| CENTRY | • centry n. Obsolete form of sentry. • centry n. Alternative form of century. • CENTRY n. (Shakespeare) a centre. |
| FRATRY | • fratry n. Alternative form of fratery. • FRATRY n. a convent of friars, also FRATERY. |
| GANTRY | • gantry n. A framework of steel bars resting on side supports to bridge over or around something. • gantry n. A supporting framework for a barrel. • gantry n. A gantry crane or gantry scaffold. |
| GENTRY | • gentry n. Birth; condition; rank by birth. • gentry n. Courtesy; civility; complaisance. • gentry n. People of education and good breeding. |
| HOSTRY | • hostry n. (Obsolete) A hostelry. • hostry n. (Obsolete) A stable for horses. • HOSTRY n. (Spenser) a hostelry; an inn or lodging house. |
| PALTRY | • paltry adj. Trashy, trivial, of little value. • paltry adj. Of little monetary worth. • paltry adj. Despicable; contemptibly unimportant. |
| PANTRY | • pantry n. A small room, closet, or cabinet usually located in or near the kitchen, dedicated to shelf-stable food… • PANTRY n. a small room or a cupboard in which provisions, crockery, cutlery, table linen, etc., are kept. |
| PASTRY | • pastry n. (Countable) A baked food item made from flour and fat pastes such as pie crust; also tarts, bear claws… • pastry n. (Uncountable) The food group formed by the various kinds of pastries. • pastry n. (Uncountable) The type of light flour-based dough used in pastries. |
| PELTRY | • peltry n. Pelts or skins, collectively; skins with the fur on them; furs. • PELTRY n. the skins of animals with the fur on them. |
| POETRY | • poetry n. Literature composed in verse or language exhibiting conscious attention to patterns and rhythm. • poetry n. A poet’s literary production. • poetry n. (Figurative) An artistic quality that appeals to or evokes the emotions, in any medium; something having… |
| RIOTRY | • riotry n. The act or practice of rioting. • RIOTRY n. the act or practice of rioting. |
| SENTRY | • sentry n. A guard, particularly on duty at the entrance to a military base. • sentry n. (Uncountable) Sentry duty; time spent being a sentry. • sentry n. (Nautical) A form of drag to be towed underwater, which on striking bottom is upset and rises to the surface. |
| SULTRY | • sultry adj. (Weather) Hot and humid. • sultry adj. (Weather) Very hot and dry; torrid. • sultry adj. (Figuratively) Sexually enthralling. |
| VESTRY | • vestry n. A room in a church where the clergy put on their vestments and where these are stored; also used for… • vestry n. A committee of parishioners elected to administer the temporal affairs of a parish. • vestry n. An assembly of persons who manage parochial affairs; so called because usually held in a vestry. |
| VINTRY | • vintry n. (Obsolete) A place where wine is sold. • VINTRY n. a place where wine is sold. |
| WASTRY | • wastry n. (Scotland, Northern England) Extravagance, wastefulness. • wastry adj. Wasteful, extravagant. • WASTRY n. reckless extravagance, also WASTERIE, WASTERY, WASTRIE. |
| WINTRY | • wintry adj. Suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy. • wintry adj. (Of precipitation) Containing sleet or snow. • wintry adj. Aged, white-haired. |