| evolutionary | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by evolution | - |
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| exemplary | (adjective) serving to warn | Synonyms: admonitory, cautionary, monitory, warning |
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| (adjective) being or serving as an illustration of a type | Synonyms: emblematic, typic |
| (adjective) worthy of imitation | Synonyms: model |
| expeditionary | (adjective) (used of military forces) designed for military operations abroad | - |
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| extemporary | (adjective) with little or no preparation or forethought | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporaneous, extempore, impromptu, off-the-cuff, offhand, offhanded, unrehearsed |
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| extraordinary | (adjective) beyond what is ordinary or usual; highly unusual or exceptional or remarkable; special | - |
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| (adjective) far more than usual or expected | Synonyms: over-the-top, sinful |
| (adjective) (of an official) serving an unusual or special function in addition to those of the regular officials | - |
| fiduciary | (adjective) relating to or of the nature of a legal trust (i.e. the holding of something in trust for another) | Synonyms: fiducial |
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| (noun) a person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary | - |
| formicary | (noun) a mound of earth made by ants as they dig their nest | Synonyms: anthill |
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| formulary | (adjective) of or relating to or of the nature of a formula | - |
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| (noun) (pharmacology) a book containing a compilation of pharmaceutical products with their formulas and methods of preparation | Synonyms: pharmacopeia |
| fragmentary | (adjective) consisting of small disconnected parts | Synonyms: fragmental |
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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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| funerary | (adjective) of or for or relating to a funeral | - |
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| genitourinary | (adjective) of or related to the genital and urinary organs or their functions | Synonyms: GU |
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| geostationary | (adjective) of or having a geosynchronous orbit such that the position in such an orbit is fixed with respect to the earth | - |
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| glary | (adjective) shining intensely | Synonyms: blazing, blinding, dazzling, fulgent, glaring |
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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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| hebdomadary | (adjective) of or occurring every seven days | Synonyms: hebdomadal, weekly |
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| hereditary | (adjective) occurring among members of a family usually by heredity | Synonyms: familial, genetic, inherited, transmissible, transmitted |
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| (adjective) inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent | Synonyms: ancestral, patrimonial, transmissible |
| hoary | (adjective) covered with fine whitish hairs or down | Synonyms: canescent |
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| (adjective) ancient | Synonyms: rusty |
| (adjective) showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair | Synonyms: gray-haired, gray-headed, gray, grey-haired, grey-headed, grey, grizzly, hoar, white-haired |
| honorary | (adjective) given as an honor without the normal duties | - |
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| horary | (adjective) relating to the hours | - |
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| hymnary | (noun) a songbook containing a collection of hymns | Synonyms: hymnal, hymnbook |
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| illusionary | (adjective) marked by or producing illusion | Synonyms: illusional |
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| imaginary | (adjective) not based on fact; existing only in the imagination | Synonyms: fanciful, notional |
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| (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 |
| incendiary | (adjective) involving deliberate burning of property | - |
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| (adjective) capable of catching fire spontaneously or causing fires or burning readily | - |
| (adjective) arousing to action or rebellion | Synonyms: incitive, inflammatory, instigative, rabble-rousing, seditious |
| (noun) a bomb that is designed to start fires; is most effective against flammable targets (such as fuel) | Synonyms: firebomb, incendiary bomb |
| (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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| inflationary | (adjective) associated with or tending to cause increases in inflation | - |
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| inframaxillary | (adjective) relating to the lower jaw | Synonyms: mandibular |
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| insanitary | (adjective) not sanitary or healthful | Synonyms: unhealthful, unsanitary |
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| insurrectionary | (adjective) of or relating to or given to insurrection | Synonyms: insurrectional |
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| integumentary | (adjective) of or relating to the integument | Synonyms: integumental |
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| intercalary | (adjective) having a day or month inserted to make the calendar year correspond to the solar year: | - |
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| interdisciplinary | (adjective) drawing from or characterized by participation of two or more fields of study | - |
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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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| interplanetary | (adjective) between or among planets | - |
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| intrapulmonary | (adjective) being or occurring within a lung | - |
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| involuntary | (adjective) not subject to the control of the will | Synonyms: nonvoluntary, unvoluntary |
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| (adjective) controlled by the autonomic nervous system; without conscious control | - |
| 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 |
| laniary | (adjective) of or relating to a pointed conical tooth | Synonyms: canine |
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| lapidary | (adjective) of or relating to precious stones or the art of working with them | - |
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| (noun) a skilled worker who cuts and engraves precious stones | Synonyms: lapidist |
| (noun) an expert on precious stones and the art of cutting and engraving them | Synonyms: lapidarist |
| legendary | (adjective) so celebrated as to having taken on the nature of a legend | - |
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| (adjective) celebrated in fable or legend | Synonyms: fabled |
| legionary | (noun) a soldier who is a member of a legion (especially the French Foreign Legion) | Synonyms: legionnaire |
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| levorotary | (adjective) rotating to the left | Synonyms: left-handed, levorotatory |
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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 |
| literary | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of literature | - |
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| (adjective) appropriate to literature rather than everyday speech or writing | - |
| (adjective) knowledgeable about literature | - |
| luminary | (noun) a celebrity who is an inspiration to others | Synonyms: guiding light, leading light, notability, notable |
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| mammary | (adjective) of or relating to the milk-giving gland of the female | - |
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| mandatary | (noun) the recipient of a mandate | Synonyms: mandatory |
