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 |
|---|---|
| surstyle | sur- + style, to name or title in addition |
| suspensely | suspense + -ly |
| suspiratious | suspiration + -ous, full of sighs |
| suspirative | suspire + -ative, sighing |
| sustenanceless | sustenance + -less |
| swabberly | swabber + -ly, like a swabber |
| swaler | swale + -er, one who swales or burns off |
| swalingly | swaling + -ly, burning or wasting away |
| swampine | swamp + -ine, of or growing in swamps |
| swankness | swank + -ness |
| swarfer | swarf + -er, from Scots swarf, to faint |
| swarmingness | swarming + -ness |
| swartly | swart + -ly, darkly, swarthily |
| swashbucklerdom | swashbuckler + -dom |
| swashingly | swashing + -ly, with swaggering blows |
| swatcher | swatch + -er, one who takes swatches |
| swathable | swath + -able |
| swatheable | swathe + -able |
| swayableness | swayable + -ness |
| swedger | swedge + -er, one who swages metal |
| sweetbriery | sweetbrier + -y, full of sweetbrier |
| sweetlike | sweet + -like |
| swelldoodle | swell + -doodle, jocular for a grand affair |
| swelterer | swelter + -er |
| swervable | swerve + -able |
| swinely | swine + -ly |
| swingably | swingable + -ly |
| switchbacker | switchback + -er |
| switzeress | Switzer + -ess, a Swiss woman |
| swivellike | swivel + -like |
| swivetty | swivet + -y, agitated, in a swivet |
| sybarital | sybarite + -al, sybaritic |
| sybaritan | Sybaris + -an, of Sybaris |
| syllabography | syllab(le) + -ography, writing in syllabic signs |
| syllogistics | syllogistic + -s, the theory of syllogisms |
| sylphidine | sylphid + -ine, sylphlike |
| sylphize | sylph + -ize |
| sylvage | sylva + -age, woodland |
| sylvanize | sylvan + -ize |
| sylvanly | sylvan + -ly |
| sylvanry | sylvan + -ry, woodland scenery |
| sylvatical | sylvatic + -al, of the woods |
| sylvestral | sylvestr- + -al, growing in woods |
| symbasic | symbasis + -ic, agreeing |
| symbasical | symbasic + -al |
| symbasically | symbasical + -ly |
| symbionic | symbion + -ic, symbiotic |
| symbolater | symbol + -later, a worshipper of symbols |
| symbolography | symbol + -ography, writing in symbols |
| sympatheticity | sympathetic + -ity |
| symphonetic | symphon(y) + -etic, harmonious |
| symphonisation | symphonize + -ation, in -isation spelling |
| symphonization | symphonize + -ation |
| symphonous | symphon- + -ous, agreeing in sound |
| symphrase | sym- + phrase, a joint expression |
| symphytically | symphytic + -ly |
| symptomaticness | symptomatic + -ness |
| synagogian | synagogue + -ian, of a synagogue |
| synagogism | synagogue + -ism |
| synagogist | synagogue + -ist, a synagogue-goer |
| synchronistical | synchronistic + -al |
| syncretion | syncret- + -ion, a merging or growing together |
| syndicalistic | syndicalist + -ic |
| syndicalize | syndical + -ize, to organize on syndicalist lines |
| synectically | synectic + -ly, in a connective manner |
| synedrian | synedrium + -an, of the Sanhedrin |
| synenergistic | syn- + energistic, acting together |
| synenergistical | synenergistic + -al |
| synenergistically | synenergistical + -ly |
| synergical | synergic + -al |
| synethnic | syn- + ethnic, of the same race or nation |
| synodalian | synodal + -ian, of a synod |
| synodalist | synodal + -ist, a member of a synod |
| synodian | synod + -ian, of a synod |
| synoeciously | synoecious + -ly |
| synoeciousness | synoecious + -ness |
| synoicousness | synoicous + -ness, having both sexes together |
| synopsic | synopsis + -ic, synoptic |
| synorthographic | syn- + orthographic |
| synovially | synovial + -ly |
| syntechnic | syn- + technic, of the same craft |
| syntheticness | synthetic + -ness |
| synthetisation | synthetise + -ation |
| synthetiser | synthetise + -er |
| synthetizer | synthetize + -er, not the music synthesizer |
| syntypicism | syntypic + -ism, sameness of type |
| syriologist | Syriology + -ist, a scholar of Syriac |
| systematicalness | systematical + -ness |
| systemisable | systemise + -able |
| tableclothwise | tablecloth + -wise |
| tacheless | tache (blemish) + -less |
| tackingly | tacking + -ly |
| tactilist | tactile + -ist |
| tactilogical | tactile + -logical, of the sense of touch |
| tactualist | tactual + -ist |
| tadpoledom | tadpole + -dom |
| taffywise | taffy + -wise |
| tagster | tag + -ster, one who tags |
| tailet | tail + -et, a little tail |
| taillessly | tailless + -ly |
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