Daily word games to challenge your mind
A curated list of 9-letter words tailored to this exact pattern. Endings like ORY often mark word families—helpful to confirm tense or morphology. For example: accessory, adulatory, antistory.
| Word | Definition | Length | Syllables |
|---|---|---|---|
| accessory | 9 | 4 | |
| adulatory | 9 | 5 | |
| antistory | 9 | 4 | |
| crematory | 9 | 4 | |
| damnatory | 9 | 4 | |
| decretory | 9 | 4 | |
| desultory | 9 | 4 | |
| deviatory | 9 | 4 | |
| directory | 9 | 4 | |
| dormitory | 9 | 4 | |
| excretory | 9 | 4 | |
| executory | 9 | 5 | |
| expiatory | 9 | 4 | |
| expletory | 9 | 4 | |
| feudatory | 9 | 4 | |
| gustatory | 9 | 4 | |
| herbivory | 9 | 4 | |
| homospory | 9 | 4 | |
| hortatory | 9 | 4 | |
| inventory | 9 | 4 | |
| laudatory | 9 | 4 | |
| libratory | 9 | 4 | |
| mandatory | 9 | 4 | |
| mediatory | 9 | 4 | |
| migratory | 9 | 4 | |
| offertory | 9 | 4 | |
| olfactory | 9 | 4 | |
| overstory | 9 | 4 | |
| ovulatory | 9 | 5 | |
| pellitory | 9 | 4 | |
| piscatory | 9 | 4 | |
| placatory | 9 | 4 | |
| precatory | 9 | 4 | |
| predatory | 9 | 4 | |
| prefatory | 9 | 4 | |
| probatory | 9 | 4 | |
| prolusory | 9 | 4 | |
| provisory | 9 | 4 | |
| purgatory | 9 | 4 | |
| refectory | 9 | 4 | |
| repertory | 9 | 4 | |
| saltatory | 9 | 4 | |
| secretory | 9 | 4 | |
| seigniory | 9 | 3 | |
| signatory | 9 | 4 | |
| statutory | 9 | 4 | |
| territory | 9 | 4 | |
| vainglory | 9 | 3 | |
| vibratory | 9 | 4 |
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.