10-letter words that end in tory
- inhibitory — to restrain, hinder, arrest, or check (an action, impulse, etc.).
- initiatory — introductory; initial: an initiatory step toward a treaty.
- innovatory — to introduce something new; make changes in anything established.
- invitatory — serving to invite; conveying an invitation.
- invocatory — the act of invoking or calling upon a deity, spirit, etc., for aid, protection, inspiration, or the like; supplication.
- jaculatory — relating to hurling or throwing
- jubilatory — to show or feel great joy; rejoice; exult.
- judicatory — of or relating to judgment or the administration of justice; judiciary: judicatory power.
- laboratory — a building, part of a building, or other place equipped to conduct scientific experiments, tests, investigations, etc., or to manufacture chemicals, medicines, or the like.
- lead story — the principal story in a newspaper
- liberatory — to set free, as from imprisonment or bondage.
- life story — an account of all the events that happened to someone during their life
- locomotory — Also, locomotory. of, relating to, or affecting locomotion.
- love story — story about a romantic relationship
- mitigatory — to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate.
- modulatory — to regulate by or adjust to a certain measure or proportion; soften; tone down.
- multistory — (of a building) having several or many stories.
- news story — a news report of any length, usually presented in a straightforward style and without editorial comment.
- obligatory — required as a matter of obligation; mandatory: A reply is desirable but not obligatory.
- osculatory — to come into close contact or union.
- peremptory — leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal; imperative: a peremptory command.
- photostory — photo essay.
- plauditory — approving or laudatory
- preceptory — a subordinate house or community of the Knights Templars; commandery.
- predictory — predictive.
- preemptory — to occupy (land) in order to establish a prior right to buy.
- prehistory — human history in the period before recorded events, known mainly through archaeological discoveries, study, research, etc.; history of prehistoric humans.
- promontory — a high point of land or rock projecting into the sea or other water beyond the line of coast; a headland.
- protectory — an institution for the care of destitute or delinquent children.
- recreatory — refreshment by means of some pastime, agreeable exercise, or the like.
- redemptory — of or relating to redemption; redemptive.
- refractory — hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
- regulatory — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
- reparatory — tending to repair; repairing; mending.
- repository — a receptacle or place where things are deposited, stored, or offered for sale: a repository for discarded clothing.
- revelatory — of, relating to, or having the characteristics of revelation.
- revocatory — revoking or tending to revoke; containing or expressing a revocation
- salutatory — pertaining to or of the nature of a salutation.
- separatory — serving to separate.
- sibilatory — characterized by hissing or whistling
- simulatory — to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like): to simulate crisis conditions.
- stillatory — a still or distillery where liquid is distilled
- subsultory — moving in starts or twitches; relating to subsultus
- suppletory — supplying a deficiency.
- tabulatory — relating to tabulation
- tall story — far-fetched account
- trajectory — the curve described by a projectile, rocket, or the like in its flight.
- transitory — not lasting, enduring, permanent, or eternal.
- understory — the shrubs and plants growing beneath the main canopy of a forest.
- undulatory — Also, undular. moving in undulations.