
- scouthery — scorching
- scriptory — of or relating to writing
- secondary — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
- secretary — a person, usually an official, who is in charge of the records, correspondence, minutes of meetings, and related affairs of an organization, company, association, etc.: the secretary of the Linguistic Society of America.
- secretory — pertaining to secretion.
- sedentary — characterized by or requiring a sitting posture: a sedentary occupation.
- seigneury — the domain of a seigneur.
- seigniory — the power or authority of a seignior.
- septenary — of or relating to the number seven or forming a group of seven.
- serictery — a silk gland.
- serpentry — the collective body of serpents; serpents as a whole
- servantry — servants collectively, esp the servants of a particular establishment as a body
- shadberry — the fruit of a shadbush.
- shrubbery — a planting of shrubs: He hit the croquet ball into the shrubbery.
- signatory — having signed, or joined in signing, a document: the signatory powers to a treaty.
- singulary — (of an operator) monadic
- slaistery — resembling slaister
- small fry — child
- smoke-dry — to dry or cure (meat or other food) using smoke.
- snowberry — a North American shrub, Symphoricarpos albus, of the honeysuckle family, cultivated for its ornamental white berries.
- soapberry — the fruit of any of certain tropical or subtropical trees of the genus Sapindus, especially S. saponaria, used as a substitute for soap.
- sob story — an excessively sentimental human-interest story.