| accessary | (noun) someone who helps another person commit a crime | Synonyms: accessory |
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| actuary | (noun) someone versed in the collection and interpretation of numerical data (especially someone who uses statistics to calculate insurance premiums) | Synonyms: statistician |
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| adversary | (noun) someone who offers opposition | Synonyms: antagonist, opponent, opposer, resister |
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| anniversary | (noun) the date on which an event occurred in some previous year (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: day of remembrance |
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| antiphonary | (noun) bound collection of antiphons | Synonyms: antiphonal |
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| antiquary | (noun) an expert or collector of antiquities | Synonyms: antiquarian, archaist |
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| apiary | (noun) a shed containing a number of beehives | Synonyms: bee house |
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| apothecary | (noun) a health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs | Synonyms: chemist, druggist, pharmacist, pill pusher, pill roller |
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| auxiliary | (noun) someone who acts as assistant | Synonyms: aide |
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| aviary | (noun) a building where birds are kept | Synonyms: bird sanctuary, volary |
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| beggary | (noun) a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) | Synonyms: begging, mendicancy |
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| (noun) the state of being a beggar or mendicant | Synonyms: mendicancy, mendicity |
| beneficiary | (noun) the semantic role of the intended recipient who benefits from the happening denoted by the verb in the clause | Synonyms: benefactive role |
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| (noun) the recipient of funds or other benefits | Synonyms: donee |
| bestiary | (noun) a medieval book (usually illustrated) with allegorical and amusing descriptions of real and fabled animals | - |
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| bicentenary | (noun) the 200th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: bicentennial |
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| bimillenary | (noun) a span of 2000 years | Synonyms: bimillennium |
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| (noun) the 2000th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: bimillennium |
| binary | (noun) a pre-compiled, pre-linked program that is ready to run under a given operating system; a binary for one operating system will not run on a different operating system | Synonyms: binary program |
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| (noun) a system of two stars that revolve around each other under their mutual gravitation | Synonyms: binary star, double star |
| boundary | (noun) the greatest possible degree of something | Synonyms: bound, limit |
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| (noun) the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something | Synonyms: bound, bounds |
| (noun) a line determining the limits of an area | Synonyms: bound, edge |
| breviary | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a book of prayers to be recited daily by certain priests and members of religious orders | - |
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| burglary | (noun) entering a building unlawfully with intent to commit a felony or to steal valuable property | - |
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| bursary | (noun) the treasury of a public institution or religious order | - |
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| calamary | (noun) (Italian cuisine) squid prepared as food | Synonyms: calamari, squid |
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| calvary | (noun) any experience that causes intense suffering | Synonyms: martyrdom |
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| canary | (noun) any of several small Old World finches | Synonyms: canary bird |
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| (noun) a moderate yellow with a greenish tinge | Synonyms: canary yellow |
| (noun) a female singer | - |
| (noun) someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police | Synonyms: fink, sneak, sneaker, snitch, snitcher, stool pigeon, stoolie, stoolpigeon |
| capillary | (noun) a tube of small internal diameter; holds liquid by capillary action | Synonyms: capillary tube, capillary tubing |
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| (noun) any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules | Synonyms: capillary vessel |
| caravansary | (noun) an inn in some eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans | Synonyms: caravan inn, caravanserai, khan |
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| cassowary | (noun) large black flightless bird of Australia and New Guinea having a horny head crest | - |
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| catenary | (noun) the curve theoretically assumed by a perfectly flexible and inextensible cord of uniform density and cross section hanging freely from two fixed points | - |
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| centenary | (noun) the 100th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: centennial |
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| clary | (noun) aromatic herb of southern Europe; cultivated in Great Britain as a potherb and widely as an ornamental | Synonyms: Salvia sclarea |
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| columbary | (noun) a birdhouse for pigeons | Synonyms: columbarium, dovecote |
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| commentary | (noun) a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material | Synonyms: comment |
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| commissary | (noun) a retail store that sells equipment and provisions (usually to military personnel) | - |
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| (noun) a snack bar in a film studio | - |
| complementary | (noun) either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or grey (in the case of pigments) | Synonyms: complementary color |
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| confectionary | (noun) a confectioner's shop | Synonyms: candy store, confectionery |
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| constabulary | (noun) the force of policemen and officers | Synonyms: law, police, police force |
