Words Containing ORY
Explore a range of words that include the letter ORY, showcasing the diversity and richness of the English language. Enhance your vocabulary with interesting and unique terms featuring ORY.
4 letter words
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| rory | 7 | - | - |
| dory | 8 | pike-like freshwater perches | - |
| tory | 7 | a member of political party in Great Britain that has been known as the Conservative Party since 1832; was the opposition party to the Whigs | - |
| gory | 8 | covered with blood | a gory dagger |
| lory | 7 | small brightly colored Australasian parrots having a brush-tipped tongue for feeding on nectar and soft fruits | - |
| oryx | 14 | large African antelope with long straight nearly upright horns | - |
| pory | 9 | - | - |
| cory | 9 | - | - |
5 letter words
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| story | 8 | a record or narrative description of past events | a history of France |
| glory | 9 | an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint | - |
| ivory | 11 | a shade of white the color of bleached bones | - |
| moory | 10 | - | - |
| goory | 9 | - | - |
| frory | 11 | - | - |
| flory | 11 | United States chemist who developed methods for studying long-chain molecules (1910-1985) | - |
6 letter words
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| memory | 13 | the power of retaining and recalling past experience | he had a good memory when he was younger |
| theory | 12 | a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena | a scientific hypothesis that survives experimental testing becomes a scientific theory |
| armory | 11 | a place where arms are manufactured | - |
| priory | 11 | religious residence in a monastery governed by a prior or a convent governed by a prioress | - |
| savory | 12 | pleasing to the sense of taste | - |
| calory | 11 | - | - |
| colory | 11 | - | - |
| corymb | 15 | flat-topped or convex inflorescence in which the individual flower stalks grow upward from various points on the main stem to approximately the same height; outer flowers open first | - |
| coryza | 20 | an inflammation of the mucous membrane lining the nose (usually associated with nasal discharge) | - |
| oryxes | 16 | - | - |
| moryah | 14 | - | - |
| motory | 11 | - | - |
| vapory | 14 | - | - |
| pelory | 11 | - | - |
7 letter words
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| history | 13 | a record or narrative description of past events | a history of France |
| factory | 15 | a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing | - |
| victory | 15 | a successful ending of a struggle or contest | a narrow victory |
| sensory | 10 | relating to or concerned in sensation | the sensory cortex |
| rectory | 12 | an official residence provided by a church for its parson or vicar or rector | - |
| hickory | 19 | American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts | - |
| chicory | 17 | 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 | - |
| oratory | 10 | addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous) | he loved the sound of his own oratory |
| cursory | 12 | hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough | a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws |
| euphory | 15 | a feeling of great (usually exaggerated) elation | - |
| elusory | 10 | - | - |
| corylus | 12 | deciduous monoecious nut-bearing shrubs of small trees: hazel; sometimes placed in the subfamily or family Corylaceae | - |
| corymbs | 16 | - | - |
| coryphe | 17 | - | - |
| coryzas | 21 | - | - |
| coryzal | 21 | - | - |
| olitory | 10 | - | - |
| pillory | 12 | expose to ridicule or public scorn | - |
| flavory | 16 | - | - |
| amatory | 12 | expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance | her amatory affairs |
| castory | 12 | - | - |
| dorymen | 13 | - | - |
| doryman | 13 | - | - |
| succory | 14 | 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 | - |
| suasory | 10 | - | - |
| signory | 11 | the estate of a seigneur | - |
8 letter words
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| category | 14 | a collection of things sharing a common attribute | - |
| lavatory | 14 | a room or building equipped with one or more toilets | - |
| advisory | 15 | giving advice | an advisory memorandum |
| allegory | 12 | a short moral story (often with animal characters) | - |
| auditory | 12 | of or relating to the process of hearing | auditory processing |
| unsavory | 14 | not pleasing in odor or taste | - |
| negatory | 12 | - | - |
| illusory | 11 | based on or having the nature of an illusion | Secret activities offer presidents the alluring but often illusory promise that they can achieve foreign policy goals without the bothersome debate and open decision that are staples of democracy |
| rogatory | 12 | - | - |
| dilatory | 12 | wasting time | - |
| monitory | 13 | serving to warn | shook a monitory finger at him |
| nugatory | 12 | of no real value | a nugatory law |
| glorying | 13 | - | - |
| vomitory | 16 | an entrance to an amphitheater or stadium | - |
| delusory | 12 | causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true | a delusory pleasure |
| deletory | 12 | - | - |
| derisory | 12 | so unreasonable as to invite derision | - |
| decisory | 14 | - | - |
| curatory | 13 | - | - |
| coryphes | 18 | - | - |
| coryphee | 18 | - | - |
| corymbed | 18 | - | - |
| corybant | 15 | - | - |
| citatory | 13 | - | - |
| chickory | 22 | - | - |
| chiccory | 20 | - | - |
| locutory | 13 | - | - |
| libatory | 13 | - | - |
| omnivory | 16 | - | - |
| oblatory | 13 | - | - |
| nonstory | 11 | - | - |
| natatory | 11 | - | - |
| mutatory | 13 | - | - |
| moratory | 13 | - | - |
| minatory | 13 | threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | - |
| midstory | 14 | - | - |
| juratory | 18 | - | - |
| irrisory | 11 | - | - |
| isospory | 13 | - | - |
| infusory | 14 | - | - |
| incisory | 13 | - | - |
| herstory | 14 | - | - |
| gyratory | 15 | - | - |
| donatory | 12 | - | - |
| dooryard | 13 | a yard outside the front or rear door of a house | - |
| fumitory | 16 | delicate European herb with greyish leaves and spikes of purplish flowers; formerly used medicinally | - |
| fumatory | 16 | - | - |
