| abbacy | (noun) the jurisdiction or office of an abbot | - |
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| aberrancy | (noun) a state or condition markedly different from the norm | Synonyms: aberrance, aberration, deviance |
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| abnormalcy | (noun) an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies | Synonyms: abnormality |
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| absorbency | (noun) the property of being absorbent | - |
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| acanthocyte | (noun) an abnormal red blood cell that has thorny projections of protoplasm | - |
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| acanthocytosis | (noun) the presence of acanthocytes in the blood stream (as in abetalipoproteinemia) | - |
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| accountancy | (noun) the occupation of maintaining and auditing records and preparing financial reports for a business | Synonyms: accounting |
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| accuracy | (noun) the quality of being near to the true value | Synonyms: truth |
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| (noun) (mathematics) the number of significant figures given in a number | - |
| acrocyanosis | (noun) cyanosis of the extremities; can occur when a spasm of the blood vessels is caused by exposure to cold or by strong emotion | Synonyms: Raynaud's sign |
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| acyclovir | (noun) an oral antiviral drug (trade name Zovirax) used to treat genital herpes; does not cure the disease but relieves the symptoms | Synonyms: Zovirax |
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| acyl | (noun) any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group | Synonyms: acyl group |
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| acylation | (noun) the process of introducing an acyl group into a compound | - |
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| acylglycerol | (noun) an ester of glycerol and fatty acids that occurs naturally as fats and fatty oils | Synonyms: glyceride |
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| adequacy | (noun) the quality of being able to meet a need satisfactorily: | Synonyms: adequateness |
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| (noun) the quality of being sufficient for the end in view | Synonyms: sufficiency |
| adhocracy | (noun) an organization with little or no structure | - |
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| adjacency | (noun) the attribute of being so near as to be touching | Synonyms: contiguity, contiguousness |
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| advertency | (noun) the process of being heedful | Synonyms: advertence |
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| advocacy | (noun) active support of an idea or cause etc.; especially the act of pleading or arguing for something | Synonyms: protagonism |
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| agency | (noun) to have the ability to produce a particular effect or achieve an end | Synonyms: means, way |
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| (noun) an administrative unit of government | Synonyms: authority, bureau, federal agency, government agency, office |
| (noun) a business or organization that provides a particular service, especially the mediation of transactions between two parties | - |
| (noun) the state of serving as an official and authorized delegate or agent | Synonyms: delegacy, representation |
| (noun) the state of being in action or exerting power | - |
| agranulocytosis | (noun) an acute blood disorder (often caused by radiation or drug therapy) characterized by severe reduction in granulocytes | Synonyms: agranulosis, granulocytopenia |
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| akaryocyte | (noun) a cell without a nucleus (as an erythrocyte) | Synonyms: acaryote, akaryote |
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| ambivalency | (noun) mixed feelings or emotions | Synonyms: ambivalence |
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| antecedency | (noun) preceding in time | Synonyms: antecedence, anteriority, precedence, precedency, priority |
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| anticyclone | (noun) (meteorology) winds spiraling outward from a high pressure center; circling clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the southern | - |
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| apparency | (noun) the property of being apparent | Synonyms: apparentness |
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| appetency | (noun) a feeling of craving something | Synonyms: appetence, appetite |
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| aristocracy | (noun) a privileged class holding hereditary titles | Synonyms: nobility |
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| (noun) the most powerful members of a society | Synonyms: gentry |
| arithmancy | (noun) divination by means of numbers | - |
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| ascendancy | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendence, ascendency, control, dominance |
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| ascendency | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, control, dominance |
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| astringency | (noun) the ability to contract or draw together soft body tissues to check blood flow or restrict secretion of fluids | Synonyms: stypsis |
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| (noun) a sharp astringent taste; the taste experience when a substance causes the mouth to pucker | Synonyms: astringence |
| astrocyte | (noun) comparatively large neuroglial cell | - |
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| autocracy | (noun) a political theory favoring unlimited authority by a single individual | - |
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| (noun) a political system governed by a single individual | Synonyms: autarchy |
| baccy | (noun) leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion | Synonyms: tobacco |
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| bankruptcy | (noun) a legal process intended to insure equality among the creditors of a corporation declared to be insolvent | - |
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| (noun) inability to discharge all your debts as they come due | Synonyms: failure |
