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14-letter words that end in ry

  • forcible entry — entry into a building by force, eg by forcing a lock
  • friendiversary — the yearly recurrence of the date that two or more people first became friends: Next Thursday is our third friendiversary!
  • galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
  • geochronometry — the determination of the absolute age of earth materials, as by radiometric dating.
  • grand ole opry — a successful radio show from Nashville, Tenn., first broadcast on Nov. 28, 1925, noted for its playing of and continuing importance to country music.
  • guided imagery — a relaxation technique in which words, sounds, etc., are used to evoke positive mental images, feelings, and thoughts.
  • haight-ashbury — a district of San Francisco, in the central part of the city: a center for hippies and the drug culture in the 1960s.
  • happy as larry — extremely happy
  • harper's ferry — a town in NE West Virginia at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers: site of John Brown's raid 1859.
  • he-huckleberry — swamp andromeda.
  • heavy industry — bulk materials manufacturing
  • heavy wizardry — Code or designs that trade on a particularly intimate knowledge or experience of a particular operating system or language or complex application interface. Distinguished from deep magic, which trades more on arcane *theoretical* knowledge. Writing device drivers is heavy wizardry; so is interfacing to X (sense 2) without a toolkit. Especially found in source-code comments of the form "Heavy wizardry begins here". Compare voodoo programming.
  • histochemistry — the branch of science dealing with the chemical components of cellular and subcellular tissue.
  • home secretary — the secretary of state for the Home Office.
  • homework diary — a record of homework that has been set
  • hugger-muggery — hugger-mugger (defs 1, 2).
  • iatrochemistry — (in the 16th and 17th centuries) the study of chemistry in relation to the physiology, pathology, and treatment of disease.
  • in one's glory — at one's best, happiest, etc.
  • indian country — (especially during the U.S. westward migration) any region where one was likely to encounter Indians, especially hostile Indians.
  • inferior ovary — Botany. an ovary positioned below the receptacle of a flower, as in members of the iris family.
  • inframaxillary — (anatomy) Under the lower jaw; submaxillary.
  • institutionary — of or relating to an institution or institutions; institutional.
  • interferometry — Optics. a device that separates a beam of light into two ray beams, usually by means of reflection, and that brings the rays together to produce interference, used to measure wavelength, index of refraction, and astronomical distances.
  • intermaxillary — Between the maxillae.
  • intermediatory — to act as an intermediary; intervene; mediate.
  • interplanetary — being or occurring between the planets or between a planet and the sun.
  • interpupillary — between the pupils of the eyes: interpupillary distance.
  • intramedullary — located within the spinal cord, the medulla oblongata, or bone marrow
  • intrapulmonary — (anatomy) Within the material of the lungs.
  • iridopupillary — pertaining to the iris and the pupil.
  • jiggery-pokery — trickery, hocus-pocus; fraud; humbug.
  • juxtamedullary — (anatomy) next to the edge of the medulla (of the kidney).
  • 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.
  • lemonade berry — a sumac, Rhus integrifolia, of southern California, having hairy, dark-red fruits used to make a beverage resembling lemonade.
  • light industry — consumer goods manufacturing
  • light infantry — foot soldiers with lightweight weapons and minimal field equipment.
  • living history — any of various activities involving the re-enactment of historical events or the recreation of living conditions of the past
  • major delivery — (programming)   A (chiefly British) synonym for major release. E.g, the ninth major release of a piece of software might be called MD9. The release notation would be "v9.0".
  • major seminary — a Roman Catholic theological college devoted to training for the priesthood and usually offering a six-year program emphasizing philosophy and theology.
  • mammary artery — any of several arteries that distribute blood to the muscles and organs of the thorax: used as a replacement artery in coronary bypass surgery.
  • marasca cherry — the red acid-tasting fruit of the marasca tree, from which maraschino is made
  • microchemistry — the branch of chemistry dealing with minute quantities of substances.
  • microcircuitry — a detailed plan of an integrated circuit or a network of such circuits.
  • minor seminary — a Roman Catholic preparatory school where persons planning to enter the priesthood follow a course of secondary education.
  • mobile library — travelling book-lending facility
  • monocarpellary — consisting of a single carpel.
  • mother country — the country of one's birth or ancestry.
  • motor industry — the manufacturers of cars viewed as a sector
  • murder mystery — detective story, thriller
  • native country — the country someone is born in or native to
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