accessory | (noun) a supplementary component that improves capability | Synonyms: add-on, appurtenance, supplement |
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(noun) clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing | Synonyms: accouterment, accoutrement |
(noun) someone who helps another person commit a crime | Synonyms: accessary |
advisory | (noun) an announcement that usually advises or warns the public of some threat | - |
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allegory | (noun) a short moral story (often with animal characters) | Synonyms: apologue, fable, parable |
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(noun) an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor | - |
(noun) a visible symbol representing an abstract idea | Synonyms: emblem |
ambulatory | (noun) a covered walkway (as in a cloister) | - |
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amphigory | (noun) nonsensical writing (usually verse) | Synonyms: nonsense verse |
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armory | (noun) a place where arms are manufactured | Synonyms: armoury, arsenal |
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(noun) a military structure where arms and ammunition and other military equipment are stored and training is given in the use of arms | Synonyms: armoury, arsenal |
(noun) all the weapons and equipment that a country has | Synonyms: armoury, arsenal |
(noun) a collection of resources | Synonyms: armoury, inventory |
beaugregory | (noun) a blue and yellow damselfish of Bermuda and Florida and the West Indies | Synonyms: Pomacentrus leucostictus |
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category | (noun) a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme | - |
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(noun) a collection of things sharing a common attribute | Synonyms: class, family |
chicory | (noun) crisp spiky leaves with somewhat bitter taste | Synonyms: curly endive |
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(noun) root of the chicory plant roasted and ground to substitute for or adulterate coffee | Synonyms: chicory root |
(noun) perennial Old World herb having rayed flower heads with blue florets cultivated for its root and its heads of crisp edible leaves used in salads | Synonyms: chicory plant, Cichorium intybus, succory |
(noun) the dried root of the chicory plant: used as a coffee substitute | Synonyms: chicory root |
clearstory | (noun) part of an interior wall rising above the adjacent roof with windows admitting light | Synonyms: clerestory |
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clerestory | (noun) part of an interior wall rising above the adjacent roof with windows admitting light | Synonyms: clearstory |
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conservatory | (noun) a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner | Synonyms: hothouse, indoor garden |
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(noun) a schoolhouse with special facilities for fine arts | Synonyms: conservatoire |
(noun) the faculty and students of a school specializing in one of the fine arts | - |
consistory | (noun) a church tribunal or governing body | - |
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contradictory | (noun) two propositions are contradictories if both cannot be true (or both cannot be false) at the same time | - |
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cosignatory | (noun) one of two or more signers of the same document (as a treaty or declaration) | Synonyms: cosigner |
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crematory | (noun) a furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes | Synonyms: cremation chamber, crematorium |
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(noun) a mortuary where corpses are cremated | Synonyms: crematorium |
depilatory | (noun) a cosmetic for temporary removal of undesired hair | Synonyms: depilator, epilator |
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(noun) a chemical (usually a sulfide) used to remove hair or wool or bristles from hides | - |
depository | (noun) a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping | Synonyms: deposit, depositary, repository |
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directory | (noun) an alphabetical list of names and addresses | - |
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(noun) (computer science) a listing of the files stored in memory (usually on a hard disk) | - |
dormitory | (noun) a college or university building containing living quarters for students | Synonyms: dorm, hall, residence hall, student residence |
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(noun) a large sleeping room containing several beds | Synonyms: dorm room, dormitory room |
dory | (noun) marine fishes widely distributed in mid-waters and deep slope waters | - |
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(noun) pike-like freshwater perches | Synonyms: jack salmon, Stizostedion vitreum, walleye, walleyed pike |
(noun) a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled | Synonyms: dinghy, rowboat |
euphory | (noun) a feeling of great (usually exaggerated) elation | Synonyms: euphoria |
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factory | (noun) a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing | Synonyms: manufactory, manufacturing plant, mill |
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feudatory | (noun) a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord | Synonyms: liege, liege subject, liegeman, vassal |
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fumitory | (noun) delicate European herb with greyish leaves and spikes of purplish flowers; formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: Fumaria officinalis, fumeroot, fumewort |
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glory | (noun) brilliant radiant beauty | Synonyms: resplendence, resplendency |
