| extrasensory | (adjective) seemingly outside normal sensory channels | Synonyms: paranormal |
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| facilitatory | (adjective) inducing or aiding in facilitating neural activity | - |
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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 | (adjective) of or pertaining to the relation of a feudal vassal to his lord | - |
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| (adjective) owing feudal allegiance to or being subject to a sovereign | - |
| (noun) a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord | Synonyms: liege, liege subject, liegeman, vassal |
| 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 |
| (verb) rejoice proudly | - |
| gory | (adjective) covered with blood | Synonyms: bloodstained |
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| (adjective) accompanied by bloodshed | Synonyms: butcherly, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous |
| gradatory | (adjective) taking place by degrees | Synonyms: gradational, graduated |
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| gratulatory | (adjective) expressive of sympathetic pleasure or joy on account of someone's success or good fortune | Synonyms: congratulatory |
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| gustatory | (adjective) of or relating to gustation | Synonyms: gustative, gustatorial |
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| hallucinatory | (adjective) characterized by or characteristic of hallucination | - |
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| 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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| hortatory | (adjective) giving strong encouragement | Synonyms: exhortative, exhortatory, hortative |
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| illusory | (adjective) based on or having the nature of an illusion | Synonyms: illusive |
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| incriminatory | (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame | Synonyms: criminative, criminatory, incriminating |
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| inculpatory | (adjective) causing blame to be imputed to | Synonyms: inculpative |
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| indicatory | (adjective) (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly | Synonyms: indicative, revelatory, significative, suggestive |
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| inflammatory | (adjective) arousing to action or rebellion | Synonyms: incendiary, incitive, instigative, rabble-rousing, seditious |
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| (adjective) characterized or caused by inflammation | - |
| informatory | (adjective) providing or conveying information | Synonyms: informative |
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| ingratiatory | (adjective) calculated to please or gain favor | Synonyms: ingratiating, insinuating |
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| (adjective) pleasingly persuasive or intended to persuade | Synonyms: coaxing |
| inhibitory | (adjective) restrictive of action | Synonyms: repressing, repressive |
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| initiatory | (adjective) serving to set in motion | Synonyms: first, inaugural, initiative, maiden |
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| inquisitory | (adjective) diligent and thorough in inquiry or investigation | Synonyms: probing, searching |
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| inspiratory | (adjective) pertaining to the drawing in phase of respiration | - |
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| interlocutory | (adjective) consisting of dialogue | - |
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| interrogatory | (adjective) relating to the use of or having the nature of an interrogation | Synonyms: interrogative |
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| (noun) formal systematic questioning | Synonyms: examination, interrogation |
| introductory | (adjective) serving as a base or starting point | Synonyms: basic |
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| (adjective) serving to open or begin | - |
| (adjective) serving as an introduction or preface | Synonyms: prefatorial, prefatory |
| 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 | - |
| (verb) make or include in an itemized record or report | Synonyms: stock-take, take stock |
| investigatory | (adjective) designed to find information or ascertain facts | Synonyms: fact-finding, investigative |
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| invitatory | (adjective) conveying an invitation | - |
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| 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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| justificatory | (adjective) attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing | Synonyms: defensive, justificative |
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| (adjective) providing justification | Synonyms: justificative, vindicatory |
| 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 |
| lachrymatory | (adjective) relating to or prompting tears | Synonyms: lacrimatory |
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| lacrimatory | (adjective) relating to or prompting tears | Synonyms: lachrymatory |
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| laudatory | (adjective) full of or giving praise | Synonyms: praiseful, praising |
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| 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 |
| levorotatory | (adjective) rotating to the left | Synonyms: left-handed, levorotary |
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| lory | (noun) small brightly colored Australasian parrots having a brush-tipped tongue for feeding on nectar and soft fruits | - |
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| mandatory | (adjective) required by rule | Synonyms: compulsory, required |
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| (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 |
| (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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| mediatory | (adjective) of or related to or directed toward mediation | - |
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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 | - |
| migratory | (adjective) used of animals that move seasonally | - |
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| (adjective) habitually moving from place to place especially in search of seasonal work | Synonyms: migrant |
| minatory | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, ominous, sinister, threatening |
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| mitigatory | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviative, alleviatory, lenitive, mitigative, palliative |
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| monitory | (adjective) serving to warn | Synonyms: admonitory, cautionary, exemplary, warning |
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| multistory | (adjective) having more than one story | Synonyms: multistorey, multistoried |
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| nonexploratory | (adjective) not exploratory | Synonyms: nonexplorative, unexplorative, unexploratory |
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| noninflammatory | (adjective) not inflammatory | - |
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| nonmandatory | (adjective) not required by rule or law | Synonyms: nonobligatory |
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| nonmigratory | (adjective) used of animals that do not migrate | Synonyms: resident |
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| nonobligatory | (adjective) not required by rule or law | Synonyms: nonmandatory |
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| nonoscillatory | (adjective) not having periodic vibrations | - |
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| nugatory | (adjective) of no real value | - |
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| obligatory | (adjective) morally or legally constraining or binding | - |
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| (adjective) required by obligation or compulsion or convention | - |
| 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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| olfactory | (adjective) of or relating to olfaction | Synonyms: olfactive |
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| oratory | (noun) addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous) | - |
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| oscillatory | (adjective) having periodic vibrations | Synonyms: oscillating |
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| palpatory | (adjective) relating to or involving palpation | - |
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| participatory | (adjective) affording the opportunity for individual participation | - |
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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 |
| peremptory | (adjective) putting an end to all debate or action | - |
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| (adjective) offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power | Synonyms: autocratic, bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial |
| (adjective) not allowing contradiction or refusal | - |
| perfunctory | (adjective) hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough | Synonyms: casual, cursory, passing, superficial |
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| (adjective) done or produced as a formality only | Synonyms: pro forma |
| 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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| (verb) criticize harshly or violently | Synonyms: blast, crucify, savage |
| (verb) punish by putting in a pillory | - |
| (verb) expose to ridicule or public scorn | Synonyms: gibbet |
| piscatory | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the activity of fishing | Synonyms: piscatorial |
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| placatory | (adjective) intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions | Synonyms: appeasing, placating, placative |
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| precatory | (adjective) expressing entreaty or supplication | Synonyms: precative |
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| precursory | (adjective) warning of future misfortune | Synonyms: premonitory |
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| predatory | (adjective) living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain | Synonyms: predaceous, predacious |
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| (adjective) living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey | Synonyms: rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous |
| (adjective) characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding | Synonyms: marauding, raiding |
| prefatory | (adjective) serving as an introduction or preface | Synonyms: introductory, prefatorial |
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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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| premonitory | (adjective) warning of future misfortune | Synonyms: precursory |
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| preparatory | (adjective) preceding and preparing for something | Synonyms: preparative, propaedeutic |
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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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| probatory | (adjective) tending to prove a particular proposition or to persuade you of the truth of an allegation | Synonyms: probative |
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| profanatory | (adjective) profaning or tending to desecrate | - |
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| prohibitory | (adjective) tending to discourage (especially of prices) | Synonyms: prohibitive |
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| proinflammatory | (adjective) tending to cause inflammation | Synonyms: pro-inflammatory |
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| prolusory | (adjective) of or relating to or having the character of a prolusion | - |
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| 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 |