10-letter words that end in cy
- intendancy — the office or function of an intendant.
- intendency — intendancy (def 3).
- inveteracy — the quality or state of being inveterate or deeply ingrained: the inveteracy of people's prejudices.
- irradiancy — Alternative form of irradiance.
- itinerancy — the act of traveling from place to place.
- legitimacy — the state or quality of being legitimate.
- lithomancy — Divination with the use of precious or semi-precious stones, gemstones, or normal stones by either interpreting the light they reflect (crystallomancy), or how they fall (sortilege).
- luxuriancy — Obsolete form of luxuriance.
- magistracy — the office or function of a magistrate.
- malignancy — the quality or condition of being malignant.
- mediocracy — government or rule by a mediocre person or group.
- mendicancy — the practice of begging, as for alms.
- millocracy — rule or government by mill owners
- miscreancy — the state or condition of a miscreant; villainy.
- necromancy — a method of divination through alleged communication with the dead; black art.
- negligency — Negligence.
- newsagency — a business organization that gathers news for transmittal to its subscribers. Compare press association.
- nigromancy — black magic; demonic magic
- nilpotency — The quality of being nilpotent.
- nonfluency — a lack of fluency
- obstinancy — (rare) Obstinance; the characteristic of being obstinate.
- ochlocracy — government by the mob; mob rule; mobocracy.
- oppugnancy — opposing; antagonistic; contrary.
- osteomancy — A kind of divination by means of bones.
- penetrancy — the quality of being penetrant
- permanency — permanence.
- plutocracy — the rule or power of wealth or of the wealthy.
- pornocracy — government or domination of government by whores
- postulancy — the period or state of being a postulant, especially in a religious order.
- precedency — precedence.
- prepotency — the ability of one parent to impress its hereditary characters on its progeny because it possesses more homozygous, dominant, or epistatic genes.
- presidency — the office, function, or term of office of a president.
- prevenancy — courtesy
- profligacy — shameless dissoluteness.
- prominency — Also, prominency. the state of being prominent; conspicuousness.
- quiescency — Quiescence: the state of being quiescent, or at rest.
- rabdomancy — Alt form rhabdomancy.
- recipiency — the act of receiving; reception.
- recumbency — lying down; reclining; leaning.
- redundancy — the state of being redundant.
- regeneracy — a regenerate state.
- reluctancy — unwillingness; disinclination: reluctance to speak in public.
- repellency — to drive or force back (an assailant, invader, etc.).
- repugnancy — the state of being repugnant.
- resiliency — the power or ability to return to the original form, position, etc., after being bent, compressed, or stretched; elasticity.
- retardancy — any substance capable of reducing the speed of a given reaction.
- revolvency — the act or state of revolving
- slavocracy — the rule or domination of slaveholders: the slavocracy of the old plantations.
- snobocracy — a social class of snobs
- sociocracy — a theoretical system of government in which the interests of all members of society are served equally.