Words that rhyme with mercy

• contumacy 5
  n 1: willful refusal to appear before a court or comply with a court order; can result in a finding of contempt of court 2: obstinate rebelliousness and insubordination; resistance to authority
• controversy 3
  n 1: a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement; "they were involved in a violent argument" [syn: controversy, contention, contestation, disputation, disceptation, tilt, argument, arguing]
• monocracy 0
  n 1: a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) [syn: dictatorship, absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny]
• obduracy 0
  n 1: resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible [syn: adamance, obduracy, unyieldingness]
• obstinacy 0
  n 1: the trait of being difficult to handle or overcome [syn: stubbornness, obstinacy, obstinance, mulishness] 2: resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires [syn: stubbornness, bullheadedness, obstinacy, obstinance, pigheadedness, self-will]
• odyssey 0
  n 1: a long wandering and eventful journey 2: a Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the journey of Odysseus after the fall of Troy
• papacy 0
  n 1: the government of the Roman Catholic Church [syn: papacy, pontificate]
• pharmacy 0
  n 1: the art and science of preparing and dispensing drugs and medicines, [syn: pharmacy, pharmaceutics] 2: a retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold [syn: drugstore, apothecary's shop, chemist's, chemist's shop, pharmacy]
• piracy 0
  n 1: hijacking on the high seas or in similar contexts; taking a ship or plane away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it; "air piracy" [syn: piracy, buccaneering] 2: the act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own [syn: plagiarism, plagiarization, plagiarisation, piracy]
• pleurisy 0
  n 1: inflammation of the pleura of the lungs (especially the parietal layer)
• plutocracy 0
  n 1: a political system governed by the wealthy people
• policy 0
  n 1: a plan of action adopted by an individual or social group; "it was a policy of retribution"; "a politician keeps changing his policies" 2: a line of argument rationalizing the course of action of a government; "they debated the policy or impolicy of the proposed legislation" 3: written contract or certificate of insurance; "you should have read the small print on your policy" [syn: policy, insurance policy, insurance]
• prelacy 0
  n 1: prelates collectively [syn: prelacy, prelature] 2: the office or station of a prelate [syn: prelacy, prelature]
• primacy 0
  n 1: the state of being first in importance
• privacy 0
  n 1: the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others [syn: privacy, privateness, seclusion] 2: the condition of being concealed or hidden [syn: privacy, privateness, secrecy, concealment]
• profligacy 0
  n 1: the trait of spending extravagantly [syn: extravagance, prodigality, profligacy] 2: dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure [syn: profligacy, dissipation, dissolution, licentiousness, looseness]
• prolificacy 0
  n 1: the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth; "he praised the richness of the soil"; "weeds lovely in their rankness" [syn: richness, rankness, prolificacy, fertility]
• prophecy 0
  n 1: knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source) [syn: prophecy, prognostication, vaticination] 2: a prediction uttered under divine inspiration [syn: prophecy, divination]
• pursy 0
  adj 1: breathing laboriously or convulsively [syn: blown, pursy, short-winded, winded]
• secrecy 0
  n 1: the trait of keeping things secret [syn: secrecy, secretiveness, silence] 2: the condition of being concealed or hidden [syn: privacy, privateness, secrecy, concealment]
• supremacy 0
  n 1: power to dominate or defeat; "mastery of the seas" [syn: domination, mastery, supremacy]
• technocracy 0
  n 1: a form of government in which scientists and technical experts are in control; "technocracy was described as that society in which those who govern justify themselves by appeal to technical experts who justify themselves by appeal to scientific forms of knowledge"
• theocracy 0
  n 1: a political unit governed by a deity (or by officials thought to be divinely guided) 2: the belief in government by divine guidance
• 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]
• eurydice 0
  n 1: (Greek mythology) the wife of Orpheus
• argosy 0
  n 1: one or more large merchant ships
• percy 0
  n 1: United States writer whose novels explored human alienation (1916-1990) [syn: Percy, Walker Percy] 2: English soldier killed in a rebellion against Henry IV (1364-1403) [syn: Percy, Sir Henry Percy, Hotspur, Harry Hotspur]
• circe 0
  n 1: (Greek mythology) a sorceress who detained Odysseus on her island and turned his men into swine
• gramercy 0
• testacy 0
• cie 0
• palissy 0
• bursey 0
• hersey 0

See also mercy definition and mercy synonyms