Words that rhyme with victory

  • calefactory
    adj 1: serving to heat; "a heating pad is calefactory" [syn: calefactory, calefactive]
  • alimentary
    adj 1: of or providing nourishment; "good nourishing stew" [syn: alimentary, alimental, nourishing, nutrient, nutritious, nutritive]
  • baptistery
    n 1: bowl for baptismal water [syn: baptismal font, baptistry, baptistery, font]
  • benedictory
    adj 1: expressing benediction [syn: benedictory, benedictive]
  • blistery
    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
    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]
  • clerestory
    n 1: part of an interior wall rising above the adjacent roof with windows admitting light [syn: clerestory, clearstory]
  • commentary
    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
    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
    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
    n 1: a church tribunal or governing body
  • contradictory
    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
  • directory
    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
    adj 1: not up to expectations; "a disappointing performance from one who had seemed so promising" [syn: disappointing, dissatisfactory, unsatisfying]
  • documentary
    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
    n 1: an infection of the intestines marked by severe diarrhea
  • effrontery
    n 1: audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to; "he despised them for their presumptuousness" [syn: presumption, presumptuousness, effrontery, assumption]
  • elementary
    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]
  • factory
    n 1: a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing [syn: factory, mill, manufacturing plant, manufactory]
  • hickory
    n 1: valuable tough heavy hardwood from various hickory trees 2: American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts [syn: hickory, hickory tree]
  • history
    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"
  • introductory
    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
    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
    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
    n 1: a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing [syn: factory, mill, manufacturing plant, manufactory]
  • mastery
    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
    n 1: a double layer of peritoneum that attaches to the back wall of the abdominal cavity and supports the small intestines
  • momentary
    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
    n 1: the residence of a religious community
  • mystery
    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
    adj 1: of or relating to olfaction [syn: olfactory, olfactive]
  • parliamentary
    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"
  • perfunctory
    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]
  • phylactery
    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]
  • prehistory
    n 1: the time during the development of human culture before the appearance of the written word [syn: prehistory, prehistoric culture]
  • promontory
    n 1: a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea) [syn: promontory, headland, head, foreland]
  • psaltery
    n 1: an ancient stringed instrument similar to the lyre or zither but having a trapezoidal sounding board under the strings
  • rectory
    n 1: an official residence provided by a church for its parson or vicar or rector [syn: parsonage, vicarage, rectory]
  • refectory
    n 1: a communal dining-hall (usually in a monastery)
  • refractory
    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]
  • rudimentary
    adj 1: being or involving basic facts or principles; "the fundamental laws of the universe"; "a fundamental incomatibility between them"; "these rudimentary truths"; "underlying principles" [syn: fundamental, rudimentary, underlying] 2: being in the earliest stages of development; "rudimentary plans" 3: not fully developed in mature animals; "rudimentary wings" [syn: vestigial, rudimentary]
  • satisfactory
    adj 1: giving satisfaction; "satisfactory living conditions"; "his grades were satisfactory" [ant: unsatisfactory] 2: meeting requirements; "the step makes a satisfactory seat" [syn: satisfactory, acceptable]
  • sectary
    n 1: a member of a sect; "most sectarians are intolerant of the views of any other sect" [syn: sectarian, sectary, sectarist]
  • sedentary
    adj 1: requiring sitting or little activity; "forced by illness to lead a sedentary life"
  • sedimentary
    adj 1: resembling or containing or formed by the accumulation of sediment; "sedimentary deposits" 2: produced by the action of water [syn: aqueous, sedimentary] [ant: eruptive, igneous]
  • splintery
    adj 1: subject to breaking into sharp slender pieces 2: resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points; "a rough splintery floor of old pine boards" [syn: splintery, slivery]
  • story
    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]
  • supplementary
    adj 1: functioning in a supporting capacity; "the main library and its auxiliary branches" [syn: auxiliary, subsidiary, supplemental, supplementary] 2: added to complete or make up a deficiency; "produced supplementary volumes" [syn: supplementary, supplemental]
  • testamentary
    adj 1: of or relating to a will or testament or bequeathed by a will or testament
  • trajectory
    n 1: the path followed by an object moving through space [syn: trajectory, flight]
  • uncomplimentary
    adj 1: showing or representing unfavorably; "an unflattering portrait"; "an uncomplimentary dress" [syn: unflattering, uncomplimentary] [ant: flattering] 2: tending to (or intended to) detract or disparage [ant: complimentary]
  • unsatisfactory
    adj 1: not giving satisfaction; "shops should take back unsatisfactory goods"; "her performance proved to be unsatisfactory"; "life is becoming increasingly unsatifactory"; "our discussion was very unsatisfactory" [ant: satisfactory]
  • upholstery
    n 1: covering (padding and springs and webbing and fabric) on a piece of furniture 2: the craft of upholstering
  • valedictory
    adj 1: of or relating to an occasion or expression of farewell; "a valedictory address"; "valedictory praise for his uniformly manly course"; "a suitable valedictory gesture" 2: of a speech expressing leave-taking; "a valedictory address" n 1: a farewell oration (especially one delivered during graduation exercises by an outstanding member of a graduating class) [syn: valediction, valedictory address, valedictory oration, valedictory]
  • voluntary
    adj 1: of your own free will or design; done by choice; not forced or compelled; "man is a voluntary agent"; "participation was voluntary"; "voluntary manslaughter"; "voluntary generosity in times of disaster"; "voluntary social workers"; "a voluntary confession" [ant: involuntary, nonvoluntary, unvoluntary] 2: controlled by individual volition; "voluntary motions"; "voluntary muscles" [ant: involuntary] n 1: (military) a person who freely enlists for service [syn: volunteer, military volunteer, voluntary] [ant: conscript, draftee, inductee] 2: composition (often improvised) for a solo instrument (especially solo organ) and not a regular part of a religious service or musical performance
  • wintery
    adj 1: characteristic of or occurring in winter; "suffered severe wintry weather"; "brown wintry grasses" [syn: wintry, wintery] [ant: autumnal, summery, vernal]
  • protohistory
    n 1: the study humans prior to the invention of writing [syn: protohistory, protoanthropology]
  • filamentary
  • interdictory
  • interjectory
  • insectary
  • phalanstery
  • segmentary
  • ligamentary
  • maledictory
  • bistoury
  • ethnohistory
  • enactory
  • printery

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