Real Words Without Definition
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A normal word with something added to the front or the back.
You can read these without being told what they mean. lifehood is life plus -hood. citydom is city plus -dom. musicproof is music plus -proof. Around 21,753 words in the list carry a prefix like un-, non-, over- or anti-.
Nothing is wrong with them. No dictionary bothered to list them because the meaning is obvious from the parts.
24,323 words · sorted A to Z · each with a line on why it is here
Matches the word itself, not the note beside it. Case does not matter.
| Word, sorted Z to A | How it is built |
|---|---|
| abastral | a- + astral (not of the stars) |
| abilitable | abilitate + -able |
| abiotical | abiotic + -al |
| ablock | a- + block, in a mass |
| abominability | abominable + -ity |
| abscondedly | absconded + -ly |
| aburban | a- + urban (not urban) |
| accidentarily | accidentary + -ly |
| accidentiality | accidential + -ity |
| accorporation | accorporate + -ion |
| accultural | acculturation + -al |
| acemetic | Acemetae + -ic |
| aceship | ace + -ship |
| acheck | a- + check, in check |
| achillize | Achilles + -ize |
| achromatizable | achromatize + -able |
| achronism | a- + chron- + -ism, timelessness |
| actinical | actinic + -al |
| acurative | a- + curative |
| adamantness | adamant + -ness |
| additamentary | additament + -ary |
| addleheadedly | addleheaded + -ly |
| adead | a- + dead |
| adeep | a- + deep |
| ademonist | a- + demonist |
| adherescence | adhere + -escence |
| adiaphanousness | adiaphanous + -ness |
| adjoiner | adjoin + -er |
| adjoiningness | adjoining + -ness |
| administrationist | administration + -ist |
| adustive | adust + -ive |
| adventureship | adventure + -ship |
| adverbiation | adverb + -iation |
| advisiveness | advisive + -ness |
| aedilian | aedile + -ian |
| aedilic | aedile + -ic |
| aedilitian | aedile + -itian |
| aeolicism | Aeolic + -ism |
| aeonist | aeon + -ist |
| aeriness | aery + -ness |
| aerohydroplane | aero- + hydroplane |
| aerophysicist | aero- + physicist |
| aeroview | aero- + view |
| afforestational | afforestation + -al |
| afluking | a- + fluking |
| afrogaean | Afrogaea + -an |
| agapeically | agapeic + -ally |
| agaroid | agar + -oid |
| agatoid | agate + -oid |
| agglutinationist | agglutination + -ist |
| agitability | agitable + -ity |
| agitpropist | agitprop + -ist |
| aglance | a- + glance |
| agonizingness | agonizing + -ness |
| ahaunch | a- + haunch |
| ahunt | a- + hunt |
| ahush | a- + hush |
| ailantery | ailanto + -ery (ailanthus plantation) |
| ailanthic | ailanthus + -ic |
| airplaner | airplane + -er |
| akindle | a- + kindle |
| akkadist | Akkad + -ist (scholar of Akkadian) |
| alcoholdom | alcohol + -dom |
| alderling | alder + -ling |
| alembicate | alembic + -ate |
| alertedly | alerted + -ly |
| aliency | alien + -cy |
| alimentatively | alimentative + -ly |
| alimentic | aliment + -ic |
| alimonied | alimony + -ed |
| alkalisable | alkalise + -able |
| alkaliser | alkalise + -er |
| alkalizable | alkalize + -able |
| alkalous | alkali + -ous |
| alliably | alliable + -ly |
| allotheist | allo- + theist |
| alnascharism | Alnaschar + -ism, castle-building |
| alodification | alod + -ification |
| alphamerically | alphamerical + -ly |
| alphonist | Alphons(us) + -ist, follower of Liguori |
| alphonsism | Alphonsus + -ism, Liguori's theology |
| alpinery | alpine + -ry |
| alteratively | alterative + -ly |
| alternationist | alternation + -ist |
| aluminish | alumina + -ish |
| aluminosity | aluminous + -ity |
| alumniate | alumnus + -ate, one's term as alumnus |
| amarvel | a- + marvel |
| amazer | amaze + -er |
| ambiency | ambient + -cy |
| ameliorableness | ameliorable + -ness |
| amelioratively | ameliorative + -ly |
| amenism | Amen (Amon) + -ism |
| amenite | Amen (Amon) + -ite |
| amiced | amice + -ed, wearing an amice |
| amidward | amid + -ward, toward the middle |
| amorism | amor + -ism, the cult of love |
| amounter | amount + -er |
| amphorette | amphora + -ette, a small amphora |
| amuzzle | a- + muzzle, to muzzle |
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