114 words ending in ~ acy

Abbacy (n.) The dignity, estate, or jurisdiction of an abbot.

Accuracy (n.) The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from
carefulness; exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; precision; exactness; nicety;
correctness; as, the value of testimony depends on its accuracy.
Acritochromacy (n.) Color blindness; achromatopsy.
Adequacy (n.) The state or quality of being adequate, proportionate, or sufficient; a sufficiency
for a particular purpose; as, the adequacy of supply to the expenditure.
Advocacy (n.) The act of pleading for or supporting; work of advocating; intercession.
Alternacy (n.) Alternateness; alternation.
Archiepiscopacy (n.) That form of episcopacy in which the chief power is in the hands of
archbishops.
Archiepiscopacy (n.) The state or dignity of an archbishop.
Aristocracy (n.) A form a government, in which the supreme power is vested in the principal
persons of a state, or in a privileged order; an oligarchy.
Aristocracy (n.) A ruling body composed of the best citizens.
Aristocracy (n.) Government by the best citizens.
Aristocracy (n.) The nobles or chief persons in a state; a privileged class or patrician order; (in a
popular use) those who are regarded as superior to the rest of the community, as in rank,
fortune, or intellect.
Autocracy (n.) Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority;
supremacy.
Autocracy (n.) Political independence or absolute sovereignty (of a state); autonomy.
Autocracy (n.) Supreme, uncontrolled, unlimited authority, or right of governing in a single
person, as of an autocrat.
Autocracy (n.) The action of the vital principle, or of the instinctive powers, toward the
preservation of the individual; also, the vital principle.
Bureaucracy (n.) A system of carrying on the business of government by means of
departments or bureaus, each under the control of a chief, in contradiction to a system in
which the officers of government have an associated authority and responsibility; also,
government conducted on this system.
Bureaucracy (n.) Government officials, collectively.
Candidacy (n.) The position of a candidate; state of being a candidate; candidateship.
Celibacy (n.) The state of being unmarried; single life, esp. that of a bachelor, or of one bound
by vows not to marry.
Coefficacy (n.) Joint efficacy.
Complicacy (n.) A state of being complicate or intricate.
Concubinacy (n.) The practice of concubinage.
Confederacy (n.) A combination of two or more persons to commit an unlawful act, or to do a
lawful act by unlawful means. See Conspiracy.
Confederacy (n.) A league or compact between two or more persons, bodies of men, or states,
for mutual support or common action; alliance.
Confederacy (n.) The persons, bodies, states, or nations united by a league; a confederation.
Congeneracy (n.) Similarity of origin; affinity.
Conspiracy (n.) A combination of men for an evil purpose; an agreement, between two or
more persons, to commit a crime in concert, as treason; a plot.
Conspiracy (n.) A concurence or general tendency, as of circumstances, to one event, as if by
agreement.
Conspiracy (n.) An agreement, manifesting itself in words or deeds, by which two or more
persons confederate to do an unlawful act, or to use unlawful to do an act which is lawful;
confederacy.
Contumacy (n.) A willful contempt of, and disobedience to, any lawful summons, or to the
rules and orders of court, as a refusal to appear in court when legally summoned.
Contumacy (n.) Stubborn perverseness; pertinacious resistance to authority.
Curacy (n.) The office or employment of a curate.
Degeneracy (a.) The act of becoming degenerate; a growing worse.
Degeneracy (a.) The state of having become degenerate; dec
Delegacy (a.) A body of delegates or commissioners; a delegation.
Delegacy (a.) The act of delegating, or state of being delegated; deputed power.
Delicacy (a.) Addiction to pleasure; luxury; daintiness; indulgence; luxurious or voluptuous
treatment.
Delicacy (a.) Nice and refined perception and discrimination; critical niceness; fastidious
accuracy.
Delicacy (a.) Nice propriety of manners or conduct; susceptibility or tenderness of feeling;
refinement; fastidiousness; and hence, in an exaggerated sense, effeminacy; as, great delicacy
of behavior; delicacy in doing a kindness; delicacy of character that unfits for earnest action.
