Words that rhyme with accountancy

• banshee 1
  n 1: (Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of impending death [syn: banshee, banshie]
• ab 0
  n 1: a bachelor's degree in arts and sciences [syn: Bachelor of Arts, BA, Artium Baccalaurens, AB] 2: the eleventh month of the civil year; the fifth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in July and August) [syn: Ab, Av] 3: the muscles of the abdomen [syn: abdominal, abdominal muscle, ab] 4: the blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens [syn: AB, type AB, group AB]
• absorbency 0
  n 1: the property of being absorbent [ant: nonabsorbency]
• adoptee 0
  n 1: someone (such as a child) who has been adopted
• advertency 0
  n 1: the process of being heedful [syn: advertence, advertency]
• agree 0
  v 1: be in accord; be in agreement; "We agreed on the terms of the settlement"; "I can't agree with you!"; "I hold with those who say life is sacred"; "Both philosophers concord on this point" [syn: agree, hold, concur, concord] [ant: differ, disagree, dissent, take issue] 2: consent or assent to a condition, or agree to do something; "She agreed to all my conditions"; "He agreed to leave her alone" 3: be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics; "The two stories don't agree in many details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the check"; "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun" [syn: match, fit, correspond, check, jibe, gibe, tally, agree] [ant: disaccord, disagree, discord] 4: go together; "The colors don't harmonize"; "Their ideas concorded" [syn: harmonize, harmonise, consort, accord, concord, fit in, agree] 5: show grammatical agreement; "Subjects and verbs must always agree in English" 6: be agreeable or suitable; "White wine doesn't agree with me" 7: achieve harmony of opinion, feeling, or purpose; "No two of my colleagues would agree on whom to elect chairman"
• appetency 0
  n 1: a feeling of craving something; "an appetite for life"; "the object of life is to satisfy as many appetencies as possible"- Granville Hicks [syn: appetite, appetency, appetence]
• appointee 0
  n 1: an official who is appointed 2: a person who is appointed to a job or position [syn: appointee, appointment]
• ascendancy 0
  n 1: the state that exists when one person or group has power over another; "her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her" [syn: dominance, ascendance, ascendence, ascendancy, ascendency, control]
• be 0
  n 1: a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element [syn: beryllium, Be, glucinium, atomic number 4] v 1: have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" 2: be identical to; be someone or something; "The president of the company is John Smith"; "This is my house" 3: occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere; "Where is my umbrella?" "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind this behavior?" 4: have an existence, be extant; "Is there a God?" [syn: exist, be] 5: happen, occur, take place; "I lost my wallet; this was during the visit to my parents' house"; "There were two hundred people at his funeral"; "There was a lot of noise in the kitchen" 6: be identical or equivalent to; "One dollar equals 1,000 rubles these days!" [syn: equal, be] [ant: differ] 7: form or compose; "This money is my only income"; "The stone wall was the backdrop for the performance"; "These constitute my entire belonging"; "The children made up the chorus"; "This sum represents my entire income for a year"; "These few men comprise his entire army" [syn: constitute, represent, make up, comprise, be] 8: work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function; "He is a herpetologist"; "She is our resident philosopher" [syn: be, follow] 9: represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet" [syn: embody, be, personify] 10: spend or use time; "I may be an hour" 11: have life, be alive; "Our great leader is no more"; "My grandfather lived until the end of war" [syn: be, live] 12: to remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted -- used only in infinitive form; "let her be" 13: be priced at; "These shoes cost $100" [syn: cost, be]
• bee 0
  n 1: any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species 2: a social gathering to carry out some communal task or to hold competitions
• blatancy 0
  n 1: the property of being both obvious and offensive; "the blatancy of his attempt to whitewash the crime was unforgivable"
• brie 0
  n 1: soft creamy white cheese; milder than Camembert
• captaincy 0
  n 1: the post of captain [syn: captainship, captaincy]
• cc 0
  adj 1: being ten more than one hundred ninety [syn: two hundred, 200, cc] n 1: a metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter [syn: milliliter, millilitre, mil, ml, cubic centimeter, cubic centimetre, cc]
• chieftaincy 0
  n 1: the position of chieftain [syn: chieftaincy, chieftainship]
• cod 0
  adv 1: collecting the charges upon delivery; "mail a package C.O.D." [syn: C.O.D., COD, cash on delivery] adj 1: payable by the recipient on delivery; "a collect call"; "the letter came collect"; "a COD parcel" [syn: collect, cod] n 1: the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves) [syn: pod, cod, seedcase] 2: lean white flesh of important North Atlantic food fish; usually baked or poached [syn: cod, codfish] 3: major food fish of Arctic and cold-temperate waters [syn: cod, codfish] v 1: fool or hoax; "The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone"; "You can't fool me!" [syn: gull, dupe, slang, befool, cod, fool, put on, take in, put one over, put one across] 2: harass with persistent criticism or carping; "The children teased the new teacher"; "Don't ride me so hard over my failure"; "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie" [syn: tease, razz, rag, cod, tantalize, tantalise, bait, taunt, twit, rally, ride]
