| CASTRATORY | • castratory adj. Causing or relating to castration. • CASTRATORY adj. relating to castration. |
| CLEARSTORY | • clearstory n. Alternative form of clerestory. • CLEARSTORY n. the upper storey of a church; windows near the roof of a building, also CLERESTORY. |
| CONTRARILY | • contrarily adv. In a contrary manner; in opposite ways or directions. • CONTRARY adv. opposite; in an opposite direction, also CONTRAIR, CONTRARIOUS. |
| COPARTNERY | • copartnery n. The state of being copartners in any undertaking. • COPARTNERY n. the state of being copartners in any undertaking. |
| COURTYARDS | • courtyards n. Plural of courtyard. • COURTYARD n. a court or enclosed ground attached to a building, usually a large house. |
| CRYPTOGRAM | • cryptogram n. Encrypted text. • cryptogram n. (Games) A type of word puzzle in which text encoded by a simple cipher is to be decoded. • CRYPTOGRAM n. anything written in cipher, also CRYPTOGRAPH. |
| DETRACTORY | • detractory adj. (Now rare) That detracts from something; disparaging, depreciatory. • DETRACTORY adj. tending to detract, also DETRACTIVE. |
| EXECRATORY | • execratory adj. Tending to execrate or cause execration. • EXECRATORY adj. of the nature of execration. |
| LACRYMATOR | • lacrymator n. Alternative form of lachrymator. • LACRYMATOR n. a substance or gas causing tears, also LACHRYMATOR, LACRIMATOR. |
| MICROPARTY | • microparty n. (Chiefly Australian politics) A very small political party. • MICROPARTY n. a small political party, especially one focussing on a single issue. |
| NECROLATRY | • necrolatry n. The practice of worshipping or revering the dead. • NECROLATRY n. worship of the dead. |
| PROCARYOTE | • procaryote n. Alternative spelling of prokaryote. • PROCARYOTE n. a bacterium or blue-green algae whose nucleus lacks a limiting membrane, also PROKARYOT, PROKARYOTE. |
| REFRACTORY | • refractory adj. Obstinate and unruly; strongly opposed to something. • refractory adj. Not affected by great heat. • refractory adj. (Medicine) Difficult to treat. |
| REVOCATORY | • revocatory adj. Of or pertaining to revocation; revocative; tending to revoke or recall. • REVOCATORY adj. of or pertaining to revocation. |
| STERCORARY | • stercorary n. A sheltered place for storing dung. • STERCORARY adj. relating to dung, also STERCORARIOUS. • STERCORARY n. a weatherproof place where dung is stored. |
| TRAJECTORY | • trajectory n. The path an object takes as it moves. • trajectory n. (Astronomy, space science) The path of a body as it travels through space. • trajectory n. (Cybernetics) The ordered set of intermediate states assumed by a dynamical system as a result of time evolution. |