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 |
|---|---|
| tellsome | tell + -some, given to telling |
| telltalely | telltale + -ly |
| teloptic | tel- + optic, of vision at a distance |
| telosynaptist | telosynapt- + -ist, a holder of the telosynapsis view |
| teloteropathically | teloteropathic + -ally |
| temerousness | temerous + -ness, rashness |
| temperably | temperable + -ly |
| temperamentalness | temperamental + -ness |
| tempery | temper + -y, given to fits of temper |
| tempestical | tempest + -ical, tempestuous |
| tempesty | tempest + -y, stormy |
| templary | templar + -y, the Templar order or system |
| temptatory | tempt + -atory, tempting or trying |
| temser | temse + -er, one who sifts with a temse |
| tenanter | tenant + -er, one who holds as a tenant |
| tendable | tend + -able, that may be tended |
| tenderably | tenderable + -ly |
| tendingly | tending + -ly |
| tendinousness | tendinous + -ness |
| tendrillar | tendril + -ar, of or like a tendril |
| tenebrificate | tenebrific + -ate, to make dark |
| tenebriousness | tenebrious + -ness, darkness |
| tenementize | tenement + -ize, to turn into tenements |
| tensibleness | tensible + -ness |
| tensibly | tensible + -ly |
| tensify | tens- + -ify, to make tense |
| tensorship | tensor + -ship, the office or function of a tensor |
| tentable | tent + -able, that can be probed or tented |
| tercentenarize | tercentenary + -ize, to keep a three-hundredth year |
| terebinthial | terebinth + -ial |
| terebinthian | terebinth + -ian |
| terebinthinous | terebinth + -inous, of turpentine |
| termage | term + -age, payment reckoned by the term |
| termillenary | ter- + millenary, of three thousand years |
| terminably | terminable + -ly |
| ternarious | ternary + -ous, arranged in threes |
| ternize | tern + -ize, to arrange in threes |
| ternlet | tern + -let, a small tern |
| terraefilial | terrae filius (son of the soil) + -al |
| terraefilian | terrae filius (son of the soil) + -an |
| terreneness | terrene + -ness, earthiness |
| terrestricity | terrestric + -ity, earthly quality |
| terrestrify | terrestr- + -ify, to make earthly |
| terreted | terret + -ed, fitted with terrets |
| terrorific | terror + -ific, causing terror |
| tertiarian | tertiary + -an, member of a Third Order |
| tertrinal | ter- + trinal, threefold three |
| testaceousness | testaceous + -ness |
| testamentalness | testamental + -ness |
| testamentate | testament + -ate, to dispose of by will |
| testatory | testat- + -ory, belonging to a will |
| testificatory | testificat- + -ory, serving as testimony |
| tethery | tether + -y, like or serving as a tether |
| tetradiapason | tetra- + diapason, an interval of four octaves |
| tetradrachmal | tetradrachm + -al |
| tetragonalness | tetragonal + -ness |
| tetralogic | tetralogy + -ic |
| tetraspheric | tetra- + spheric |
| tetrasyllabical | tetrasyllabic + -al |
| tetrasymmetry | tetra- + symmetry, fourfold symmetry |
| tetratheite | tetra- + -theite, one holding a fourfold Godhead |
| tetratone | tetra- + tone, an interval of four tones |
| tetricalness | tetrical + -ness, harshness |
| teutolatry | Teuto- + -latry, worship of things German |
| teutondom | Teuton + -dom |
| teutonesque | Teuton + -esque |
| teutonity | Teuton + -ity, German character |
| teutophilism | Teutophile + -ism, love of things German |
| teutophobism | Teutophobe + -ism, dread of things German |
| tewer | tew + -er, one who tews or dresses hides |
| textiferous | text + -iferous, bearing texts |
| thalassical | thalassic + -al, of the sea |
| thankworthily | thankworthy + -ly |
| thaumatropical | thaumatrope + -ical |
| thaumoscopic | thaumo- + -scopic, of the viewing of wonders |
| theanthropology | the(o)- + anthropology, doctrine of the God-man |
| theanthropophagy | theanthropo- + -phagy, eating of the god-man |
| theaterward | theater + -ward |
| theaterwards | theater + -wards |
| theaterwise | theater + -wise |
| theatricable | theatric + -able, that can be staged |
| theatropolis | theatro- + -polis, a city of theatres |
| theatry | theatre + -y, theatricality |
| thegnlike | thegn + -like |
| thegnworthy | thegn + -worthy, worthy of a thegn |
| theoanthropomorphic | theo- + anthropomorphic |
| theoanthropomorphism | theo- + anthropomorphism |
| theoastrological | theo- + astrological |
| theocentricism | theocentric + -ism, theocentrism |
| theochristic | theo- + christic, anointed of God |
| theocollectivism | theo- + collectivism |
| theocollectivist | theo- + collectivist |
| theocrasical | theocrasia + -ical, of theocrasy |
| theodidact | theo- + didact, one taught by God |
| theogeological | theo- + geological |
| theognostic | theo- + gnostic, knowing God |
| theogonal | theogony + -al, of the birth of the gods |
| theogonical | theogonic + -al, of theogony |
| theohuman | theo- + human, at once divine and human |
| theolatrous | theolatry + -ous, god-worshipping |
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