12-letter words that end in tory
- inflammatory — tending to arouse anger, hostility, passion, etc.: inflammatory speeches.
- interdictory — of, relating to, or noting interdiction.
- interjectory — characterized by interjection; interjectional.
- intimidatory — to make timid; fill with fear.
- introductory — serving or used to introduce; preliminary; beginning: an introductory course; an introductory paragraph.
- lachrymatory — of, relating to, or causing the shedding of tears.
- levorotatory — turning to the left, as the rotation to the left of the plane of polarization of light in certain crystals and compounds. Symbol: l-.
- life history — the series of living phenomena exhibited by an organism in the course of its development from inception to death.
- likely story — dubious account
- make history — do sth of great significance
- manipulatory — to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner: to manipulate people's feelings.
- masturbatory — the stimulation or manipulation of one's own genitals, especially to orgasm; sexual self-gratification.
- modificatory — modifying.
- nonmandatory — Not mandatory.
- nonmigratory — Not migratory; that does not migrate.
- nonolfactory — of or relating to the sense of smell: olfactory organs.
- nonsecretory — not secretory
- nonstatutory — of, relating to, or of the nature of a statute.
- oral history — information of historical or sociological importance obtained usually by tape-recorded interviews with persons whose experiences and memories are representative or whose lives have been of special significance.
- origin story — a backstory, or established background narrative, that informs the identity and motivations of heroes and villains in a comic book or similar fictional work: The superhero’s origin story begins with a tragic accident that left him scarred, but also resulted in his supernatural powers.
- perspiratory — of, relating to, or stimulating perspiration.
- preovulatory — to produce and discharge eggs from an ovary or ovarian follicle.
- preservatory — a preservative
- propitiatory — serving or intended to propitiate.
- protohistory — a branch of study concerned with the transition period between prehistory and the earliest recorded history.
- recuperatory — of or relating to recovery or recuperation
- remuneratory — affording remuneration; profitable: remunerative work.
- renunciatory — an act or instance of relinquishing, abandoning, repudiating, or sacrificing something, as a right, title, person, or ambition: the king's renunciation of the throne.
- satisfactory — giving or affording satisfaction; fulfilling all demands or requirements: a satisfactory solution.
- second-story — of or located on the second story or floor.
- silk factory — plant where silk fabric is produced
- sternutatory — Also, sternutative. causing or tending to cause sneezing.
- subfeudatory — of or relating to subfeu
- supplicatory — to pray humbly; make humble and earnest entreaty or petition.
- unobligatory — required as a matter of obligation; mandatory: A reply is desirable but not obligatory.
- vasodilatory — of or relating to the dilation of blood vessels
- vituperatory — abusive or blaming