Words that rhyme with jury

• accusatory 0
  adj 1: containing or expressing accusation; "an accusitive forefinger"; "black accusatory looks"; "accusive shoes and telltale trousers"- O.Henry; "his accusing glare" [syn: accusative, accusatory, accusing, accusive]
• actuary 0
  n 1: someone versed in the collection and interpretation of numerical data (especially someone who uses statistics to calculate insurance premiums) [syn: statistician, actuary]
• adjudicatory 0
  adj 1: concerned with adjudicating [syn: adjudicative, adjudicatory]
• aerie 0
  n 1: the lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle) [syn: aerie, aery, eyrie, eyry] 2: any habitation at a high altitude [syn: aerie, aery, eyrie, eyry]
• allegory 0
  n 1: a short moral story (often with animal characters) [syn: fable, parable, allegory, apologue] 2: a visible symbol representing an abstract idea [syn: emblem, allegory] 3: an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor
• ambulatory 0
  adj 1: relating to or adapted for walking; "an ambulatory corridor" 2: able to walk about; "the patient is ambulatory" [syn: ambulant, ambulatory] n 1: a covered walkway (as in a cloister); "it has an ambulatory and seven chapels"
• anticipatory 0
  adj 1: in anticipation [syn: anticipatory, prevenient]
• apery 0
  n 1: the act of mimicking; imitative behavior [syn: apery, mimicry]
• auditory 0
  adj 1: of or relating to the process of hearing; "auditory processing"; "an audile person" [syn: auditory, audile, auditive]
• blurry 0
  adj 1: indistinct or hazy in outline; "a landscape of blurred outlines"; "the trees were just blurry shapes" [syn: bleary, blurred, blurry, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, muzzy]
• bowery 0
  adj 1: like a bower; leafy and shady; "a bowery lane" n 1: a street in Manhattan noted for cheap hotels frequented by homeless derelicts
• brewery 0
  n 1: a plant where beer is brewed by fermentation
• burry 0
  adj 1: having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers" [syn: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny]
• bury 0
  v 1: cover from sight; "Afghani women buried under their burkas" 2: place in a grave or tomb; "Stalin was buried behind the Kremlin wall on Red Square"; "The pharaohs were entombed in the pyramids"; "My grandfather was laid to rest last Sunday" [syn: bury, entomb, inhume, inter, lay to rest] 3: place in the earth and cover with soil; "They buried the stolen goods" 4: enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter" [syn: immerse, swallow, swallow up, bury, eat up] 5: embed deeply; "She sank her fingers into the soft sand"; "He buried his head in her lap" [syn: bury, sink] 6: dismiss from the mind; stop remembering; "I tried to bury these unpleasant memories" [syn: forget, bury] [ant: remember, think of]
• buttery 0
  adj 1: unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; "buttery praise"; "gave him a fulsome introduction"; "an oily sycophantic press agent"; "oleaginous hypocrisy"; "smarmy self-importance"; "the unctuous Uriah Heep"; "soapy compliments" [syn: buttery, fulsome, oily, oleaginous, smarmy, soapy, unctuous] 2: resembling or containing or spread with butter; "a rich buttery cake" n 1: a small storeroom for storing foods or wines [syn: pantry, larder, buttery] 2: a teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals
• category 0
  n 1: a collection of things sharing a common attribute; "there are two classes of detergents" [syn: class, category, family] 2: a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme
• circulatory 0
  adj 1: of or relating to circulation [syn: circulative, circulatory] 2: relating to circulatory system or to circulation of the blood
• conciliatory 0
  adj 1: making or willing to make concessions; "loneliness tore through him...whenever he thought of...even the compromising Louis du Tillet" [syn: compromising, conciliatory, flexible] [ant: inflexible, sturdy, uncompromising] 2: intended to placate; "spoke in a conciliating tone"; "a conciliatory visit" [syn: conciliatory, conciliative] [ant: antagonistic]
• condemnatory 0
  adj 1: containing or imposing condemnation or censure; "a condemnatory decree" [syn: condemnatory, condemning]
• confirmatory 0
  adj 1: serving to support or corroborate; "collateral evidence" [syn: collateral, confirmative, confirming, confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying]
• congratulatory 0
  adj 1: expressive of sympathetic pleasure or joy on account of someone's success or good fortune; "a congratulatory telegram"; "the usual congratulatory crowd was conspicuously absent"; "a gratulatory address" [syn: congratulatory, gratulatory]
• conservatory 0
  n 1: the faculty and students of a school specializing in one of the fine arts 2: a schoolhouse with special facilities for fine arts [syn: conservatory, conservatoire] 3: a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner [syn: conservatory, hothouse, indoor garden]
