com·pe·ten·cy 
(kŏmpĭ-tən-sē)
(kŏmpĭ-tən-sē)n. pl. com·pe·ten·cies
1. Competence.
2. A skill or ability.
- short-horned grasshopper
- short hundredweight
- shortie
- shortie
- shortleaf pine
- short-list
- shortlist
- short-list
- short-lived
- shortly
- shortness
- short of
- short order
- short-order
- short-range
- short ribs
- short sale
- short-sell
- short-sheet
- short shrift
- short sight
- shortsighted
- shortsightedly
- shortsightedness
- short-sold