Words that rhyme with promissory

• beneficiary 3
  adj 1: having or arising from a benefice; "a beneficiary baron" n 1: the recipient of funds or other benefits [syn: beneficiary, donee] 2: the semantic role of the intended recipient who benefits from the happening denoted by the verb in the clause [syn: benefactive role, beneficiary]
• accessory 0
  adj 1: aiding and abetting in a crime; "he was charged with being accessory to the crime" [syn: accessary, accessory] 2: furnishing added support; "an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxiliary to each other" [syn: accessory, adjunct, ancillary, adjuvant, appurtenant, auxiliary] n 1: clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing [syn: accessory, accoutrement, accouterment] 2: a supplementary component that improves capability [syn: accessory, appurtenance, supplement, add-on] 3: someone who helps another person commit a crime [syn: accessory, accessary]
• 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]
• adversary 0
  n 1: someone who offers opposition [syn: adversary, antagonist, opponent, opposer, resister] [ant: agonist]
• advisory 0
  adj 1: giving advice; "an advisory memorandum", "his function was purely consultative" [syn: advisory, consultative, consultatory, consultive] n 1: an announcement that usually advises or warns the public of some threat; "a frost advisory"
• 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"
• ancillary 0
  adj 1: furnishing added support; "an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxiliary to each other" [syn: accessory, adjunct, ancillary, adjuvant, appurtenant, auxiliary]
• anniversary 0
  n 1: the date on which an event occurred in some previous year (or the celebration of it) [syn: anniversary, day of remembrance]
• anticipatory 0
  adj 1: in anticipation [syn: anticipatory, prevenient]
• antiquary 0
  n 1: an expert or collector of antiquities [syn: antiquary, antiquarian, archaist]
• arbitrary 0
  adj 1: based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice; "an arbitrary decision"; "the arbitrary rule of a dictator"; "an arbitrary penalty"; "of arbitrary size and shape"; "an arbitrary choice"; "arbitrary division of the group into halves" [ant: nonarbitrary, unarbitrary]
• archery 0
  n 1: the sport of shooting arrows with a bow
• armillary 0
  adj 1: of or relating to bracelets
• artillery 0
  n 1: large but transportable armament [syn: artillery, heavy weapon, gun, ordnance] 2: an army unit that uses big guns [syn: artillery, artillery unit] 3: a means of persuading or arguing; "he used all his conversational weapons" [syn: weapon, artillery]
• auditory 0
  adj 1: of or relating to the process of hearing; "auditory processing"; "an audile person" [syn: auditory, audile, auditive]
• augury 0
  n 1: an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come; "he hoped it was an augury"; "it was a sign from God" [syn: augury, sign, foretoken, preindication]
• bacillary 0
  adj 1: relating to or produced by or containing bacilli [syn: bacillar, bacillary] 2: formed like a bacillus [syn: bacillar, bacillary, bacilliform, baculiform, rod-shaped]
• bestiary 0
  n 1: a medieval book (usually illustrated) with allegorical and amusing descriptions of real and fabled animals
• burglary 0
  n 1: entering a building unlawfully with intent to commit a felony or to steal valuable property
• bursary 0
  n 1: the treasury of a public institution or religious order
• butchery 0
  n 1: a building where animals are butchered [syn: abattoir, butchery, shambles, slaughterhouse] 2: the business of a butcher [syn: butchery, butchering] 3: the savage and excessive killing of many people [syn: slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery]
• cajolery 0
  n 1: flattery intended to persuade [syn: blandishment, cajolery, palaver]
• calorie 0
  n 1: a unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one degree at one atmosphere pressure; used by nutritionists to characterize the energy-producing potential in food [syn: Calorie, kilogram calorie, kilocalorie, large calorie, nutritionist's calorie] 2: unit of heat defined as the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree centigrade at atmospheric pressure [syn: calorie, gram calorie, small calorie]
• capillary 0
  adj 1: of or relating to hair 2: long and slender with a very small internal diameter; "a capillary tube" [syn: capillary, hairlike] n 1: a tube of small internal diameter; holds liquid by capillary action [syn: capillary, capillary tube, capillary tubing] 2: any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules [syn: capillary, capillary vessel]
