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206 Words That End With TORY

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absolvitory (adjective) providing absolution Synonyms: exonerative, forgiving
acceleratory (adjective) tending to increase velocity Synonyms: accelerative
accusatory (adjective) containing or expressing accusation Synonyms: accusative, accusing, accusive
adjudicatory (adjective) concerned with adjudicating Synonyms: adjudicative
adjuratory (adjective) earnestly or solemnly entreating
(adjective) containing a solemn charge or command
admonitory (adjective) serving to warn Synonyms: cautionary, exemplary, monitory, warning
(adjective) expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective Synonyms: admonishing, reproachful, reproving
adulatory (adjective) obsequiously complimentary Synonyms: flattering
affirmatory (adjective) affirming or giving assent Synonyms: affirmative
aleatory (adjective) dependent on chance
alleviatory (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear Synonyms: alleviative, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory, palliative
amatory (adjective) expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance Synonyms: amorous, romantic
ambulatory (adjective) relating to or adapted for walking
(adjective) able to walk about Synonyms: ambulant
(noun) a covered walkway (as in a cloister)
amelioratory (adjective) tending to ameliorate Synonyms: ameliorating, ameliorative, meliorative
amendatory (adjective) effecting amendment
annunciatory (adjective) relating to the act of announcing or being announced
anticipatory (adjective) in anticipation Synonyms: prevenient
applicatory (adjective) readily applicable or practical Synonyms: applicative
approbatory (adjective) expressing or manifesting praise or approval Synonyms: affirmative, approbative, approving, plausive
articulatory (adjective) of or relating to articulation Synonyms: articulative
assimilatory (adjective) capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution Synonyms: assimilating, assimilative
associatory (adjective) characterized by or causing or resulting from the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination Synonyms: associative
auditory (adjective) of or relating to the process of hearing Synonyms: audile, auditive
auscultatory (adjective) of or relating to auscultation
benedictory (adjective) expressing benediction Synonyms: benedictive
calefactory (adjective) serving to heat Synonyms: calefactive
calumniatory (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign Synonyms: calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous
cardiorespiratory (adjective) of or pertaining to or affecting both the heart and the lungs and their functions Synonyms: cardiopulmonary
celebratory (adjective) used for celebrating
certificatory (adjective) serving to certify or endorse authoritatively
chylifactory (adjective) producing or converting into chyle Synonyms: chylifactive, chylific
circulatory (adjective) relating to circulatory system or to circulation of the blood
(adjective) of or relating to circulation Synonyms: circulative
circumlocutory (adjective) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy Synonyms: ambagious, circumlocutious, periphrastic
classificatory (adjective) relating to or involving classification
clearstory (noun) part of an interior wall rising above the adjacent roof with windows admitting light Synonyms: clerestory
clerestory (noun) part of an interior wall rising above the adjacent roof with windows admitting light Synonyms: clearstory
combinatory (adjective) marked by or relating to or resulting from combination Synonyms: combinative
(adjective) relating to or involving combinations Synonyms: combinative, combinatorial
(adjective) able to or tending to combine Synonyms: combinable, combinational
comminatory (adjective) containing warning of punishment Synonyms: denunciative, denunciatory
communicatory (adjective) able or tending to communicate Synonyms: communicative
competitory (adjective) involving competition or competitiveness Synonyms: competitive
conciliatory (adjective) intended to placate Synonyms: conciliative
(adjective) making or willing to make concessions Synonyms: compromising, flexible
condemnatory (adjective) containing or imposing condemnation or censure Synonyms: condemning
confirmatory (adjective) serving to support or corroborate Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying
congratulatory (adjective) expressive of sympathetic pleasure or joy on account of someone's success or good fortune Synonyms: gratulatory
conservatory (noun) a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner Synonyms: hothouse, indoor garden
(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
consolatory (adjective) affording comfort or solace Synonyms: comforting, consoling
consultatory (adjective) giving advice Synonyms: advisory, consultative, consultive
contradictory (adjective) of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false
(adjective) unable for both to exist or be true at the same time Synonyms: mutually exclusive
(adjective) in disagreement Synonyms: at odds, conflicting, self-contradictory
(adjective) that confounds or contradicts or confuses Synonyms: confounding
(noun) two propositions are contradictories if both cannot be true (or both cannot be false) at the same time
contributory (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for Synonyms: conducive, contributing, contributive, tributary
copulatory (adjective) of or relating to coitus or copulation Synonyms: coital
