8-letter words ending with ORY
Dive into the specific realm of 8-letter words that conclude with the letter ORY. This focused section reveals the fascinating ways in which words of this particular length, ending with ORY, contribute to the richness of the English language. Whether it's for expanding your vocabulary, solving puzzles, or simply for the love of words, discover how these terms uniquely blend length and ending sound.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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) | - |
| unsavory | 14 | not pleasing in odor or taste | - |
| auditory | 12 | of or relating to the process of hearing | auditory processing |
| 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 |
| negatory | 12 | - | - |
| rogatory | 12 | - | - |
| monitory | 13 | serving to warn | shook a monitory finger at him |
| dilatory | 12 | wasting time | - |
| vomitory | 16 | an entrance to an amphitheater or stadium | - |
| nugatory | 12 | of no real value | a nugatory law |
| zoochory | 25 | - | - |
| vexatory | 21 | - | - |
| vanitory | 14 | - | - |
| vavasory | 17 | - | - |
| sudatory | 12 | a medicine that causes or increases sweating | - |
| revisory | 14 | - | - |
| rotatory | 11 | of or relating to or characteristic or causing an axial or orbital turn | - |
| sanatory | 11 | - | - |
| seignory | 12 | - | - |
| signiory | 12 | - | - |
| petitory | 13 | - | - |
| potatory | 13 | - | - |
| punitory | 13 | inflicting punishment | - |
| apospory | 15 | - | - |
| additory | 13 | - | - |
| aleatory | 11 | dependent on chance | the aleatory element in life |
| enactory | 13 | - | - |
| emictory | 15 | - | - |
| feretory | 14 | - | - |
| filatory | 14 | - | - |
| fumatory | 16 | - | - |
| fumitory | 16 | delicate European herb with greyish leaves and spikes of purplish flowers; formerly used medicinally | - |
| donatory | 12 | - | - |
| gyratory | 15 | - | - |
| herstory | 14 | - | - |
| incisory | 13 | - | - |
| infusory | 14 | - | - |
| isospory | 13 | - | - |
| irrisory | 11 | - | - |
| juratory | 18 | - | - |
| midstory | 14 | - | - |
| minatory | 13 | threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | - |
| moratory | 13 | - | - |
| mutatory | 13 | - | - |
| natatory | 11 | - | - |
| nonstory | 11 | - | - |
| oblatory | 13 | - | - |
| omnivory | 16 | - | - |
| libatory | 13 | - | - |
| locutory | 13 | - | - |
| chiccory | 20 | - | - |
| chickory | 22 | - | - |
| citatory | 13 | - | - |
| curatory | 13 | - | - |
| decisory | 14 | - | - |
| derisory | 12 | so unreasonable as to invite derision | - |
| deletory | 12 | - | - |
| delusory | 12 | causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true | a delusory pleasure |