• contemporary 0
  adj 1: characteristic of the present; "contemporary trends in design"; "the role of computers in modern-day medicine" [syn: contemporary, modern-day] 2: belonging to the present time; "contemporary leaders" [syn: contemporary, present-day(a)] 3: occurring in the same period of time; "a rise in interest rates is often contemporaneous with an increase in inflation"; "the composer Salieri was contemporary with Mozart" [syn: contemporaneous, contemporary] n 1: a person of nearly the same age as another [syn: contemporary, coeval]
• coppery 0
  adj 1: of something having the color of copper [syn: coppery, copper colored]
• corroboratory 0
  adj 1: serving to support or corroborate; "collateral evidence" [syn: collateral, confirmative, confirming, confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying]
• cosignatory 0
  adj 1: signing jointly with others n 1: one of two or more signers of the same document (as a treaty or declaration) [syn: cosigner, cosignatory]
• crematory 0
  n 1: a mortuary where corpses are cremated [syn: crematory, crematorium] 2: a furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes [syn: crematory, crematorium, cremation chamber]
• curie 0
  n 1: a unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of 37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second [syn: curie, Ci] 2: French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906) [syn: Curie, Pierre Curie] 3: French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one (with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and polonium (1867-1934) [syn: Curie, Marie Curie, Madame Curie, Marya Sklodowska]
• curry 0
  n 1: (East Indian cookery) a pungent dish of vegetables or meats flavored with curry powder and usually eaten with rice v 1: season with a mixture of spices; typical of Indian cooking 2: treat by incorporating fat; "curry tanned leather" 3: give a neat appearance to; "groom the dogs"; "dress the horses" [syn: dress, groom, curry]
• defamatory 0
  adj 1: (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign [syn: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrative, denigrating, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous]
• depository 0
  n 1: a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping [syn: depository, deposit, depositary, repository]
• derogatory 0
  adj 1: expressive of low opinion; "derogatory comments"; "disparaging remarks about the new house" [syn: derogative, derogatory, disparaging]
• diary 0
  n 1: a daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations [syn: diary, journal] 2: a personal journal (as a physical object)
• dilatory 0
  adj 1: wasting time [syn: dilatory, laggard, poky, pokey]
• discriminatory 0
  adj 1: being biased or having a belief or attitude formed beforehand; "a prejudiced judge" [syn: prejudiced, discriminatory] [ant: impartial, unprejudiced] 2: containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice; "discriminatory attitudes and practices"; "invidious comparisons" [syn: discriminatory, invidious] 3: capable of making fine distinctions [syn: discriminative, discriminatory] 4: manifesting partiality; "a discriminatory tax"; "preferential tariff rates"; "preferential treatment"; "a preferential shop gives priority or advantage to union members in hiring or promoting" [syn: discriminatory, preferential]
• dormitory 0
  n 1: a college or university building containing living quarters for students [syn: dormitory, dorm, residence hall, hall, student residence] 2: a large sleeping room containing several beds [syn: dormitory, dormitory room, dorm room]
• dowry 0
  n 1: money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage [syn: dowry, dowery, dower, portion]
• drapery 0
  n 1: hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) [syn: curtain, drape, drapery, mantle, pall] 2: cloth gracefully draped and arranged in loose folds
• dupery 0
  n 1: something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage [syn: fraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax, humbug, put-on]
• enquiry 0
  n 1: an instance of questioning; "there was a question about my training"; "we made inquiries of all those who were present" [syn: question, inquiry, enquiry, query, interrogation] [ant: answer] 2: a search for knowledge; "their pottery deserves more research than it has received" [syn: inquiry, enquiry, research] 3: a systematic investigation of a matter of public interest [syn: inquiry, enquiry]
• expiry 0
  n 1: a coming to an end of a contract period; "the expiry of his driver's license" [syn: termination, expiration, expiry] 2: the event of dying or departure from life; "her death came as a terrible shock"; "upon your decease the capital will pass to your grandchildren" [syn: death, decease, expiry] [ant: birth, nascence, nascency, nativity]
