Words Ending in CY

3-letter words ending in CY

• icy8adj. Pertaining to, resembling, or abounding in ice; cold; frosty.

4-letter words ending in CY

• incy9adj. Very small; incy wincy.
• lacy9adj. Made of lace or decorated with it.
• lucy9n. The northern pike (a kind of fish).
• racy9adj. Mildly risqué.

5-letter words ending in CY

• baccy14n. Tobacco.
• dancy11adj. Ready to dance.
• darcy11n. A (non SI) unit of permeability used in measuring the permeability of...
• fancy13n. The imagination.
• farcy13n. The horse disease glanders, especially its cutaneous form.
• juicy17adj. Having lots of juice.
• mercy12n. Relenting; forbearance to cause or allow harm to another.
• mincy12adj. Mincing; affectedly dainty.
• oracy10n. The ability to speak, and to understand spoken language.
• percy12n. A unit of Percocet.
• saucy10adj. Similar to sauce; having the consistency or texture of sauce.
• spacy12adj. Spaced-out.
• spicy12adj. Of, pertaining to, or containing spice.

6-letter words ending in CY

• abbacy15n. The dignity, estate, term, or jurisdiction of an abbot or abbess.
• agency12n. The capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power.
• bouncy13adj. Easily bounced.
• chancy16adj. Uncertain; risky; hazardous.
• choccy18n. Chocolate.
• clancy13n. An overflow or spillage.
• curacy13n. The office or position of a curate.
• fleecy14adj. Resembling or covered in fleece.
• idiocy12n. Lack of intelligence or sense; extremely foolish behaviour.
• legacy12n. Money or property bequeathed to someone in a will.
• lunacy11n. A cyclical mental disease, apparently linked to the lunar phases.
• ocracy13n. Any of various forms of government or rule as designated by words...
• papacy15n. The office of a pope.
• piracy13n. Robbery at sea, a violation of international law; taking a ship away...
• policy13n. A principle of behaviour, conduct which an entity (government...
• pouncy13adj. Punchy, aggressive.
• speccy15n. Synonym of spectacular mark.

7-letter words ending in CY

• animacy14n. The state of being animate (alive or supernaturally seeming alive).
• ardency13n. Intensity of feelings.
• cogency15n. The state of being cogent; the characteristic or quality of being...
• decency15n. The quality of being decent; propriety.
• fallacy15n. Deceptive or false appearance; that which misleads the eye or the mind.
• flouncy15adj. Moving with a flounce (“a bouncy, exaggerated manner; an act of...
• fluency15n. The quality of smoothness of flow.
• infancy15n. The earliest period of childhood (crawling rather than walking).
• latency12n. Concealment; the state of being latent; the state of being hidden.
• patency14n. The condition or state of being patent.
• pliancy14n. The quality of being pliant.
• potency14n. Power, authority.
• prelacy14n. The office of a prelate.
• primacy16n. The state or condition of being prime or first, as in time, place...
• privacy17n. The state of being secluded from the presence, sight, or knowledge of...
• recency14n. The property of being recent; newness.
• regency13n. A system of government that substitutes for the reign of a king or...
• secrecy14n. Concealment; the condition of being secret or hidden.
• tenancy12n. Synonym of lease (an interest in land, its related contract or the...
• truancy12n. The act of shirking from responsibilities and duties, especially from...
• urgency13n. The quality or condition of being urgent.
• vacancy17n. An unoccupied position or job.
• valency15n. The capacity of something to combine with other things, as for example...

8-letter words ending in CY

• accuracy17n. The state of being accurate; being free from error; exactness...
• adequacy23n. The quality of being sufficient, adequate or able to meet the needs.
• advocacy19n. The profession of an advocate.
• buoyancy18n. The upward force on a body immersed or partly immersed in a fluid.
• celibacy17n. Abstaining from marriage; the state of being unmarried.
• clemency17n. The gentle or kind exercise of power; leniency, mercy; compassion in...
• currency15n. Money or other items used to facilitate transactions.
• delegacy15n. The position or state of being a delegate.
• delicacy16n. The quality of being delicate.
• deviancy17n. The state of being deviant, abnormal or anomalous.
• dormancy16n. The state or characteristic of being dormant; quiet, inactive...
• efficacy21n. The ability to produce a desired effect under ideal testing conditions.
• elegancy14n. A mock title.
• exigency21n. The demands or requirements of a situation which often demand immediate...
• fervency19n. The state of being fervent.
• geomancy16n. A method of divination using earth or the ground, such as interpreting...
• gramercy16interj. Used as an expression of gratitude: thanks; many thanks.
• intimacy15n. Feeling or atmosphere of closeness and openness towards someone else...
• leniency13n. The quality of mercy or forgiveness, especially in the assignment of...
• literacy13n. The ability to read and write.
• normalcy15n. The state of being geometrically normal, at a right angle.
• numeracy15n. Competence with mathematics and with how to apply it to practical...
• obduracy16n. The state of being obdurate, intractable, or stubbornly inflexible.
• pendency16n. The state of being pendent; suspension.
• pharmacy20n. A place where prescription drugs are sold or dispensed.
• piquancy24n. The degree to which something is piquant, stimulating or exciting.
• prophecy20n. A prediction, especially one made by a prophet or under divine...
• pungency16n. The state of being pungent.
• saliency13n. The quality of being salient; salience.
• solvency16n. The state of having enough funds or liquid assets to pay all of one's...
• tangency14n. The state of being tangent; an instance of (something) being tangent.
• tendency14n. A likelihood of behaving in a particular way or going in a particular...
• theodicy17n. A justification of a deity or of particular attributes of a deity...
• vagrancy17n. The state of being a vagrant.
• vibrancy18n. The quality of being vibrant.