| (noun) a state of complete lack of some abstract property | - |
| baronetcy | (noun) the title of a baron | - |
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| (noun) the rank or dignity or position of a baronet or baroness | Synonyms: barony |
| belligerency | (noun) fighting; acts of overt warfare | Synonyms: hostilities |
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| (noun) hostile or warlike attitude or nature | Synonyms: belligerence |
| benignancy | (noun) the quality of being kind and gentle | Synonyms: benignity, graciousness |
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| bicycle | (noun) a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals | Synonyms: bike, cycle, wheel |
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| bicycler | (noun) a person who rides a bicycle | Synonyms: bicyclist, biker, cyclist, wheeler |
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| bicycling | (noun) riding a bicycle | - |
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| bicyclist | (noun) a person who rides a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycler, biker, cyclist, wheeler |
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| biopiracy | (noun) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use | - |
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| blastocyst | (noun) the blastula of a placental mammal in which some differentiation of cells has occurred | Synonyms: blastodermic vessicle |
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| blastocyte | (noun) an undifferentiated embryonic cell | - |
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| blastocytoma | (noun) a tumor composed of immature undifferentiated cells | Synonyms: blastoma, embryonal carcinosarcoma |
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| blatancy | (noun) the property of being both obvious and offensive | - |
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| brilliancy | (noun) a quality that outshines the usual | Synonyms: luster, lustre, splendor, splendour |
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| buoyancy | (noun) the property of something weightless and insubstantial | Synonyms: airiness |
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| (noun) irrepressible liveliness and good spirit | Synonyms: irrepressibility |
| (noun) the tendency to float in water or other liquid | - |
| (noun) cheerfulness that bubbles to the surface | Synonyms: perkiness |
| bureaucracy | (noun) nonelective government officials | Synonyms: bureaucratism |
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| (noun) a government that is administered primarily by bureaus that are staffed with nonelective officials | - |
| (noun) any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape | - |
| cadency | (noun) a recurrent rhythmical series | Synonyms: cadence |
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| candidacy | (noun) the campaign of a candidate to be elected | Synonyms: campaigning, candidature, electioneering, political campaign |
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| captaincy | (noun) the post of captain | Synonyms: captainship |
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| celibacy | (noun) abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows) | Synonyms: chastity, sexual abstention |
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| (noun) an unmarried status | - |
| chaplaincy | (noun) the position of chaplain | Synonyms: chaplainship |
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| chieftaincy | (noun) the position of chieftain | Synonyms: chieftainship |
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| chiromancy | (noun) telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand | Synonyms: chirology, palm reading, palmistry |
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| chlortetracycline | (noun) a yellow crystalline antibiotic (trade name Aureomycin) used to treat certain bacterial and rickettsial diseases | Synonyms: Aureomycin |
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| choanocyte | (noun) any of the flagellated cells in sponges having a collar of cytoplasm around the flagellum; they maintain a flow of water through the body | Synonyms: collar cell |
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| cholecystectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the gall bladder (usually for relief of gallstone pain) | - |
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| cholecystitis | (noun) inflammation of the gall bladder | - |
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| cholecystokinin | (noun) a gastrointestinal hormone that stimulates the secretion of pancreatic enzymes and the contraction and emptying of the gall bladder; its release is stimulated by the presence of fatty acids and amino acids in the small intestine | - |
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| clemency | (noun) leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice | Synonyms: mercifulness, mercy |
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| (noun) good weather with comfortable temperatures | Synonyms: mildness |
| coalescency | (noun) the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts | Synonyms: coalescence, coalition, concretion, conglutination |
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| coccyx | (noun) the end of the vertebral column in humans and tailless apes | Synonyms: tail bone |
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| cogency | (noun) the quality of being valid and rigorous | Synonyms: rigor, rigour, validity |
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| (noun) persuasive relevance | - |
| coherency | (noun) logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: coherence |
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| (noun) the state of cohering or sticking together | Synonyms: coherence, cohesion, cohesiveness |
| colpocystitis | (noun) inflammation of the vagina and bladder | - |
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| colpocystocele | (noun) hernia in which the urinary bladder protrudes through the wall of the vagina; sometimes occurs after childbirth | Synonyms: cystocele |
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| competency | (noun) the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually | Synonyms: competence |
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| complacency | (noun) the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself | Synonyms: complacence, self-complacency, self-satisfaction |