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| maxillary | (adjective) of or relating to the upper jaw | - |
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| (noun) the jaw in vertebrates that is fused to the cranium | Synonyms: maxilla, upper jaw, upper jawbone |
| medullary | (adjective) of or relating to the medulla of any body part | - |
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| (adjective) containing or consisting of or resembling bone marrow | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to the medulla oblongata | - |
| mercenary | (adjective) profit oriented | Synonyms: commercial, mercantile, moneymaking |
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| (adjective) serving for wages in a foreign army | Synonyms: free-lance, freelance |
| (adjective) marked by materialism | Synonyms: materialistic, worldly-minded |
| (noun) a person hired to fight for another country than their own | Synonyms: soldier of fortune |
| military | (adjective) associated with or performed by members of the armed services as contrasted with civilians | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic of or associated with soldiers or the military | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to the study of the principles of warfare | - |
| (noun) the military forces of a nation | Synonyms: armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine |
| millenary | (adjective) relating to or consisting of 1000 | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the doctrine of the millennium | - |
| (noun) a sum or aggregate of one thousand (especially one thousand years) | - |
| (noun) a span of 1000 years | Synonyms: millennium |
| (noun) the 1000th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: millennium |
| missionary | (adjective) relating to or connected to a religious mission | Synonyms: missional |
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| (noun) someone who attempts to convert others to a particular doctrine or program | - |
| (noun) someone sent on a mission--especially a religious or charitable mission to a foreign country | Synonyms: missioner |
| momentary | (adjective) lasting for a markedly brief time | Synonyms: fleeting, fugitive, momentaneous |
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| monetary | (adjective) relating to or involving money | Synonyms: pecuniary |
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| monthsary | (noun) the one month anniversary of something | - |
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| mortuary | (adjective) of or relating to a funeral | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of death | - |
| (noun) a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation | Synonyms: dead room, morgue |
| nary | (adjective) (used with singular count nouns) colloquial for `not a' or `not one' or `never a' | - |
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| necessary | (adjective) absolutely essential | - |
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| (adjective) unavoidably determined by prior circumstances | - |
| (noun) anything indispensable | Synonyms: essential, necessity, requirement, requisite |
| nectary | (noun) a gland (often a protuberance or depression) that secretes nectar | Synonyms: honey gland |
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| nonarbitrary | (adjective) not subject to individual determination | Synonyms: unarbitrary |
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| nonhereditary | (adjective) not acquirable by inheritance | Synonyms: nontransmissible |
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| nonliterary | (adjective) marked by lack of affectation or pedantry | Synonyms: unliterary |
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| nonmilitary | (adjective) not associated with soldiers or the military | Synonyms: unmilitary |
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| nonproprietary | (adjective) not protected by trademark or patent or copyright | - |
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| nonvoluntary | (adjective) not subject to the control of the will | Synonyms: involuntary, unvoluntary |
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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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| nutritionary | (adjective) of or relating to or providing nutrition | Synonyms: nutritional |
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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 | (adjective) not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree | - |
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| (adjective) lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered | Synonyms: average |
| (noun) (heraldry) any of several conventional figures used on shields | - |
| (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 | - |
| overweary | (verb) tire excessively | Synonyms: overfatigue, overtire |
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| papillary | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling papilla | Synonyms: papillose |
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| paramilitary | (adjective) of or relating to a group of civilians organized to function like or to assist a military unit | - |
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| (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 |
| parliamentary | (adjective) relating to or having the nature of a parliament | - |
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| (adjective) having the supreme legislative power resting with a body of cabinet ministers chosen from and responsible to the legislature or parliament | - |
| (adjective) in accord with rules and customs of a legislative or deliberative assembly | - |
| peccary | (noun) nocturnal gregarious pig-like wild animals of North America and South America | Synonyms: musk hog |
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| pecuniary | (adjective) relating to or involving money | Synonyms: monetary |
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| penitentiary | (adjective) showing or constituting penance | Synonyms: penitential |
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| (adjective) used for punishment or reform of criminals or wrongdoers | - |
| (noun) a correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes | Synonyms: pen |
| 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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| petchary | (noun) a kingbird that breeds in the southeastern United States and winters in tropical America; similar to but larger than the eastern kingbird | Synonyms: gray kingbird, grey kingbird, Tyrannus domenicensis domenicensis |
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| petitionary | (adjective) of the nature of or expressing a petition | - |
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| pilary | (adjective) covered with hairs especially fine soft ones | Synonyms: pilose, pilous |
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| piscary | (noun) a workplace where fish are caught and processed and sold | Synonyms: fishery |
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| pituitary | (adjective) of or relating to the pituitary gland | - |
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| (noun) the master gland of the endocrine system; located at the base of the brain | Synonyms: hypophysis, pituitary body, pituitary gland |
| planetary | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling the physical or orbital characteristics of a planet or the planets | Synonyms: planetal |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants | Synonyms: terrestrial |
| (adjective) involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope | Synonyms: global, world-wide, world, worldwide |
| (adjective) having no fixed course | Synonyms: erratic, wandering |
| plenary | (adjective) full in all respects | - |
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| plenipotentiary | (noun) a diplomat who is fully authorized to represent his or her government | - |
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| prebendary | (noun) a canon who receives a prebend for serving the church | - |
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| precautionary | (adjective) taken in advance to protect against possible danger or failure | Synonyms: precautional |
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