• capitulary 0
  adj 1: of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical chapter; "capitular estates" [syn: capitular, capitulary]
• caravanserai 0
  n 1: an inn in some eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans [syn: caravansary, caravanserai, khan, caravan inn]
• cassowary 0
  n 1: large black flightless bird of Australia and New Guinea having a horny head crest
• 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
• causerie 0
  n 1: light informal conversation for social occasions [syn: chitchat, chit-chat, chit chat, small talk, gab, gabfest, gossip, tittle-tattle, chin wag, chin- wag, chin wagging, chin-wagging, causerie]
• celery 0
  n 1: widely cultivated herb with aromatic leaf stalks that are eaten raw or cooked [syn: celery, cultivated celery, Apium graveolens dulce] 2: stalks eaten raw or cooked or used as seasoning
• chancellery 0
  n 1: a government building housing the office of a chancellor
• chancery 0
  n 1: a court with jurisdiction in equity [syn: chancery, court of chancery] 2: an office of archives for public or ecclesiastic records; a court of public records
• chandlery 0
  n 1: candles and other commodities sold by a chandler 2: a storeroom where candles are kept
• circulatory 0
  adj 1: of or relating to circulation [syn: circulative, circulatory] 2: relating to circulatory system or to circulation of the blood
• colliery 0
  n 1: a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it [syn: colliery, pit]
• commissary 0
  n 1: a retail store that sells equipment and provisions (usually to military personnel) 2: a snack bar in a film studio
• compulsory 0
  adj 1: required by rule; "in most schools physical education is compulsory"; "attendance is mandatory"; "required reading" [syn: compulsory, mandatory, required]
• 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]
• confirmatory 0
  adj 1: serving to support or corroborate; "collateral evidence" [syn: collateral, confirmative, confirming, confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying]
• 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]
• constabulary 0
  n 1: the force of policemen and officers; "the law came looking for him" [syn: police, police force, constabulary, law]
• contrary 0
  adj 1: very opposed in nature or character or purpose; "acts contrary to our code of ethics"; "the facts point to a contrary conclusion" 2: of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true but both may be false; "`hot' and `cold' are contrary terms" 3: resistant to guidance or discipline; "Mary Mary quite contrary"; "an obstinate child with a violent temper"; "a perverse mood"; "wayward behavior" [syn: contrary, obstinate, perverse, wayward] 4: in an opposing direction; "adverse currents"; "a contrary wind" [syn: adverse, contrary] n 1: a relation of direct opposition; "we thought Sue was older than Bill but just the reverse was true" [syn: reverse, contrary, opposite] 2: exact opposition; "public opinion to the contrary he is not guilty" 3: a logical relation such that two propositions are contraries if both cannot be true but both can be false
• corollary 0
  n 1: a practical consequence that follows naturally; "blind jealousy is a frequent corollary of passionate love" 2: (logic) an inference that follows directly from the proof of another proposition
• cryosurgery 0
  n 1: the use of extreme cold (usually liquid nitrogen) to destroy unwanted tissue (warts or cataracts or skin cancers)
• cursory 0
  adj 1: hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough; "a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws"; "a passing glance"; "perfunctory courtesy" [syn: casual, cursory, passing(a), perfunctory]
• cutlery 0
  n 1: a cutting implement; a tool for cutting [syn: cutter, cutlery, cutting tool] 2: tableware implements for cutting and eating food [syn: cutlery, eating utensil]
• debauchery 0
  n 1: a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity [syn: orgy, debauch, debauchery, saturnalia, riot, bacchanal, bacchanalia, drunken revelry]
• 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]
• delusory 0
  adj 1: causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true; "deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure" [syn: deceptive, delusory]
• depository 0
  n 1: a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping [syn: depository, deposit, depositary, repository]
• derisory 0