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| compliancy | (noun) a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others | Synonyms: complaisance, compliance, deference, obligingness |
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| concurrency | (noun) acting together, as agents or circumstances or events | Synonyms: concurrence |
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| (noun) agreement of results or opinions | Synonyms: concurrence |
| confederacy | (noun) a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act | Synonyms: conspiracy |
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| (noun) a union of political organizations | Synonyms: confederation, federation |
| (noun) a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose | Synonyms: conspiracy |
| conservancy | (noun) the official conservation of trees and soil and rivers etc. | - |
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| (noun) a commission with jurisdiction over fisheries and navigation in a port or river | - |
| consistency | (noun) the property of holding together and retaining its shape | Synonyms: body, consistence, substance |
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| (noun) (logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that none of the propositions deducible from the axioms contradict one another | - |
| (noun) a harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts | Synonyms: consistence |
| (noun) logical coherence and accordance with the facts | - |
| conspiracy | (noun) a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot) | Synonyms: cabal |
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| (noun) a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act | Synonyms: confederacy |
| (noun) a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose | Synonyms: confederacy |
| constancy | (noun) the quality of being enduring and free from change or variation | Synonyms: stability |
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| (noun) faithfulness and dependability in personal attachments (especially sexual fidelity) | - |
| (noun) (psychology) the tendency for perceived objects to give rise to very similar perceptual experiences in spite of wide variations in the conditions of observation | Synonyms: perceptual constancy |
| constituency | (noun) the body of voters who elect a representative for their area | - |
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| consultancy | (noun) the practice of giving expert advice within a particular field | - |
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| continency | (noun) the exercise of self constraint in sexual matters | Synonyms: continence |
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| contingency | (noun) a possible event or occurrence or result | Synonyms: contingence, eventuality |
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| (noun) the state of being contingent on something | - |
| contumacy | (noun) willful refusal to appear before a court or comply with a court order; can result in a finding of contempt of court | - |
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| (noun) obstinate rebelliousness and insubordination; resistance to authority | - |
| convergency | (noun) the act of converging (coming closer) | Synonyms: convergence, converging |
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| (noun) the approach of an infinite series to a finite limit | Synonyms: convergence |
| conversancy | (noun) personal knowledge or information about someone or something | Synonyms: acquaintance, conversance, familiarity |
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| corpulency | (noun) more than average fatness | Synonyms: fleshiness, obesity |
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| counterinsurgency | (noun) actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency | Synonyms: pacification |
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| covalency | (noun) valence characterized by the sharing of electrons in a chemical compound; the number of pairs of electrons an atom can share | Synonyms: covalence |
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| cryptocurrency | (noun) a currency based on the usage of cryptography to secure transactions | - |
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| curacy | (noun) the position of a curate | - |
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| currency | (noun) the property of belonging to the present time | Synonyms: currentness, up-to-dateness |
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| (noun) general acceptance or use | - |
| (noun) the metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used | - |
| cyan | (noun) a primary subtractive color for light; has a blue-green color | - |
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| cyanamid | (noun) a weak soluble dibasic acid (the parent acid of cyanamide salts) | Synonyms: cyanamide |
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| cyanamide | (noun) a weak soluble dibasic acid (the parent acid of cyanamide salts) | Synonyms: cyanamid |
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| (noun) a compound used as a fertilizer and as a source of nitrogen compounds | Synonyms: calcium-cyanamide |
| cyanide | (noun) an extremely poisonous salt of hydrocyanic acid | - |
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| (noun) any of a class of organic compounds containing the cyano radical -CN | Synonyms: nitril, nitrile |
| cyanite | (noun) a grey or greenish-blue mineral consisting of aluminum silicate in crystalline form; occurs in metaphoric rock, used as a refractory | Synonyms: kyanite |
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| cyanobacteria | (noun) predominantly photosynthetic prokaryotic organisms containing a blue pigment in addition to chlorophyll; occur singly or in colonies in diverse habitats; important as phytoplankton | Synonyms: blue-green algae |
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| cyanocobalamin | (noun) a B vitamin that is used to treat pernicious anemia | Synonyms: antipernicious anemia factor, cobalamin, vitamin B12 |
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| cyanogen | (noun) a colorless toxic gas with a pungent almond odor; has been used in chemical warfare | - |
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| cyanohydrin | (noun) any organic compound in which the cyano radical -CN and the hydroxyl radical -OH are attached to the same carbon atom | - |
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