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-ANCY

Definition: -ANCY

-ANCY

1. A suffix expressing more strongly than -ance the idea of quality or state; as, constancy, buoyancy, infancy.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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Crosswords: -ANCY

English words defined with "-ANCY": -ance, -ency. (references)

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Rhyming with "-ANCY"

Words rhyming with "-ANCY" (pronounced '-an*cy'): Abbacy, Abeyancy, Abhorrency, Absorbency, Abstinency, Acceptancy, Accordancy, Accountancy, Accumbency, Accuracy, Acquiescency, Acritochromacy, Adequacy, Adherency, Adjutancy, Adolescency, Advocacy, Aeromancy, Affluency, Agency, Aldermancy, Alectoromancy, Alectryomancy, Aleuromancy, Alliciency, Alomancy, Al-phitomancy, Alternacy, Antecedency, Anthracomancy, Anthropomancy, Apparency, Appellancy, Appetency, Applicancy, Archiepiscopacy, Ardency, ARISTOCRACY, Arithmancy, Arithmomancy, Arrogancy, Aruspicy, Ascendency, Assurgency, Astragalomancy, Astringency, Athermancy, Attendancy, Austromancy, Autocracy, Axinomancy, Bankruptcy, Baronetcy, Belomancy, Benignancy, Bibliomancy, Bivalency, Blatancy, Botanomancy, Brevetcy, Brillancy, Buoyancy, Bureaucracy, Cadency, Candidacy, Capnomancy, Captaincy, Cartomancy, Catoptromancy, Cecutiency, Celibacy, Centripetency, Ceromancy, Chaomancy, Chaplaincy, Chartomancy, Chiromancy, Circumambiency, Clemency, Cleromancy, Cliency, Coadjuvancy, Coagency, Coefficacy, Coefficiency, Cogency, Coincibency, Colluctancy, Colonelcy, Commorancy, Compliancy, Complicacy, Concludency, Concordancy, Concubinacy, Concurrency, Congeneracy, Congruency, Connivency, Conservancy, Conspiracy, Constancy, Constituency, Contingency, Contumacy, Conversancy, Cornetcy, Correspondency, Coscinomancy, Couchancy, Crystallomancy, Curacy, Currency, Dactyliomancy, Dactylomancy, Dancy, Daphnomancy, Decency, Decipiency, Deficiency, Degeneracy, Delegacy, Delicacy, Delinquency, Deliracy, Delirancy, Delitescency, Demency, Democracy, Demonocracy, Dependency, Depopulacy, Despiciency, Despondency, Detergency, Determinacy, Diffidency, Diligency, Diplomacy, Disappendency, Disconsolacy, Discumbency, Disfancy, Disobediency, Displacency, Dissonancy, Distancy, Docimacy, Dormancy, Doulocracy, Dubitancy, Durancy, Effeminacy, Efficacy, Efflorescency, Effluency, Electro-thermancy, Emergency, Eminency, -ency, Enoptomancy, Ensigncy, Episcopacy, Equipendency, Equitancy, Equivalency, Equivocacy, Errancy, Esnecy, Excellency, Excrescency, Exigency, Existency, Exsiliency, Extacy, Extancy, Extravagancy, Extuberancy, Exuberancy, Fallacy, Fallency, Farcy, Feculency, Fermacy, fervency, Flagrancy, fleecy, flippancy, fluency, frequency, Fritinancy, Fugacy, Fulgency, Gastromancy, Geomancy, Gerontocracy, Gramercy, Gunocracy, Gynecocracy, Gyneocracy, Gynocracy, Gyromancy, Habiitancy, Hagiocracy, Haruspicy, hesitancy, Heterocercy, Hierocracy, Hieromancy, Homocercy, hydromancy, Ichthyomancy, icy, Idiocracy, idiocy, Idiotcy, illegitimacy, illiteracy, Imitancy, immediacy, Immoderacy, Immoderancy, Impatiency, Impeccancy, impenitency, Impertinency, Impolicy, Importancy, Importunacy, Impudency, inaccuracy, inadequacy, Incalescency, incessancy, Incidency, inclemency, Inconsideracy, inconsistency, inconstancy, Inconveniency, incumbency, indecency, Indeficiency, indelicacy, independency, Indifferency, Indigency, Indistancy, Indolency, Indulgency, inefficacy, inefficiency, inerrancy, INFANCY, Inmacy, Innitency, Innocency, Inordinacy, Insignificancy, Insitency, Insolency, insolvency, instancy, insufficiency, Intelligency, Intemperancy, Intendancy, Interagency, interdependency, Interluency, Intermediacy, Interregency, Intestacy, INTIMACY, Intolerancy, intricacy, Inveteracy, Inviolacy, Irregeneracy, Irrelavancy, Itineracy, Itinerancy, Jactancy, Jesuitocracy, Joyancy, juicy, Kakistocracy, Lasciviency, latency, Latitancy, Lecanomancy, legacy, legitimacy, Leucophlegmacy, Liegiancy, lieutenancy, Liquescency, literacy, lithomancy, Lucency, lunacy, Luxuriancy, Macilency, magistracy, Maledicency, -mancy, Manutenency, mediacy, mendicancy, mercy, Meteoromancy, Metopomancy, militancy, Ministracy, Mispolicy, Mobocracy, monocracy, Mordicancy, Mugiency, Myomancy, Nascency, Necromancy, Neocracy, Nomancy, Nomocracy, Nonproficiency, Nonsolvency, normalcy, Obduracy, Obeisancy, Observancy, Obstancy, Obstetricy, Obstinacy, Occupancy, Ochlocracy, Omnipresency, Omnisciency, Omphalomancy, Oneiromancy, onomancy, Onomomancy, Onychomancy, Ophiomancy, Opponency, Oppugnancy, Optimacy, Opulency, Oriency, Ornithomancy, Orphancy, Oscillancy, Oscitancy, pancy, Pantisocracy, Papacy, Parturiency, Patency, Peccancy, Pedantocracy, Pedomancy, Pegomancy, Pendency, Penitency, Pernancy, Perspicacy, Pervicacy, Pharmacy, Piquancy, piracy, Plangency, Plantocracy, Pliancy, Plutocracy, Poignancy, Polycracy, Polypharmacy, Populacy, Potency, Potentacy, Predisponency, Predominancy, Preexistency, Prefulgency, Pregnancy, Prejudicacy, Prelacy, Preoccupancy, Prepotency, Presidency, Prevalency, Prevenancy, Primacy, Privacy, Probacy, Procuracy, Profligacy, Prolificacy, Propendency, Prophecy. (additional references)

