Words that rhyme with mandatory

• amendatory 0
  adj 1: effecting amendment; "added amendatory phrases to the text"
• auditory 0
  adj 1: of or relating to the process of hearing; "auditory processing"; "an audile person" [syn: auditory, audile, auditive]
• 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
• certificatory 0
  adj 1: serving to certify or endorse authoritatively
• derogatory 0
  adj 1: expressive of low opinion; "derogatory comments"; "disparaging remarks about the new house" [syn: derogative, derogatory, disparaging]
• dory 0
  n 1: a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled [syn: dinghy, dory, rowboat] 2: pike-like freshwater perches [syn: walleye, walleyed pike, jack salmon, dory, Stizostedion vitreum] 3: marine fishes widely distributed in mid-waters and deep slope waters
• excitatory 0
  adj 1: (of drugs e.g.) able to excite or stimulate [syn: excitant, excitative, excitatory]
• exculpatory 0
  adj 1: clearing of guilt or blame [ant: inculpative, inculpatory]
• exhortatory 0
  adj 1: giving strong encouragement [syn: exhortative, exhortatory, hortative, hortatory]
• feudatory 0
  adj 1: of or pertaining to the relation of a feudal vassal to his lord; "a feudatory relationship" 2: owing feudal allegiance to or being subject to a sovereign; "it remained feudatory to India until 1365" n 1: a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord [syn: vassal, liege, liegeman, liege subject, feudatory]
• glory 0
  n 1: a state of high honor; "he valued glory above life itself" [syn: glory, glorification] 2: brilliant radiant beauty; "the glory of the sunrise" [syn: glory, resplendence, resplendency] 3: an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint [syn: aura, aureole, halo, nimbus, glory, gloriole] v 1: rejoice proudly
• gory 0
  adj 1: covered with blood; "a bloodstained shirt"; "a gory dagger" [syn: bloodstained, gory] 2: accompanied by bloodshed; "this bitter and sanguinary war" [syn: gory, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous, butcherly]
• hereditary 0
  adj 1: occurring among members of a family usually by heredity; "an inherited disease"; "familial traits"; "genetically transmitted features" [syn: familial, genetic, hereditary, inherited, transmitted, transmissible] 2: inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent; "ancestral home"; "ancestral lore"; "hereditary monarchy"; "patrimonial estate"; "transmissible tradition" [syn: ancestral, hereditary, patrimonial, transmissible]
• hoary 0
  adj 1: showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head" [syn: grey, gray, grey- haired, gray-haired, grey-headed, gray-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired] 2: ancient; "hoary jokes" [syn: hoary, rusty] 3: covered with fine whitish hairs or down [syn: canescent, hoary]
• inhibitory 0
  adj 1: restrictive of action; "a repressive regime"; "an overly strict and inhibiting discipline" [syn: inhibitory, repressive, repressing]
• interrogatory 0
  adj 1: relating to the use of or having the nature of an interrogation [syn: interrogative, interrogatory] [ant: asserting(a), declarative, declaratory] n 1: formal systematic questioning [syn: interrogation, examination, interrogatory]
• inventory 0
  n 1: a detailed list of all the items in stock [syn: inventory, stock list] 2: the merchandise that a shop has on hand; "they carried a vast inventory of hardware"; "they stopped selling in exact sizes in order to reduce inventory" [syn: stock, inventory] 3: (accounting) the value of a firm's current assets including raw materials and work in progress and finished goods 4: a collection of resources; "he dipped into his intellectual armory to find an answer" [syn: armory, armoury, inventory] 5: making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand; "an inventory may be necessary to see if anything is missing"; "they held an inventory every month" [syn: inventory, inventorying, stocktaking, stock-taking] v 1: make or include in an itemized record or report; "Inventory all books before the end of the year" [syn: inventory, take stock, stock-take]
• invitatory 0
  adj 1: conveying an invitation; "a brief invitatory note"
• judicatory 0
  n 1: the system of law courts that administer justice and constitute the judicial branch of government [syn: judiciary, judicature, judicatory, judicial system]
• laudatory 0
  adj 1: full of or giving praise; "a laudatory remark" [syn: laudatory, praiseful, praising]
• obligatory 0
  adj 1: morally or legally constraining or binding; "attendance is obligatory"; "an obligatory contribution" [ant: optional] 2: required by obligation or compulsion or convention; "he made all the obligatory apologies"
• predatory 0