Delicacy (a.) Nicety or fineness of form, texture, or constitution; softness; elegance;
smoothness; tenderness; and hence, frailty or weakness; as, the delicacy of a fiber or a thread;
delicacy of a hand or of the human form; delicacy of the skin; delicacy of frame.
Delicacy (a.) Pleasure; gratification; delight.
Delicacy (a.) That which is alluring, delicate, or refined; a luxury or pleasure; something
pleasant to the senses, especially to the sense of taste; a dainty; as, delicacies of the table.
Delicacy (a.) The state of being affected by slight causes; sensitiveness; as, the delicacy of a
chemist's balance.
Delicacy (a.) The state or condition of being delicate; agreeableness to the senses;
delightfulness; as, delicacy of flavor, of odor, and the like.
Deliracy (n.) Delirium.
Democracy (n.) Collectively, the people, regarded as the source of government.
Democracy (n.) Government by popular representation; a form of government in which the
supreme power is retained by the people, but is indirectly exercised through a system of
representation and delegated authority periodically renewed; a constitutional representative
government; a republic.
Democracy (n.) Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme
power is retained and directly exercised by the people.
Democracy (n.) The principles and policy of the Democratic party, so called.
Demonocracy (n.) The power or government of demons.
Depopulacy (n.) Depopulation; destruction of population.
Determinacy (n.) Determinateness.
Diplomacy (n.) Dexterity or skill in securing advantages; tact.
Diplomacy (n.) The art and practice of conducting negotiations between nations (particularly
in securing treaties), including the methods and forms usually employed.
Diplomacy (n.) The body of ministers or envoys resident at a court; the diplomatic body.
Disconsolacy (n.) The state of being disconsolate.
Docimacy (n.) The art or practice of applying tests to ascertain the nature, quality, etc., of
objects, as of metals or ores, of medicines, or of facts pertaining to physiology.
Doulocracy (n.) A government by slaves.
Dulocracy (n.) See Doulocracy.
Effeminacy (n.) Characteristic quality of a woman, such as softness, luxuriousness, delicacy, or
weakness, which is unbecoming a man; womanish delicacy or softness; -- used reproachfully
of men.
Efficacy (n.) Power to produce effects; operation or energy of an agent or force; production of
the effect intended; as, the efficacy of medicine in counteracting disease; the efficacy of
prayer.
Episcopacy (n.) Government of the church by bishops; church government by three distinct
orders of ministers -- bishops, priests, and deacons -- of whom the bishops have an authority
superior and of a different kind.
Equivocacy (n.) Equivocalness.
Extacy (n.) See Ecstasy.
Fallacy (n.) An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter
at issue, while in reality it is not; a sophism.
Fallacy (n.) Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the
mind; deception.
Fermacy (n.) Medicine; pharmacy.
Fugacy (n.) Banishment.
Gerontocracy (n.) Government by old men.
Gunocracy (n.) See Gyneocracy.
Gynecocracy (n.) Government by a woman, female power; gyneocracy.
Gyneocracy (n.) See Gynecocracy.
Gynocracy (n.) Female government; gynecocracy.
Hagiocracy (n.) Government by a priesthood; hierarchy.
Hierocracy (n.) Government by ecclesiastics; a hierarchy.
Idiocracy (n.) Peculiarity of constitution; that temperament, or state of constitution, which is
peculiar to a person; idiosyncrasy.
Illegitimacy (n.) The state of being illegitimate.
Illiteracy (n.) An instance of ignorance; a literary blunder.
Illiteracy (n.) The state of being illiterate, or uneducated; want of learning, or knowledge;
ignorance; specifically, inability to read and write; as, the illiteracy shown by the last census.
Immediacy (n.) The relation of freedom from the interventionof a medium; immediateness.
Immoderacy (n.) Immoderateness.
