| 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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| 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 | - |
| 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 | - |
| 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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| 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 |
| 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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| biopiracy | (noun) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use | - |
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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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| 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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| 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 |
| 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 | - |
| decadency | (noun) the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities | Synonyms: decadence, degeneracy, degeneration |
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| decency | (noun) the quality of conforming to standards of propriety and morality | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being polite and respectable | - |
| deficiency | (noun) lack of an adequate quantity or number | Synonyms: inadequacy, insufficiency |
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| (noun) the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable | Synonyms: lack, want |
| 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 |
| delinquency | (noun) an antisocial misdeed in violation of the law by a minor | Synonyms: juvenile delinquency |
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| (noun) a tendency to be negligent and uncaring | Synonyms: dereliction, willful neglect |
| (noun) nonpayment of a debt when due | - |
| 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 |
| dependency | (noun) a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country | Synonyms: colony |
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| (noun) the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else | Synonyms: dependance, dependence |
| (noun) being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) | Synonyms: addiction, dependance, dependence, habituation |
| despondency | (noun) feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless | Synonyms: despondence, disconsolateness, heartsickness |
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| detergency | (noun) detergent quality; the quality of having cleansing power | Synonyms: detergence |
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| 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 |
| discrepancy | (noun) a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions | Synonyms: disagreement, divergence, variance |
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| (noun) an event that departs from expectations | Synonyms: variance, variant |
| disfluency | (noun) lack of skillfulness in speaking or writing | - |
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| divergency | (noun) the act of moving away in different direction from a common point | Synonyms: divergence |
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| (noun) an infinite series that has no limit | Synonyms: divergence |
| dormancy | (noun) quiet and inactive restfulness | Synonyms: quiescence, quiescency, sleeping |
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| (noun) a state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction | Synonyms: quiescence, quiescency |
| 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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| efficiency | (noun) skillfulness in avoiding wasted time and effort | - |
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| (noun) the ratio of the output to the input of any system | - |
| emergency | (noun) a brake operated by hand; usually operates by mechanical linkage | Synonyms: emergency brake, hand brake, parking brake |
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| (noun) a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action | Synonyms: exigency, pinch |
| (noun) a state in which martial law applies | - |
| episcopacy | (noun) the collective body of bishops | Synonyms: episcopate |
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| errancy | (noun) fallibility as indicated by erring or a tendency to err | - |
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| (noun) (Christianity) holding views that disagree with accepted doctrine; especially disagreement with papal infallibility | - |
| excellency | (noun) an outstanding feature; something in which something or someone excels | Synonyms: excellence |
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| exigency | (noun) a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action | Synonyms: emergency, pinch |
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| (noun) a pressing or urgent situation | - |
| (noun) that which is required in a particular situation —usually used in plural. | - |
| expectancy | (noun) something expected (as on the basis of a norm) | Synonyms: anticipation |
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| (noun) an expectation | Synonyms: anticipation |
| expediency | (noun) the quality of being suited to the end in view | Synonyms: expedience |
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| extravagancy | (noun) the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth | Synonyms: extravagance |
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| fallacy | (noun) a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning | Synonyms: false belief |
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| fancy | (noun) imagination or fantasy; held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination | - |
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| (noun) something many people believe that is false | Synonyms: fantasy, illusion, phantasy |
| (noun) a predisposition to like something | Synonyms: fondness, partiality |
| fervency | (noun) feelings of great warmth and intensity | Synonyms: ardor, ardour, fervidness, fervor, fervour, fire |
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| flatulency | (noun) a state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal | Synonyms: flatulence, gas |
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| flippancy | (noun) inappropriate levity | Synonyms: light-mindedness |
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| fluency | (noun) the quality of being facile in speech and writing | Synonyms: articulateness, volubility |
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| (noun) skillfulness in speaking or writing | - |
| (noun) powerful and effective language | Synonyms: eloquence, smoothness |
| fragrancy | (noun) a pleasingly sweet olfactory property | Synonyms: bouquet, fragrance, redolence, sweetness |
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