| anarchy | (noun) a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government) | Synonyms: lawlessness |
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| autarchy | (noun) a political system governed by a single individual | Synonyms: autocracy |
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| (noun) economic independence as a national policy | Synonyms: autarky |
| diarchy | (noun) a form of government having two joint rulers | Synonyms: dyarchy |
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| dyarchy | (noun) a form of government having two joint rulers | Synonyms: diarchy |
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| eparchy | (noun) a diocese of the Eastern Orthodox Church | Synonyms: exarchate |
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| (noun) a province in ancient Greece | - |
| gynarchy | (noun) a political system governed by a woman | Synonyms: gynecocracy |
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| hierarchy | (noun) a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system | - |
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| (noun) the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body | Synonyms: pecking order, power structure |
| matriarchy | (noun) a form of social organization in which a female is the family head and title is traced through the female line | Synonyms: matriarchate |
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| monarchy | (noun) an autocracy governed by a monarch who usually inherits the authority | - |
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| oligarchy | (noun) a political system governed by a few people | - |
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| patriarchy | (noun) a form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line | Synonyms: patriarchate |
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| squirearchy | (noun) the gentry who own land (considered as a class) | Synonyms: landed gentry |
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| starchy | (adjective) consisting of or containing starch | - |
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| (adjective) rigidly formal | Synonyms: buckram, stiff |