9-letter words ending in CY

• adjacency24n. The quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch.
• autocracy16n. A form of government in which unlimited power is held by a single...
• baronetcy16n. The rank of a baronet.
• candidacy18n. The state of being a candidate; candidateship.
• captaincy18n. The rank or status of a captain.
• coherency19n. The state of being coherent; a coherent relationship.
• colonelcy16n. The rank or office of a colonel.
• conjugacy24n. The condition or state of being conjugate.
• constancy16n. The quality of being constant; steadiness or faithfulness in action...
• contumacy18n. Disobedience, resistance to authority.
• democracy19n. Rule by the people, especially as a form of government, such as.
• diplomacy19n. The art and practice of conducting international relations by...
• emergency17n. A situation which poses an immediate risk and which requires urgent...
• flippancy21n. A disrespectful levity or pertness especially in respect to grave or...
• frequency26n. The rate of occurrence of anything; the relationship between incidence...
• hesitancy17n. A pausing or halting before beginning a task, often as a result of some...
• holacracy19n. A decentralised system of organizational governance with autonomous and...
• idiocracy17n. A government run by idiots.
• immediacy19n. The quality of being immediate, of happening right away.
• impotency18n. Impotence.
• indecency17n. Lack of decency; the property or degree of being indecent.
• inerrancy14n. Freedom from error.
• innocency16n. Harmlessness.
• intestacy14n. The state of being intestate, or of dying without having made a valid...
• intricacy16n. The state or quality of being intricate or entangled.
• militancy16n. The quality of being militant.
• mobocracy20n. Rule or control by the mob (or by the mass of ordinary people); a mob...
• obstinacy16n. The state, or an act, of stubbornness or doggedness.
• occupancy20n. The act of occupying, the state of being occupied or the state of being...
• poignancy17n. The quality of being poignant.
• pregnancy17n. The condition of being pregnant; an instance of this.
• recusancy16n. Obstinate refusal or opposition.
• relevancy17n. Sufficiency (of a statement, claim etc.) to carry weight in law; legal...
• residency15n. The condition of being a resident of a particular place.
• stagnancy15n. The property of being stagnant.
• stridency15n. The quality of being strident.
• supremacy18n. The quality of being supreme.
• surrogacy15n. The practice of being a surrogate mother.
• theocracy19n. Government under the control of a state religion.

10-letter words ending in CY

• absorbency19n. The quality of being absorbent.
• antipiracy17adj. Acting to combat or prevent piracy.
• articulacy17n. The condition of being articulate.
• ascendancy18n. The quality of being in the ascendant; dominant control, supremacy.
• bankruptcy23n. A legally declared or recognized condition of insolvency of a person or...
• biliteracy17n. The capability of reading and writing in two languages or writing...
• brilliancy17n. A shining quality; brilliance.
• cartomancy19n. Fortune-telling using cards, as in tarot and Lenormand.
• chaplaincy22n. The role or position of a chaplain.
• competency21n. The ability to perform some task; competence.
• compliancy21n. The condition of being compliant; compliance, complaisance.
• congruency18n. The quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate.
• conspiracy19n. An agreement or arrangement between multiple parties to do something...
• deficiency21n. Inadequacy or incompleteness.
• degeneracy17n. The state of being degenerate (in all senses).
• dependency19n. A state of dependence; a refusal to exercise initiative.
• disfluency19n. Lack of fluency in speech; any of various breaks, irregularities, and...
• effeminacy23n. The quality of being effeminate.
• efficiency23n. The extent to which a resource is used for the intended purpose.
• episcopacy21n. The office of bishop and the governance of a church (a religious...
• excellency24n. Synonym of excellence; the quality of being excellent.
• expectancy26n. Expectation or anticipation; the state of expecting something.
• expediency25n. The quality of being fit or suitable to effect some desired end or the...
• illiteracy15n. The inability to read and write.
• inaccuracy19n. The property of being inaccurate; lack of accuracy.
• inadequacy25n. The state of being inadequate.
• incumbency21n. The state of being incumbent.
• indelicacy18n. The condition of being indelicate.
• inefficacy23n. The condition of being ineffective.
• innumeracy17n. Lack of numeracy; low numeracy.
• insolvency18n. The condition of being insolvent; the state or condition of a person...
• insurgency16n. Rebellion; revolt; the state of being insurgent.
• legitimacy18n. The quality or state of being legitimate or valid; validity.
• magistracy18n. The dignity or office of a magistrate.
• malignancy18n. The state of being malignant or diseased.
• mediocracy20n. A social hierarchy in which the mediocre prevails.
• necromancy19n. Divination involving the dead or death.
• newsagency19n. A newsagent's shop.
• permanency19n. The state or quality of permanence.
• plutocracy19n. Government by the wealthy.
• presidency18n. The office or role of president.
• profligacy21n. Careless wastefulness.
• redundancy17n. The state of being redundant.
• repellency17n. The ability to repel; the characteristic of repelling.
• resiliency15n. Synonym of resilience.
• stringency16n. A rigorous imposition of standards.
• sycophancy25n. The fawning behavior of a sycophant; servile flattery; fawningness.
• viscountcy20n. The rank or jurisdiction of a viscount.