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(noun) an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint | Synonyms: aura, aureole, gloriole, halo, nimbus |
(noun) a state of high honor | Synonyms: glorification |
heterospory | (noun) the development of both microspores and megaspores | - |
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hickory | (noun) American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts | Synonyms: hickory tree |
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(noun) valuable tough heavy hardwood from various hickory trees | - |
history | (noun) the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings | - |
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(noun) all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge | - |
(noun) a record or narrative description of past events | Synonyms: account, chronicle, story |
(noun) the aggregate of past events | - |
(noun) the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future | - |
homospory | (noun) the development of a single kind of asexual spores | - |
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interrogatory | (noun) formal systematic questioning | Synonyms: examination, interrogation |
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inventory | (noun) making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand | Synonyms: inventorying, stock-taking, stocktaking |
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(noun) the merchandise that a shop has on hand | Synonyms: stock |
(noun) a collection of resources | Synonyms: armory, armoury |
(noun) a detailed list of all the items in stock | Synonyms: stock list |
(noun) (accounting) the value of a firm's current assets including raw materials and work in progress and finished goods | - |
ivory | (noun) a shade of white the color of bleached bones | Synonyms: bone, off-white, pearl |
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(noun) a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses | Synonyms: tusk |
judicatory | (noun) the system of law courts that administer justice and constitute the judicial branch of government | Synonyms: judicature, judicial system, judiciary |
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laboratory | (noun) a workplace for the conduct of scientific research | Synonyms: lab, research lab, research laboratory, science lab, science laboratory |
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(noun) a region resembling a laboratory inasmuch as it offers opportunities for observation and practice and experimentation | Synonyms: testing ground |
lavatory | (noun) a room or building equipped with one or more toilets | Synonyms: bathroom, can, john, lav, privy, toilet |
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(noun) a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face | Synonyms: basin, washbasin, washbowl, washstand |
(noun) a toilet that is cleaned of waste by the flow of water through it | Synonyms: flush toilet |
lory | (noun) small brightly colored Australasian parrots having a brush-tipped tongue for feeding on nectar and soft fruits | - |
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mandatory | (noun) a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves | Synonyms: mandate |
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(noun) the recipient of a mandate | Synonyms: mandatary |
manufactory | (noun) a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing | Synonyms: factory, manufacturing plant, mill |
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memory | (noun) an electronic memory device | Synonyms: computer memory, computer storage, memory board, storage, store |
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(noun) the power of retaining and recalling past experience | Synonyms: retention, retentiveness, retentivity |
(noun) the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered | Synonyms: remembering |
(noun) something that is remembered | - |
(noun) the area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes | - |
observatory | (noun) a building designed and equipped to observe astronomical phenomena | - |
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(noun) a structure commanding a wide view of its surroundings | Synonyms: lookout, lookout station, observation tower |
offertory | (noun) the offerings of the congregation at a religious service | - |
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oratory | (noun) addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous) | - |
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pellitory | (noun) a small Mediterranean plant containing a volatile oil once used to relieve toothache | Synonyms: Anacyclus pyrethrum, pellitory-of-Spain |
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(noun) herb that grows in crevices having long narrow leaves and small pink apetalous flowers | Synonyms: Parietaria difusa, pellitory-of-the-wall, wall pellitory |
pillory | (noun) a wooden instrument of punishment on a post with holes for the wrists and neck; offenders were locked in and so exposed to public scorn | - |
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prehistory | (noun) the time during the development of human culture before the appearance of the written word | Synonyms: prehistoric culture |
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priory | (noun) religious residence in a monastery governed by a prior or a convent governed by a prioress | - |
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promontory | (noun) a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea) | Synonyms: foreland, head, headland |
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protohistory | (noun) the study of humans prior to the invention of writing | Synonyms: protoanthropology |
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purgatory | (noun) (theology) in Roman Catholic theology the place where those who have died in a state of grace undergo limited torment to expiate their sins | - |
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(noun) a temporary condition of torment or suffering | - |
