promissory | (adjective) relating to or having the character of a promise | - |
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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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propitiatory | (adjective) having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation | Synonyms: expiative, expiatory |
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(adjective) intended to reconcile or appease | Synonyms: propitiative |
protohistory | (noun) the study of humans prior to the invention of writing | Synonyms: protoanthropology |
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provisory | (adjective) subject to a proviso | - |
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punitory | (adjective) inflicting punishment | Synonyms: punitive |
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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 | - |
reciprocatory | (adjective) moving alternately backward and forward | Synonyms: reciprocative |
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(adjective) given or done or owed to each other | Synonyms: reciprocative |
recriminatory | (adjective) countering one charge with another | Synonyms: recriminative |
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rectory | (noun) an official residence provided by a church for its parson or vicar or rector | Synonyms: parsonage, vicarage |
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redemptory | (adjective) of or relating to or resulting in redemption | Synonyms: redemptional, redemptive |
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refectory | (noun) a communal dining-hall (usually in a monastery) | - |
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reformatory | (adjective) tending to reform | Synonyms: reformative |
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(noun) correctional institution for the detention and discipline and training of young or first offenders | Synonyms: reform school, training school |
refractory | (adjective) stubbornly resistant to authority or control | Synonyms: fractious, recalcitrant |
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(adjective) temporarily unresponsive or not fully responsive to a process or stimulus | - |
(adjective) not responding to treatment | Synonyms: stubborn |
(noun) lining consisting of material with a high melting point; used to line the inside walls of a furnace | Synonyms: furnace lining |
regulatory | (adjective) restricting according to rules or principles | Synonyms: regulative |
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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 |
respiratory | (adjective) pertaining to respiration | - |
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retaliatory | (adjective) of or relating to or having the nature of retribution | Synonyms: retaliative, retributive, retributory, vindicatory |
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retributory | (adjective) given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts | Synonyms: retributive, vindicatory |
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(adjective) of or relating to or having the nature of retribution | Synonyms: retaliative, retaliatory, retributive, vindicatory |
revelatory | (adjective) prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom | Synonyms: apocalyptic, apocalyptical |
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(adjective) (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly | Synonyms: indicative, indicatory, significative, suggestive |
rotatory | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic or causing an axial or orbital turn | Synonyms: revolutionary |
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salutatory | (noun) an opening or welcoming statement (especially one delivered at graduation exercises) | Synonyms: salutatory address, salutatory oration |
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satisfactory | (adjective) giving satisfaction | - |
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(adjective) meeting requirements | Synonyms: acceptable, decent |
savory | (adjective) morally wholesome or acceptable | Synonyms: savoury |
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(adjective) having a pleasant taste | Synonyms: mouth-watering, savoury |
(adjective) having an agreeably pungent taste | Synonyms: piquant, savoury, zesty |
(noun) either of two aromatic herbs of the mint family | Synonyms: savoury |
(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 |
secretory | (adjective) of or relating to or producing a secretion | - |
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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 |
sensory | (adjective) involving or derived from the senses | Synonyms: sensorial |
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(adjective) relating to or concerned in sensation | Synonyms: sensational |
(adjective) of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system | Synonyms: centripetal, receptive |
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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somatosensory | (adjective) of or relating to the somatosenses | - |
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statutory | (adjective) relating to or created by statutes | - |
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(adjective) prescribed or authorized by or punishable under a statute | - |
sternutatory | (adjective) tending to cause sneezing | - |
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(adjective) causing sneezing | Synonyms: sternutative |
(noun) a chemical substance that causes sneezing and coughing and crying | Synonyms: sternutator |
stipulatory | (adjective) constituted or contracted by stipulation or agreement | Synonyms: agreed upon |
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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 |
storybook | (noun) a book containing a collection of stories (usually for children) | - |
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storyline | (noun) the plot of a book or play or film | Synonyms: plot line |
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storyteller | (noun) someone who tells a story | Synonyms: narrator, teller |
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(noun) someone who tells lies | Synonyms: fabricator, fibber |
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 |
supererogatory | (adjective) more than is needed, desired, or required | Synonyms: excess, extra, redundant, spare, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus |
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supervisory | (adjective) of or limited to or involving supervision | - |
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supplicatory | (adjective) humbly entreating | Synonyms: suppliant, supplicant |
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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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transitory | (adjective) lasting a very short time | Synonyms: ephemeral, fugacious, passing, short-lived, transient |
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undulatory | (adjective) resembling waves in form or outline or motion | Synonyms: undulant |
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unexploratory | (adjective) not exploratory | Synonyms: nonexplorative, nonexploratory, unexplorative |
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unsatisfactory | (adjective) not giving satisfaction | - |
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unsavory | (adjective) morally offensive | Synonyms: offensive, unsavoury |
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(adjective) not pleasing in odor or taste | Synonyms: distasteful, unsavoury |
vainglory | (noun) outspoken conceit | Synonyms: boastfulness |
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valedictory | (adjective) of or relating to an occasion or expression of farewell | - |
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(adjective) of a speech expressing leave-taking | - |
(noun) a farewell oration (especially one delivered during graduation exercises by an outstanding member of a graduating class) | Synonyms: valediction, valedictory address, valedictory oration |
validatory | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, verificatory, verifying |
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ventilatory | (adjective) provided with ventilation or involving pulmonary ventilation | - |
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verificatory | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verifying |
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vesicatory | (adjective) causing blisters | Synonyms: vesicant |
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(noun) a chemical agent that causes blistering (especially mustard gas) | Synonyms: vesicant |
vibratory | (adjective) moving very rapidly to and fro or up and down | - |
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victory | (noun) a successful ending of a struggle or contest | Synonyms: triumph |
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vindicatory | (adjective) providing justification | Synonyms: justificative, justificatory |
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(adjective) given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts | Synonyms: retributive, retributory |
(adjective) of or relating to or having the nature of retribution | Synonyms: retaliative, retaliatory, retributive, retributory |
vomitory | (noun) an entrance to an amphitheater or stadium | - |
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