  adj 1: incongruous;inviting ridicule; "the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework"; "that's a cockeyed idea"; "ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer"; "a contribution so small as to be laughable"; "it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion"; "a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history"; "her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous" [syn: absurd, cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous]
• derogatory 0
  adj 1: expressive of low opinion; "derogatory comments"; "disparaging remarks about the new house" [syn: derogative, derogatory, disparaging]
• dilatory 0
  adj 1: wasting time [syn: dilatory, laggard, poky, pokey]
• dispensary 0
  n 1: clinic where medicine and medical supplies are dispensed
• distillery 0
  n 1: a plant and works where alcoholic drinks are made by distillation [syn: distillery, still]
• domiciliary 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or provided in a domicile; "domiciliary medical care"; "domiciliary caves"
• 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]
• drollery 0
  n 1: a comic incident or series of incidents [syn: drollery, clowning, comedy, funniness] 2: a quaint and amusing jest [syn: drollery, waggery]
• drudgery 0
  n 1: hard monotonous routine work [syn: drudgery, plodding, grind, donkeywork]
• emissary 0
  n 1: someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else [syn: emissary, envoy]
• epistolary 0
  adj 1: written in the form of or carried on by letters or correspondence; "an endless sequence of epistolary love affairs"; "the epistolatory novel" [syn: epistolary, epistolatory]
• equerry 0
  n 1: an official charged with the care of the horses of princes or nobles 2: a personal attendant of the British royal family
• estuary 0
  n 1: the wide part of a river where it nears the sea; fresh and salt water mix
• evidentiary 0
  adj 1: pertaining to or constituting evidence; "evidentiary technique"; "an evidentiary fact" 2: serving as or based on evidence; "evidential signs of a forced entry"; "its evidentiary value" [syn: evidential, evidentiary]
• exemplary 0
  adj 1: worthy of imitation; "exemplary behavior"; "model citizens" [syn: exemplary, model(a)] 2: being or serving as an illustration of a type; "the free discussion that is emblematic of democracy"; "an action exemplary of his conduct"; [syn: emblematic, exemplary, typic] 3: serving to warn; "shook a monitory finger at him"; "an exemplary jail sentence" [syn: admonitory, cautionary, exemplary, monitory, warning(a)]
• extrasensory 0
  adj 1: seemingly outside normal sensory channels [syn: extrasensory, paranormal] [ant: sensorial, sensory]
• feathery 0
  adj 1: resembling or suggesting a feather or feathers; "feathery palm trees" [syn: featherlike, feathery] 2: characterized by a covering of feathers; "the feathery congregation of jays" 3: adorned with feathers or plumes [syn: feathery, feathered, plumy]
• fiduciary 0
  adj 1: relating to or of the nature of a legal trust (i.e. the holding of something in trust for another); "a fiduciary contract"; "in a fiduciary capacity"; "fiducial power" [syn: fiduciary, fiducial] n 1: a person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary; "it is illegal for a fiduciary to misappropriate money for personal gain"
• fishery 0
  n 1: a workplace where fish are caught and processed and sold [syn: fishery, piscary]
• foolery 0
  n 1: foolish or senseless behavior [syn: folly, foolery, tomfoolery, craziness, lunacy, indulgence]
• forgery 0
  n 1: a copy that is represented as the original [syn: counterfeit, forgery] 2: criminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraud
• formulary 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or of the nature of a formula n 1: (pharmacology) a book containing a compilation of pharmaceutical products with their formulas and methods of preparation; "postexposure prophylaxis is an integral part of the pharmacopeia in preventing severe disease after acute infections" [syn: formulary, pharmacopeia]
• fritillary 0
  n 1: any liliaceous plant of the genus Fritillaria having nodding variously colored flowers [syn: fritillary, checkered lily] 2: butterfly with brownish wings marked with black and silver
• funerary 0
  adj 1: of or for or relating to a funeral; "funerary urn"
• gallery 0
  n 1: spectators at a golf or tennis match 2: a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed) [syn: veranda, verandah, gallery] 3: a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited [syn: gallery, art gallery, picture gallery] 4: a long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose; "shooting gallery" 5: a covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns) 6: narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade 7: a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine; "they dug a drift parallel with the vein" [syn: drift, heading, gallery]
