Big Huge Thesaurus

refractory

adjective

• stubborn
• fractious
• recalcitrant

similar terms

• disobedient
• intractable
• unresponsive

noun

• furnace lining
• lining

sounds kind of like

• refracture
• river cooter

rhymes with

• accessory
• adultery
• advisory
• alimentary
• anniversary
• archery
• armory
• artery
• artillery
• auxiliary
• bakery
• barbary
• battery
• binary
• blustery
• boundary
• bowery
• brasserie
• bravery
• brewery
• bribery
• burglary
• butchery
• buttery
• calgary
• calorie
• calvary
• camaraderie
• cannery
• celery
• century
• chancery
• chicanery
• complimentary
• compulsory
• contradictory
• coppery
• coterie
• creamery
• crockery
• cursory
• cutlery
• debauchery
• delivery
• demagoguery
• diary
• directory
• discovery
• dispensary
• distillery
• documentary
• drapery
• drudgery
• effrontery
• embroidery
• emery
• every
• exemplary
• extrasensory
• factory
• feathery
• fiery
• finery
• fishery
• flattery
• flowery
• foolery
• forgery
• friary
• gallery
• gingery
• glittery
• glossary
• greenery
• gregory
• grocery
• gunnery
• haberdashery
• hatchery
• hickory
• hillary
• history
• hosiery
• hungary
• illusory
• infirmary
• injury
• introductory
• ivory
• jittery
• joinery
• leathery
• livery
• lottery
• luxury
• machinery
• mammary
• mastery
• memory
• menagerie
• mercury
• microbrewery
• midwifery
• misery
• mockery
• mystery
• neurosurgery
• notary
• nunnery
• nursery
• olfactory
• ornery
• orrery
• ovary
• papery
• parliamentary
• penitentiary
• peremptory
• perfunctory
• periphery
• perjury
• pillory
• plenary
• porphyry
• pottery
• powdery
• premonitory
• priory
• protohistory
• prudery
• puffery
• quackery
• quandary
• rectory
• refinery
• reverie
• robbery
• rosary
• rotary
• rotisserie
• rubbery
• rudimentary
• salary
• salisbury
• savory
• scenery
• sedimentary
• sensory
• shrubbery
• silvery
• slavery
• slippery
• snobbery
• sorcery
• splintery
• sugary
• summary
• supervisory
• supplementary
• surgery
• tertiary
• testamentary
• thackeray
• thievery
• thuggery
• trajectory
• treachery
• treasury
• trickery
• unsatisfactory
• unsavory
• upholstery
• usury
• vagary
• valedictory
• victory
• watery
• winery