Real Words Without Definition
We're sure about this one.
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 |
|---|---|
| prelectress | prelector + -ess, a woman prelector |
| prelectured | pre- + lectured |
| prelecturing | pre- + lecturing |
| prelegend | pre- + legend |
| preliability | pre- + liability |
| preliable | pre- + liable |
| preliberality | pre- + liberality |
| preliberally | pre- + liberally |
| preliberate | pre- + liberate |
| preliberated | pre- + liberated |
| preliberating | pre- + liberating |
| prelicense | pre- + license |
| prelicensed | pre- + licensed |
| prelimitate | pre- + limitate, to bound beforehand |
| prelimitated | pre- + limitated |
| prelimitating | pre- + limitating |
| prelimitation | pre- + limitation |
| preliquidate | pre- + liquidate |
| preliquidated | pre- + liquidated |
| preliquidating | pre- + liquidating |
| preliteral | pre- + literal |
| preliterally | pre- + literally |
| preliteralness | pre- + literalness |
| prelithic | pre- + lithic, before the Stone Age |
| preludiously | preludious + -ly, by way of a prelude |
| preluxurious | pre- + luxurious |
| preluxuriously | pre- + luxuriously |
| preluxuriousness | pre- + luxuriousness |
| premaintain | pre- + maintain |
| premaker | pre- + maker |
| premanhood | pre- + manhood |
| premanifestation | pre- + manifestation |
| premankind | pre- + mankind |
| premanufacturer | pre- + manufacturer |
| premarried | pre- + married |
| premarry | pre- + marry |
| premarrying | pre- + marrying |
| prematerial | pre- + material |
| prematrimonially | pre- + matrimonially |
| premedian | pre- + median |
| premedievalism | pre- + medievalism |
| prememoranda | pre- + memoranda |
| prememorandum | pre- + memorandum |
| prememorandums | pre- + memorandums |
| premenace | pre- + menace |
| premenaced | pre- + menaced |
| premenacing | pre- + menacing |
| premention | pre- + mention |
| premeridian | pre- + meridian, before noon |
| premidsummer | pre- + midsummer |
| premillennialise | premillennial + -ise |
| premillennialised | premillennial + -ised |
| premillennialising | premillennial + -ising |
| premillennialize | premillennial + -ize |
| premillennialized | premillennial + -ized |
| premillennializing | premillennial + -izing |
| premillennian | pre- + millennian, before the millennium |
| preminister | pre- + minister |
| preministries | pre- + ministries |
| preministry | pre- + ministry |
| premisal | premise + -al, the act of premising |
| premisrepresent | pre- + misrepresent |
| premisrepresentation | pre- + misrepresentation |
| premissable | premiss + -able, that may be premised |
| premodel | pre- + model |
| premodeled | pre- + modeled |
| premodeling | pre- + modeling |
| premolder | pre- + molder |
| premonarchal | pre- + monarchal |
| premonarchial | pre- + monarchial |
| premonarchical | pre- + monarchical |
| premongolian | pre- + Mongolian |
| premonopolies | pre- + monopolies |
| premonopolize | pre- + monopolize |
| premonopolized | pre- + monopolized |
| premonopolizing | pre- + monopolizing |
| premorbidness | premorbid + -ness |
| premortally | pre- + mortally |
| premortification | pre- + mortification |
| premortified | pre- + mortified |
| premortify | pre- + mortify |
| premortifying | pre- + mortifying |
| premourn | pre- + mourn |
| premover | pre- + mover |
| premuddle | pre- + muddle |
| premuddled | pre- + muddled |
| premuddling | pre- + muddling |
| premultiplier | pre- + multiplier |
| premundane | pre- + mundane |
| premusically | pre- + musically |
| premuster | pre- + muster |
| premutinied | pre- + mutinied |
| premutinies | pre- + mutinies |
| premutinying | pre- + mutinying |
| prenarcotic | pre- + narcotic |
| prenatalist | prenatal + -ist |
| prenative | pre- + native |
| prenatural | pre- + natural |
| prenaval | pre- + naval |
| prenebular | pre- + nebular |
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