  adj 1: characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding; "bands of marauding Indians"; "predatory warfare"; "a raiding party" [syn: marauding, predatory, raiding] 2: living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal" [syn: predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous] 3: living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain; "predatory capitalists"; "a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal"- Peter S. Prescott; "a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster"- W.E.Swinton [syn: predaceous, predacious, predatory]
• presbytery 0
  n 1: building reserved for the officiating clergy
• purgatory 0
  n 1: a temporary condition of torment or suffering; "a purgatory of drug abuse" 2: (theology) in Roman Catholic theology the place where those who have died in a state of grace undergo limited torment to expiate their sins
• salutatory 0
  n 1: an opening or welcoming statement (especially one delivered at graduation exercises) [syn: salutatory address, salutatory oration, salutatory]
• story 0
  n 1: a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program; "his narrative was interesting"; "Disney's stories entertain adults as well as children" [syn: narrative, narration, story, tale] 2: a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events; "he writes stories for the magazines" 3: a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale; "what level is the office on?" [syn: floor, level, storey, story] 4: a record or narrative description of past events; "a history of France"; "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president"; "the story of exposure to lead" [syn: history, account, chronicle, story] 5: a short account of the news; "the report of his speech"; "the story was on the 11 o'clock news"; "the account of his speech that was given on the evening news made the governor furious" [syn: report, news report, story, account, write up] 6: a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how can I stop my child from telling stories?" [syn: fib, story, tale, tarradiddle, taradiddle]
• supererogatory 0
  adj 1: more than is needed, desired, or required; "trying to lose excess weight"; "found some extra change lying on the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare room"; "supernumerary ornamentation"; "it was supererogatory of her to gloat"; "delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words"; "extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts"; "surplus cheese distributed to the needy" [syn: excess, extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus]
• territory 0
  n 1: a region marked off for administrative or other purposes [syn: district, territory, territorial dominion, dominion] 2: an area of knowledge or interest; "his questions covered a lot of territory" 3: the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state; "American troops were stationed on Japanese soil" [syn: territory, soil]
• corrie 0
  n 1: a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake [syn: cirque, corrie, cwm]
• saury 0
  n 1: slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters [syn: saury, billfish, Scomberesox saurus]
• florey 0
  n 1: British pathologist who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1898-1968) [syn: Florey, Howard Florey, Sir Howard Walter Florey]
• flory 0
  n 1: United States chemist who developed methods for studying long-chain molecules (1910-1985) [syn: Flory, Paul John Flory]
• lory 0
  n 1: small brightly colored Australasian parrots having a brush- tipped tongue for feeding on nectar and soft fruits
• 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]
• mandatary 0
  n 1: the recipient of a mandate [syn: mandatary, mandatory]
• prohibitory 0
  adj 1: tending to discourage (especially of prices); "the price was prohibitive" [syn: prohibitive, prohibitory]
• piscatory 0
  adj 1: relating to or characteristic of the activity of fishing; "a piscatory life" [syn: piscatorial, piscatory]
• sudatory 0
  n 1: a medicine that causes or increases sweating [syn: sudorific, sudatory] 2: a bathhouse for hot air baths or steam baths [syn: sudatorium, sudatory]
• auscultatory 0
  adj 1: of or relating to auscultation
• vesicatory 0
  adj 1: causing blisters [syn: vesicatory, vesicant] n 1: a chemical agent that causes blistering (especially mustard gas) [syn: vesicant, vesicatory]
• cacciatore 0
• emendatory 0
• exhibitory 0
• explicatory 0
• expurgatory 0
• invocatory 0
• laevorotatory 0
• recommendatory 0
• aurae 0
• montefiore 0
• corey 0
• corry 0
• cory 0
• coury 0
• maury 0
• rory 0
• gregori 0
• hattori 0
• kgori 0
• latorre 0
• bonsignore 0
• buonocore 0
• potatory 0
• saltatory 0
• advocatory 0
• compurgatory 0
• manducatory 0
• retardatory 0
• unexplanetory 0

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