| 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 | - |
| adhocracy | (noun) an organization with little or no structure | - |
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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 | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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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| illiteracy | (noun) an inability to read | Synonyms: analphabetism |
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| (noun) ignorance resulting from not reading | - |
| inaccuracy | (noun) the quality of being inaccurate and having errors | - |
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| literacy | (noun) the ability to read and write | - |
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| magistracy | (noun) the position of magistrate | Synonyms: magistrature |
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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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| 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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| ochlocracy | (noun) a political system in which a mob is the source of control; government by the masses | Synonyms: mobocracy |
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| 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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| racy | (adjective) designed or suitable for competing in a race | - |
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| (adjective) suggestive of sexual impropriety | Synonyms: blue, gamey, gamy, juicy, naughty, risque, spicy |
| (adjective) full of zest or vigor | Synonyms: lively |
| (adjective) marked by richness and fullness of flavor | Synonyms: full-bodied, rich, robust |
| stratocracy | (noun) government by the military and an army | Synonyms: military government |
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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) | - |