Words that rhyme with sedentary

• 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]
• airy 0
  adj 1: open to or abounding in fresh air; "airy rooms" [syn: aired, airy] 2: not practical or realizable; speculative; "airy theories about socioeconomic improvement"; "visionary schemes for getting rich" [syn: airy, impractical, visionary, Laputan, windy] 3: having little or no perceptible weight; so light as to resemble air; "airy gauze curtains" 4: characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air; "figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away"- Thomas Carlyle; "aerial fancies"; "an airy apparition"; "physical rather than ethereal forms" [syn: aeriform, aerial, airy, aery, ethereal]
• alimentary 0
  adj 1: of or providing nourishment; "good nourishing stew" [syn: alimentary, alimental, nourishing, nutrient, nutritious, nutritive]
• ancestry 0
  n 1: the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors" [syn: lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock] 2: inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline [syn: ancestry, lineage, derivation, filiation]
• anemometry 0
  n 1: measuring wind speed and direction
• anthropometry 0
  n 1: measurement and study of the human body and its parts and capacities
• artistry 0
  n 1: a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation; "the art of conversation"; "it's quite an art" [syn: art, artistry, prowess]
• asymmetry 0
  n 1: (mathematics) a lack of symmetry [syn: asymmetry, dissymmetry, imbalance] [ant: balance, correspondence, symmetricalness, symmetry]
• banditry 0
  n 1: the practice of plundering in gangs
• baptistery 0
  n 1: bowl for baptismal water [syn: baptismal font, baptistry, baptistery, font]
• barratry 0
  n 1: traffic in ecclesiastical offices or preferments [syn: simony, barratry] 2: the crime of a judge whose judgment is influenced by bribery 3: (maritime law) a fraudulent breach of duty by the master of a ship that injures the owner of the ship or its cargo; includes every breach of trust such as stealing or sinking or deserting the ship or embezzling the cargo 4: the offense of vexatiously persisting in inciting lawsuits and quarrels
• basketry 0
  n 1: the craft of basket making
• benedictory 0
  adj 1: expressing benediction [syn: benedictory, benedictive]
• bibliolatry 0
  n 1: the worship of the Bible [syn: bibliolatry, Bible- worship]
• bigotry 0
  n 1: the intolerance and prejudice of a bigot [syn: bigotry, dogmatism]
• biochemistry 0
  n 1: the organic chemistry of compounds and processes occurring in organisms; the effort to understand biology within the context of chemistry
• biometry 0
  n 1: a branch of biology that studies biological phenomena and observations by means of statistical analysis [syn: biometrics, biometry, biostatistics]
• blistery 0
  adj 1: hot enough to raise (or as if to raise) blisters; "blistering sun" [syn: blistering, blistery] 2: covered with small blisters [syn: blebby, blistery]
• blustery 0
  adj 1: blowing in violent and abrupt bursts; "blustering (or blusterous) winds of Patagonia"; "a cold blustery day"; "a gusty storm with strong sudden rushes of wind" [syn: blustering(a), blusterous, blustery] 2: noisily domineering; tending to browbeat others [syn: blustery, bullying]
• cabinetry 0
  n 1: the craft of making furniture (especially furniture of high quality) [syn: cabinetwork, cabinetry]
• calefactory 0
  adj 1: serving to heat; "a heating pad is calefactory" [syn: calefactory, calefactive]
• carpentry 0
  n 1: the craft of a carpenter: making things out of wood [syn: carpentry, woodworking, woodwork]
• casuistry 0
  n 1: argumentation that is specious or excessively subtle and intended to be misleading 2: moral philosophy based on the application of general ethical principles to resolve moral dilemmas
• chemistry 0
  n 1: the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions [syn: chemistry, chemical science] 2: the chemical composition and properties of a substance or object; "the chemistry of soil" 3: the way two individuals relate to each other; "their chemistry was wrong from the beginning -- they hated each other"; "a mysterious alchemy brought them together" [syn: chemistry, interpersonal chemistry, alchemy]
• circuitry 0
  n 1: electronic equipment consisting of a system of circuits
• clerestory 0
  n 1: part of an interior wall rising above the adjacent roof with windows admitting light [syn: clerestory, clearstory]
• commentary 0
  n 1: a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material; "he wrote an extended comment on the proposal" [syn: comment, commentary]
• complementary 0