Importunacy (n.) The quality of being importunate; importunateness.
Inaccuracy (n.) That which is inaccurate or incorrect; mistake; fault; defect; error; as, in
inaccuracy in speech, copying, calculation, etc.
Inaccuracy (n.) The quality of being inaccurate; want of accuracy or exactness.
Inadequacy (n.) The quality or state of being inadequate or insufficient; defectiveness;
insufficiency; inadequateness.
Inconsideracy (n.) Inconsiderateness; thoughtlessness.
Indelicacy (n.) The quality of being indelicate; want of delicacy, or of a nice sense of, or regard
for, purity, propriety, or refinement in manners, language, etc.; rudeness; coarseness; also,
that which is offensive to refined taste or purity of mind.
Inefficacy (n.) Want of power to produce the desired or proper effect; inefficiency;
ineffectualness; futility; uselessness; fruitlessness; as, the inefficacy of medicines or means.
Inmacy (n.) The state of being an inmate.
Inordinacy (n.) The state or quality of being inordinate; excessiveness; immoderateness; as,
the inordinacy of love or desire.
Intermediacy (n.) Interposition; intervention.
Intestacy (n.) The state of being intestate, or of dying without having made a valid will.
Intimacy (n.) The state of being intimate; close familiarity or association; nearness in
friendship.
Intricacy (n.) The state or quality of being intricate or entangled; perplexity; involution;
complication; complexity; that which is intricate or involved; as, the intricacy of a knot; the
intricacy of accounts; the intricacy of a cause in controversy; the intricacy of a plot.
Inveteracy (n.) Firm establishment by long continuance; firmness or deep-rooted obstinacy of
any quality or state acquired by time; as, the inveteracy of custom, habit, or disease; -- usually
in a bad sense; as, the inveteracy of prejudice or of error.
Inveteracy (n.) Malignity; spitefulness; virulency.
Inviolacy (n.) The state or quality of being inviolate; as, the inviolacy of an oath.
Irregeneracy (n.) Unregeneracy.
Itineracy (n.) The act or practice of itinerating; itinerancy.
Jesuitocracy (n.) Government by Jesuits; also, the whole body of Jesuits in a country.
Kakistocracy (n.) Government by the worst men.
Legacy (n.) A business with which one is intrusted by another; a commission; -- obsolete,
except in the phrases last legacy, dying legacy, and the like.
Legacy (n.) A gift of property by will, esp. of money or personal property; a bequest. Also Fig.;
as, a legacy of dishonor or disease.
Legitimacy (a.) The state, or quality, of being legitimate, or in conformity with law; hence, the
condition of having been lawfully begotten, or born in wedlock.
Literacy (n.) State of being literate.
Lunacy (n.) A morbid suspension of good sense or judgment, as through fanaticism.
Lunacy (n.) Insanity or madness; properly, the kind of insanity which is broken by intervals of
reason, -- formerly supposed to be influenced by the changes of the moon; any form of
unsoundness of mind, except idiocy; mental derangement or alienation.
Magistracy (n.) The collective body of magistrates.
Magistracy (n.) The office or dignity of a magistrate.
Mediacy (n.) The state or quality of being mediate.
Ministracy (n.) Ministration.
Mobocracy (n.) A condition in which the lower classes of a nation control public affairs without
respect to law, precedents, or vested rights.
Monocracy (n.) Government by a single person; undivided rule.
Neocracy (n.) Government by new or inexperienced hands; upstart rule; raw or untried
officials.
Nomocracy (n.) Government in accordance with a system of law.
Obduracy (n.) The duality or state of being obdurate; invincible hardness of heart; obstinacy.
Obstinacy (n.) A fixedness in will, opinion, or resolution that can not be shaken at all, or only
with great difficulty; firm and usually unreasonable adherence to an opinion, purpose, or
system; unyielding disposition; stubborness; pertinacity; persistency; contumacy.
Obstinacy (n.) The quality or state of being difficult to remedy, relieve, or subdue; as, the
obstinacy of a disease or evil.
