-cracy
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| -cracy |
| -dom |
| -ic |
| -ism |
| -ist |
| -mania |
| -ography |
| -oid |
| -ology |
| -omics |
| -onomy |
| -onym |
| -philia |
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| -scope |
| -stan |
| -ville |
| -ware |
The English suffix -cracy means a form of government or a state having such government. It is derived from the ancient Greek kratein, meaning "to rule". Words with this suffix include:
- adhocracy
- aristocracy
- autocracy
- bureaucracy
- corporatocracy
- democracy
- gerontocracy
- kakistocracy
- kleptocracy
- krytocracy
- meritocracy
- mobocracy
- ochlocracy
- oligocracy
- plutocracy
- pornocracy
- stratocracy
- technocracy
- thalassocracy
- theocracy
- timocracy
- xerocracy
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