| abbacy | (noun) the jurisdiction or office of an abbot | - |
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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 | - |
| 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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| 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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| aristocracy | (noun) a privileged class holding hereditary titles | Synonyms: nobility |
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| (noun) the most powerful members of a society | Synonyms: gentry |
| 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 |
| biopiracy | (noun) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use | - |
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| 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 | - |
| candidacy | (noun) the campaign of a candidate to be elected | Synonyms: campaigning, candidature, electioneering, political campaign |
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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 | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - |
| curacy | (noun) the position of a curate | - |
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| degeneracy | (noun) moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles | Synonyms: corruption, depravation, depravity, putrefaction |
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| (noun) the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities | Synonyms: decadence, decadency, degeneration |
| delegacy | (noun) the appointment of a delegate | - |
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| (noun) a group of representatives or delegates | Synonyms: commission, delegation, deputation, mission |
| (noun) the state of serving as an official and authorized delegate or agent | Synonyms: agency, representation |
| delicacy | (noun) the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance | Synonyms: daintiness, fineness |
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| (noun) subtly skillful handling of a situation | Synonyms: diplomacy, discreetness, finesse |
| (noun) lack of physical strength | Synonyms: fragility |
| (noun) slenderness | Synonyms: slightness |
| (noun) lightness in movement or manner | Synonyms: airiness |
| (noun) refined taste; tact | Synonyms: discretion |
| (noun) something considered choice to eat | Synonyms: dainty, goody, kickshaw, treat |
| democracy | (noun) the political orientation of those who favor government by the people or by their elected representatives | - |
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| (noun) the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group | Synonyms: majority rule |
| (noun) a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them | Synonyms: commonwealth, republic |
| dichromacy | (noun) a deficiency of color vision in which the person can match any given hue by mixing only two other wavelengths of light (as opposed to the three wavelengths needed by people with normal color vision) | Synonyms: dichromasy, dichromatism, dichromatopsia, dichromia |
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| diplomacy | (noun) subtly skillful handling of a situation | Synonyms: delicacy, discreetness, finesse |
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| (noun) wisdom in the management of public affairs | Synonyms: statecraft, statesmanship |
| (noun) negotiation between nations | Synonyms: diplomatic negotiations |
| effeminacy | (noun) the trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man) | Synonyms: effeminateness, sissiness, softness, unmanliness, womanishness |
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| efficacy | (noun) capacity or power to produce a desired effect | Synonyms: efficaciousness |
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| episcopacy | (noun) the collective body of bishops | Synonyms: episcopate |
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| fallacy | (noun) a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning | Synonyms: false belief |
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| gerontocracy | (noun) a political system governed by old men | - |
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| gynecocracy | (noun) a political system governed by a woman | Synonyms: gynarchy |
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| hierocracy | (noun) a ruling body composed of clergy | - |
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| illegitimacy | (noun) unlawfulness by virtue of not being authorized by or in accordance with law | - |
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| (noun) the status of being born to parents who were not married | Synonyms: bar sinister, bastardy |
| illiteracy | (noun) an inability to read | Synonyms: analphabetism |
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| (noun) ignorance resulting from not reading | - |
| immaculacy | (noun) The characteristic of having no stain or blemish; of being spotless, undefiled, clear, pure. | - |
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| immediacy | (noun) the quickness of action or occurrence | Synonyms: immediateness, instancy, instantaneousness |
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| (noun) lack of an intervening or mediating agency | Synonyms: immediateness |
| (noun) immediate intuitive awareness | Synonyms: immediate apprehension |
| inaccuracy | (noun) the quality of being inaccurate and having errors | - |
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| inadequacy | (noun) unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being inadequate | Synonyms: inadequateness |
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| (noun) lack of an adequate quantity or number | Synonyms: deficiency, insufficiency |
| (noun) a lack of competence | Synonyms: insufficiency |
| inanimacy | (noun) (linguistics) The characteristic of a noun, in some languages, that is dependent on its unliving or non-sentient nature; this characteristic affects grammatical features (it can modify verbs used with the noun, affect the noun's declension etc). | - |
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| indelicacy | (noun) an impolite act or expression | - |
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| (noun) the trait of being indelicate and offensive | - |
