| Word
| Definition
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| acracy
| government by none; anarchy
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| adhocracy
| government in an unstructured fashion; an unstructured organization
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| albocracy
| government by white people
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| anarchy
| government by none
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| androcracy
| government by men
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| anemocracy
| government by the wind or by whim
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| angelocracy
| government by angels
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| antarchy
| opposition to government; anarchy
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| argentocracy
| government by money
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| aristarchy
| government by the best
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| aristocracy
| government by the nobility
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| arithmocracy
| government by simple majority
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| autarchy
| government by an absolute ruler
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| autocracy
| government by one individual
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| barbarocracy
| government by barbarians
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| beerocracy
| government by brewers or brewing interests
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| bestiocracy
| rule by beasts
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| biarchy
| government by two people; diarchy
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| binarchy
| government by two people; diarchy
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| bureaucracy
| government by civil servants
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| cannonarchy
| government by superior firepower or by cannons
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| capelocracy
| government by shopkeepers
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| chiliarchy
| government by one thousand people
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| chirocracy
| government by physical force
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| chromatocracy
| government by rulers of a particular skin colour
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| chrysoaristocracy
| government by the wealthy; plutocracy
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| chrysocracy
| government by the wealthy; plutocracy
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| corpocracy
| government by corporate bureaucrats
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| cosmarchy
| rulership over the entire world, esp. by the devil
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| cottonocracy
| government by those involved in the cotton trade
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| cryptarchy
| secret rulership
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| decadarchy
| government by ten individuals; decarchy
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| decarchy
| government by ten individuals
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| demarchy
| government by the people; popular government
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| democracy
| government by the people
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| demonarchy
| government by a demon
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| demonocracy
| government by demons or evil forces
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| despotocracy
| government by despots or tyrants
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| diabolocracy
| government by the Devil
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| diarchy
| government by two people
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| dinarchy
| government by two people; diarchy
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| dodecarchy
| government by twelve people
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| doulocracy
| government by slaves
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| duarchy
| government by two people; diarchy
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| dulocracy
| government by slaves; doulocracy
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| dyarchy
| government by two people; diarchy
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| ecclesiarchy
| government by clerics or ecclesiastical authorities
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| endarchy
| centralised government
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| ergatocracy
| government by the workers or the working class
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| ethnarchy
| government over an ethnic group
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| ethnocracy
| government by an ethnic group or race
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| exarchy
| government by bishops
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| foolocracy
| government by fools
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| gerontocracy
| government by the aged
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| gunarchy
| government by women; gynarchy
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| gymnasiarchy
| government over a school or academy
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| gynaecocracy
| government by women; gynarchy
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| gynarchy
| government by women
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| gynocracy
| government by women; gynarchy
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| hagiarchy
| government by saints or holy persons
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| hagiocracy
| government by holy men
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| hamarchy
| government by a cooperative body of parts
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| hecatarchy
| government by one hundred people; hecatontarchy
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| hecatontarchy
| government by one hundred people
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| hendecarchy
| government by eleven people
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| heptarchy
| government by seven people
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| heroarchy
| government by heroes
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| hetaerocracy
| government by paramours
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| heterarchy
| government by a foreign ruler
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| hierarchy
| government by a ranked body; government by priests
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| hierocracy
| government by priests or religious ministers
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| hipparchy
| rule or control of horses
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| hoplarchy
| government by the military
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| hyperanarchy
| condition of extreme anarchy
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| hyperarchy
| excessive government
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| iatrarchy
| government by physicians
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| idiocracy
| personal rule; self-rule
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| infantocracy
| government by an infant
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| isocracy
| equal political power
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| jesuitocracy
| government by Jesuits
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| juntocracy
| government by a junta
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| kakistocracy
| government by the worst
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| kleptocracy
| government by thieves
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| kritarchy
| government by judges
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| landocracy
| government by the propertied class; timocracy
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| logocracy
| government of words
