| COURTYARD | • courtyard n. An area, open to the sky, partially or wholly surrounded by walls or buildings. • COURTYARD n. a court or enclosed ground attached to a building, usually a large house. |
| DECRETORY | • decretory adj. (Rare or obsolete) Pertaining to an authoritative decree or final judgement. • DECRETORY adj. relating to or having the force of a decree, also DECRETIVE. |
| DESTROYER | • destroyer n. That which destroys something. • destroyer n. (Military, historical) A small, fast warship with light gun armament, smaller than a cruiser, but bigger… • destroyer n. (Military) A larger warship with guided missile armament, usually intended for air defence or anti-ship… |
| DIRECTORY | • directory n. A list of names, addresses etc, of specific classes of people or organizations, often in alphabetical… • directory n. (Computing) A structured listing of the names and characteristics of the files on a storage device. • directory n. (Computing) A virtual container in a computer’s file system, in which files and other directories may… |
| DORMITORY | • dormitory n. A room containing a number of beds (and often some other furniture and/or utilities) for sleeping, often… • dormitory n. A building or part of a building which houses students, soldiers, monks etc. who sleep there and use… • dormitory n. A dormitory town. |
| ERYTHROID | • erythroid adj. Having a red colour; reddish. • erythroid adj. Of or pertaining to the erythrocytes, especially to their development. • erythroid n. Synonym of normoblast. |
| GRADATORY | • gradatory n. (Architecture) A series of steps from a cloister into a church. • gradatory adj. Proceeding step by step; gradual. • gradatory adj. (Zoology) Suitable for walking; said of the limbs of an animal when adapted for walking on land. |
| HYDRATORS | • hydrators n. Plural of hydrator. • HYDRATOR n. something that hydrates. |
| MARTYRDOM | • martyrdom n. The condition of a martyr; the death of a martyr; the suffering of death on account of adherence to… • martyrdom n. Extreme suffering, affliction; torment; torture, especially without reason. • MARTYRDOM n. the state of being a martyr. |
| PORTRAYED | • portrayed v. Simple past tense and past participle of portray. • PORTRAY v. to paint or draw the likeness of, also POURTRAY. |
| POURTRAYD | • POURTRAY v. (Spenser) to portray, also PORTRAY. |
| PREDATORY | • predatory adj. Of, or relating to a predator. • predatory adj. Living by preying on other living animals. • predatory adj. (Figuratively) Exploiting or victimizing others for personal gain. |
| PRODITORY | • proditory adj. (Obsolete) Treacherous, traitorous. • PRODITORY adj. treacherous. |
| PROTANDRY | • protandry n. (Biology) The condition in which an organism begins life as a male and then changes into a female. • protandry n. (Botany) The condition of flowers whose male parts mature before the female ones. • protandry n. (Ethology) The arrival of males before females at a mating site. |
| RADIATORY | • radiatory adj. Radiating. • RADIATORY adj. relating to radiation. |
| ROYSTERED | • roystered v. Simple past tense and past participle of royster. • ROYSTER v. to revel noisily, carouse, also ROIST, ROISTER, ROYST. |
| TORRIDITY | • torridity n. The property of being torrid. • TORRIDITY n. torridness. |