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11-letter words that end in tory

  • ejaculatory — Of or pertaining to ejaculation.
  • elaboratory — (obsolete) A laboratory.
  • eliminatory — Tending to eliminate.
  • elucidatory — Serving to elucidate.
  • exclamatory — Of or relating to a sudden cry or remark, especially one expressing surprise, anger, or pain.
  • exculpatory — Excusing or clearing of any wrongdoing.
  • exhortatory — Serving to exhort.
  • expatiatory — Expansive; diffusive.
  • expiscatory — acting to expiscate; tending to expiscate
  • explanatory — Serving to explain something.
  • explicatory — Explanatory; serving to explain logically or in detail.
  • exploratory — Relating to or involving exploration or investigation.
  • expurgatory — Serving to expurgate.
  • extenuatory — Tending to extenuate or palliate.
  • fairy story — A fairy story is the same as a fairy tale.
  • fornicatory — Of or pertaining to fornication.
  • frame story — a secondary story or stories embedded in the main story.
  • fulminatory — Thundering; striking terror.
  • ghost story — a tale in which such elements as ghostly visitations and supernatural intervention are used to further the plot and a chilling, suspenseful atmosphere.
  • gratulatory — (archaic) congratulatory.
  • impetratory — to obtain by entreaty.
  • implicatory — implicative.
  • imploratory — to beg urgently or piteously, as for aid or mercy; beseech; entreat: They implored him to go.
  • imprecatory — to invoke or call down (evil or curses), as upon a person.
  • incantatory — the chanting or uttering of words purporting to have magical power.
  • inclinatory — characterized by inclination.
  • inculcatory — inculcating by nature, characterized by a tendency to inculcate
  • inculpatory — to charge with fault; blame; accuse.
  • informatory — Providing or communicating information.
  • inoculatory — relating to inoculation
  • insinuatory — Insinuative.
  • inspiratory — of or relating to inspiration or inhalation.
  • lacrimatory — of, relating to, or causing the shedding of tears.
  • lucubratory — Composed by candlelight, or at night.
  • maledictory — a curse; imprecation.
  • malefactory — villainous
  • mancipatory — relating to mancipation
  • manducatory — Pertaining to, or employed in, chewing.
  • manufactory — a factory.
  • masticatory — of, relating to, or used in or for mastication.
  • mob oratory — oratory designed to appeal to and inflame the emotions of a crowd, as for example Hitler's oratory
  • negotiatory — Of or pertaining to negotiation.
  • nonauditory — not auditory, not related to hearing or its functions
  • nuncupatory — Nuncupative; oral rather than written.
  • obfuscatory — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
  • objurgatory — to reproach or denounce vehemently; upbraid harshly; berate sharply.
  • observatory — a place or building equipped and used for making observations of astronomical, meteorological, or other natural phenomena, especially a place equipped with a powerful telescope for observing the planets and stars.
  • obsignatory — (obsolete) Ratifying; confirming by sealing.
  • oscillatory — characterized by or involving oscillation.
  • perfunctory — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
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