corroboratory (adjective) serving to support or corroborate Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying
cosignatory (adjective) signing jointly with others
(noun) one of two or more signers of the same document (as a treaty or declaration) Synonyms: cosigner
crematory (noun) a furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes Synonyms: cremation chamber, crematorium
(noun) a mortuary where corpses are cremated Synonyms: crematorium
criminatory (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame Synonyms: criminative, incriminating, incriminatory
damnatory (adjective) threatening with damnation Synonyms: damning
declamatory (adjective) ostentatiously lofty in style Synonyms: bombastic, large, orotund, tumid, turgid
declaratory (adjective) relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration Synonyms: asserting, declarative
defamatory (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous
denigratory (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, libellous, libelous, slanderous
denunciatory (adjective) containing warning of punishment Synonyms: comminatory, denunciative
depilatory (adjective) able to remove hair or render hairless
(noun) a cosmetic for temporary removal of undesired hair Synonyms: depilator, epilator
(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
deprecatory (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting
depreciatory (adjective) tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value Synonyms: depreciating, depreciative
(adjective) tending to diminish or disparage Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, slighting
derogatory (adjective) expressive of low opinion Synonyms: derogative, disparaging
desultory (adjective) marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose; jumping from one thing to another
dextrorotatory (adjective) rotating to the right Synonyms: dextrorotary, right-handed
dilatory (adjective) wasting time Synonyms: laggard, pokey, poky
directory (noun) an alphabetical list of names and addresses
(noun) (computer science) a listing of the files stored in memory (usually on a hard disk)
discriminatory (adjective) being biased or having a belief or attitude formed beforehand Synonyms: prejudiced
(adjective) manifesting partiality Synonyms: preferential
(adjective) capable of making fine distinctions Synonyms: discriminative
(adjective) containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice Synonyms: invidious
dissatisfactory (adjective) not up to expectations Synonyms: disappointing, unsatisfying
divinatory (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy Synonyms: mantic, sibyllic, sibylline, vatic, vatical
(adjective) based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence Synonyms: conjectural, hypothetic, hypothetical, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious
dormitory (noun) a college or university building containing living quarters for students Synonyms: dorm, hall, residence hall, student residence
(noun) a large sleeping room containing several beds Synonyms: dorm room, dormitory room
epistolatory (adjective) written in the form of or carried on by letters or correspondence Synonyms: epistolary
excitatory (adjective) (of drugs e.g.) able to excite or stimulate Synonyms: excitant, excitative
exclamatory (adjective) sudden and strong Synonyms: emphatic
excretory (adjective) of or relating to the process of excretion
exculpatory (adjective) clearing of guilt or blame
excusatory (adjective) offering or expressing apology Synonyms: apologetic
exhortatory (adjective) giving strong encouragement Synonyms: exhortative, hortative, hortatory
expiatory (adjective) having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation Synonyms: expiative, propitiatory
expiratory (adjective) of or relating to the breathing out phase of respiration
explanatory (adjective) serving or intended to explain or make clear
exploitatory (adjective) tending to exploit or make use of Synonyms: exploitative, exploitive
exploratory (adjective) serving in or intended for exploration or discovery Synonyms: explorative
expository (adjective) serving to expound or set forth Synonyms: expositive
facilitatory (adjective) inducing or aiding in facilitating neural activity
factory (noun) a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing Synonyms: manufactory, manufacturing plant, mill
feudatory (adjective) of or pertaining to the relation of a feudal vassal to his lord
(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
gradatory (adjective) taking place by degrees Synonyms: gradational, graduated
gratulatory (adjective) expressive of sympathetic pleasure or joy on account of someone's success or good fortune Synonyms: congratulatory
gustatory (adjective) of or relating to gustation Synonyms: gustative, gustatorial
hallucinatory (adjective) characterized by or characteristic of hallucination
history (noun) the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings
(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
hortatory (adjective) giving strong encouragement Synonyms: exhortative, exhortatory, hortative
incriminatory (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame Synonyms: criminative, criminatory, incriminating
inculpatory (adjective) causing blame to be imputed to Synonyms: inculpative
indicatory (adjective) (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly Synonyms: indicative, revelatory, significative, suggestive
inflammatory (adjective) arousing to action or rebellion Synonyms: incendiary, incitive, instigative, rabble-rousing, seditious
(adjective) characterized or caused by inflammation

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