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| consuetudinary | (noun) a manual describing the customs of a particular group (especially the ceremonial practices of a monastic order) | Synonyms: consuetudinal |
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| contemporary | (noun) a person of nearly the same age as another | Synonyms: coeval |
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| contrary | (noun) exact opposition | - |
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| (noun) a relation of direct opposition | Synonyms: opposite, reverse |
| (noun) a logical relation such that two propositions are contraries if both cannot be true but both can be false | - |
| corollary | (noun) (logic) an inference that follows directly from the proof of another proposition | - |
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| (noun) a practical consequence that follows naturally | - |
| coronary | (noun) obstruction of blood flow in a coronary artery by a blood clot (thrombus) | Synonyms: coronary thrombosis |
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| costmary | (noun) leaves used sparingly (because of bitter overtones) in sauces and soups and stuffings | - |
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| (noun) tansy-scented Eurasian perennial herb with buttonlike yellow flowers; used as potherb or salad green and sometimes for potpourri or tea or flavoring; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum | Synonyms: alecost, balsam herb, bible leaf, Chrysanthemum balsamita, mint geranium, Tanacetum balsamita |
| counterrevolutionary | (noun) a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution | Synonyms: counter-revolutionist, counterrevolutionist |
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| deary | (noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: darling, dearie, ducky, favorite, favourite, pet |
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| (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dear, dearest, dearie, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
| decennary | (noun) a period of 10 years | Synonyms: decade, decennium |
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| decumary | (noun) woody climber of southeastern United States having white flowers in compound terminal clusters | Synonyms: Decumaria barbara, Decumaria barbata |
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| depositary | (noun) a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping | Synonyms: deposit, depository, repository |
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| diary | (noun) a personal journal (as a physical object) | - |
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| (noun) a daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations | Synonyms: journal |
| dictionary | (noun) a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them | Synonyms: lexicon |
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| dietary | (noun) a regulated daily food allowance | - |
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| dignitary | (noun) an important or influential (and often overbearing) person | Synonyms: high-up, high muckamuck, panjandrum, very important person, VIP |
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| dispensary | (noun) clinic where medicine and medical supplies are dispensed | - |
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| distributary | (noun) a branch of a river that flows away from the main stream and does not rejoin it | - |
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| documentary | (noun) a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event | Synonyms: docudrama, documentary film, infotainment |
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| dromedary | (noun) one-humped camel of the hot deserts of northern Africa and southwestern Asia | Synonyms: Arabian camel, Camelus dromedarius |
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| emissary | (noun) someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else | Synonyms: envoy |
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| estuary | (noun) the wide part of a river where it nears the sea; fresh and salt water mix | - |
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| fiduciary | (noun) a person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary | - |
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| formicary | (noun) a mound of earth made by ants as they dig their nest | Synonyms: anthill |
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| formulary | (noun) (pharmacology) a book containing a compilation of pharmaceutical products with their formulas and methods of preparation | Synonyms: pharmacopeia |
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| friary | (noun) a monastery of friars | - |
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| fritillary | (noun) butterfly with brownish wings marked with black and silver | - |
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| (noun) any liliaceous plant of the genus Fritillaria having nodding variously colored flowers | Synonyms: checkered lily |
| functionary | (noun) a worker who holds or is invested with an office | Synonyms: official |
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| glossary | (noun) an alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge; usually published as an appendix to a text on that field | Synonyms: gloss |
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| granary | (noun) a storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed | Synonyms: garner |
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| hymnary | (noun) a songbook containing a collection of hymns | Synonyms: hymnal, hymnbook |
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| imaginary | (noun) (mathematics) a number of the form a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of -1 | Synonyms: complex number, complex quantity, imaginary number |
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| incendiary | (noun) a bomb that is designed to start fires; is most effective against flammable targets (such as fuel) | Synonyms: firebomb, incendiary bomb |
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| (noun) a criminal who illegally sets fire to property | Synonyms: arsonist, firebug |
| infirmary | (noun) a health facility where patients receive treatment | Synonyms: hospital |
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| intermediary | (noun) a negotiator who acts as a link between parties | Synonyms: go-between, intercessor, intermediator, mediator |
