12-letter words that end in ry
- residentiary — residing; resident.
- respirometry — the branch of medical science dealing with the measurement and analysis of respiration.
- reupholstery — the materials used to cushion and cover furniture.
- reversionary — of, relating to, or involving a reversion.
- rockumentary — a documentary about rock music.
- rusty memory — (storage, humour) Mass-storage that uses iron-oxide-based magnetic media (especially magnetic tape and the pre-Winchester removable disk packs used in washing machines). Compare donuts.
- sacramentary — a sacramentarian
- satisfactory — giving or affording satisfaction; fulfilling all demands or requirements: a satisfactory solution.
- second-story — of or located on the second story or floor.
- self-mastery — self-control.
- self-mockery — gentle humour at one's own expense
- sensitometry — the science of determining the sensitivity of photographic materials.
- serviceberry — the fruit of any service tree.
- sexcentenary — pertaining to 600 or a period of 600 years; marking the completion of 600 years.
- shellfishery — the industry and commerce of catching, processing, and selling shellfish; raising shellfish for commercial purposes.
- silk factory — plant where silk fabric is produced
- single entry — an item noted only once.
- skullduggery — skulduggery.
- slate quarry — a quarry where slate is mined
- special jury — struck jury.
- spectrometry — an optical device for measuring wavelengths, deviation of refracted rays, and angles between faces of a prism, especially an instrument (prism spectrometer) consisting of a slit through which light passes, a collimator, a prism that deviates the light, and a telescope through which the deviated light is viewed and examined.
- sternutatory — Also, sternutative. causing or tending to cause sneezing.
- sub-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.
- subfeudatory — of or relating to subfeu
- subjudiciary — the judicial branch of government.
- submaxillary — of or relating to the lower jaw or lower jawbone.
- subsecretary — a secretary subordinate to another secretary
- superciliary — of or relating to the eyebrow.
- supersensory — supersensible.
- supplicatory — to pray humbly; make humble and earnest entreaty or petition.
- sweet cherry — a cherry tree, Prunus avium, characterized by reddish-brown bark and a pyramidal manner of growth.
- symbololatry — the worship of symbols
- tercentenary — commemoration of 300 years
- testamentary — of, relating to, or of the nature of a testament or will.
- the military — the armed services (esp the army)
- the tertiary — the Tertiary period or rock system, divided into Palaeocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, and Pliocene epochs or series
- the varletry — rabble; mob
- thimbleberry — any of several American raspberries bearing a thimble-shaped fruit, especially the black raspberry, Rubus occidentalis.
- travel-weary — tired or exhausted as a result of travelling
- tree surgery — the repair of damaged trees, as by the removal of diseased parts, filling of cavities, and prevention of further decay, and by strengthening branches with braces.
- tricentenary — of or relating to a period of 300 years
- trigonometry — the branch of mathematics that deals with the relations between the sides and angles of plane or spherical triangles, and the calculations based on them.
- turbidimetry — a device for measuring the turbidity of water or other liquids.
- typhoid mary — Mary ("Typhoid Mary") 1869?–1938, U.S. cook, born in Ireland: known immune carrier of typhoid fever who infected many with the disease, institutionalized in 1914.
- unobligatory — required as a matter of obligation; mandatory: A reply is desirable but not obligatory.
- unpleasantry — an unpleasant word, action, comment, etc.: comments filled with unpleasantries.
- unstationary — standing still; not moving.
- usufructuary — of, relating to, or of the nature of usufruct.
- valetudinary — valetudinarian.
- vasodilatory — of or relating to the dilation of blood vessels