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| matriarchy
| government by women or mothers
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| meritocracy
| government by the meritorious
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| merocracy
| government by a part of the citizenry
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| mesocracy
| government by the middle classes
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| metrocracy
| government by mothers or women; matriarchy
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| millionocracy
| government by millionaires
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| millocracy
| government by mill owners
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| mobocracy
| government by mobs or crowds
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| monarchy
| government by one individual
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| moneyocracy
| government by the monied classes
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| monocracy
| government by one individual
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| myriarchy
| government by ten thousand individuals
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| narcokleptocracy
| government by those who profit from trade in illegal drugs
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| navarchy
| rulership over the seas
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| neocracy
| government by new or inexperienced rulers
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| nomocracy
| government based on legal system; rule of law
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| ochlocracy
| government by mobs
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| octarchy
| government by eight people
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| oligarchy
| government by the few
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| paedarchy
| government by children
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| paedocracy
| government by children; paedarchy
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| panarchy
| universal rule or dominion
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| pantarchy
| government by all the people; world government
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| pantisocracy
| government by all equally
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| paparchy
| government by the pope
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| papyrocracy
| government by newspapers or literature
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| parsonarchy
| government by parsons
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| partocracy
| government by a single unopposed political party
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| patriarchy
| government by men or fathers
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| pedantocracy
| government by pedants or strict rule-bound scholars
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| pentarchy
| government by five individuals
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| phallocracy
| government by men
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| philosophocracy
| government by philosophers
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| phylarchy
| government by a specific class or tribe
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| physiocracy
| government according to natural laws or principles
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| pigmentocracy
| government by those of one skin colour
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| plantocracy
| government by plantation owners
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| plousiocracy
| government by the wealthy; plutocracy
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| plutarchy
| government by the wealthy; plutocracy
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| plutocracy
| government by the wealthy
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| polarchy
| government by many people; polyarchy
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| policeocracy
| government by police
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| pollarchy
| government by the multitude or a mob; ochlocracy
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| polyarchy
| government by many people
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| polycracy
| government by many rulers; polyarchy
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| popocracy
| government by populists
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| pornocracy
| government by harlots
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| prophetocracy
| government by a prophet
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| psephocracy
| government resulting from election by ballot
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| ptochocracy
| government by beggars or paupers; wholesale pauperization
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| punditocracy
| government by political pundits
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| quangocracy
| rule of quasi-autonomous non-governmental organizations
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| rotocracy
| government by those who control rotten boroughs
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| septarchy
| government by seven rulers; heptarchy
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| shopocracy
| government by shopkeepers
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| slavocracy
| government by slave-owners
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| snobocracy
| government by snobs
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| sociocracy
| government by society as a whole
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| squarsonocracy
| government by landholding clergymen
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| squatterarchy
| government by squatters; squattocracy
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| squattocracy
| government by squatters
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| squirearchy
| government by squires
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| squirocracy
| government by squires; squirearchy
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| statocracy
| government by the state alone, without ecclesiastical influence
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| stratarchy
| rulership over an army
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| stratocracy
| military rule or despotism
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| strumpetocracy
| government by strumpets
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| synarchy
| joint sovereignty
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| technocracy
| government by technical experts
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| tetradarchy
| government by four people; tetrarchy
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| tetrarchy
| government by four people
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| thalassiarchy
| sovereignty of the seas; thalassocracy
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| thalassocracy
| sovereignty of the seas
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| thearchy
| rule by a god or gods; body of divine rulers
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| theatrocracy
| goverment by gathered assemblies of citizens
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| theocracy
| government by priests or by religious law
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| timarchy
| government by the propertied class; timocracy
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| timocracy
| government by the propertied class
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| triarchy
| government by three people
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| tritarchy
| government by three people; triarchy
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| tritheocracy
| government by three gods
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| whiggarchy
| government by Whigs
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| xenocracy
| government by a body of foreigners
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