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| itinerary | (noun) a proposed route of travel | Synonyms: travel plan |
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| (noun) a guidebook for travelers | Synonyms: travel guidebook |
| (noun) an established line of travel or access | Synonyms: path, route |
| jaggary | (noun) unrefined brown sugar made from palm sap | Synonyms: jaggery, jagghery |
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| janissary | (noun) a loyal supporter | - |
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| judiciary | (noun) persons who administer justice | Synonyms: bench |
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| (noun) the system of law courts that administer justice and constitute the judicial branch of government | Synonyms: judicatory, judicature, judicial system |
| justiciary | (noun) the jurisdiction of a justiciar | - |
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| (noun) formerly a high judicial officer | Synonyms: justiciar |
| lapidary | (noun) a skilled worker who cuts and engraves precious stones | Synonyms: lapidist |
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| (noun) an expert on precious stones and the art of cutting and engraving them | Synonyms: lapidarist |
| legionary | (noun) a soldier who is a member of a legion (especially the French Foreign Legion) | Synonyms: legionnaire |
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| library | (noun) a depository built to contain books and other materials for reading and study | Synonyms: depository library |
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| (noun) a room where books are kept | - |
| (noun) a building that houses a collection of books and other materials | - |
| (noun) a collection of literary documents or records kept for reference or borrowing | - |
| (noun) (computing) a collection of standard programs and subroutines that are stored and available for immediate use | Synonyms: program library, subroutine library |
| luminary | (noun) a celebrity who is an inspiration to others | Synonyms: guiding light, leading light, notability, notable |
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| mandatary | (noun) the recipient of a mandate | Synonyms: mandatory |
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| maxillary | (noun) the jaw in vertebrates that is fused to the cranium | Synonyms: maxilla, upper jaw, upper jawbone |
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| mercenary | (noun) a person hired to fight for another country than their own | Synonyms: soldier of fortune |
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| military | (noun) the military forces of a nation | Synonyms: armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine |
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| millenary | (noun) a sum or aggregate of one thousand (especially one thousand years) | - |
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| (noun) a span of 1000 years | Synonyms: millennium |
| (noun) the 1000th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: millennium |
| missionary | (noun) someone who attempts to convert others to a particular doctrine or program | - |
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| (noun) someone sent on a mission--especially a religious or charitable mission to a foreign country | Synonyms: missioner |
| monthsary | (noun) the one month anniversary of something | - |
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| mortuary | (noun) a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation | Synonyms: dead room, morgue |
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| necessary | (noun) anything indispensable | Synonyms: essential, necessity, requirement, requisite |
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| nectary | (noun) a gland (often a protuberance or depression) that secretes nectar | Synonyms: honey gland |
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| notary | (noun) someone legally empowered to witness signatures and certify a document's validity and to take depositions | Synonyms: notary public |
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| obituary | (noun) a notice of someone's death; usually includes a short biography | Synonyms: necrology, obit |
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| octonary | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one | Synonyms: 8, eight, eighter, eighter from Decatur, octad, octet, ogdoad, VIII |
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| ordinary | (noun) (heraldry) any of several conventional figures used on shields | - |
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| (noun) an early bicycle with a very large front wheel and small back wheel | Synonyms: ordinary bicycle |
| (noun) a clergyman appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death | - |
| (noun) a judge of a probate court | - |
| (noun) the expected or commonplace condition or situation | - |
| ossuary | (noun) any receptacle for the burial of human bones | - |
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| ostiary | (noun) someone who guards an entrance | Synonyms: door guard, doorkeeper, doorman, gatekeeper, hall porter, porter |
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| (noun) the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: doorkeeper, ostiarius |
| ovary | (noun) (vertebrates) one of usually two organs that produce ova and secrete estrogen and progesterone | - |
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| (noun) the organ that bears the ovules of a flower | - |
| paramilitary | (noun) a group of civilians organized in a military fashion (especially to operate in place of or to assist regular army troops) | Synonyms: paramilitary force, paramilitary organisation, paramilitary organization, paramilitary unit |
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| peccary | (noun) nocturnal gregarious pig-like wild animals of North America and South America | Synonyms: musk hog |
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| penitentiary | (noun) a correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes | Synonyms: pen |
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| pensionary | (noun) a person who works only for money | Synonyms: hireling |
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| (noun) the beneficiary of a pension fund | Synonyms: pensioner |
| pessary | (noun) a contraceptive device consisting of a flexible dome-shaped cup made of rubber or plastic; it is filled with spermicide and fitted over the uterine cervix | Synonyms: contraceptive diaphragm, diaphragm |
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