• gaucherie 0
  n 1: the quality of being rustic or gauche [syn: rusticity, gaucherie] [ant: urbanity] 2: a socially awkward or tactless act [syn: faux pas, gaffe, solecism, slip, gaucherie]
• gingery 0
  adj 1: having a taste like that of ginger 2: (used especially of hair or fur) having a bright orange-brown color; "a man with gingery hair and bright blue eyes"; "a ginger kitten" [syn: ginger, gingery]
• 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
• glossary 0
  n 1: an alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge; usually published as an appendix to a text on that field [syn: glossary, gloss]
• 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]
• greengrocery 0
  n 1: groceries sold by a greengrocer 2: a greengrocer's grocery store
• grocery 0
  n 1: a marketplace where groceries are sold; "the grocery store included a meat market" [syn: grocery store, grocery, food market, market] 2: (usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer [syn: grocery, foodstuff]
• haberdashery 0
  n 1: a store where men's clothes are sold [syn: clothing store, haberdashery, haberdashery store, mens store] 2: the drygoods sold by a haberdasher [syn: haberdashery, men's furnishings]
• hatchery 0
  n 1: a place where eggs are hatched under artificial conditions (especially fish eggs); "the park authorities operated a trout hatchery"
• 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]
• honorary 0
  adj 1: given as an honor without the normal duties; "an honorary degree"
• horary 0
  adj 1: relating to the hours; "the horary cycle"
• hosiery 0
  n 1: socks and stockings and tights collectively (the British include underwear) [syn: hosiery, hose]
• illusory 0
  adj 1: based on or having the nature of an illusion; "illusive hopes of finding a better job"; "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" [syn: illusive, illusory]
• imagery 0
  n 1: the ability to form mental images of things or events; "he could still hear her in his imagination" [syn: imagination, imaging, imagery, mental imagery]
• incendiary 0
  adj 1: involving deliberate burning of property; "an incendiary fire" 2: arousing to action or rebellion [syn: incendiary, incitive, inflammatory, instigative, rabble-rousing, seditious] 3: capable of catching fire spontaneously or causing fires or burning readily; "an incendiary agent"; "incendiary bombs" n 1: a criminal who illegally sets fire to property [syn: arsonist, incendiary, firebug] 2: a bomb that is designed to start fires; is most effective against flammable targets (such as fuel) [syn: incendiary bomb, incendiary, firebomb]
• injury 0
  n 1: any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc. [syn: injury, hurt, harm, trauma] 2: an accident that results in physical damage or hurt [syn: injury, accidental injury] 3: a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat [syn: wound, injury, combat injury] 4: an act that causes someone or something to receive physical damage 5: wrongdoing that violates another's rights and is unjustly inflicted
• intercalary 0
  adj 1: having a day or month inserted to make the calendar year correspond to the solar year: "Feb. 29 is an intercalary day"; "a leap year is an intercalary year"
• itinerary 0
  n 1: an established line of travel or access [syn: path, route, itinerary] 2: a guidebook for travelers [syn: travel guidebook, itinerary] 3: a proposed route of travel [syn: travel plan, itinerary]
• janissary 0
  n 1: a loyal supporter; "every politician has a following of janissaries" 2: a Turkish soldier
• judiciary 0
  n 1: persons who administer justice [syn: judiciary, bench] 2: the system of law courts that administer justice and constitute the judicial branch of government [syn: judiciary, judicature, judicatory, judicial system]
• jugglery 0
  n 1: artful trickery designed to achieve an end; "the senator's tax program was mere jugglery" 2: the performance of a juggler
• kilocalorie 0
  n 1: a unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one degree at one atmosphere pressure; used by nutritionists to characterize the energy-producing potential in food [syn: Calorie, kilogram calorie, kilocalorie, large calorie, nutritionist's calorie]
• lamasery 0
  n 1: a monastery for lamas

See also promissory definition