| indeterminacy | (noun) the quality of being vague and poorly defined | Synonyms: indefiniteness, indefinity, indeterminateness, indetermination |
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| inefficacy | (noun) a lack of efficacy | Synonyms: inefficaciousness |
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| intestacy | (noun) the situation of being or dying without a legally valid will | - |
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| intimacy | (noun) close or warm friendship | Synonyms: closeness, familiarity |
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| (noun) a feeling of being intimate and belonging together | Synonyms: closeness |
| (noun) a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship | Synonyms: affair, affaire, amour, involvement, liaison |
| intricacy | (noun) marked by elaborately complex detail | Synonyms: elaborateness, elaboration, involution |
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| legacy | (noun) (law) a gift of personal property by will | Synonyms: bequest |
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| legitimacy | (noun) lawfulness by virtue of being authorized or in accordance with law | - |
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| (noun) undisputed credibility | Synonyms: authenticity, genuineness |
| literacy | (noun) the ability to read and write | - |
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| lunacy | (noun) foolish or senseless behavior | Synonyms: craziness, folly, foolery, indulgence, tomfoolery |
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| (noun) obsolete terms for legal insanity | Synonyms: insaneness, madness |
| magistracy | (noun) the position of magistrate | Synonyms: magistrature |
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| mediacy | (noun) the quality of being mediate | Synonyms: mediateness |
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| meritocracy | (noun) the belief that rulers should be chosen for their superior abilities and not because of their wealth or birth | - |
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| (noun) a form of social system in which power goes to those with superior intellects | - |
| mobocracy | (noun) a political system in which a mob is the source of control; government by the masses | Synonyms: ochlocracy |
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| monochromacy | (noun) complete color blindness; colors can be differentiated only on the basis of brightness | Synonyms: monochromasy, monochromatic vision, monochromatism, monochromia |
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| monocracy | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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| numeracy | (noun) skill with numbers and mathematics | - |
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| obduracy | (noun) resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible | Synonyms: adamance, unyieldingness |
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| obstinacy | (noun) the trait of being difficult to handle or overcome | Synonyms: mulishness, obstinance, stubbornness |
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| (noun) resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires | Synonyms: bullheadedness, obstinance, pigheadedness, self-will, stubbornness |
| ochlocracy | (noun) a political system in which a mob is the source of control; government by the masses | Synonyms: mobocracy |
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| papacy | (noun) the government of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: pontificate |
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| pharmacy | (noun) a retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold | Synonyms: apothecary's shop, chemist's, chemist's shop, drugstore |
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| (noun) the art and science of preparing and dispensing drugs and medicines | Synonyms: pharmaceutics |
| piracy | (noun) hijacking on the high seas or in similar contexts; taking a ship or plane away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it | Synonyms: buccaneering |
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| (noun) the act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own | Synonyms: plagiarisation, plagiarism, plagiarization |
| plutocracy | (noun) a political system governed by the wealthy people | - |
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| prelacy | (noun) the office or station of a prelate | Synonyms: prelature |
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| (noun) prelates collectively | Synonyms: prelature |
| primacy | (noun) the state of being first in importance | - |
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| privacy | (noun) the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others | Synonyms: privateness, seclusion |
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| (noun) the condition of being concealed or hidden | Synonyms: concealment, privateness, secrecy |
| profligacy | (noun) dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure | Synonyms: dissipation, dissolution, licentiousness, looseness |
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| (noun) the trait of spending extravagantly | Synonyms: extravagance, prodigality |
| prolificacy | (noun) the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth | Synonyms: fertility, rankness, richness |
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| stratocracy | (noun) government by the military and an army | Synonyms: military government |
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| supremacy | (noun) power to dominate or defeat | Synonyms: domination, mastery |
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| technocracy | (noun) a form of government in which scientists and technical experts are in control | - |
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| theocracy | (noun) the belief in government by divine guidance | - |
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| (noun) a political unit governed by a deity (or by officials thought to be divinely guided) | - |
| trichromacy | (noun) the normal ability to see colors | Synonyms: chromatic vision, color vision |
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| ultimacy | (noun) the state or degree of being ultimate; the final or most extreme in degree or size or time or distance | Synonyms: ultimateness |
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