  adj 1: of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other; "`male' and `female' are complementary terms" 2: acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole) [syn: complemental, complementary, completing] n 1: either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or grey (in the case of pigments); "yellow and blue are complementaries" [syn: complementary color, complementary]
• complimentary 0
  adj 1: conveying or resembling a compliment; "a complimentary remark" [ant: uncomplimentary] 2: costing nothing; "complimentary tickets"; "free admission" [syn: complimentary, costless, free, gratis(p), gratuitous]
• consistory 0
  n 1: a church tribunal or governing body
• contradictory 0
  adj 1: of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false; "`perfect' and `imperfect' are contradictory terms" 2: that confounds or contradicts or confuses [syn: confounding, contradictory] 3: in disagreement; "the figures are at odds with our findings"; "contradictory attributes of unjust justice and loving vindictiveness"- John Morley [syn: at odds(p), conflicting, contradictory, self-contradictory] 4: unable to be both true at the same time [syn: contradictory, mutually exclusive] n 1: two propositions are contradictories if both cannot be true (or both cannot be false) at the same time
• coquetry 0
  n 1: playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest [syn: flirt, flirting, flirtation, coquetry, dalliance, toying]
• country 0
  n 1: a politically organized body of people under a single government; "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land" [syn: state, nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic] 2: the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries" [syn: country, state, land] 3: the people who live in a nation or country; "a statement that sums up the nation's mood"; "the news was announced to the nation"; "the whole country worshipped him" [syn: nation, land, country] 4: an area outside of cities and towns; "his poetry celebrated the slower pace of life in the country" [syn: country, rural area] [ant: populated area, urban area] 5: a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography); "it was a mountainous area"; "Bible country" [syn: area, country]
• demonolatry 0
  n 1: the acts or rites of worshiping devils [syn: diabolatry, demonolatry, devil-worship]
• dentistry 0
  n 1: the branch of medicine dealing with the anatomy and development and diseases of the teeth [syn: dentistry, dental medicine, odontology]
• directory 0
  n 1: an alphabetical list of names and addresses 2: (computer science) a listing of the files stored in memory (usually on a hard disk)
• dissatisfactory 0
  adj 1: not up to expectations; "a disappointing performance from one who had seemed so promising" [syn: disappointing, dissatisfactory, unsatisfying]
• dissymmetry 0
  n 1: (mathematics) a lack of symmetry [syn: asymmetry, dissymmetry, imbalance] [ant: balance, correspondence, symmetricalness, symmetry]
• documentary 0
  adj 1: relating to or consisting of or derived from documents [syn: documentary, documental] 2: emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings, insertion of fictional matter, or interpretation; "objective art" [syn: objective, documentary] n 1: a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event [syn: documentary, docudrama, documentary film, infotainment]
• dysentery 0
  n 1: an infection of the intestines marked by severe diarrhea
• effrontery 0
  n 1: audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to; "he despised them for their presumptuousness" [syn: presumption, presumptuousness, effrontery, assumption]
• electrochemistry 0
  n 1: branch of chemistry that deals with the chemical action of electricity and the production of electricity by chemical reactions
• elementary 0
  adj 1: easy and not involved or complicated; "an elementary problem in statistics"; "elementary, my dear Watson"; "a simple game"; "found an uncomplicated solution to the problem" [syn: elementary, simple, uncomplicated, unproblematic] 2: of or pertaining to or characteristic of elementary school or elementary education; "the elementary grades"; "elementary teachers" 3: of or being the essential or basic part; "an elementary need for love and nurturing" [syn: elementary, elemental, primary]
• entry 0
  n 1: an item inserted in a written record 2: the act of beginning something new; "they looked forward to the debut of their new product line" [syn: introduction, debut, first appearance, launching, unveiling, entry] 3: a written record of a commercial transaction [syn: entry, accounting entry, ledger entry] 4: something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition); "several of his submissions were rejected by publishers"; "what was the date of submission of your proposal?" [syn: submission, entry] 5: something that provides access (to get in or get out); "they waited at the entrance to the garden"; "beggars waited just outside the entryway to the cathedral" [syn: entrance, entranceway, entryway, entry, entree] 6: the act of entering; "she made a grand entrance" [syn: entrance, entering, entry, ingress, incoming]