| filatory | 14 | - | - |
| feretory | 14 | - | - |
| emictory | 15 | - | - |
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9 letter words
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| territory | 12 | a region marked off for administrative or other purposes | - |
| inventory | 15 | a detailed list of all the items in stock | - |
| mandatory | 15 | the recipient of a mandate | - |
| accessory | 16 | clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing | - |
| purgatory | 15 | a temporary condition of torment or suffering | a purgatory of drug abuse |
| directory | 15 | an alphabetical list of names and addresses | - |
| dormitory | 15 | a college or university building containing living quarters for students | - |
| predatory | 15 | characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding | predatory warfare |
| olfactory | 17 | of or relating to olfaction | - |
| statutory | 12 | prescribed or authorized by or punishable under a statute | statutory restrictions |
| migratory | 15 | habitually moving from place to place especially in search of seasonal work | migratory workers |
| storybook | 18 | a book containing a collection of stories (usually for children) | - |
| crematory | 16 | a furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes | - |
| storyline | 12 | the plot of a book or play or film | - |
| refectory | 17 | a communal dining-hall (usually in a monastery) | - |
| vibratory | 17 | moving very rapidly to and fro or up and down | - |
| repertory | 14 | 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 | - |
| expiatory | 21 | having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation | expiatory (or propitiatory) sacrifice |
| signatory | 13 | someone who signs and is bound by a document | - |
| desultory | 13 | marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose; jumping from one thing to another | desultory thoughts |
| offertory | 18 | the offerings of the congregation at a religious service | - |
| storytime | 14 | - | - |
| storyless | 12 | - | - |
| polyamory | 19 | - | - |
| adulatory | 13 | obsequiously complimentary | - |
| amphigory | 20 | nonsensical writing (usually verse) | - |
| antistory | 12 | - | - |
| backstory | 20 | - | - |
| aspersory | 14 | - | - |
| assertory | 12 | - | - |
| carnivory | 17 | - | - |
| emunctory | 16 | - | - |
| gustatory | 13 | of or relating to gustation | - |
| gradatory | 14 | taking place by degrees | - |
| gestatory | 13 | - | - |
| feudatory | 16 | a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord | - |
| extrusory | 19 | - | - |
| executory | 21 | - | - |
| exclusory | 21 | - | - |
| excretory | 21 | of or relating to the process of excretion | - |
| evocatory | 17 | - | - |
| expletory | 21 | - | - |
| educatory | 15 | - | - |
| elocutory | 14 | - | - |
| elevatory | 15 | - | - |
| emanatory | 14 | - | - |
| dooryards | 14 | - | - |
| dogmatory | 16 | - | - |
| dimissory | 15 | - | - |
| dictatory | 15 | - | - |
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10 letter words
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| laboratory | 15 | a region resembling a laboratory inasmuch as it offers opportunities for observation and practice and experimentation | Pakistan is a laboratory for studying the use of American troops to combat terrorism |
| trajectory | 22 | the path followed by an object moving through space | - |
| compulsory | 19 | required by rule | in most schools physical education is compulsory |
| obligatory | 16 | morally or legally constraining or binding | attendance is obligatory |
| regulatory | 14 | restricting according to rules or principles | a regulatory gene |
| storyboard | 16 | - | - |
| promissory | 17 | relating to or having the character of a promise | promissory note |
| prehistory | 18 | the time during the development of human culture before the appearance of the written word | - |
| derogatory | 15 | expressive of low opinion | derogatory comments |
| depository | 16 | a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping | - |
| repository | 15 | a burial vault (usually for some famous person) | - |
| refractory | 18 | not responding to treatment | a refractory case of acne |
| transitory | 13 | lasting a very short time | love is transitory but it is eternal |
| peremptory | 19 | offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power | a swaggering peremptory manner |
| promontory | 17 | a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea) | - |
| ambulatory | 17 | able to walk about | the patient is ambulatory |
| defamatory | 19 | (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | - |
| copulatory | 17 | of or relating to coitus or copulation | - |
| multistory | 15 | having more than one story | - |
| inhibitory | 18 | restrictive of action | an overly strict and inhibitory discipline |
| accusatory | 17 | containing or expressing accusation | black accusatory looks |
| depilatory | 16 | a cosmetic for temporary removal of undesired hair | - |
| expiratory | 22 | of or relating to the breathing out phase of respiration | - |
| desolatory | 14 | - | - |
| depuratory | 16 | - | - |
| detractory | 16 | - | - |
| fumigatory | 19 | - | - |
| expository | 22 | serving to expound or set forth | clean expository writing |
| faldistory | 17 | - | - |
| excusatory | 22 | offering or expressing apology | - |
| execratory | 22 | - | - |
| exhibitory | 25 | - | - |
| excitatory | 22 | (of drugs e.g.) able to excite or stimulate | - |
| escalatory | 15 | - | - |
| emendatory | 16 | - | - |
| emigratory | 16 | - | - |
| divinatory | 17 | based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence | - |
| dismissory | 16 | - | - |
| discursory | 16 | - | - |
| dissuasory | 14 | - | - |
| palliatory | 15 | - | - |
| osculatory | 15 | - | - |
| oryctology | 19 | - | - |
| modulatory | 16 | - | - |
| mitigatory | 16 | moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | - |
| metatheory | 18 | - | - |
| salutatory | 13 | an opening or welcoming statement (especially one delivered at graduation exercises) | - |
| revocatory | 18 | - | - |
| revelatory | 16 | (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly | - |
| tabulatory | 15 | - | - |
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