Words that rhyme with story

• conservatory 5
  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]
• gory 1
  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]
• morphine 1
  n 1: an alkaloid narcotic drug extracted from opium; a powerful, habit-forming narcotic used to relieve pain [syn: morphine, morphia]
• 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]
• adjudicatory 0
  adj 1: concerned with adjudicating [syn: adjudicative, adjudicatory]
• 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]
• 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]
• 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]
• 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
• centaury 0
  n 1: any of various plants of the genus Centaurium 2: any plant of the genus Centaurea
• circulatory 0
  adj 1: of or relating to circulation [syn: circulative, circulatory] 2: relating to circulatory system or to circulation of the blood
• clearstory 0
  n 1: part of an interior wall rising above the adjacent roof with windows admitting light [syn: clerestory, clearstory]
• clerestory 0
  n 1: part of an interior wall rising above the adjacent roof with windows admitting light [syn: clerestory, clearstory]
• 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]
• 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]
• 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]
• 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]
• 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
• furore 0
  n 1: an interest followed with exaggerated zeal; "he always follows the latest fads"; "it was all the rage that season" [syn: fad, craze, furor, furore, cult, rage] 2: a sudden outburst (as of protest) [syn: furor, furore]
• 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]
• 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
• 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"
• 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]
• 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]
• 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
• laboratory 0
  n 1: a workplace for the conduct of scientific research [syn: lab, laboratory, research lab, research laboratory, science lab, science laboratory] 2: a region resembling a laboratory inasmuch as it offers opportunities for observation and practice and experimentation; "the new nation is a testing ground for socioeconomic theories"; "Pakistan is a laboratory for studying the use of American troops to combat terrorism" [syn: testing ground, laboratory]
• lorry 0
  n 1: a large low horse-drawn wagon without sides 2: a large truck designed to carry heavy loads; usually without sides [syn: lorry, camion]
• mandatory 0
  adj 1: required by rule; "in most schools physical education is compulsory"; "attendance is mandatory"; "required reading" [syn: compulsory, mandatory, required] n 1: the recipient of a mandate [syn: mandatary, mandatory] 2: a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves [syn: mandate, mandatory]
• outlawry 0
  n 1: illegality as a consequence of unlawful acts; defiance of the law [syn: lawlessness, outlawry]
• quarry 0
  n 1: a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence; "he fell prey to muggers"; "everyone was fair game"; "the target of a manhunt" [syn: prey, quarry, target, fair game] 2: a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate; "a British term for `quarry' is `stone pit'" [syn: pit, quarry, stone pit] 3: animal hunted or caught for food [syn: prey, quarry] v 1: extract (something such as stones) from or as if from a quarry; "quarry marble"
• storey 0
  n 1: 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]
• 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]
• vainglory 0
  n 1: outspoken conceit [syn: boastfulness, vainglory]
• corrie 0
  n 1: a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake [syn: cirque, corrie, cwm]
• tory 0
  n 1: an American who favored the British side during the American Revolution 2: a member of political party in Great Britain that has been known as the Conservative Party since 1832; was the opposition party to the Whigs 3: a supporter of traditional political and social institutions against the forces of reform; a political conservative
• 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]
• articulatory 0
  adj 1: of or relating to articulation; "articulatory features"; "articulatory phonetics" [syn: articulatory, articulative]
• zori 0
  n 1: a sandal attached to the foot by a thong over the toes [syn: pusher, zori]
• satori 0
  n 1: (Zen Buddhism) a state of sudden spiritual enlightenment
• 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]
• hunky-dory 0
  adj 1: being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition; "an all- right movie"; "the passengers were shaken up but are all right"; "is everything all right?"; "everything's fine"; "things are okay"; "dinner and the movies had been fine"; "another minute I'd have been fine" [syn: all right, fine, o.k., ok, okay, hunky-dory]
• appreciatory 0
• cacciatore 0
• compensatory 0
• dedicatory 0
• pylori 0
• warriors 0
• aurae 0
• signori 0
• delore 0
• bensenyore 0
• montefiore 0
• inscore 0
• salvatore 0
• corey 0
• corry 0
• cory 0
• coury 0
• dorey 0
• dori 0
• dorie 0
• dorrie 0
• flori 0
• florrie 0
• florry 0
• forie 0
• forrey 0
• forry 0
• glori 0
• gorey 0
• gori 0
• haury 0
• hori 0
• jory 0
• kaori 0
• korey 0
• korry 0
• kory 0
• laurey 0
• lauri 0
• laurie 0
• laury 0

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