Ochlocracy (n.) A form of government by the multitude; a mobocracy.
Optimacy (n.) Collectively, the nobility.
Optimacy (n.) Government by the nobility.
Pantisocracy (n.) A Utopian community, in which all should rule equally, such as was devised
by Coleridge, Lovell, and Southey, in their younger days.
Papacy (n.) The office and dignity of the pope, or pontiff, of Rome; papal jurisdiction.
Papacy (n.) The popes, collectively; the succession of popes.
Papacy (n.) The Roman Catholic religion; -- commonly used by the opponents of the Roman
Catholics in disparagement or in an opprobrious sense.
Pedantocracy (n.) The sway of pedants.
Perspicacy (n.) Perspicacity.
Pertinacy (n.) Pertinacity.
Pertinacy (n.) The quality or state of being pertinent; pertinence.
Pervicacy (n.) Pervicacity.
Pharmacy (n.) A place where medicines are compounded; a drug store; an apothecary's shop.
Pharmacy (n.) The art or practice of preparing and preserving drugs, and of compounding and
dispensing medicines according to prescriptions of physicians; the occupation of an
apothecary or a pharmaceutical chemist.
Piracy (n.)
Piracy (n.) Robbery on the high seas; the taking of property from others on the open sea by
open violence; without lawful authority, and with intent to steal; -- a crime answering to
robbery on land.
Piracy (n.) The act or crime of a pirate.
Plantocracy (n.) Government by planters; planters, collectively.
Plutocracy (n.) A form of government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of
the wealthy classes; government by the rich; also, a controlling or influential class of rich men.
Polycracy (n.) Government by many rulers; polyarchy.
Polypharmacy (n.) A prescription made up of many medicines or ingredients.
Polypharmacy (n.) The act or practice of prescribing too many medicines.
Populacy (n.) Populace.
Potentacy (n.) Sovereignty.
Prejudicacy (n.) Prejudice; prepossession.
Prelacy (n.) The office or dignity of a prelate; church government by prelates.
Prelacy (n.) The order of prelates, taken collectively; the body of ecclesiastical dignitaries.
Primacy (a.) The office, rank, or character of a primate; the chief ecclesiastical station or
dignity in a national church; the office or dignity of an archbishop; as, the primacy of England.
Primacy (a.) The state or condition of being prime or first, as in time, place, rank, etc., hence,
excellency; supremacy.
Privacy (n.) A place of seclusion from company or observation; retreat; solitude; retirement.
Privacy (n.) A private matter; a secret.
Privacy (n.) Concealment of what is said or done.
Privacy (n.) See Privity, 2.
Privacy (n.) The state of being in retirement from the company or observation of others;
seclusion.
Probacy (n.) Proof; trial.
Procuracy (n.) Authority to act for another; a proxy.
Procuracy (n.) The office or act of a proctor or procurator; management for another.
Profligacy (a.) The quality of state of being profligate; a profligate or very vicious course of life;
a state of being abandoned in moral principle and in vice; dissoluteness.
Prolificacy (n.) Prolificness.
Racy (superl.) Having a strong flavor indicating origin; of distinct characteristic taste; tasting of
the soil; hence, fresh; rich.
Racy (superl.) Hence: Exciting to the mental taste by a strong or distinctive character of
thought or language; peculiar and piquant; fresh and lively.
Regeneracy (n.) The state of being regenerated.
Reprobacy (n.) Reprobation.
Supremacy (n.) The state of being supreme, or in the highest station of power; highest or
supreme authority or power; as, the supremacy of a king or a parliament.
Theocracy (n.) Government of a state by the immediate direction or administration of God;
hence, the exercise of political authority by priests as representing the Deity.
Theocracy (n.) The state thus governed, as the Hebrew commonwealth before it became a
kingdom.
Timocracy (n.) A state in which honors are distributed according to a rating of property.
Timocracy (n.) A state in which the love of honor is the ruling motive.