Words ending in "-ATORY"

Dr. Ravi P. Reddy (India)
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  1. acceleratory
    tending to increase velocity
  2. accusatory
    containing or expressing blame
  3. adjudicatory
    concerned with adjudicating
  4. adjuratory
    containing a solemn charge or command
  5. adulatory
    obsequiously complimentary
  6. affirmatory
    affirming or giving assent
  7. aleatory
    dependent on chance
  8. alleviatory
    moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear
  9. amatory
    expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance
  10. ambulatory
    able to walk about
  11. amelioratory
    tending to ameliorate
  12. amendatory
    effecting amendment
  13. annunciatory
    relating to the act of announcing or being announced
  14. anticipatory
    in expectation
  15. applicatory
    readily applicable or practical
  16. approbatory
    expressing or manifesting praise or approval
  17. articulatory
    of or relating to articulation
  18. assimilatory
    capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution
  19. associatory
    characterized by or causing or resulting from the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination
  20. auscultatory
    of or relating to auscultation
  21. calumniatory
    harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign
  22. cardiorespiratory
    of or pertaining to or affecting both the heart and the lungs and their functions
  23. celebratory
    used for celebrating
  24. certificatory
    serving to certify or endorse authoritatively
  25. circulatory
    of or relating to circulation
  26. classificatory
    relating to or involving classification:"classificatory criteria"
  27. combinatory
    relating to or involving combinations
  28. comminatory
    containing warning of punishment
  29. communicatory
    able or tending to communicate
  30. conciliatory
    making or willing to make concessions
  31. condemnatory
    containing or imposing condemnation or censure
  32. confirmatory
    serving to support or corroborate
  33. congratulatory
    expressive of sympathetic pleasure or joy on account of someone's success or good fortune
  34. conservatory
    a schoolhouse with special facilities for fine arts
  35. consolatory
    affording comfort or solace
  36. consultatory
    giving advice
  37. copulatory
    of or relating to coitus or copulation
  38. corroboratory
    serving to support or corroborate
  39. cosignatory
    signing jointly with others
  40. crematory
    a furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes
  41. criminatory
    charging or suggestive of guilt or blame
  42. damnatory
    threatening with damnation
  43. declamatory
    ostentatiously lofty in style
  44. declaratory
    relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration
  45. defamatory
    harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign
  46. denigratory
    harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign
  47. denunciatory
    containing warning of punishment
  48. depilatory
    a cosmetic for temporary removal of undesired hair
  49. deprecatory
    tending to diminish or disparage
  50. depreciatory
    tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value
  51. derogatory
    expressive of low opinion
  52. dextrorotatory
    rotating to the right
  53. dilatory
    wasting time
  54. discriminatory
    capable of making fine distinctions
  55. divinatory
    resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy
  56. epistolatory
    written in the form of or carried on by letters or correspondence
  57. excitatory
    (of drugs e.g.) able to excite or stimulate
  58. exclamatory
    expressed suddenly and with force
  59. exculpatory
    clearing of guilt or blame
  60. excusatory
    offering or expressing apology
  61. exhortatory
    giving strong encouragement
  62. expiatory
    having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation
  63. expiratory
    of or relating to the breathing out phase of respiration
  64. explanatory
    serving or intended to make clear
  65. exploratory
    serving in or intended for exploration or discovery
  66. facilitatory
    inducing or aiding in facilitating neural activity
  67. feudatory
    a person holding a fief
  68. gradatory
    taking place by degrees
  69. gratulatory
    expressive of sympathetic pleasure or joy on account of someone's success or good fortune
  70. gustatory
    of or relating to the sense of taste
  71. hallucinatory
    characterized by or characteristic of hallucination
  72. hortatory
    giving strong encouragement
  73. incriminatory
    charging or suggestive of guilt or blame
  74. inculpatory
    causing blame to be imputed to
  75. indicatory
    (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly
  76. inflammatory
    inciting action or rebellion
  77. informatory
    providing or conveying information
  78. ingratiatory
    pleasingly persuasive or intended to persuade
  79. initiatory
    serving to set in motion
  80. inspiratory
    pertaining to the drawing in phase of respiration
  81. interrogatory
    relating to the use of or having the nature of an interrogation
  82. investigatory
    designed to find information or ascertain facts
  83. invitatory
    conveying an invitation
  84. judicatory
    the system of law courts that administer justice and constitute the judicial branch of government
  85. justificatory
    attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing
  86. laboratory
    a workplace for the conduct of scientific research
  87. lachrymatory
    relating to or prompting tears
  88. lacrimatory
    relating to or prompting tears
  89. laudatory
    full of or giving praise
  90. lavatory
    a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
  91. levorotatory
    rotating to the left
  92. mandatory
    required by rule
  93. mediatory
    of or related to or directed toward mediation
  94. migratory
    (of animals) moving seasonally
  95. minatory
    threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
  96. mitigatory
    moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear
  97. nonexploratory
    not exploratory
  98. noninflammatory
    not inflammatory
  99. nonmandatory
    not required by rule or law
  100. nonmigratory
    used of animals that do not migrate
  101. nonobligatory
    not required by rule or law
  102. nonoscillatory
    not having periodic vibrations
  103. nugatory
    of no real value
  104. obligatory
    required by compulsion or convention
  105. observatory
    a building equipped to view astronomical phenomena
  106. oratory
    the act of addressing an audience formally
  107. oscillatory
    having periodic vibrations
  108. palpatory
    relating to or involving palpation
  109. participatory
    affording the opportunity for individual involvement
  110. piscatory
    relating to or characteristic of the activity of fishing
  111. placatory
    intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions
  112. precatory
    expressing entreaty or supplication
  113. predatory
    living by preying on other animals
  114. prefatory
    serving as an introduction or preface
  115. preparatory
    preceding and getting ready for something
  116. probatory
    tending to prove a particular proposition or to persuade you of the truth of an allegation
  117. profanatory
    profaning or tending to desecrate
  118. proinflammatory
    tending to cause inflammation
  119. propitiatory
    intended to reconcile or appease
  120. purgatory
    a temporary state of the dead in Roman Catholic theology
  121. reciprocatory
    given or done or owed to each other
  122. recriminatory
    countering one charge with another
  123. reformatory
    tending to reform
  124. regulatory
    restricting according to rules or principles
  125. respiratory
    pertaining to the act of breathing
  126. retaliatory
    of or relating to or having the nature of retribution
  127. revelatory
    serving to make something apparent or clearly visible
  128. rotatory
    of or relating to or characteristic or causing an axial or orbital turn
  129. salutatory
    an opening or welcoming statement
  130. signatory
    one who writes his or her name on and is bound by a document
  131. sternutatory
    tending to cause sneezing
  132. stipulatory
    constituted or contracted by stipulation or agreement
  133. sudatory
    a medicine that causes or increases sweating
  134. supererogatory
    more than is needed, desired, or required
  135. supplicatory
    humbly entreating
  136. undulatory
    resembling waves in form or outline or motion
  137. validatory
    serving to support or corroborate
  138. ventilatory
    provided with ventilation or involving pulmonary ventilation
  139. verificatory
    serving to support or corroborate
  140. vesicatory
    causing blisters
  141. vibratory
    moving very rapidly to and fro or up and down
  142. vindicatory
    of or relating to or having the nature of retribution
Created on Thu Feb 21 11:38:00 EST 2013 (updated Thu Feb 21 20:09:35 EST 2013)

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