• competency 0
  n 1: the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually [syn: competence, competency] [ant: incompetence, incompetency]
• conferee 0
  n 1: a person on whom something is bestowed; "six honorary were conferred; the conferees were..." 2: a member of a conference
• consistency 0
  n 1: the property of holding together and retaining its shape; "wool has more body than rayon"; "when the dough has enough consistency it is ready to bake" [syn: consistency, consistence, eubstance, body] 2: a harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts [syn: consistency, consistence] [ant: inconsistency] 3: logical coherence and accordance with the facts; "a rambling argument that lacked any consistency" 4: (logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that none of the propositions deducible from the axioms contradict one another
• constancy 0
  n 1: the quality of being enduring and free from change or variation; "early mariners relied on the constancy of the trade winds" [syn: constancy, stability] [ant: changefulness, inconstancy] 2: (psychology) the tendency for perceived objects to give rise to very similar perceptual experiences in spite of wide variations in the conditions of observation [syn: constancy, perceptual constancy] 3: faithfulness and dependability in personal attachments (especially sexual fidelity)
• consultancy 0
  n 1: the practice of giving expert advice within a particular field; "a business management consultancy"
• curie 0
  n 1: a unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of 37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second [syn: curie, Ci] 2: French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906) [syn: Curie, Pierre Curie] 3: French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one (with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and polonium (1867-1934) [syn: Curie, Marie Curie, Madame Curie, Marya Sklodowska]
• debris 0
  n 1: the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up [syn: debris, dust, junk, rubble, detritus]
• decree 0
  n 1: a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge); "a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there" [syn: decree, edict, fiat, order, rescript] v 1: issue a decree; "The King only can decree" 2: decide with authority; "The King decreed that all firstborn males should be killed" [syn: rule, decree]
• degree 0
  n 1: a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality; "a moderate grade of intelligence"; "a high level of care is required"; "it is all a matter of degree" [syn: degree, grade, level] 2: a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process; "a remarkable degree of frankness"; "at what stage are the social sciences?" [syn: degree, level, stage, point] 3: an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study; "he earned his degree at Princeton summa cum laude" [syn: academic degree, degree] 4: a measure for arcs and angles; "there are 360 degrees in a circle" [syn: degree, arcdegree] 5: the highest power of a term or variable 6: a unit of temperature on a specified scale; "the game was played in spite of the 40-degree temperature" 7: the seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime); "murder in the second degree"; "a second degree burn"
• dependency 0
  n 1: the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else [syn: dependence, dependance, dependency] 2: being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) [syn: addiction, dependence, dependance, dependency, habituation] 3: a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country [syn: colony, dependency]
• despondency 0
  n 1: feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless [syn: despondency, despondence, heartsickness, disconsolateness]
• discrepancy 0
  n 1: a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions; "a growing divergence of opinion" [syn: discrepancy, disagreement, divergence, variance] 2: an event that departs from expectations [syn: discrepancy, variance, variant]
• emcee 0
  n 1: a person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers) [syn: master of ceremonies, emcee, host] v 1: act as a master of ceremonies [syn: emcee, compere]
• expectancy 0
  n 1: an expectation [syn: anticipation, expectancy] 2: something expected (as on the basis of a norm); "each of them had their own anticipations"; "an indicator of expectancy in development" [syn: anticipation, expectancy]
• extravagancy 0
  n 1: the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth; "we were surprised by the extravagance of his description" [syn: extravagance, extravagancy]
• foresee 0
  v 1: realize beforehand [syn: anticipate, previse, foreknow, foresee] 2: picture to oneself; imagine possible; "I cannot envision him as President" [syn: envision, foresee] 3: act in advance of; deal with ahead of time [syn: anticipate, foresee, forestall, counter]
• gutsy 0
  adj 1: marked by courage and determination in the face of difficulties or danger; robust and uninhibited; "you have to admire her; it was a gutsy thing to do"; "the gutsy...intensity of her musical involvement"-Judith Crist; "a gutsy red wine" [syn: gutsy, plucky] [ant: gutless]
• hesitancy 0