• extemporary 0
  adj 1: with little or no preparation or forethought; "his ad-lib comments showed poor judgment"; "an extemporaneous piano recital"; "an extemporary lecture"; "an extempore skit"; "an impromptu speech"; "offhand excuses"; "trying to sound offhanded and reassuring"; "an off-the-cuff toast"; "a few unrehearsed comments" [syn: ad-lib, extemporaneous, extemporary, extempore, impromptu, offhand, offhanded, off-the-cuff, unrehearsed]
• eyrie 0
  n 1: the lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle) [syn: aerie, aery, eyrie, eyry] 2: any habitation at a high altitude [syn: aerie, aery, eyrie, eyry]
• fiery 0
  adj 1: characterized by intense emotion; "ardent love"; "an ardent lover"; "a fervent desire to change society"; "a fervent admirer"; "fiery oratory"; "an impassioned appeal"; "a torrid love affair" [syn: ardent, fervent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, perfervid, torrid] 2: like or suggestive of fire; "a fiery desert wind"; "an igneous desert atmosphere" [syn: fiery, igneous] 3: very intense; "a fiery temper"; "flaming passions" [syn: fiery, flaming]
• floury 0
  adj 1: resembling flour in fine powdery texture; "a floury clay"
• flowery 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or suggestive of flowers; "a flowery hat"; "flowery wine" 2: marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details; "a flowery speech"; "ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato"-John Milton [syn: flowery, ornate]
• friary 0
  n 1: a monastery of friars
• frippery 0
  n 1: something of little value or significance [syn: bagatelle, fluff, frippery, frivolity]
• fury 0
  n 1: a feeling of intense anger; "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"; "his face turned red with rage" [syn: fury, rage, madness] 2: state of violent mental agitation [syn: craze, delirium, frenzy, fury, hysteria] 3: the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence" [syn: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence, wildness] 4: (classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals [syn: Fury, Eumenides, Erinyes]
• inquiry 0
  n 1: a search for knowledge; "their pottery deserves more research than it has received" [syn: inquiry, enquiry, research] 2: an instance of questioning; "there was a question about my training"; "we made inquiries of all those who were present" [syn: question, inquiry, enquiry, query, interrogation] [ant: answer] 3: a systematic investigation of a matter of public interest [syn: inquiry, enquiry]
• japery 0
  n 1: acting like a clown or buffoon [syn: buffoonery, clowning, japery, frivolity, harlequinade, prank]
• kauri 0
  n 1: resin of the kauri trees of New Zealand; found usually as a fossil; also collected for making varnishes and linoleum [syn: kauri, kauri copal, kauri resin, kauri gum] 2: tall timber tree of New Zealand having white straight-grained wood [syn: kauri, kaury, Agathis australis] 3: white close-grained wood of a tree of the genus Agathis especially Agathis australis
• miry 0
  adj 1: (of soil) soft and watery; "the ground was boggy under foot"; "a marshy coastline"; "miry roads"; "wet mucky lowland"; "muddy barnyard"; "quaggy terrain"; "the sloughy edge of the pond"; "swampy bayous" [syn: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged]
• mortuary 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of death 2: of or relating to a funeral n 1: a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation [syn: morgue, mortuary, dead room]
• napery 0
  n 1: linens for the dining table [syn: table linen, napery]
• obituary 0
  n 1: a notice of someone's death; usually includes a short biography [syn: obituary, obit, necrology]
• papery 0
  adj 1: thin and paperlike; "papery leaves"; "wasps that make nests of papery material" 2: of or like paper [syn: chartaceous, papery, paperlike]
• peppery 0
  adj 1: having the piquant burning taste of peppers; "corn chips with peppery salsa"
• popery 0
  n 1: offensive terms for the practices and rituals of the Roman Catholic Church [syn: popery, papism]
• priory 0
  n 1: religious residence in a monastery governed by a prior or a convent governed by a prioress
• residuary 0
  adj 1: entitled to the residue of an estate (after payment of debts and specific gifts); "the residuary part of the estate"; "the residuary beneficiary" 2: relating to or indicating a remainder; "residual quantity" [syn: residual, residuary]
• sanctuary 0
  n 1: a consecrated place where sacred objects are kept 2: a shelter from danger or hardship [syn: refuge, sanctuary, asylum] 3: area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir; often enclosed by a lattice or railing [syn: chancel, sanctuary, bema]
• showery 0
  adj 1: (of weather) wet by periods of rain; "showery weather"; "rainy days" [syn: showery, rainy]
