no·men·kla·tu·ra 
(nō′mən-klä-trə, nô′myĕn-klä-trä)
(nō′mən-klä-trə, nô′myĕn-klä-trä)n.
(used with a sing. or pl. verb) The privileged set of people appointed by patronage to senior positions in the bureaucracy of the Soviet Union and some other Communist states.
[Russian, from Latin nōmenclātūra, list of names; see NOMENCLATURE.]