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Anagrams: -ANCY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cyan.

Words within the letters "a-c-n-y"

-1 letter: any, can, cay, nay.

-2 letters: an, ay, na, ya.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-n-y"
 

+1 letter: candy, canny, canty, carny, cyano, cyans, fancy, nancy.

 

+2 letters: agency, cairny, canary, canopy, canyon, carney, cayman, chancy, chanty, cranky, cranny, crayon, cyanic, cyanid, cyanin, glycan, lunacy, nancys, scanty.

 

+3 letters: acronym, acyloin, aglycon, anarchy, anchovy, anticly, ardency, balcony, branchy, cadency, calumny, cannery, cannily, canonry, canyons, carneys, carnify, carryon, cayenne, caymans, chantey, chantry, claying, claypan, cleanly, company, crankly, crayons, cyanate, cyanide, cyanids, cyanine, cyanins, cyanite, cycasin, cynical, cyprian, dynamic, errancy, fancify, fancily, glycans, gynecia, hackney, halcyon, hyaenic, infancy, joyance, larceny, latency, lyncean, nectary, panicky, patency, paunchy, pliancy, raunchy, scantly, scrawny, snatchy, syconia, syncarp, tachyon, tenancy, truancy, uncanny, unchary, uncrazy, unfancy, vacancy, valency, yacking.