rectory | (noun) an official residence provided by a church for its parson or vicar or rector | Synonyms: parsonage, vicarage |
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refectory | (noun) a communal dining-hall (usually in a monastery) | - |
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reformatory | (noun) correctional institution for the detention and discipline and training of young or first offenders | Synonyms: reform school, training school |
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refractory | (noun) lining consisting of material with a high melting point; used to line the inside walls of a furnace | Synonyms: furnace lining |
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repertory | (noun) a storehouse where a stock of things is kept | - |
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(noun) the entire range of skills or aptitudes or devices used in a particular field or occupation | Synonyms: repertoire |
(noun) a collection of works (plays, songs, operas, ballets) that an artist or company can perform and do perform for short intervals on a regular schedule | Synonyms: repertoire |
(noun) a theatrical company that performs plays from a repertoire | Synonyms: repertory company, stock company |
repository | (noun) a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping | Synonyms: deposit, depositary, depository |
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(noun) a burial vault (usually for some famous person) | Synonyms: monument |
(noun) a person to whom a secret is entrusted | Synonyms: secretary |
salutatory | (noun) an opening or welcoming statement (especially one delivered at graduation exercises) | Synonyms: salutatory address, salutatory oration |
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savory | (noun) either of two aromatic herbs of the mint family | Synonyms: savoury |
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(noun) an aromatic or spicy dish served at the end of dinner or as an hors d'oeuvre | Synonyms: savoury |
(noun) any of several aromatic herbs or subshrubs of the genus Satureja having spikes of flowers attractive to bees | - |
(noun) dwarf aromatic shrub of Mediterranean regions | Synonyms: Micromeria juliana |
seigniory | (noun) the position and authority of a feudal lord | Synonyms: feudal lordship, seigneury |
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(noun) the estate of a seigneur | Synonyms: seigneury, signory |
signatory | (noun) someone who signs and is bound by a document | Synonyms: signer |
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signory | (noun) the estate of a seigneur | Synonyms: seigneury, seigniory |
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sternutatory | (noun) a chemical substance that causes sneezing and coughing and crying | Synonyms: sternutator |
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story | (noun) a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale | Synonyms: floor, level, storey |
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(noun) a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events | - |
(noun) a short account of the news | Synonyms: account, news report, report, write up |
(noun) a trivial lie | Synonyms: fib, tale, taradiddle, tarradiddle |
(noun) a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program | Synonyms: narration, narrative, tale |
(noun) a record or narrative description of past events | Synonyms: account, chronicle, history |
subdirectory | (noun) (computer science) a directory that is listed in another directory | - |
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succory | (noun) perennial Old World herb having rayed flower heads with blue florets cultivated for its root and its heads of crisp edible leaves used in salads | Synonyms: chicory, chicory plant, Cichorium intybus |
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sudatory | (noun) a bathhouse for hot air baths or steam baths | Synonyms: sudatorium |
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(noun) a medicine that causes or increases sweating | Synonyms: sudorific |
suppository | (noun) a small plug of medication designed for insertion into the rectum or vagina where it melts | - |
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suspensory | (noun) a bandage of elastic fabric applied to uplift a dependant part (as the scrotum or a pendulous breast) | Synonyms: suspensory bandage |
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territory | (noun) an area of knowledge or interest | - |
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(noun) a region marked off for administrative or other purposes | Synonyms: district, dominion, territorial dominion |
(noun) the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state | Synonyms: soil |
theory | (noun) a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena | - |
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(noun) a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena | Synonyms: hypothesis, possibility |
(noun) a belief that can guide behavior | - |
trajectory | (noun) the path followed by an object moving through space | Synonyms: flight |
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vainglory | (noun) outspoken conceit | Synonyms: boastfulness |
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valedictory | (noun) a farewell oration (especially one delivered during graduation exercises by an outstanding member of a graduating class) | Synonyms: valediction, valedictory address, valedictory oration |
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vesicatory | (noun) a chemical agent that causes blistering (especially mustard gas) | Synonyms: vesicant |
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victory | (noun) a successful ending of a struggle or contest | Synonyms: triumph |
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vomitory | (noun) an entrance to an amphitheater or stadium | - |
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