Daily word games to challenge your mind
A curated list of 10-letter words tailored to this exact pattern. Endings like ORY often mark word families—helpful to confirm tense or morphology. For example: accusatory, adjuratory, admonitory.
| Word | Definition | Length | Syllables |
|---|---|---|---|
| accusatory | 10 | 5 | |
| adjuratory | 10 | 5 | |
| admonitory | 10 | 5 | |
| ambulatory | 10 | 5 | |
| amendatory | 10 | 5 | |
| castratory | 10 | 4 | |
| clearstory | 10 | 3 | |
| clerestory | 10 | 4 | |
| compulsory | 10 | 4 | |
| conclusory | 10 | 4 | |
| consistory | 10 | 4 | |
| copulatory | 10 | 5 | |
| dedicatory | 10 | 5 | |
| defamatory | 10 | 5 | |
| depilatory | 10 | 5 | |
| depository | 10 | 5 | |
| derogatory | 10 | 5 | |
| divinatory | 10 | 5 | |
| escalatory | 10 | 5 | |
| excitatory | 10 | 5 | |
| excusatory | 10 | 5 | |
| exhibitory | 10 | 5 | |
| expiratory | 10 | 5 | |
| expository | 10 | 5 | |
| incubatory | 10 | 5 | |
| indicatory | 10 | 5 | |
| inhibitory | 10 | 5 | |
| initiatory | 10 | 5 | |
| innovatory | 10 | 5 | |
| inundatory | 10 | 5 | |
| invitatory | 10 | 5 | |
| invocatory | 10 | 5 | |
| judicatory | 10 | 5 | |
| laboratory | 10 | 5 | |
| locomotory | 10 | 5 | |
| mitigatory | 10 | 5 | |
| modulatory | 10 | 5 | |
| multistory | 10 | 4 | |
| obligatory | 10 | 5 | |
| osculatory | 10 | 5 | |
| peremptory | 10 | 4 | |
| possessory | 10 | 4 | |
| preceptory | 10 | 4 | |
| precursory | 10 | 4 | |
| preemptory | 10 | 3 | |
| prehistory | 10 | 4 | |
| promissory | 10 | 4 | |
| promontory | 10 | 4 | |
| protectory | 10 | 4 | |
| redemptory | 10 | 4 | |
| refractory | 10 | 4 | |
| regulatory | 10 | 5 | |
| repository | 10 | 5 | |
| rescissory | 10 | 4 | |
| responsory | 10 | 4 | |
| revelatory | 10 | 5 | |
| salutatory | 10 | 5 | |
| suppletory | 10 | 4 | |
| suspensory | 10 | 4 | |
| trajectory | 10 | 4 | |
| transitory | 10 | 4 | |
| understory | 10 | 4 | |
| undulatory | 10 | 5 |
What’s typical about ORY-ending words?
ORY often marks suffix families; think about derivatives when guessing.
Do you include UK/US spellings?
Where they exist, both may appear.