 

+4 letters: abeyance, abeyancy, achingly, acrimony, acronyms, acyloins, adamancy, adynamic, aglycone, aglycons, analytic, ancestry, anodynic, anticity, antipyic, anyplace, baryonic, billycan, blatancy, buoyance, buoyancy, caddying, calycine, candidly, candying, caninity, cannonry, carbonyl, carnally, carrying, carryons, cartoony, caryotin, catenary, cayenned, cayennes, centaury, chancery, chancily, chanteys, chronaxy, cinerary, cinnamyl, claybank, claypans, clinally, clonally, coagency, condylar, contrary, coronary, corybant, crankily, cravenly, crayoned, culinary, cyanamid, cyanates, cyanided, cyanides, cyanines, cyanites, cyanitic, cyanogen, cyanosed, cyanoses, cyanosis, cyanotic, cycasins, cyclamen, cyclonal, cyprians, deaconry, decaying, decenary, deviancy, dormancy, dynamics, dynastic, elegancy, enactory, endarchy, falconry, fancying, feminacy, geomancy, gynaecea, gynaecia, gynarchy, gynoecia, hackneys, halcyons, hyacinth, instancy, intimacy, jerrycan, joyances, knackery, lacunary, lambency, minacity, monarchy, mordancy, mycelian, nascency, naumachy, nomarchy, normalcy, numeracy, octonary, peccancy, picayune, piquancy, pycnidia, radiancy, rampancy, rancidly, regnancy, saliency, sanctify, sanctity, sapiency, scammony, scantily, secantly, spinachy, stanchly, sycamine, synaptic, syncarps, syncarpy, syncopal, syncytia, syndical, syngamic, tachyons, tangency, tenacity, tympanic, tyrannic, uncatchy, unchancy, uncially, uranylic, vacantly, vagrancy, valiancy, verdancy, vibrancy, vicenary, yachting, yachtman, yachtmen.

 

+5 letters: aberrancy, abeyances, accompany, acetylene, acronymic, acylating, acylation, adjacency, adjunctly, adjutancy, affluency, aglycones, analytics, anciently, ancientry, ancillary, ankylotic, annoyance, anthocyan, antically, antimycin, antipyics, antonymic, appetency, archenemy, asyndetic, baronetcy, billycans, bracingly, buoyances, cabinetry, cacophony, cageyness, candidacy, candygram, candytuft, canopying, captaincy, carbonyls, carnality, carpentry, carpingly, caryotins, casefying, centenary, centrally, certainly, certainty, chammying, chandlery, chatoyant, chicanery, cinnamyls, clamantly, claybanks, clergyman, cognately, concavity, condyloma, conically, connately, constancy, contrasty, contumacy, copayment, corybants, countably, covalency, cranberry, cranially, crayoning, crayonist, cyanamide, cyanamids, cyaniding, cyanogens, cyclamens, cyclopean, cymophane, cynically, decadency, diachrony, dilatancy, dynamical, dynamitic, enzymatic, exultancy, fancywork, finically, flagrancy, flippancy, fragrancy, genically, gunnysack, gymnastic, gynaeceum, gynaecium, gyrfalcon, hackneyed, hesitancy, hyacinths, hypomanic, immanency, incapably, incurably, inerrancy, inexactly, insectary, intestacy, intricacy, inviolacy, jerrycans, kanamycin, lackeying, machinery, manically, mendacity, mercenary, militancy, monocracy, necessary, nystagmic, obstinacy, occupancy, ontically, pachytene, pacifying, panegyric, parcenary, peccantly, pecuniary, pentarchy, petulancy, physician, picaninny, picayunes, plangency, poignancy, pregnancy, pugnacity, pycnidial, pyromancy, rackingly, rancidity, raunchily, recusancy, relevancy, sanctuary, secondary, sergeancy, sonically, stagnancy, staunchly, subagency, sycamines, sycophant, synclinal, syncopate, syncytial, syndicate, synodical, syntactic, thylacine, tonically, uncannily, unclarity, uncleanly, uncynical, undynamic, unlyrical, untypical, yachtings, yachtsman, yachtsmen.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: -ANCY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

2D 41 4E 43 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

00101101 01000001 01001110 01000011 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#45 &#65 &#78 &#67 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

002D 0041 004E 0043 0059

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

1535483759

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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