• factory 0
  n 1: a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing [syn: factory, mill, manufacturing plant, manufactory]
• forestry 0
  n 1: the science of planting and caring for forests and the management of growing timber
• gadgetry 0
  n 1: appliances collectively; "laborsaving gadgetry"
• gallantry 0
  n 1: the qualities of a hero or heroine; exceptional or heroic courage when facing danger (especially in battle); "he showed great heroism in battle"; "he received a medal for valor" [syn: heroism, gallantry, valor, valour, valorousness, valiance, valiancy] 2: courtesy towards women [syn: chivalry, gallantry, politesse] 3: polite attentiveness to women
• gantry 0
  n 1: a framework of steel bars raised on side supports to bridge over or around something; can display railway signals above several tracks or can support a traveling crane etc. [syn: gantry, gauntry]
• gentry 0
  n 1: the most powerful members of a society [syn: gentry, aristocracy]
• geochemistry 0
  n 1: the chemistry of the earth's crust
• geometry 0
  n 1: the pure mathematics of points and lines and curves and surfaces
• hagiolatry 0
  n 1: the worship of saints [syn: hagiolatry, hierolatry]
• harlotry 0
  n 1: offering sexual intercourse for pay [syn: prostitution, harlotry, whoredom]
• history 0
  n 1: the aggregate of past events; "a critical time in the school's history" 2: 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] 3: the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings; "he teaches Medieval history"; "history takes the long view" 4: the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future; "all of human history" 5: all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge; "the dawn of recorded history"; "from the beginning of history"
• hypsometry 0
  n 1: measurement of the elevation of land above sea level [syn: hypsometry, hypsography]
• iconolatry 0
  n 1: the worship of sacred images
• idolatry 0
  n 1: religious zeal; the willingness to serve God [syn: idolatry, devotion, veneration, cultism] 2: the worship of idols; the worship of images that are not God [syn: idolatry, idol worship]
• industry 0
  n 1: the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise; "each industry has its own trade publications" 2: the organized action of making of goods and services for sale; "American industry is making increased use of computers to control production" [syn: industry, manufacture] 3: persevering determination to perform a task; "his diligence won him quick promotions"; "frugality and industry are still regarded as virtues" [syn: diligence, industriousness, industry]
• infantry 0
  n 1: an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot; "there came ten thousand horsemen and as many fully-armed foot" [syn: infantry, foot]
• introductory 0
  adj 1: serving to open or begin; "began the slide show with some introductory remarks" 2: serving as a base or starting point; "a basic course in Russian"; "basic training for raw recruits"; "a set of basic tools"; "an introductory art course" [syn: basic, introductory] 3: serving as an introduction or preface [syn: introductory, prefatorial, prefatory]
• 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]
• involuntary 0
  adj 1: not subject to the control of the will; "involuntary manslaughter"; "involuntary servitude"; "an involuntary shudder"; "It (becoming a hero) was involuntary. They sank my boat"- John F.Kennedy [syn: involuntary, nonvoluntary, unvoluntary] [ant: voluntary] 2: controlled by the autonomic nervous system; without conscious control; "involuntary muscles"; "gave an involuntary start" [ant: voluntary]
• manufactory 0
  n 1: a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing [syn: factory, mill, manufacturing plant, manufactory]
• mastery 0
  n 1: great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity; "a good command of French" [syn: command, control, mastery] 2: power to dominate or defeat; "mastery of the seas" [syn: domination, mastery, supremacy] 3: the act of mastering or subordinating someone [syn: mastery, subordination]
• mesentery 0
  n 1: a double layer of peritoneum that attaches to the back wall of the abdominal cavity and supports the small intestines
• micrometry 0
  n 1: measuring with a micrometer
• ministry 0
  n 1: religious ministers collectively (especially Presbyterian) 2: building where the business of a government department is transacted 3: a government department under the direction of a minister 4: the work of a minister of religion; "he is studying for the ministry"
