-ory

1. A supplementary component that improves capability; such as, an optional part that may be fitted to something to perform an additional function or to enhance a performance.
2. Clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of a person's main clothing.
3. Someone who helps another person in committing a crime or avoiding arrest but who does not participate in the crime itself.
4. Relating to something that is added but is not essential.

Relating to or expressing acclamation.

Intended or serving to correct or improve something.

Of or pertaining to drinking or tippling.

To comfort in time of grief or loss.

1. Having the quality or character of contradicting; denying that a thing stated is completely true.
2. Inconsistent in itself; containing elements opposed to each other.
3. The opposite, the contrary.

Of or pertaining to rhetorical declaiming; of the nature of, or characterized by, declamation.

A reference to decoration; decorative.

1. Tending to mislead or to deceive; deceptive.
2. Having the nature of a delusion and likely to mislead or to delude someone.

1. Having the property of removing hair.
2. A depilatory agent or substance; a preparation to remove (growing) hair.

1. An expression of criticism or a low opinion.
2. Tending to detract or to diminish.
3. Tending to lessen the merit or reputation of a person or thing.

1. Inclined, or intended, to waste time, to cause a delay, to gain time, and to lag behind.
2. Using cautious slow strategy to wear down the opposition; and so, avoiding direct confrontation and deferring a decision: "The congressman used a dilatory strategy to keep the bill from being passed."
3. Etymology: from Latin dilatorius; from dilator, "procrastinator", from dilatus, the past participle form of differe, "to delay".

Tending to raise, or having the power to elevate; such as, "elevatory forces".