  n 1: a feeling of diffidence and indecision about doing something [syn: hesitance, hesitancy] 2: a certain degree of unwillingness; "a reluctance to commit himself"; "his hesitancy revealed his basic indisposition"; "after some hesitation he agreed" [syn: reluctance, hesitancy, hesitation, disinclination, indisposition]
• impotency 0
  n 1: the quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble [syn: powerlessness, impotence, impotency] [ant: power, powerfulness] 2: an inability (usually of the male animal) to copulate [syn: impotence, impotency] [ant: potence, potency]
• inadvertency 0
  n 1: the trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities [syn: unmindfulness, heedlessness, inadvertence, inadvertency] [ant: heedfulness, mindfulness]
• inconsistency 0
  n 1: the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time [syn: incompatibility, mutual exclusiveness, inconsistency, repugnance] 2: the quality of being inconsistent and lacking a harmonious uniformity among things or parts [ant: consistence, consistency]
• inconstancy 0
  n 1: unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous [syn: faithlessness, falseness, fickleness, inconstancy] 2: the quality of being changeable and variable [syn: inconstancy, changefulness] [ant: constancy, stability]
• incumbency 0
  n 1: the term during which some position is held [syn: tenure, term of office, incumbency] 2: a duty that is incumbent upon you 3: the office of an incumbent
• independency 0
  n 1: freedom from control or influence of another or others [syn: independence, independency]
• inhabitancy 0
  n 1: the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men); "he studied the creation and inhabitation and demise of the colony" [syn: inhabitancy, inhabitation, habitation]
• insistency 0
  n 1: the state of demanding notice or attention; "the insistence of their hunger"; "the press of business matters" [syn: imperativeness, insistence, insistency, press, pressure] 2: the act of insisting on something; "insistence on grammatical correctness is a conservative position" [syn: insistence, insistency]
• interdependency 0
  n 1: a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups) [syn: mutuality, interdependence, interdependency]
• intermittency 0
  n 1: the quality of being intermittent; subject to interruption or periodic stopping [syn: intermittence, intermittency]
• lambency 0
  n 1: an appearance of reflected light [syn: gleam, gleaming, glow, lambency]
• latency 0
  n 1: (computer science) the time it takes for a specific block of data on a data track to rotate around to the read/write head [syn: rotational latency, latency] 2: the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it [syn: reaction time, response time, latency, latent period] 3: the state of being not yet evident or active
• lessee 0
  n 1: a tenant who holds a lease [syn: leaseholder, lessee]
• licensee 0
  n 1: someone to whom a license is granted
• mendicancy 0
  n 1: the state of being a beggar or mendicant; "they were reduced to mendicancy" [syn: beggary, mendicancy, mendicity] 2: a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) [syn: beggary, begging, mendicancy]
• militancy 0
  n 1: a militant aggressiveness [syn: combativeness, militance, militancy]
• occupancy 0
  n 1: an act of being a tenant or occupant [syn: occupancy, tenancy] 2: the act of occupying or taking possession of a building; "occupation of a building without a certificate of occupancy is illegal" [syn: occupation, occupancy, moving in]
• persistency 0
  n 1: persistent determination [syn: doggedness, perseverance, persistence, persistency, tenacity, tenaciousness, pertinacity]
• piquancy 0
  n 1: a tart spicy quality [syn: nip, piquance, piquancy, piquantness, tang, tanginess, zest] 2: the quality of being agreeably stimulating or mentally exciting [syn: piquancy, piquance, piquantness]
• potency 0
  n 1: the power or right to give orders or make decisions; "he has the authority to issue warrants"; "deputies are given authorization to make arrests"; "a place of potency in the state" [syn: authority, authorization, authorisation, potency, dominance, say-so] 2: capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects; "the toxin's potency"; "the strength of the drinks" [syn: potency, effectiveness, strength] 3: the inherent capacity for coming into being [syn: potential, potentiality, potency] 4: the state of being potent; a male's capacity to have sexual intercourse [syn: potency, potence] [ant: impotence, impotency]
• precipitancy 0
  n 1: the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning [syn: abruptness, precipitateness, precipitousness, precipitance, precipitancy, suddenness]
• presidency 0
  n 1: the tenure of a president; "things were quiet during the Eisenhower administration" [syn: presidency, presidential term, administration] 2: the office and function of president; "Andrew Jackson expanded the power of the presidency beyond what was customary before his time" [syn: presidency, presidentship]
• redundancy 0
  n 1: repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission 2: the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded; "the use of industrial robots created redundancy among workers" [syn: redundancy, redundance] 3: (electronics) a system design that duplicates components to provide alternatives in case one component fails 4: repetition of an act needlessly
• residency 0
  n 1: the act of dwelling in a place [syn: residency, residence, abidance] 2: the position of physician who is receiving special training in a hospital (usually after completing an internship)
• sightsee 0
  v 1: visit famous or interesting sights
• stridency 0
  n 1: having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound [syn: shrillness, stridence, stridency]
