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
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| Word, sorted Z to A | How it is built |
|---|---|
| shrimpishness | shrimpish + -ness |
| shrinkingness | shrinking + -ness |
| shrover | shrove + -er, one who goes shroving |
| shrovy | shrove + -y, of Shrovetide |
| shylockism | Shylock + -ism, usurious extortion |
| siberic | Siberia + -ic, Siberian |
| sibilatingly | sibilating + -ly |
| sibylesque | sibyl + -esque |
| sibylism | sibyl + -ism |
| sicinnian | sicinnis + -ian, of the Greek satyr dance |
| sideage | side + -age |
| sidelingwise | sideling + -wise, sideways |
| sideness | side + -ness |
| sidership | sider + -ship, the position of one who sides |
| sidy | side (swagger) + -y, conceited |
| siegeable | siege + -able |
| sievelikeness | sievelike + -ness |
| sievy | sieve + -y, full of holes |
| sighingness | sighing + -ness |
| sightlily | sightly + -ly |
| sightworthiness | sightworthy + -ness |
| sighty | sight + -y, showy or keen-sighted |
| sigilative | sigil + -ative, of sealing |
| sigilistic | sigil + -istic, of sigils |
| sigillative | sigill- + -ative, serving to seal |
| sigillistic | sigill- + -istic, of seals or sigils |
| signetwise | signet + -wise, in the manner of a signet |
| significal | signific + -al, relating to significs |
| significatist | significate + -ist, a student of signification |
| significian | significs + -ian, a worker in significs |
| signorize | signor + -ize, to lord it over |
| signorship | signor + -ship |
| silkine | silk + -ine, silken |
| siloist | silo + -ist, one who stores fodder in silos |
| silvanry | silvan + -ry, woodland |
| similitudinize | similitude + -ize, to speak in similitudes |
| simnelwise | simnel + -wise, in the manner of a simnel cake |
| simpletonian | simpleton + -ian |
| simpletonianism | simpletonian + -ism |
| simpletonic | simpleton + -ic |
| simplicitarian | simplicity + -arian, an advocate of simplicity |
| simplicize | simple + -icize, to simplify |
| simulacrize | simulacrum + -ize, to reduce to a simulacrum |
| simulance | simulant + -ance, feigning |
| simulize | simul- + -ize, to simulate |
| sinecureship | sinecure + -ship |
| singey | singe + -y, smelling of burning |
| singstress | sing + -stress, a woman singer |
| sinkingly | sinking + -ly |
| sinnableness | sinnable + -ness |
| sinonism | Sinon + -ism, treachery like Sinon's |
| sinopic | sinopia + -ic, of red ochre |
| sireny | siren + -y, the practice of a siren |
| sireship | sire + -ship |
| sirloiny | sirloin + -y |
| siroccoishly | siroccoish + -ly |
| sirship | sir + -ship |
| sisterize | sister + -ize, to treat as a sister |
| sisyphist | Sisyphus + -ist, an endless toiler |
| sizeine | size (glue) + -ine, a sizing material |
| skeiner | skein + -er, one who winds skeins |
| skeletonian | skeleton + -ian, skeleton-like |
| sketchee | sketch + -ee, one who is sketched |
| sketchingly | sketching + -ly |
| skewbacked | skewback + -ed, in masonry |
| skewwise | skew + -wise |
| skinflintily | skinflinty + -ly |
| skinflinty | skinflint + -y |
| skipjackly | skipjack + -ly, in pert fashion |
| skipperage | skipper + -age, a skipper's office or fee |
| skippery | skip + -ery, skipping about |
| skunkdom | skunk + -dom |
| slackage | slack + -age, the amount of slack |
| slackingly | slacking + -ly |
| slaky | slake + -y, apt to slake or crumble |
| slanderful | slander + -ful |
| slanderfully | slanderful + -ly |
| slatify | slate + -ify, to turn into slate |
| slavonianize | Slavonian + -ize, to make Slavonic |
| sleightness | sleight + -ness, craftiness |
| slewer | slew + -er, one who slews |
| sleyer | sley + -er, one who sleys the warp |
| slidableness | slidable + -ness |
| slidage | slide + -age, sliding |
| slidderness | slidder + -ness, slipperiness |
| slideableness | slideable + -ness |
| slimishness | slimish + -ness |
| slipsloppish | slipslop + -ish, feeble or trashy |
| slipsloppism | slipslop + -ism |
| slopely | slope + -ly, obliquely |
| sloppage | slop + -age, spillage |
| slopworker | slopwork + -er |
| slosher | slosh + -er |
| slotwise | slot + -wise |
| slovenish | sloven + -ish |
| slowful | slow + -ful, sluggish |
| slubberer | slubber + -er, a careless worker |
| slubberly | slubber + -ly, slovenly |
| slubbery | slubber + -y, slovenly or miry |
| sluer | slue + -er, one who slues |
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