• momentary 0
  adj 1: lasting for a markedly brief time; "a fleeting glance"; "fugitive hours"; "rapid momentaneous association of things that meet and pass"; "a momentary glimpse" [syn: fleeting, fugitive, momentaneous, momentary]
• monastery 0
  n 1: the residence of a religious community
• musketry 0
  n 1: musketeers and their muskets collectively 2: the technique of using small arms (especially in battle)
• mystery 0
  n 1: something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained; "how it got out is a mystery"; "it remains one of nature's secrets" [syn: mystery, enigma, secret, closed book] 2: a story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or movie [syn: mystery, mystery story, whodunit]
• olfactory 0
  adj 1: of or relating to olfaction [syn: olfactory, olfactive]
• optometry 0
  n 1: the practice of an optometrist
• pageantry 0
  n 1: a rich and spectacular ceremony [syn: pageant, pageantry] 2: an elaborate representation of scenes from history etc; usually involves a parade with rich costumes [syn: pageant, pageantry]
• palmistry 0
  n 1: telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand [syn: palmistry, palm reading, chiromancy, chirology]
• pantry 0
  n 1: a small storeroom for storing foods or wines [syn: pantry, larder, buttery]
• parliamentary 0
  adj 1: relating to or having the nature of a parliament; "parliamentary reform"; "a parliamentary body" 2: having the supreme legislative power resting with a body of cabinet ministers chosen from and responsible to the legislature or parliament; "parliamentary government" 3: in accord with rules and customs of a legislative or deliberative assembly; "parliamentary law"
• parquetry 0
  n 1: a patterned wood inlay used to cover a floor [syn: parquetry, parqueterie]
• pastry 0
  n 1: a dough of flour and water and shortening [syn: pastry, pastry dough] 2: any of various baked foods made of dough or batter
• peasantry 0
  n 1: the class of peasants
• pedantry 0
  n 1: an ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning
• perfunctory 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] 2: as a formality only; "a one-candidate pro forma election" [syn: pro forma, perfunctory]
• photochemistry 0
  n 1: branch of chemistry that deals with the chemical action of light
• photometry 0
  n 1: measurement of the properties of light (especially luminous intensity)
• phylactery 0
  n 1: (Judaism) either of two small leather cases containing texts from the Hebrew Scriptures (known collectively as tefillin); traditionally worn (on the forehead and the left arm) by Jewish men during morning prayer [syn: phylactery, tefillin]
• pleasantry 0
  n 1: an agreeable or amusing remark; "they exchange pleasantries"
• podiatry 0
  n 1: the branch of medicine concerned with the feet [syn: podiatry, chiropody]
• poetry 0
  n 1: literature in metrical form [syn: poetry, poesy, verse] 2: any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling
• prehistory 0
  n 1: the time during the development of human culture before the appearance of the written word [syn: prehistory, prehistoric culture]
• promontory 0
  n 1: a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea) [syn: promontory, headland, head, foreland]
• psaltery 0
  n 1: an ancient stringed instrument similar to the lyre or zither but having a trapezoidal sounding board under the strings
• psychiatry 0
  n 1: the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders [syn: psychiatry, psychopathology, psychological medicine]
• puppetry 0
  n 1: the art of making puppets and presenting puppet shows 2: a stilted dramatic performance (as if by puppets)
• radiochemistry 0
  n 1: the chemistry of radioactive substances [syn: radiochemistry, nuclear chemistry]
• rectory 0
  n 1: an official residence provided by a church for its parson or vicar or rector [syn: parsonage, vicarage, rectory]
• refectory 0
  n 1: a communal dining-hall (usually in a monastery)
• refractory 0
  adj 1: not responding to treatment; "a stubborn infection"; "a refractory case of acne"; "stubborn rust stains" [syn: refractory, stubborn] 2: temporarily unresponsive or not fully responsive to nervous or sexual stimuli; "the refractory period of a muscle fiber" 3: stubbornly resistant to authority or control; "a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness"; "a refractory child" [syn: fractious, refractory, recalcitrant] n 1: lining consisting of material with a high melting point; used to line the inside walls of a furnace [syn: furnace lining, refractory]
• registry 0
  n 1: an official written record of names or events or transactions [syn: register, registry]
• rocketry 0
  n 1: the branch of engineering science that studies rocket design and operation

See also sedentary definition and sedentary synonyms