• slippery 0
  adj 1: causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide; "slippery sidewalks"; "a slippery bar of soap"; "the streets are still slippy from the rain" [syn: slippery, slippy] [ant: nonslippery] 2: not to be trusted; "how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is"- James Agee [syn: slippery, tricky]
• statuary 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or suitable for statues n 1: statues collectively
• sumptuary 0
  adj 1: regulating or controlling expenditure or personal behavior; "sumptuary laws discouraging construction of large houses on small plots"; "sumptuary laws forbidding gambling"
• temporary 0
  adj 1: not permanent; not lasting; "politics is an impermanent factor of life"- James Thurber; "impermanent palm cottages"; "a temperary arrangement"; "temporary housing" [syn: impermanent, temporary] [ant: lasting, permanent] 2: lacking continuity or regularity; "an irregular worker"; "employed on a temporary basis" [syn: irregular, temporary] n 1: a worker (especially in an office) hired on a temporary basis [syn: temp, temporary, temporary worker]
• trumpery 0
  n 1: nonsensical talk or writing [syn: folderol, rubbish, tripe, trumpery, trash, wish-wash, applesauce, codswallop] 2: ornamental objects of no great value [syn: folderal, falderol, frill, gimcrackery, gimcrack, nonsense, trumpery]
• venturi 0
  n 1: United States architect (born in 1925) [syn: Venturi, Robert Venturi, Robert Charles Venturi] 2: a tube with a constriction; used to control fluid flow (as in the air inlet of a carburetor)
• voluptuary 0
  adj 1: displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses; "an epicurean banquet"; "enjoyed a luxurious suite with a crystal chandelier and thick oriental rugs"; "Lucullus spent the remainder of his days in voluptuous magnificence"; "a chinchilla robe of sybaritic lavishness" [syn: epicurean, luxurious, luxuriant, sybaritic, voluptuary, voluptuous] n 1: a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses [syn: voluptuary, sybarite]
• wiry 0
  adj 1: lean and sinewy [syn: stringy, wiry] 2: of or relating to wire 3: of hair that resembles wire in stiffness; "wiry red hair"
• briery 0
  adj 1: having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers" [syn: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny]
• corrie 0
  n 1: a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake [syn: cirque, corrie, cwm]
• cowrie 0
  n 1: any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells [syn: cowrie, cowry]
• jewry 0
  n 1: Jews collectively
• maori 0
  n 1: an ethnic minority of Polynesian and Melanesian descent who speak Maori and live in New Zealand 2: the Oceanic language spoken by the Maori in New Zealand
• montessori 0
  n 1: Italian educator who developed a method of teaching mentally handicapped children and advocated a child- centered approach (1870-1952) [syn: Montessori, Maria Montesorri]
• urey 0
  n 1: United States chemist who discovered deuterium (1893-1981) [syn: Urey, Harold Urey, Harold Clayton Urey]
• houri 0
  n 1: a voluptuously beautiful young woman [syn: nymph, houri] 2: (Islam) one of the dark-eyed virgins of perfect beauty believed to live with the blessed in Paradise
• articulatory 0
  adj 1: of or relating to articulation; "articulatory features"; "articulatory phonetics" [syn: articulatory, articulative]
• usufructuary 0
  adj 1: of or relating to the nature of a usufruct n 1: someone who holds property by usufruct
• missouri 0
  n 1: a midwestern state in central United States; a border state during the American Civil War, Missouri was admitted to the Confederacy without actually seceding from the Union [syn: Missouri, Show Me State, MO] 2: the longest river in the United States; arises in Montana and flows southeastward to become a tributary of the Mississippi at Saint Louis; "The Missouri and Mississippi Rivers together form the third longest river in the world" [syn: Missouri, Missouri River] 3: a member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the valley of the Missouri river in Missouri 4: a dialect of the Chiwere language spoken by the Missouri
• lowry 0
  n 1: English painter (1887-1976) [syn: Lowry, L. S. Lowry, Laurence Stephen Lowry] 2: English novelist (1909-1957) [syn: Lowry, Malcolm Lowry, Clarence Malcolm Lowry]
• consultatory 0
  adj 1: giving advice; "an advisory memorandum", "his function was purely consultative" [syn: advisory, consultative, consultatory, consultive]
• criminatory 0
  adj 1: charging or suggestive of guilt or blame; "incriminatory testimony" [syn: criminative, criminatory, incriminating, incriminatory]
• appreciatory 0
• cacciatore 0
• compensatory 0
• dedicatory 0
• electuary 0
• foppery 0
• zedoary 0
• aurae 0
• spiry 0
• lowrie 0
• towery 0
• arcuri 0
• polypary 0
• buri 0
• burri 0

See also jury definition and jury synonyms