11-letter words ending in CY

• accountancy20n. The function of compiling and providing financial information primarily...
• aristocracy18n. The nobility, or the hereditary ruling class.
• astringency17n. The quality of being astringent.
• bureaucracy20n. Government by bureaus or their administrators or officers.
• chieftaincy24n. The position or period of rule of a chief.
• complacency24n. A feeling of contented self-satisfaction, especially when unaware of...
• concurrency20n. The property or an instance of being concurrent; something that happens...
• confederacy22n. An alliance.
• conservancy21n. The conservation of a resource.
• consistency18n. Local coherence.
• consultancy18n. A consultant or consulting firm.
• contingency19n. The quality of being contingent, of happening by chance.
• conveniency21n. Convenience.
• delinquency26n. Misconduct.
• despondency20n. The loss of hope or confidence; despair or dejection.
• determinacy19n. The ability to be completely determined in a definite way; the quality...
• discrepancy21n. An inconsistency between facts or sentiments.
• equivalency28n. An equivalent thing.
• incoherency21n. The quality of being incoherent; lack of coherence.
• inconstancy18n. Lack of constancy; lack of consistency in thought, emotion or action.
• infrequency28n. The characteristic of being infrequent.
• interagency17adj. Between or among agencies.
• irrelevancy19n. The quality of being irrelevant or inapplicable; lack of pertinence or...
• kleptocracy24n. A corrupt and dishonest government or society characterised by theft...
• lieutenancy16n. The role, position, or domain of a lieutenant.
• meritocracy20n. Rule by merit and talent.
• multiagency19adj. Involving multiple agencies.
• paramountcy20n. The condition or fact of being paramount; precedence, supremacy...
• persistency18n. The state or characteristic of being persistent.
• proficiency23n. Ability, skill, competence.
• prolificacy23n. Great fecundity.
• sufficiency24n. The quality or condition of being sufficient.
• technocracy23n. A system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient...

12-letter words ending in CY

• codependency23n. The state of being codependent; codependence.
• constituency19n. A district represented by one or more elected officials.
• gerontocracy20n. Government by elders; government by elderly rulers.
• illegitimacy20n. The state of being illegitimate.
• incompetency23n. The condition of being incompetent.
• independency21n. An independent territory or state.
• inefficiency25n. Lack of efficiency or effectiveness.
• intermediacy20n. The condition of being intermediate.
• kakistocracy27n. Government under the control of a nation's worst or least-qualified...
• nonemergency20adj. Not an emergency.
• pluripotency21n. The state of being pluripotent.
• polypharmacy29n. The use of multiple drugs to treat multiple concurrent disorders in the...
• prepregnancy22adj. Before the onset of pregnancy.
• translucency19n. The quality of being translucent.
• transparency19n. The quality of being transparent.

13-letter words ending in CY

• inconsistency20n. The state of being inconsistent.
• indeterminacy21n. The condition of being indeterminate.
• insufficiency26n. The lack of sufficiency: a shortage, the state of having or being not...
• intermittency20n. The state of being intermittent; periodicity.

14-letter words ending in CY

• corporatocracy25n. Rule by corporations.
• cryptocurrency28n. A digital currency based on a cryptographic system, usually having no...
• multifrequency33adj. Of or pertaining to multiple frequencies.

15-letter words ending in CY

• interdependency24n. A mutual dependence, connection or correlation.
• superintendency23n. The condition of being a superintendent.

Questions about these words

How many words ending in CY are there?

Word.ws lists 237 words ending in CY, plus 1,181 rare ones.

What are common words ending in CY?

policy, agency, emergency, democracy, efficiency, currency, legacy and frequency.

Which of the words ending in CY has the highest letter score?

multifrequency scores 33 points with the standard letter tile values.

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