-cracy(word root) rule, governmentExamples of words with the root -cracy: democracyAbused, Confused, & Misused Words by Mary Embree Copyright © 2007, 2013 by Mary Embree-cracysuff. Government; rule: meritocracy.[French -cratie, from Old French, from Late Latin -cratia, from Greek -krati?, from kratos, strength, power; see kar- in Indo-European roots.]American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.-cracy n combining form (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) indicating a type of government or rule: plutocracy; mobocracy. See also -crat [from Greek -kratia, from kratos power]Collins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014-cracy a combining form meaning ?rule,? ?government? by the agent specified by the initial element: democracy; theocracy. Compare -crat. [