• tendency 0
  n 1: an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others; "he had an inclination to give up too easily"; "a tendency to be too strict" [syn: inclination, disposition, tendency] 2: an inclination to do something; "he felt leanings toward frivolity" [syn: leaning, propensity, tendency] 3: a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect; "the alkaline inclination of the local waters"; "fabric with a tendency to shrink" [syn: tendency, inclination] 4: a general direction in which something tends to move; "the shoreward tendency of the current"; "the trend of the stock market" [syn: tendency, trend]
• undersea 0
  adj 1: beneath the surface of the sea [syn: submarine, undersea]
• vacancy 0
  n 1: being unoccupied 2: an empty area or space; "the huge desert voids"; "the emptiness of outer space"; "without their support he'll be ruling in a vacuum" [syn: void, vacancy, emptiness, vacuum]
• mc 0
  n 1: one million periods per second [syn: megahertz, MHz, megacycle per second, megacycle, Mc]
• yangtze 0
  n 1: the longest river of Asia; flows eastward from Tibet into the East China Sea near Shanghai [syn: Chang Jiang, Changjiang, Chang, Yangtze, Yangtze River, Yangtze Kiang]
• c 0
  adj 1: being ten more than ninety [syn: hundred, one hundred, 100, c] n 1: a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature [syn: degree centigrade, degree Celsius, C] 2: the speed at which light travels in a vacuum; the constancy and universality of the speed of light is recognized by defining it to be exactly 299,792,458 meters per second [syn: speed of light, light speed, c] 3: a vitamin found in fresh fruits (especially citrus fruits) and vegetables; prevents scurvy [syn: vitamin C, C, ascorbic acid] 4: one of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar (ribose) [syn: deoxycytidine monophosphate, C] 5: a base found in DNA and RNA and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with guanine [syn: cytosine, C] 6: an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds [syn: carbon, C, atomic number 6] 7: ten 10s [syn: hundred, 100, C, century, one C] 8: a unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second [syn: coulomb, C, ampere-second] 9: a general-purpose programing language closely associated with the UNIX operating system 10: (music) the keynote of the scale of C major 11: the 3rd letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: C, c] 12: street names for cocaine [syn: coke, blow, nose candy, snow, C]
• ac 0
  n 1: a radioactive element of the actinide series; found in uranium ores [syn: actinium, Ac, atomic number 89] 2: an electric current that reverses direction sinusoidally; "In the US most household current is AC at 60 cycles per second" [syn: alternating current, AC, alternating electric current] [ant: DC, direct current, direct electric current]
• se 0
  n 1: a toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium; occurs in several allotropic forms; a stable grey metallike allotrope conducts electricity better in the light than in the dark and is used in photocells; occurs in sulfide ores (as pyrite) [syn: selenium, Se, atomic number 34] 2: the compass point midway between south and east; at 135 degrees [syn: southeast, sou'-east, southeastward, SE]
• apc 0
  n 1: (military) an armored vehicle (usually equipped with caterpillar treads) that is used to transport infantry [syn: armored personnel carrier, armoured personnel carrier, APC] 2: a drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (aspirin and phenacetin and caffeine)
• oversea 0
  adv 1: beyond or across the sea; "He lived overseas for many years" [syn: oversea, overseas] adj 1: being or passing over or across the sea; "some overseas trade in grain arose" [syn: oversea, overseas]
• tennessee 0
  n 1: a state in east central United States [syn: Tennessee, Volunteer State, TN] 2: a river formed by the confluence of two other rivers near Knoxville; it follows a U-shaped course to become a tributary of the Ohio River in western Kentucky [syn: Tennessee, Tennessee River]
• incompetency 0
  n 1: lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications [syn: incompetence, incompetency] [ant: competence, competency]
• patency 0
  n 1: the openness (lack of obstruction) of a bodily passage or duct 2: the property of being easy to see and understand [syn: obviousness, noticeability, noticeableness, patency]
• cadency 0
  n 1: a recurrent rhythmical series [syn: cadence, cadency]
• instancy 0
  n 1: the quickness of action or occurrence; "the immediacy of their response"; "the instancy of modern communication" [syn: immediacy, immediateness, instantaneousness, instancy] 2: the quality of being insistent; "he pressed his demand with considerable instancy" [syn: imperativeness, instancy]
• prepotency 0
  n 1: the state of being predominant over others [syn: predominance, predomination, prepotency]
• precedency 0
  n 1: status established in order of importance or urgency; "...its precedence as the world's leading manufacturer of pharmaceuticals"; "national independence takes priority over class struggle" [syn: precedence, precedency, priority] 2: preceding in time [syn: priority, antecedence, antecedency, anteriority, precedence, precedency] [ant: posteriority, subsequence, subsequentness] 3: the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony) [syn: precession, precedence, precedency]
• adjutancy 0
• ardency 0
• exultancy 0
• insignificancy 0
• intendancy 0
• mordancy 0
• cie 0
• amc 0
• pudency 0
• discordancy 0
• significancy 0

See also accountancy definition and accountancy synonyms